Introduction:

As part of the MANOME project’s attempt to introduce video into real-time distance music collaboration, it is necessary to perform usability tests on musicians. The goal of testing is to determine the cost-benefit value of video quality. This project consisted of conceptualizing a complete usability test that would help determine ( Read more... )

One of the things that impressed me with Jackie when I first met her almost two years ago, was her blog Interactive Reader where she reviewed young adult novels. I can't say that I was very interested in this subject of hers back then, but I sure was awed by the fact that publishers were sending her multiple books a month ... free ... before they ( Read more... )

I've been spending the week in Grand Rapids, MI. It's been relaxing. However, the internet here has been very sparse, and if it weren't for my phones ability to check mail, Facebook, and Twitter, I might have stuck my face in poison ivy just to keep myself busy and from going insane.

Today, however, I'm at a very cool restaurant which has some nooks ( Read more... )

Everyone who reads this blog is probably already aware of this fact because you are friends with me on Facebook or some other social networking site, but I'm now engaged.

The wedding will be next summer in Seattle.  Jackie, my fiance, wanted a destination wedding, but I would have none of that because I want a celebration with friends and family.  ( Read more... )

I'm hanging out in a Starbucks this morning out of necessity for the internet.  There is a current promotion happening here where they are selling a line of whole bean coffee by the pound.  It is a special line because the packaging is red and is called most appropriately "Starbucks Red ( Read more... )

There are, in fact, more interesting things in my life to talk about on this blog than what this post will be about (something to do with getting engaged and other stuff).  However, I'm not concerned with any of that right now.  I'm here to post my entry into DryFly's 4th of July t-shirt contest.

DryFly, for those of you that don't know, is Spokane' ( Read more... )

I've now been in Seattle for a little more than a week.  Jackie had her birthday but has yet to receive all of her presents - those are coming this weekend.  I've spent a lot of my time here around the house and around the UW campus.  I've made some fun dishes including pizza sandwiches on homemade focaccia bread and a Mediterranean bean and rice ( Read more... )

I have a memory of a political cartoon that I read sometime around my senior year of high school or my freshman year of college.  It was particularly powerful for me at the time, and I wanted to find it again.  So I tried to Google it, and success!

I was just going to save it to my computer, but those things always tend to get lost when computers ( Read more... )

A lot has happened in the months since I've last updated so lets get right into that ( Read more... )

Once again my attempts to have a regularly updated blog failed. Perhaps it should have been a New Years resolution, because I'm actually doing ok with those. For those of you looking for an excuse (which is none of you, I know), a few weeks ago some procrastination decisions on homework stressed me out to an abnormal amount for that early in a ( Read more... )