… from the Alcatraz weekend.
I looked thru the Super Bowl ads this year and have the following observations: * car companies simply MUST advertise, even at > $3m / :30 seconds. I thought the car commercials were the best * e-trade didn’t disappoint; their latest baby advisor was precious * movie trailers are another high ROI category. There were…
From 1950 to 1955, Dad was stationed at the Chincoteague Naval Air Station, which was on the road from US Route 13 out to Chincoteague Island. It forms my first memories. Here is a Google Earth view of the area today. The facility was decommissioned by the Navy and used by NASA as their…
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,…
I told a friend recently that I wanted to “move to the cloud” in 2012. He asked, “What does that mean?” It means dematerializing life as much as possible. Fewer possessions. Fewer claims. Less “stuff” to worry about. And that is a good thing. I’m more interested in having access than I am in ownership. …
San Francisco has recently created a walking tour of the downtown area, the Barbary Coast Trail ™, bringing tourists and others face to face with the history of our town. It was modeled on Boston’s Freedom Trail, and gives the adventurous pedestrian an efficient and annotated path thru areas where the Gold Rush started, where…
I’ve been helping an fellow I was friends with a LONG time ago — James Johnson — with a project he’s been supporting in Nicaragua. It seems that a retiring schoolteacher from Connecticut, Louise Brunberg, was travelling in Nicaragua in the early 90’s, and she was appalled by the poverty and terrible educational conditions…
