For our 40th wedding anniversary Barb wanted a wind sculpture by a local artist, Michael Mistler. Today Michael — with help from our friend Adam — installed the piece. Afterwards I chatted with Michael for a few minutes about his art.
You can see more of his work here.
David Eagleman at the FQXi SETTING TIME ARIGHT conference (2011), an interdisciplinary meeting investigating the nature of time.
My favorite line from his talk: “We are moving creatures that run on batteries.”
It is fashionable of late to bash Facebook, Apple, Google, Amazon et al. There’s plenty to complain about I suppose (and I’ve done my share) but after the fire has been peed on and the dogs have been summoned, I really like Apple, Google and Amazon (I’ve never used Facebook). I like them a lot. Do I like everything they do? Of course not.
But this post is about Google Calendar. I’ve been using it for years. Anything of importance, anything I want to find later… goes into Google Calendar. Case in point: I’m in the process of switching health insurance companies and today I got a call from a representative of the new company, checking on one of the drugs I take. He also asked about a drug I didn’t recognize and said it was a one-time script on February 4, 2014. I had Google Calendar open so I hit the “G” key and typed in that date.
That was the day I hit some black ice and slid off the highway, getting just banged up enough that Barb insisted I get checked out at the ER. They gave me a muscle relaxant as I recall. Here’s a screenshot of that entry.
Note the link to my blog post on the event as well as links to PDF scans of the towing receipt; a summary from the ER visit; and a couple of insurance documents. Four years ago and I had it all from a 5 second search.
Is Google doing something with all of my data? I assume so. But I never see ads an they don’t charge me a dime. I call that a good deal.
Brunei, officially the Nation of Brunei, the Abode of Peace, is located on the north coast of the island of borneo in Southeast Asia. (Wikipedia) My sister-in-law, Tonya, shot this brief clip. She and my brother make frequent trips to southeast Asia and spent most of the last 20+ years in Indonesia and Malaysia. My brother make several trips to China each year and returns with wonderful stories. Some interesting facts about Brunei:
“I think the only appropriate response (to the power of technology) is profound ambivalence.”
Neuromancer was published on July 1, 1984, five months after the introduction of the first Macintosh (January 24).