This day in history.
History is just the human record — who was here, what they did, what it cost, what it was worth. This wing keeps a little of it, one day at a time. It’s dedicated to the man who taught me to care about any of it.
🕯️ in his honor
John Henry McKendry
My dad. This wing keeps the days in his memory.
His dedication already lives in the house — type dad anywhere to read it.
📅 On this day
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Every dated entry above is a verified, public-record event. The family’s own days — his birthday, the days that mattered in the McKendry house — are left for the curator to add by hand, so the wall never says anything it can’t stand behind.
Inspired by the greats — for the science
The whole museum stands on people who came before. The biggest of them, for this house, is Alan Turing: in 1950 he asked whether a machine could pass as a human — the Imitation Game (“Computing Machinery and Intelligence,” Mind, 1950). Every round of the game here is a living version of his question, and the Turing Ticker keeps the score.
Our test
The machine can pass Turing now — it imitates us well enough. So we kept his method and flipped his question: not “can a machine pass as human?” but “can a human pass as a good one?” — a test the machine can never pass and a person always can, by choosing to. We call it the McKendry Test. Type mckendry anywhere on the site to take it.
Alan Turing (1950). The Imitation Game — the question that built the house.
Sean McKendry. The flip, the museum, the rule that only humans score.
It carries the family name now — which, on this page, means more than one McKendry. Sister rooms: The Turing Ticker, Ethos.
dad — and this wing keeps the calendar in his honor. His dates and the family’s own days stay blank until the curator sets them in his own hand, because the one rule holds: no lying. The machine can keep the calendar; only humans can score.