Came home after a big meeting on July 31st and felt dissatisfied with the state of the house. Had time this past week with Sheila traveling to think about decorating. Whether it is timing or the novelty of free mental cycles, I made some decisions. I determined the living room is where I relax, so it should be the focal point of relaxation ( Read more... )

I'm not very good at being original, but I am able to recognize patterns and take ideas from one field and apply them to another ( Read more... )

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I just updated my last post with my notes. Perhaps I should post these notes from now on when I go on future trips. Too bad I've already done a lot of traveling! But I don't think I have the time to post notes and so on for the other cities I've visited. If anyone is interested, here's a list of places I can actually speak about: (*'ed places I ( Read more... )

Sheila and I went to Seattle this past weekend because we found some cheap flights on Virgin America ( Read more... )

Feverishly preparing for the maker's faire the first weekend of may. Ill be showing off my electric bikes and how to build your own ( Read more... )

Showed off two of my bikes at the SF Eva meeting this past Saturday. Office chair seat was a big hit. Couple of bikes were faster, one sexier, all more expensive ( Read more... )

I dropped the voice class I was taking. After six weeks, we finally got reviewed assignments back, and the teacher did not like the direction I was heading in. But she was never very clear with her expectations. This is the tragedy of academia; smart people making others smarter, but often times half the lesson is just about students figuring ( Read more... )

Maybe I'm too young to remember any earlier, but I was not at all surprised by the .com bubble of the late 90s. Any stupid idea, as long as it involved the internet, seemed to attract investors. After reality caught up and almost everyone got clobbered, you'd think people would have sobered up and gone on to honest work. But, no, that simply won ( Read more... )

I think it's an embaressment to this country that it has no universal health care. The wealthiest nation on earth has a healthcare system that is so screwed up and so exclusive that many of its inhabitants live in fear of treating their medical problems ( Read more... )