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Yes, ... but is it Art?
This entry by homais reminded me that as a former member of SF MOMA, they recently sent me a plea for money to fund the construction of a rooftop garden and events space that they want to put on top of the parking garage.
I joined SF MOMA because I was shopping in their museum store a couple of years ago for Xmas gifts, and I was offered a discount on ( Read more... ) -
I finally got off my ass and ...
configured up the httpd on cesium.clock.org (a.k.a. www.clock.org) and started it. It's been down since last October, when I upgraded cesium from an ancient Sun SPARCstation 20 to a Sun Fire V120. I got the two most critical functions (DNS and E-mail) working right away, and left everything else to ... later.
Much later, as it turns out.
I think I' ( Read more... ) -
Bluetooth A2DP server for MacOS X
So, you have a phone that speaks bluetooth and actually speaks A2DP (stereo audio over bluetooth), and you routinely download Podcasts, but the phone's speaker is not that great, and while a bluetooth earpiece works, it's also kinda tinny for anything other than very basic voice (e.g. interstitial music) ... so why not get your bluetooth-speaking ( Read more... ) -
Wandering around Yuri's Night at NASA ARC
A rave with scientists on an airfield, with WiFi. -
Firewire
It's better than USB 2.0, but it's twitchy, and Apple doesn't put a separate FW channel/bus behind each of its FW connectors, as they do with USB. That's a crime.
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Bluetooth Trackballs
Why aren't there any on the market?
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Osaka & Kyoto
The "why" for my visit to Osaka was initially twofold: first, I wanted to see a little more of Japan than just Tokyo, and, second, I wanted to visit an old friend from college who lives in a nearby suburb. After a little research about the Kansai region, a day trip to Kyoto also looked very reasonable.
I used the Nozomi Shinkansen for all long ( Read more... ) -
Winter Ouchies
Incline has a lot of accumulated snow so far this season, more than I've seen since I moved here. It's almost a meter deep on my roof, which, unfortunately, has a flat section right above the walkway to the front door. Naturally, there is now an ice-dam there, and the water is going places it should not. This is why you don't have flat or low- ( Read more... ) -
Tokyo
My first visit to Japan. It was interesting and fun. Less foreign than I had expected:
Romanji, everywhere.
familiar cuisine
I've been eating Japanese cuisine of many styles (e.g. sushi, teppanyaki, yakitori, robata) in restaurants in the USA for so long that much of what was on offer in Japan was familiar, even though I can't read any Japanese ( Read more... )
