A cop pulls a car over, and after looking at the driver’s license says “I noticed you were driving erratically. Do you mind if I search your car?” The driver gives him permission. After searching, he comes back to the driver’s window. “Dr. Schrodinger, are you aware that there’s a dead cat in your [...]
Halloween Pumpkins – Jack & his dog Zero.
In William Gibson’s book ‘Spook Country’ he uses locative art as a minor plot device. Locative art in the simplest terms being the melding of GPS & virtual reality technology to make tie virtual artworks to specific geographic locations.
While an interesting idea, it’s impact in terms of art is questionable in my mind [...]
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A lot of interesting investing opportunties this year are underwater. And I’m not just talking about the recent minor correction in the markets. Already this year I’ve looked at a company that aims to make money by converting wave energy into electricity and an underwater logging company. This week in the spotlight is [...]
No, not a Spyder coat. A recent article in wired magazine about pharming in Wired magazine brought to mind a topic that I’ve been meaning to write about for a while. Spider silk, as an advanced textile. Spider silk it turns out is ounce per ounce one of the strongest natural materials in the [...]
What is it about living in the future that makes people want to live in the past? There is an awful lot of nostalgia present in design today – from cars (like the Chrysler 300 and PT Cruiser) to clothes to now, ironically, computers. The very symbols of the modern age, dressed up to [...]
Pay him for the pizza. Saw the Yamato Drummers this past weekend. Great show. I expecting something a little one dimensional, and while the show doesn’t have the wild variety of ‘Stomp’, it was still highly entertaining with a lot more humor and audience interaction than I expected. Random picture – graffiti near the [...]
Small, uncluttered, basic living. This is a concept that I’ve begun to get more and more interested in.
During the 1999 – 2004 period I moved a total of 5 times. And with each move I seemed to acquire more stuff to move. The first couple of moves required a pickup truck, a day or two packing and just a few hours. By the last move it required weeks of packing, professional movers and a good hunk of a semi-truck.
Frustrated and exasperated with all the time and effort put into the moves I came up with the ’500 Living Concept’. The goal of this was that my life footprint would be 500 -
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