Collaboration… Friday Flick: To the Moon Before Dinner 11 Mar 201111 Mar 2011 I loved the premiere of this animated short by David Salin.
Business… Rogue Phone 9 Mar 201112 Mar 2011 Today I ran my cell phone through the wash. It's my business phone, and there were also major family coordination maneuvers happening tonight, so getting my phone dried and back…
Animation… Modern Magic 5 Mar 20119 Mar 2011 “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” ~Arthur C. Clarke This weekend, I watched ITT Tech Tempe's graduating design students present capstone projects of architectural plans, or animation, or…
Change the World… Stories from College Drop-In Steve Jobs 1 Mar 201110 Mar 2011 “You can’t connect the dots looking forward. You can only connect them looking backwards, so you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have…
Change the World… Friday Flick: Decide to Launch 25 Feb 201125 Feb 2011 In my childhood, I saw Neil Armstrong walk on the moon. In my young adulthood, I heard the Challenger explosion by radio. Now I'm raising a rocket scientist. I will…
Brain… What We Learn from Watson 23 Feb 201125 Feb 2011 My interest in IBM's Jeopardy-winning Watson was initially syntactical. It has taken decades to teach computers to understand and speak a human language almost as well as your average three-year-old.…
Blogging… Topic Poll 19 Feb 201125 Feb 2011 Feel free to elaborate in a comment or question. Text © Gwyn Nichols 2011
Blogging… A Slice of Sky 26 Jan 201126 Jan 2011 As soon as I discovered William Herschel's music and bio on KBAQ, I wanted to adopt the man as an honorary ancestor. William Herschel (Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel) professional musician and…
Academic Writing… Does Education Pay? 18 Jan 201118 Jan 2011 Yes, college requires work. Does it pay off? Here's what the Bureau of Labor Statistics has to say about it: That's for full-time workers at least 25 years old. The…
Brain… Friday Flick: Your Brain on Improv 14 Jan 201122 Jun 2011 Ever wonder why it feels so different to do something you've memorized rather than something you're making up on the fly? Ever notice that in certain activities you might do…
Books… Writing a book? Prove it 6 Jan 20118 Jan 2011 It's easy to say you're writing a book. Is this the year you finally do it? 43 Things includes a place to list your resolutions and check out others' entries,…
Brain… Favorite Resolution: Breathe 3 Jan 20113 Jan 2011 Breathe. Cheap goal, right? You breathe or you die. Try not to and your brain stem pulls out the override. Just because you're alive, doesn't mean you know how to…
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