Back in February of 2006 I wrote (well actually, I didn’t write much) about an incredible video I’d come across which demonstrates a technology which I thought represented a bright future in computer/user interaction. The inventor of the interface technology and co-founder of the company which produced the device you see in the video is […]

I took this photo yesterday afternoon in the backyard. This is Zoya, the pet tortoise grazing on a dandelion leaf.

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Camera: Canon EOS Digital Rebel XT
Exposure: 0.002 sec (1/500)
Focal Length: 40 mm
ISO Speed: 200
Exposure Bias: -1/3 EV

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A few months ago I posted about a serious water leak I had repaired in our front lawn.
Our last water bill came a couple of weeks ago. We where charged $341.62 for December and January. This, apparently, is what it costs to use an average of 311 gallons of water every day - ouch. Not […]

At 17, I could still pick out road signs way before anyone else in the car. I liked it that way.They say that most people who now wear glasses can point to a specific moment when the realized that they couldn’t see as well as they thought. For me, it was at Safeco field while watching the mariners play about a month ago. I have clearly become accustomed to the lower service my eyes are providing my brain over the past few years because I thought that, while I can’t see as well as my 17 year old self, I was still doing fairly well…. Ok, this is a problem, I realized.For the rest of the game, and for the next couple of days I attempted to convince myself that my eyes had been out of focus not because they are going bad, but because it was night, I had drank a couple of beers, I had been looking at computers screens all day, etc. It hasn’t worked.