I’ve always said Canadians love conferences, and this week is an intense one, with me not even leaving town. T&W: I’m at a workshop for my Augmented Reality Research Team (well, it’s not my team; I’m just on it) Th: [CTRL]: TAS : Technology : Art : Society — organized by a grad student collective …
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Back from DC — more family gossip
Wow. I don’t know if we’ll do that drive again. It was over 14 hours there because of traffic jams. When it’s already a long trip, a few traffic jams can really mess you up. I have a major gadget report coming your way, but in the meantime, the family history discovery of the year …
Vegetarian Paella and Travel
I’m up early, so you get a blog entry before I hit the road. We’re off to Washington DC for a few days for my annual family get-together around the Myron M. Weinstein Memorial Lecture. Some years we fly, some years we drive. This year, we’re driving. It’s a long drive, but we like the …
And for something positive
It’s impossible to follow up a post on the death of a loved one and sound anything but banal, but here goes: Friday, I got a call at the office from my old friend Matt Ruben, an urban studies scholar in drag as a literature scholar (or is it the other way around?) Anyway, I …
Tetrys: June 1992-May 1 2007
This morning, I found Tet lying on his side, by the door to the patio, like he’d laid down to rest. He passed away during the night — he was still a little warm when I found him. After a year and a half’s battle with cancer, partial renal failure, and a variety of other …
Some Cran Bread to Tide You Over
My mind is just brimming with ideas for this blog, especially as we roll into our 3rd summer (2nd full) in Montreal. Reflections on my big course this term and the project of mass education that universities have undertaken; reflections on our “settling” here and changing knowledge of the city; a few technological matters in …
A Brief Gee-Whiz Post
As I may have mentioned before, my mp3 project has a bit of an oral history dimension to it, since may of the people involved in developing the technology are still alive and happy to talk about their part in it. I’ve done a couple of these interviews by telephone now, as I’ve been travelling …