the mood today was one of being antisocial, introverted, frustrated, angered, disconnected, disengaged, detached, secluded, isolated, stressed, disappointed, uncommunicative, withdrawn, disinterested, discouraged and thwarted. just when i think i’m heading in the right path, i step back and examine the view. this time it hit me… and i am no longer as sure about things [...]
mar26.augmented introspection
for the past couple of days i have really been missing new york city, probably even more so now than when i got back to texas in january. there are some aspects i love about austin, primarily the ‘outdoorsy’ nature and character… the good mountain biking and rock climbing that i definitely could not get [...]
a very intesting study on “how to spot a baby conservative“… makes pretty damn good sense to me!
20-year-long study shows that children who were whiny and insecure tend to grow up to be conservatives and “confident, resilient, self-reliant” children tend to grow up to be liberals. “He reasons that insecure kids look for the reassurance [...]
right in line with my current area of research, i came across this list from purse lip square jaw… soon we’ll be Googling where we lost our damn keys!
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Auto-ID Center: The Networked Physical World: Proposals for Engineering the Next Generation of Computing, Commerce & Automatic-Identification (pdf) (01.10.00)
Forbes: The Internet of Things (18.03.02)
Auto-ID Center: Why Technical [...]
mar13.alone in the crowd?
mar14.(mt)
mar17.highly active
here was the closing quote from bruce sterling yesterday at sxsw interactive, which is metaphorically true to the state of things today (”the people, yes”, carl sandburg, 1937):
The people yes
The people will live on.
The learning and blundering people will live on.
They will be tricked and sold and again sold
And go back to the nourishing earth [...]
the sxsw interactive conference could not have ended with as much motivation, inspiration and emotion as it had accomplished with bruce sterling’s remarks on “the state of the world.” during the first fifteen minutes he discussed the evolution of the web and how it is gradually transforming intelligently into an “internet of things” rather than [...]
landscape architecture? interesting and amazing petri dish fractal growth patterns, provided by pruned. even more.
originally discovered on kottke.org
we have all had those days where just about anyone and everyone we come into contact with really pisses you off… in fact you really can’t stand anyone! as you have guessed, today is definitely one of those days for me which is not real fitting considering i’m at sxswi with hundreds of other people [...]
