Okay, so the weekend of adventure and ink (Did I mention my tattoo? Do you want to see it?) is at a close … and I am back in yet another hotel, preparing for yet another set of days onsite. The current plan is to be here (Maryland) until Tuesday, then rock back up to . . . → Read More: Still on the road
|
The washington post did a little stunt where they put one of the finest young classical violin players in the world, playing his Stradivarius violin, out in a Metro station to see if anyone would care. Nope. He played for 45 minutes. A couple of people stopped to listen. He got $32 in donations. . . . → Read More: Pearls before swine Tattoo pics Apparently, redmed felt left out and so she went and got one for herself too. That’s one of the reasons I like her. This was the “top 5” on my international news feed this morning: * Bombings kill dozens in Iraq * North Korea disarmament deadline slips * Kasparov held at Russian demo * Nigerians vote in test of African democracy * Hope fades for missing crew members * Al Qaeda group claims Iraq attack It’s only because . . . → Read More: Generic News My friend robotify goes to school with the guy who built this robot. Apparently: We are currently developing and studying dance-oriented nonverbal play with between children and the robot Keepon, designed and built by Hideki Kozima. Keepon is a small creature-like robot developed to perform emotional and attentional interaction with children. It has four . . . → Read More: Dancing robots, check. Still no cure for cancer. Preventing hurtful words and phrases from being uttered in public only increases their power in private. Nobody will ever change minds and hearts until we start taking all the ideas together, throwing them on the same table, and beating them with the same stick. The truth will survive, and the racist tripe will fall away . . . → Read More: Saved from the scrap heap I’m beyond your peripheral vision, so you might want to turn your head . . . → Read More: Plus minus Just heard this over the cube walls: “So he says ‘I work hard! Sometimes I use my brain to do math.’ And I said ‘You do not! You haul dirt.’” Maybe it’s just the middle of the afternoon, but I was reduced to a trembling mass of giggles, head on the desk. I wandered into karate school number 2 last night. The Rockville Martial Arts and Learning Center. Totally different experience … all the way in the other direction. I spent half an hour talking to the owner, who is not the lead instructor. He’s a guy who has run various fitness businesses in the past. He . . . → Read More: School #2 To my horror, I’m turning into management. I called up one of my developers today to ask if they could cross-compile the installer. The current solution is to move the half-built contraption from machine to machine, building each part on a different system. I thought, hey, I know this cool word for what I want . . . → Read More: Manager |
