Communicating in a networked world
I have not written on this subject because I just see everyone else is banging on Congress about how stupid it would be to install "backdoors" in commercial email and software services. But honestly, I'm a bit concerned right now because government … [Continue reading]
"Max/MSP" is a computer app that implements an on-screen visual programming environment in which you can "wire" together components that make and process sound or logic. You could think of it as programming, but it's unlike the old procedural … [Continue reading]
Well I don't have a photo, but my first computer was an IBM 709. My next computer, for a very short time, was a CDC 3400, which was soon after replaced by the CDC 6400 that served for roughly 7 years as "my" mainframe. Me and many other researchers, … [Continue reading]
I have many times had the dream that I signed up for a course and now it's the first day of finals week, and I say "oh shit I have this final tomorrow and I never went to the class." This particular anxiety dream plagued me until I was maybe 40 years … [Continue reading]
I love this photo of two pelicans that I put on my Facebook banner. I took the photo a year ago at Ocean Beach in San Francisco. Here pelicans skim the surface of the Pacific Ocean, just above the waves, looking for food in the water below them.You … [Continue reading]