Last week I attended the CHI 2005 conference in Portland, OR. Not a bad little conference, all thing considered. I took a full day tutorial on implementing the user experience at a strategic level within an organization. This provided some very tasty fodder for further thinking on the issue. One side note — the conference [...]
As of noon today there is about two feet of snow on the ground, with drifts as high as three or four feet. With the wind chill it’s about -7 degrees Farenheight. A state of emergency has been declared, and everything in eastern Mass. has been shut down. Boston schools are closed Monday and Tuesday. [...]
Jan 2, 2005. The Des Moines Sandpipers claim victory for the first time in Aardvark Bill’s Spectacular Two-Dimensional League, beating the Fudgelville Packers 78–74 in the championship game. This was a pretty tasty victory, because I have been playing the damn fantasy football for 7(?) years now and have been consistently whupped. So I get [...]
Thursday, Dec 23, 2004 – Monday, Dec 27, 2004
Went to Colorado Springs to visit Dad, Marie, and Gram. I got in Thursday but Dad and Marie were delayed in Denver and didn’t get in until late. Friday we went out and got edibles to set up and all day nibble spread. Uncle Moose and his [...]
From a story about researchers reproducing an ancient roman skin cream:
During the Roman Empire, Roman women in London used to use this foundation cream. The cream is made of refined animal fat, starch and tin.
When you apply it to your face you have a smooth, white powdery texture - probably due to the starch, say [...]
Ahh nothing like a sweet summer cold to make the world shine a little brighter. Two Thursdays ago I went for a drink after work with people. I figure the alcohol intake tipped the balance in a war I didn’t know about, and my immune system collapsed under friendly fire. So I spent three miserable [...]
This article explains what that margin of error thing is that journalists take on to survey data. I thought this was pretty interesting because I used to know a fair bit about stats back in my grad school days. I taught intro to behavioral stats to undergrads, and that experience drove me from academics into [...]
Often times in my daily dining experience I find myself short of a napkin. If I am eating with other people this usually means I am someplace that provides napkins, and thus I can go fetch one to avoid social embarrassment. If I am dining along various options present themselves.
I eat breakfast in the car [...]
Today is the last day of my week long summer vacation. I slugged around the house, hung some interior doors, and cleaned up this website. Nice and relaxing. My favorite vacations are the ones where you get to be in your own environment without the stress of everyday living. Very relaxing.
My mom came out from [...]
Last I recollect it was the beginning of April. An idyllic month, April. A brother could almost taste how fine the summer was going to be. And then I looked up and it was the end of June. And had I used those three months to fufill personal ambitions, to grow as a person, to [...]
