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Segway Tour of SF
In the Summer of ’09, we all went on a Segway Tour of San Francisco … which I can heartily recommend. We spent 30 or 40 minutes being thoroughly trained (it’s easy!) … and then we went out in the Fisherman’s wharf area … where cars are moving very slowly owing to the foot traffic….
How Best To Learn
I’m a big fan of Nicky Case’s work. She is a hard-to-describe creator, making online simulations, zines, tools (e.g., Nutshell – a tool to make expandable explanations), simulators, etc.) as well as giving talks, offering YouTubes, etc. She created a few things that addressed, in a brilliant synthesis of available cognitive science on the question,…
Walking In Our Neighborhood
We live adjacent to downtown San Jose, in a new townhouse/condo development called Mariani Square. It is part of the Japantown district — so named owing to the, ahem, concentration of Japanese people living here in the 20th century (and still today). Even though this is “brownfield” urban land, I’m amazed at the flowers…
Visit To The Babbage Engine
When I went to the Computer History Museum last month to see President Levin update the local Yale alumni on the “state of the university,” we got a quick tour of the Babbage Engine, which is reputed to be the first programmable calculator. Pretty impressive. [youtube width=”640″ height=”500″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VCNLqRtsgk[/youtube] A view of the Babbage Engine from…
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Moving To The Cloud, Bird by Bird
On my “To Do” list is a rather daunting goal: “Move Into The Cloud by EOY 2012.” What I mean by that is to “dematerialize” my life as much as possible: to get rid of tangible personal property (of the sort stored in the garage!); to move family albums and other memorabilia online; to detach…