Experiments, observations, and ideas: tech tools, AI, books, media, daily systems
Context In my previous post I talked about how the realm of what was possible expanded when we got a better, faster computer … but it took a whole other leap with the first “on-line” experiences. Q…
I decided to take pictures of the beginnings of three books at home. The first is from Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing. The second is from Maps of Meaning: The Architectu…
Youtube is always goiong to be superior to Spotify just because ... it has more stuff. The downside is that it's hard to know wtf is real any more, when searching for something. The upside is th…
Apps on our smartphones get a bad rap for wasting our time, and deservedly. It's true that most are either harmful or neutral, or a distraction, or a minor convenience. One set of apps that are…
Major updates * Trip to Capitola Minor updates * A new family board game: Labyrinth * Re-activated my Facebook account, mostly to follow Tara’s school account * This month went by … really qui…
* A John Carmack interview from way, way back. Legendary. * Rapping on cartoon impressions (I was … very impressed!) * This month in Archaeology #1: examining the evidence of a massive bronze-age b…
We recently watched Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone — and I realized the movie is already twenty years old! I thought I’d read the book with my daughter, now that we’ve seen the movie, and I th…
I was going to make a short comment about liking some specific video, then thought I should provide context, then realized that I have … no real way to start because there was too much to say, and if…
Came upon this scene recently — well, no, I didn’t just come upon it, that would be creepy even by Youtube’s standards1 — I was suddenly reminded of the movie at night, and then (as often happens? ins…
If I may share without comment, a translated version of a popular joke on Weibo a few years ago.…
A long time ago, when I was busy trying to read everything by Enid Blyton1, I came across The Magic Faraway Tree. And. I. Loved. It. This being the age before Amazon and not having a large library ar…
Remember, this interview was filmed just over six decades ago, and reference a book written nine decades ago (Brave New World). Of course, his interviewer is humoring him and not quite taking him ser…