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Tweets
- In case, like me, you've been living under a rock recently: http://thewildernessdowntown.com/ (Thanks, Jeff!) 1 day ago
- Tomorrow is up at midnight and then bed at midnight. Blah. 4 days ago
- Napping in prep for a late night (Don Giovanni at Haus fur Mozart, then dinner), and early flight out. 4 days ago
- News item on my #Alpbach talk on ORF: http://bit.ly/bXZhDB 4 days ago
- Auditorium over full for presentation on James Bond and Physics. #alpbach #efa10 6 days ago
- Rain descends on the #efa10 in #alpbach http://twitpic.com/2ixsjn 6 days ago
- RT @floritter 'Our brain only learns things that are done with enthusiasm': Hüther #efa10 #alpbach 6 days ago
- Oops: The Der... Like The al Qaueda...RT @halavais: New term for me: the Der ... 1 week ago
- Interview for the ORF's science site (im Deutsch): http://science.orf.at/stories/1658905/ #efa10 #alpbach 1 week ago
Archives
Monthly Archives: June 2003
Microreviews
Frida: Life mixed with art mixed into film rather than biopic; makes you dream in color; Hayek injects life into the character and the viewer.
Emperor’s Club: Moralizing parable that tries not to be heavy-handed and fails, despite Kevin Kline’s presence; cliché-fest in which every actor is upstaged by the campus of the Emma [...]
10 Years and Counting
As of today Jamie and I have been married a decade. Every day, I am thankful that I was lucky enough to meet her.
The accepted knowledge these days is that to have a successful marriage, you have to be two independent people; you are likely to have arguments, but that these can be worked out. [...]
Guilty chills
Just installed the window air conditioner and I’m feeling guilty. Our house was built in the 20s, and has decent cross-ventilation. I shouldn’t need air conditioning. It is supremely unstylish and unromatic. When picturing myself in the middle of a Maugham story–which I do more often than I would like to admit–I keep thinking a [...]
Handy I/O
As devices become increasingly mobile, the interfaces are also smaller and smaller. I was thinking this morning (in the shower, where I usually do my day’s thinking) about how to make more effective input devices. Way back in my undergrad days, there was a lot of talk about the direction of chording keyboards and the [...]
Brief interruption
Go look at this. Now go give this person some money.
Bursts of burst measurers
I just put in a paper to HICSS talking about the blog searching tool I’m working on. It’s not my greatest work. But it’s getting a little crowded lately for those looking at “bursty” words and phrases in the blogosphere. Intelliseek is the newest kid on the block, I guess, with their BlogPulse. Where’s Google? [...]
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