So I open up our new collapsible laundry basket, one of those mesh jobbies with a flexi-frame that creates a structure but allows one to fold it up and make it small. Inside the thick plastic casing I cut open there is the neatly folded basket. A yellow slip of paper with writing is obscured [...]
My head is a questionmark
I need my Planet Info head in a jar. Maybe I could squeeze the whole family in there, since it is a shared blogspace. I wonder how one goes about doing that. (Step 1. Wait for Erik to finish capstone …)
The Gremlin Counteroffensive
I forced myself out of bed in the wee hours this morning, hoping to get in a little editing, a little writing, and a little portfolio-ing. I started with a blog entry about the boys and our electronic drug switch. A few paragraphs into it, Safari crashed. I took that as a sign to get [...]
WebBiographies.com
I clicked on an ad from WhatIfSports.com — despite the ugly look and broken code — and wound up at WebBiographies.com. This is a combination personal wiki and social networking site, and a site that probably needs a few dozen HCI people. I signed up with my own name to poke around, but then I [...]
Hate-hatemore relationship with $$$
A great blog plug from Kynthia aside, this hasn’t been the best of weeks. My hope for a Week Of Nothing got scuttled on Monday with familial nervousness about paying bills. It only got worse when I followed up on the telecommuting lead that was going to finance my next year, discovering that instead of [...]
Happy Mother’s Day
Here’s hoping Archie and Carter can agree a little better than this …
Morton on Community Service
Although family illness truncated my COPSL time this week, I got to see the keynote speaker on Monday. I came away struck once again with how much community-based research and service learning parallels the core philosophies of HCI Design. Keith Morton — a Providence College English professor — is interested in cultural narrative and how [...]