The ineffable Maria Popova: the Universe in verse
I find myself struggling to articulate the essence of Maria Popova’s writing – how it weaves together the delicate and the scientific, the thoughtful and ...
Category: The Narrative
Project: God Box – tangible prayers, with a twist
I’ve had an idea bouncing around my head for years. In a conversation with Dan Alroy, I forget what we were talking about, he mentioned a God Box. Basical...
Faux terror theater imperialism
Just wanted to vent that I went thru Keflavik airport in Reykjavik twice this year. And twice, when returning to the US, I got stopped for a deeper check. For o...
Project: Space Invaders game, in collaboration with Claude
About two years ago, I was at one of my Hardware Happy Hour evenings and one of the guys showed what he was doing with generative AI. He showed a logo he’...
Just a thought: AirPod hearing aids messing up social cues
When the AppleWatch came out, we had to get used to folks looking at their watch for messages and not think looking at their watch meant they were in a rush. No...
Just a thought: AI agents are mobile coupons all over again
A new phrase is bubbling up: ‘agentic AI’. That’s the AI as agent that goes out and does your bidding. The concept keeps coming up all the tim...
Does genAI have a (Gödel) incompleteness problem?
I use ChatGPT (whom I call Geoffrey) and, much more, recently, Claude (whom I call Claude), quite a bit. I use it as a sparring partner, helping me hone ideas a...
Arc’teryx’s exo-underpants and a bright future as I get old
I keep telling my wife that when we’re broken down oldies (coming soon) we’ll have self-driving cars and exoskeletons to help with our mobility issu...
Instructions on how to use a phone one-handed bring back memories of the same idea years ago
This triggered an old funny memory (tho I might have the timing wrong). As phones got bigger, they got harder to handle with one hand. But there are some ways t...
How many people were affected by the CrowdStrike meltdown?
How many billion people do you think were affected by this? Microsoft said 8.5 million PCs (no Macs of course). A tiny 42KB file took down 8.5 million machines....