Timely Snow

As it notes, it’s not clear that anything special will happen tomorrow. On the other hand, if you have a Windows machine (or are running Windows on your Mac via Parallel or VMware Fusion or Bootcamp), you really should make sure you’re the one controlling your computer. The article has good advice on how to [...]

I was disturbed to read this on the back of a book my daughter has

WHAT MAKES ALL CHILDREN READ UNIQUE

If they hadn’t used all caps, they could have used paraorthographic features to aid comprehension. Or I could have flipped the book over and see that its title is “All children read.”

That is all.

Carl Creeger was the go-to electronics guy in the Psychology Department at the University of Texas during the years I taught there (1984-1990). He was an obsessive kayaker and one of the people I most admired in that town. We collaborated on a couple of programming projects that led to two co-authored papers, including what [...]

There was a very memorable point in my daughter’s infant development when she could no longer be relied on to stay where I put her. Unfortunately this manifested itself in her rolling or nearly rolling off of things, but it was a sudden and searing change. Every year when I return to Beijing, I’m overwhelmed [...]

See the enclosed photo, taken outside the Yingdonglou at Beijing Normal today. Amazon has a delivery system in China. Pretty cool.

Video Monkey is the successor to the late, lamented Visual Hub. I need to check this out when I get back (it’s free software for transcoding videos).

I’m in Beijing for a couple of weeks. As usual, the first day or so involved setting up connectivity for devices, so here’s a quick status report.

1. iPhone. I had heedlessly updated my 3g iPhone to the latest software (2.2.1, for those keeping track at home). That was a bad move, because it made an [...]

The local daily newspaper in Ann Arbor is going out of business in July. I feel very sorry for all of the people who are losing their jobs, but it never struck me as being a very good newspaper. We subscribed to it twice, letting it lapse once because we didn’t read it very often, [...]

This is probably the future of academic publishing, coupled with print-on-demand services like the new Espresso Book machine in the U of M library. I’ve looked at the machine, but haven’t yet found an occasion to use it. Someday…

We bought two new lenses for the Mobileye camera. The system is pretty simple, and you focus the camera by loosening a white plastic set screw and then screwing the lens cylinder in or out of its mounting. I focused it by mounting the unit on the green glass head we bought from Pier 1 [...]