At home we got rid of expanded basic cable, so now all we have is simple basic cable… networks, PBS, Discovery Channel, and for some reason we get E! After we’d watched a bit of America’s Next Top Model on the C-D…
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28 September 2006
Frank Gehry
26 September 2006
thinkAbout 2006
I had the opportunity to attend the thinkAbout conference (or is it just thinkAbout?) on September 13th and 14th in Baltimore, MD. Here’s the basic rundown: the conference, in it’s 9th year, is organized by Joe Pine an…
Planning interactive experiences
The other day I was checking out Russell Davies’ (Davies’s?) blog. I don’t know Russell personally… only through his blog. So I’m making some assumptions about who he is and what he believes, but he se…
HP gets into the diet business
HP has released some new cameras with built in “slimming effect.” Basically, it looks like the camera has the ability to reduce the horizontal scale of the photo. For example, in the photo above, they shaved 6 pixels o…
22 September 2006
What’s the point of YouTube?
I came across two videos on different blogs that sum up different kinds of content on YouTube. Content Type #1: The video blog I don’t know if this personalizes or dehumanizes the people that put stuff up on YouTube. Maybe bo…
17 September 2006
Love to fly / Hate to travel (Part 3 of 3)
I’m writing this post while waiting at Baltimore’s airport (BWI). But I probably won’t have the opportunity to post this until I’ve left BWI because I couldn’t connect to their wireless access (finally…
12 September 2006
Taking risks and making mistakes
Yesterday my oldest daughter started kindergarten. She came home thrilled, energized, and with a slew of papers. This was a bit of the “first day” letter from the teacher: After I thought, “why do people use Comi…
11 September 2006
September 11th, 5 years later
Today was my older daughter’s first day of kindergarten. After we delivered her to her classroom, there was a gathering of kindergarten parents in the auditorium of the school to have coffee and do whatever they needed to do…
8 September 2006
Exploring science, discovering fun: my trip to Columbus, Ohio (part 2 of 3)
The second experience I wanted to tell you about from my Columbus, Ohio trip was going to COSI. I think it stands for Columbus Something of Science and Industry, based on what I know about OMSI here in Portland. From what I remembe…
7 September 2006
A Lincoln Continental, a ramp, and a mile of water
Granted, it’s a rocket-powered Lincoln Continental. Spectacular failures are only failures if they fail to be spectacular.
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