In what has the potential to be the coolest sport innovation since the print-your-own tickets issued by Ticketmaster, the Schaumburg Flyers — an independent minor league team in northern Illinois — will soon unveil “Fan Club: Reality Baseball” to allow fans to manage the team during the second half of the season. The web site, [...]
I’m ready to give PC-Mac the dual boot
I’ll begin by saying, “I love my new macbook.” It’s pretty. It’s quiet. It’s a much faster computer than I’ve ever had. However, it hasn’t lived up to the high expectations about what I can do with it. First the scariest part … On two separate occasions, my mac has stopped responding. The drive starts [...]
Short props
… to Erik, Matt and Ryan. Erik dressed up Planet Info recently, including putting our heads in jars. No longer are we outcasts, lowly question marks on a shelf full of brains. Matt‘s PR department is working overtime. First, he gets a New Scientist blurb. Now, it’s the IDS comin’ callin’. If someone has $500K [...]
My love-hate for computers
The incremental nature of computer upgrades is fantastic … until you are faced with starting from scratch. Then, all of the little tweaks and customizations and habits that evolved over the course of regular use go missing. There is at once this great opportunity to clean the microchip garage, pitching liberally, but also a vital [...]
Doctor prep
I stopped by to visit Marty to talk about a few things, mostly wrapping up the past degree and prepping for the next one. He gave me a book — Getting What You Came For: The Smart Student’s Guide to Earning a Master’s or Ph.D. — that he is planning to get for all the [...]
(Wiki) Way cool
I’m not sure how the logistics (passport, travel, money, language) will be worked out, but I’m excited about the possibility of three days of this. Very intimidating, though.
Ways to improve HCI Design II
Capstone safely put to bed, and related paper now published (“Wootius Hootius!”), it’s time to pause for a little reflection of the past semester. A large part of my academic time was spent helping Eli and Josh run HCI Design II. This is probably a good place to start, with a short list of things [...]