Liesl blogged about big brothers dressing up their smaller, more fashion-vulnerable peers, which reminded me of this picture:
Taken when Archie was about 6 weeks old. Looks like Kevin is the culprit here though.
Universal Big Brother trait?
Common Sense 2.0
There is a wiki to discuss and shape Tim O’Reilly’s new blogging guidelines. There are badges available to distinguish between civil sites (”Civility Enforced”) and those without the strict standards (”Anything goes”). Anyone having flashbacks to Tipper Gore?
Still no flying cars?
The UK Ministry of Defense’s view of the future is filled with tech weapons and information advantage, but nary a flying car. Will we never reach the Age of Jetsons?
Flying Spaghetti Monster debunked
Kevin is dead to the world, wearing his flying spaghetti monster shirt. Carter and Archie are talking to him and using him as a jungle gym.
Carter: What does a flying spaghetti monster do?
Kevin: (groggily) It exposes the fallacies in so-called intelligent design.
Carter: (as though talking to an insane baby) Dad, you’re talking work again.
Me: (instantly [...]
Merrily we roll along.
Sometimes I think I’m in a Sondheim musical.
Carter and Archie have decided to turn off the TV and wrestle. Archie comes running to me.
Archie: Help me take off my shirt. I have to take off my shirt because we are wrestling.
Me: You have to take off your shirt to wrestle?
Carter: Here’s the trick. Do [...]
Modeling and Mining of Networked Information Spaces
Yet another attempt at live-blogging an academic talk … will try to clean it up later.
Evangelos Milios received a diploma in Electrical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, in 1980 and Master’s and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, from where [...]
Informatics gets a new Dean
Bobby Schnabel is our new Dean, effective in July. Schnabel is leaving a position at the University of Colorado at Boulder as the vice provost/associate vice chancellor for Academic and Campus Technology. Also a computer science professor, Schnabel serves as chief information officer at that University and as the director of the Alliance for Technology, Learning and Society (ATLAS) Institute. The outgoing head honcho, Mike Dunn, wrote some parting thoughts on his experience