This year's Edge question essays offer a wonderful collection of predictions for what game changing scientific and technical advances we expect to see in the coming decades. It's great that so many futurist ideas are entering the mainstream. My contribution is below. (Being able to post an essay to Edge isn't something I would have predicted for ( Read more... )

There have been so many things going on... I need to take a deep breath, think about where I am and what I'm doing, and, of course, upload it to my journal before it passes through the sieve of my memory into entropy.

After the wedding reception for C's mom, we kicked off our California tour with a casual sifter dinner in San Diego.

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So far, this summer is off to a great start, with only one speed bump.

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I spent the last week heli-skiing in the Chugach mountains of Alaska, near Valdez. My friend Mark had called me up a month previously and asked if I wanted to go, offering to pay my way in exchange for talking physics with him. I think I thought it over for about a tenth of a second before saying yes. This was definitely among the more crazy things ( Read more... )

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Italian is really the most beautiful language. And not just because she's talking about me. Now if only I can figure out what she's saying...

I'm not sure if I'll continue to use it, but I finally got around to trying Twitter. It's an impressively simple yet powerful social connectivity and procrastination tool. Apparently, the next best thing to lunch with friends is tweeting that you're having lunch.

I'm not sure yet whether all the attention is good, or if all the hype will have a negative impact, but this has certainly been a strange week. The interest in my work among physicists has been building steadily over the past few months. I've been presenting at conferences, getting invited to cool places, and exchanging emails with some of the best ( Read more... )

Must... control... ego.

I went for a bike ride in the backyard today.
Here's a quicktime VR: Relay Peak.