Tuesday, April 10, 2018

All those SciFi cautionary tales about people being addicted to virtual worlds may be on to something.

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Just watched demos for DirectX 12 Raytracing and it occurs to me that what is driving tech development is our mad rush to escape reality.

Wacky Dads!

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Surprising how often "good involved dads" in movies and TV also happen to be "wacky misunderstood inventors"... hmmmm.

The internet is NOT REAL LIFE! said the troll back in 2001.

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I found this text clipping I saved from Tuesday, November 20, 2001 at 2:00 AM in my old files today. Person trying to justify vile beha...
Tuesday, May 30, 2017

Dad Notes #2. iPad apps for clever 6-8 year olds.

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I get asked now and then, what kid apps are good for iPad? It's a tough question! There is so much crud on the App Store! But also, the...
Saturday, April 8, 2017

Why I'm Angry At Us...

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(I wrote this in the weeks after the election and never posted it…Maybe I thought it was too inflammatory or that I was being unfair. in re...
Thursday, October 27, 2016

Disinformation Wants To Be Free! Or... "I don't know shit for sure, and that's the way I like it!"

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Hopeful open minded skepticism: The understanding that we can't actually know anything for certain because we are deeply aware th...
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Tuesday, September 29, 2015

Delayed understanding.

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It's taken me 40 years to fully realize the brilliance of Aqualung. I have always thought that Jethro Tull's Aqualung was a ...