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Office at night
Sun 10.20.02 5:15pm PDT #700
I'm in my office to pick up my laptop, and I thought I'd capture the only visible signs of activity. On the video wall in the lobby, our harbor camera faithfully shows the shimmering street lights of Fells Point reflected in the calm water. The rest of the darkened office landscape is a digital Milky Way of blinking network activity indicators, which hint at the ghosts of web surfers accessing our servers.
SnapWatch2
Sat 10.19.02 3:00pm PDT #662
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At the mall, I just bought this cool new watch called the SnapWatch2 from Hog Wild, Inc. It's a tiny LCD watch circuit in a waterproof pod attached to a short length of thin climbing rope. The ends of the rope just snap on as you can see in the picture. This is a significant find for me as I haven't bought or worn a watch in five years. I just got tired of the sweaty grip most all men's watch bands have on your wrist. The SnapWatch is so minimal, you quickly forget you have it on. The only drawback is that the display doesn't have a backlight. The watch goes for $9.95, and the rope band comes in several colors.

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22 miles into the Baltimore Marathon
Sat 10.19.02 9:19am PDT #648
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These photos in no way capture the determination in the runner's faces and the joyus smiles of the cheering neighbors. The 5,000 runners are doing the 26.2 mile marathon route, which runs right by our house where a refreshment station marks the 22-mile point. The crowd is cheering "way to go! You guys rock!" When one spectator shouted "only four miles to go, it's all down hill from here" and to that a runner said, " yeah right, I've heard that before..."
Homage to Hockney
Fri 10.18.02 5:19pm PDT #636
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I've meaning to try a photocollage ever since I realized that our host is formatting photos in rows of four. My wife is being a very patient subject as usual. We're at Donna's Restaurant by the Hopkins Homewood Campus.

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Demoing the Sidekick at school
Fri 10.18.02 2:11pm PDT #624
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I'm on campus taking care of some paperwork, and just demoed the Sidekick to Rich Lipscher, who teaches 3D modeling and animation. The two-shot is a self-portrait and that's Rich on the left. Rich was telling me that their 3D print service is in full swing. Students and faculty can create wireframe models in Solidworks, and with the press of a button, the machine creates a real object. It takes about 3 hours for the machine to build up something the size of a baseball. The other frames are some not-so-great shots of some of the output. And that's Angelo who works at the computer lab support desk.

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Meeting the "Yoda" of usability
Fri 10.18.02 1:48pm PDT #622
this picture is owned by the submitter. contact submitter for permission before using it in any wayDr. Jonathan Lazar of Towson University came by our office for a visit today. Dianne and I had a great chat with him about his research interests in user frustration, human-computer interaction and usability.

His students have dubbed him "the Yoda of usability" because most teachers or consultants have some name like "Father of..." or "Guru." Regardless of the appropriateness of the nickname, Jon is one of the most energetic and passionate practitioners and teachers of usability anywhere. We're really looking forward to working with him some more soon.

And how timely it was to talk about frustrations with technology as my main blog site is still down. Hopefully all will be well by the morning.

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Curiously down...
Thu 10.17.02 8:24am PDT #577
this picture is owned by the submitter. contact submitter for permission before using it in any wayAargh, my main blog site and others on my ISP's server has been down for several hours. This is the second time in as many weeks. I may have to finally switch my DNS to point to the mirror site I've been building.

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Penn Pals
Wed 10.16.02 4:00pm PDT #562
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Picking my wife up from the train station... I took some shots around the front of the building and explained the Sidekick to some amazed cabbies. I should get commission from Danger...

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Good TV
Wed 10.16.02 1:38pm PDT #558
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Just finished a project meeting at Maryland Public Television. Big Bird couldn't sit in today.

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Rainy day comfort food
Wed 10.16.02 9:37am PDT #548
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Our company president decided to have chinese food served up for lunch today to warm up the cold, rainy weather we are having. Yum.

"Burp..."

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