As a matter of practice, I don’t make much use of the Yahoo! suite of tools. Groups have been useful in the past, and—prior to Adium—the instant message client was my personal favorite desktop client. While my surfing has also crashed through news, Flickr, and local on occasion, the rest is largely a wasteland for me. However, I am always intrigued by fake pets.
Anyone like sex?
Archie still has trouble making blended consonant sounds, but he’s developing excellent gesturing skills to make his point when the sounds don’t. The trick is, to ask him to gesture before jumping to conclusions.
The Killer Slide
Today ended a two-day blitz of work that took the form of an Accenture case competition. The event was sponsored by the Kelley School of Business as an extension of one of their business classes, taught by Paul Friga. This year, the competition was opened up a bit, and SOI Director of Undergraduate Studies Dennis Groth recruited five Informatics teams to participate. None of them made the cut to the final six of the thirty entries. That wasn’t really a surprise, once the nature of the competition was revealed Wednesday.
Questions
We’ve been homeschooling for a couple of weeks now, and we’re still finding our way. Most of our time has been spent trying to decompress from school and homework stress, the rest of the time we’ve been exploring the possibilities. We’re playing around with some cool math history and literature, spending time studying nature, visiting [...]
The Human Flipbook
More evidence that creativity delivered virally makes advertising taste better: Erbert & Gerbert’s Sub Club commissioned the creation of a “human flipbook” as a promotion for their chain of sandwich shops. The project features 150 colored t-shirts each with an animated still ironed onto the front.
Twitter rules
Monday is the busiest day of the week for me, and this particular Monday comes after my busiest week of the young semester. I am still catching up. WordPress has a new update, something is broken in our blog theme, and there is about 8 hours of work to do in a 6 hour sleepless window. Yet the thing I find myself responding to is Robert Scoble’s Twitterquette rant from yesterday.
The Last Lecture
Randy Pausch is currently a professor at Carnegie Mellon University. He is well-published and a leader in pushing the development of virtual worlds. Randy Pausch is also dying of cancer.