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Thinking like the Physically Disabled
While listening to a recent podcast of This American Life (TAL) it made me realize the troubles that the disabled have to go through in this country. I don’t mean the way others treat them differently, although that certainly is an issue, but rather the little things we take for granted. The sad thing is…
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Grand Canyon: 9 Oct 2010
While on my trip to the Grand Canyon I kept a journal of my experience in order to create an after-the-fact travelogue. This is the last entry of an edited version + photo essay of my trip. (First entry here) — 9 Oct 2010 1530 The drive to Phoenix was uneventful. I did finally get…
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Holy Video Game, Batman!
Sometimes jokes can be very misleading to outsiders. For a few months after hearing jokes about how gamey it was that Joker’s henchmen lost track of Batman as soon as he went up onto a gargoyle I didn’t have any inclination to play the game. It just seemed like it would be too jarring to…
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Let Me Smoke My Pipe!
Dan’s not the only one that can post videos. Here’s one I really enjoyed. I heard about this guy in a podcast that covered a steam punk gathering in London.
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New Revenue Models
While listening to The Command Line Podcast a few weeks ago, they started talking about how digital distribution allows for innovations in publishing. I don’t remember what they mentioned exactly, but the prior link should take you to the show notes. The talk started a series of synapses firing in my grey matter culminating in…
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More Trouble with Clouds
I previously blogged about cloud computing and, as you may remember, I am no fan. Recently, while listening to The Command Line Podcast, I came across yet another reason to stay away from the cloud. Cmdline mentions Bruce Schneier’s recent post on file deletion in the cloud. Bruce’s main point is that you can be…
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The Unix Ideal
From the time I started listening to podcasts until about two months ago, I had been using Rhythmbox to manage my podcasts. When I first started using a Linux music application, Banshee ran hideously slow on my computer. (As did most mono-based products) As time has passed I’ve acquired a more powerful Linux computer and…
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The End of Braid Part 2 of ?
Don’t worry, this blog isn’t about to become some weird fan tribute blog to Braid. It’s more of a case of trying to make sense of the game I’ve just played. There’s really no reason to make sense of The Beatles Rockband. You are one of The Beatles playing music. There’s nothing to “get”. But…
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The End of Braid Part 1 of ?
warning: The following contains many spoilers about Braid. I, personally, feel that your enjoyment of the game will be greatly reduced by reading this ahead of time. You have been warned! I finished Braid last night. I did cheat a little. Of the 60 possible puzzle pieces, I used a walkthrough to get about 10…
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First Look Review: Braid
That a game like Braid can exist is a statement on where video games are as an art form with a well-established history and canon. To make a parallel in the paint world: without a long canon of traditional paintings of tables with fruit and bread, people wouldn’t have really understood the “parody” or “remix”…
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Is it Obsolete? NPR Radio Stations
I am a huge listener of public radio programming, but I no longer listen to my local NPR station. Most of the time I just listen to podcasts of the shows that would otherwise be broadcast on NPR. The basic force behind this is the same as the reason why I loved my MythTV when…
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Hawaii Day 3
I think everyone has seen a street performer painted in metal and dressed in clothes with a metallic-looking surface. I’ve seen them in Miami, Vegas, and Fort Lauderdale. But only in Honolulu have I seen three of them on the same street only a block from each other. At first when I saw the guy…
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Moving: A Photo Essay
The Huge Mess Danielle and I bought our first home near the end of February. We’ve moved many times before – between semesters at Cornell, from Cornell to Tampa, and from Tampa to Baltimore. Now we were finally moving into our own home. And so, for the first time, I decided to thoroughly document our…
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Tutorial: Geo-Tagging Your Photos
Recently I was listening to The Command Line Podcast and the host mentioned one way to help others is to write up a tutorial on your blog whenever you learn a new skill or task. Since the information I needed for geo-tagging my photos was fragmented, I decided to write up a tutorial following my…