Okay, the title is completely gimmicky and has nothing to do with the current recession, but ’tis the season and, with beer in hand, I find myself indulging. A couple of people have nudged me with question marks regarding the site and the husband-boy was rather nonplussed considering I how much I liked the [...]
I like social media and its various incarnations, but usually find it too distracting to deal with in real time and concurrently Get Things Done. I go through phases though, where I keep everything on, plugged-in, and flowing, immersing myself in the ‘now’ of minutia. Thankfully, this week has been one of those [...]
I’m interested in ambient interfaces, unobtrusive data, and augmented reality, which is why this video, The Ambient Life, caught my eye over at johnnyholland.org. According to the post, The Ambient Life,
… was created for Freeband, a Dutch research program in which a.o. Philips and Delft University participate. The video tries to show a [...]
I swear, I’m going to corner the market for wakalixes. Anyways, now that I have an iPhone I’ve been wanting a place to aggregate visual impressions of my days as they pass by. I love the lo-fi quality of the camera and with CameraBag on board it’s like I have a magic-pocket full [...]
Yeah, so, shortly after paying the price of a small car for the privilege of tight seating and gastrically taxing food, I kind of slipped into a coma of daily logistics and totally stopped writing, much to my own mortification. I thought it would be good to start jotting down reflections of the years [...]
I have a confession to make. It’s the kind of confession that you normally wouldn’t bring up in mixed company, or with people you don’t know very well, but the blank buffer of cyberspace gives me enough false courage that I can talk openly. The whole thing happened a number of months back, [...]
When we first set off to live in Japan, five to ten years sounded like a good amount of time to spend battling robots and learning to be ninja. However, angry robots are a bit thin on the ground, and stealthy is hard to come by when you stick out like a sore thumb. [...]
Mal was found in the garden, unhatched, and incubated by a black chicken. She[1] came later than the rest, towards the end of the summer, once they had already fledged and left the hen house. It was clear she was a mallard, not a muscovy, and with that the decision was made. [...]
Things that are bizarrely out of proportion give me the weebie-jeebies[1]. As a kid, weird images would pop into my head as I was drifting off to sleep, like a massively over-sized tire, and I’d go all weebie-jeebie. Usually I could counteract this by shifting position – laying with my face on the [...]