It’s been a nice cuppa days here since arriving in Melbourne… My long time friend Jan, whom I knew way back when when we both worked at Maricopa, came into the city to lunch Saturday and walk a bit with me (and enjoy two cups of coffee in the laneway near my apartment). Jan has […]
Tony Hirst, absolutely one of the best last of the Bloghicans, wrote the other day of Keeping Up With What’s Possible – Daily Satellite Imagery from AWS. This struck a memory nerve, as this is what I did in the late 1980s for my Masters Thesis in Geology… though it was stone and chisel computing […]
You can’t get places without a map, can you? Even if you do not use one, your journey is mapped. Well, I think so, since I adore maps. I was not thinking about putting one together, though, until a tweet from Bruno who saw my tweets from Death Valley, on the drive from Arizona to […]
The first part of the trip to Australia was a three day drive from Arizona to outside Chico California, mostly for my dog Felix to have a place to stay with friends, rather than a month in the kennel. This trip included a crossing of Death Valley, scooting along the most majestic mountains of the […]
In recent work on ushering people into a Domain of Their Own I’ve been looking for ways to have them conceptualize their domain as more than one site or blog, as more like a plot of land. For the eCampus Ontario Extend workshops we emphasized putting some kind of calling card or simple front gate […]
Sitting in an airport for a trip where I will never see Friday, I’m thinking of the view from my back deck. Because what you observe is not always what it turns out to be. That view of a straight ridge has always intrigued me, covered in snow or not. Yes the first reality altering […]
Things come around, as they say. Sometime in 1988, as a Geology graduate student on my way to my field study area near Bishop, California. I drove through Death Valley, with likely the obligatory photo of my car at the Sea Level sign. That was driving my 1973 Ford Maverick and a photo taken on […]
I may be entering my curmudgeon era. On recent conversations with ed-tech friends, one in person, one by email, I recognize there are many things in our field that are likely very important, that, frankly I don’t give a damn about. These are things important to others that I find myself totally uninterested in: Virtual […]
It’s been while since I did a keynote talk… and even longer since I got my gimmick working to automatically tweet from my Apple Keynote slide deck (first done in 2011). I’d pretty much shied away from slide decks, instead doing more talks lately direct from the web using my own SPLOTpoint or doing things […]
Plus hair tearing. Cussing. Going away from it and getting sleep. And some things you don’t learn from an Hour of Code. There is not heaps of science in my computing. I got a (polite) email request for help from Brian Lamb. He was seeing (and confirmed) error reports from the TRU Writer SPLOT, on […]
