There are lots of pictures this week. I’ve been walking in an entirely new area and that’s been interesting. I’m also playing around a bit with adding more commentary about what I liked about the pictures. Race cars on the streets of Richmond are fun and this one had an interesting background that echoed the […]
As part of the Connected Courses MOOC, we were talking a bit about understanding different networks and how to both navigate them and use their vocabulary/tools. The picture above captures a few interesting elements along those lines. I took the picture walking to work. It was one of those fortuitous moments which happen much more […]
This set has a pretty strong Fall theme- lots of leaves. There are still kids in the woods if you’re there to look for them. […]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imINOY22spU A while ago (maybe a week) I had a conversation with David about inequality and mapping the data to help make it more understandable. He shared the video above with with me on Sept. 29. That got me moving. Initially, I played with the data in Google Earth. It’s pretty easy to generate circles1 […]
Mobile malware infections race through Hong Kong’s Umbrella Revolution – Boing Boing “The protesters are dependent on mobile apps to coordinate their huge, seemingly unstoppable uprising, and someone — maybe the Politburo, maybe a contractor — has released virulent Ios and Android malware into their cohort, and the pathogens are blazing through their electronic ecosystem. […]
A lot of portrait oriented shots this week. Not sure it means anything but vaguely interesting to me. […]
What You Need to Know About Yik Yak, an App Causing Trouble on Campuses – Technology – The Chronicle of Higher Education “They envisioned it, they said, as a tool for observational campus comedy. Mr. Buffington argues that making all comments anonymous is critical to maintaining users’ privacy, encourages less-inhibited commentary, and allows the best […]
This one briefly, very briefly, made it to Flickr’s explore. This is the tree we were playing tag in . . . until fall number two. It was fun if ill advised. Ran into Pres. Rao on the way out to the photo safari, so I had to take a picture. I feel like someone […]
I’m leaving Mojang | notch.net “I don’t see myself as a real game developer. I make games because it’s fun, and because I love games and I love to program, but I don’t make games with the intention of them becoming huge hits, and I don’t try to change the world. Minecraft certainly became a huge hit, […]
This makes a better story if you know a few things about me. I hate to be late. I am extremely uncomfortable with strangers and I know very little about cars. I despise feeling helpless. The Start1 Scene: Flowery Branch GA– a town that feels recently birthed from farmland an hour or so outside the […]