NONALIGNMENT PACT

This is my last post for the NAP. I am looking forward to the continued fun here, especially on Sundays. Thanks, everyone, for reading and commenting and giving me the opportunity to share stuff with you.

In case any of you are wondering what ever became of the fire truck, it was rescued [...]

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One of my neighbors on the 3rd floor of the MIT Media Lab, Amit Zoran, has been working on a great idea that has been getting a lot of press about his thesis project, which makes my job sharing it with you easier. I just wanted to highlight it here and encourage you to read [...]

I overdid it last week. It started with an early flight from Boston to DC Saturday morning and didn’t seem to let up until today. I have finally gotten around to uploading my inauguration concert photodocuments from last Sunday for you. I put them in their rightful chronological place and I apologize profusely [...]

On Sunday, January 18, 2009, I found myself walking down to the mall with a group of friends to see the inauguration concert.

I hadn’t planned on going. I was just going to have breakfast with the group that was going, but then I just went. I hadn’t slept much Saturday night (we had put [...]

The other day I was indulging in some old XTC videos when I suddenly saw Richard Branson smiling up at me. That man is EVERYWHERE.

Also, I’ve become somewhat obsessed with an experimental instrument called the Daxophone, invented by Hans Reichel, which is a bowed wooden tongue that sounds creepily human (all the audio in the [...]

nuggets of advice at the end of this video. i like this guy.

oh, and check out my new [...]

Writing exercise

Rules:1 keep your hand moving2 lose control3 be specific4 don’t think5 don’t worry about spelling, punctuation, or grammar

Write for 15 minutes starting with “i see”

Result (unedited)I see a way out, but it’s on the ground and I’m on a merry go round. It’s a matter of perspective, what’s moving and what’s not. There’s [...]

inventing invention

aww, i was looking forward all week to writing this blog post about all the final projects from two awesome classes at the media lab: musical interfaces and how to make almost anything. then i realized that i probably shouldn’t post photos of peoples’ ideas without asking them, so i will just encourage [...]

I have just uploaded my post from last Sunday, which risks being buried before ever being visible, so scroll down to find my post. I’m sorry for the delay – Sunday night I was stranded on the New Jersey turnpike in my [...]