Running Reflections: 05 Aug
This Sunday was my fourth long run – or at least what I would consider to be long – a whopping 24 miles. Still a few miles short of marathon distance, but that will come in time. Things I have…
Distracted.
Distracted.
This Sunday was my fourth long run – or at least what I would consider to be long – a whopping 24 miles. Still a few miles short of marathon distance, but that will come in time. Things I have…
Virtual worlds like Second Life make it easy to create our own content, but not all of us have the time or talent to create our own textures. As educators we often find our budgets rather limited too. In addition…
I’m seriously thinking about changing the Funtime Friday post to Super Silly Saturdays seeing as how I have rarely managed to actually make a Funtime Friday post on a Friday. On the other hand, Fridays are becoming fun again now…
I’ve come to use my OpenID a lot recently, but today the MyOpenID server seems to not be playing well with others. How do I log in to sites I want to use without it? I’ve wondered about this in…
Finally, the SpaceNavigator works in Second Life with the SL Viewer Joystick Flycam function. Huh? What does this mean? Well, it’s possible to use the SpaceNavigator for more smooth camera control than using a mouse while filming machinima. Note that…
A few weeks ago my middle sister came to visit for a week and it was wonderful to have so much of her undivided attention. Now, the members of my family are natural runners. That’s not to say all of…
While scanning through books in my zotero collection sorting my latest “To Buy” list I came across Foundations of Augmented Cognition, which of course I added to the list… until I looked it up on Amazon and saw it was…
Want to learn about the Foundations of American Cyberculture, Existentialism in Literature and Film, Brain Structure and its Origins, or Quantum Entanglement? OpenCulture has linked to collections of open course material from a number of institutions including MIT, Berkley, Stanford,…
I’m so sick of this crap market for residential real estate right now. What an irritating time to try and SELL A HOUSE!
There are links on Bob Sutor’s blog to the webcasts from the Virtual Worlds: Where Business, Society, Technology & Policy Converge Conference, presented by IBM and the MIT Media Lab in June of this year. There are some interesting thoughts…