Nokia N80: An Initial Review- September 28, 2006 A forwarded email and a phone call later, I'm the owneror rather lendee for about a weekof a Nokia N80. Since June when I lost my 7610 in Seattle, I've been using the Nokia N70, which has a really great camera for both stills and video, and a soft, friendly keypad. (I do a lot of text messaging these days.) Initial impressions of the N80 are: the keypad is nice, and the slider protects from accidental phone calls (the phone, when sliding closed, asks whether to lock the keypad), but I'm...http://justagwailo.com/filter/2006/09/28/nokia-n80 The Lifebox, The Seashell, and the Soul by Rudy Rucker: Chapter 2: Our Rich World- September 28, 2006 Rudy Rucker explains three world-views of physics in the second chapter of The Lifebox, The Seashell, And the Soul: the mathematical physics view, the continuous cellular automaton view, and the particle system view. I sorted the three from the view I most understand which is what they taught me in high school to the view I least understood, the view they tried to teach me in university, which forever soured me on the subject. (As for celular automata, they didn't even try to teach us that in.http://justagwailo.com/filter/2006/09/27/lifebox-chapter-2 Document My World in a Way That Lets Others Re-Document It- September 28, 2006 Couple the N80 I have with an inexpensive Bluetooth GPS device, and I could add an order of magnitude more metadata to my SkyTrain walks (and serve that metadata out using GeoRSS, which I'm already experimenting with). Basically it would enable me to document my world in a way that lets others re-document it as they see it. Rukavina is doing some interesting things mapping withi his Nokia N70, and the only way I can learn about this stuff is by doing it. All theoretical at this point,...http://justagwailo.com/filter/2006/09/27/document Not Simply a Mysterious Work of God- September 28, 2006 Heather on Body Worlds 3 at Science World (see my review): “I think that too often we want things to be toned down and made easy on the eyes, wrapped up and presented nicely so we don't have to truly face the reality of human life (which is disgusting, confusing and fragile, heaven forbid). I know the role of the liver and kidneys, but when I saw the system of arteries and capillaries that feeds these organs, it sort of made me want to switch to a diet of grass and tree bark. Everyone's...http://justagwailo.com/filter/2006/09/27/mysterious-work Body Worlds 3 at Science World: Does Art Belong in a Science Museum- September 27, 2006 A couple of weeks ago, along with Darren and Heather, I went to see Body Worlds 3 at Science World. The exhibition shows human bodies, stripped of their skin, and plastinated by Gunther von Hagens and set in positions, such as a male doing a handstand with a skateboard, or a female archer extending her bow. The tour very stereotypically ends with a Body Worlds gift shop. But at least there was no gift shop annex to the gift shop.) The exhibition's Wikipedia page and The Guardian have...http://justagwailo.com/filter/2006/09/27/body-worlds-3 Rainy Royal Oak- September 23, 2006 The tour of Royal Oak Station last weekend (part of SkyTrain Explorer's walking tours), wasn't remarkable except for the huge Burnaby South Secondary School and a cul-de-sac in the shape of a barbel (at the appropriately-named Barbel Place). Then again, Burnaby, the suburb of Vancouver I live in, is not terribly remarkable either, despite the coolness neighbourhoods like Burnaby Heights (picnics every weekend at the park, the crazy old Italian guys playing and arguing over bocce, the...http://justagwailo.com/filter/2006/09/23/rainy-royal-oak Accessing China a Second Time- September 18, 2006 Kris, my co-worker at Bryght, and Robert are back in China as part of China Access 2008. Be sure to look at Kris&39; photos as well as Robert&39;s, which they are posting to the China Access 2008 pool on Flickr. They helped organize BarCamp Shanghai (see also barcampshanghai.org for the attendees list and sessions). They (wisely) crossposted announcements at Bryght, Raincity Studios, and Daily Vancouver&39;s 2010 Olympic coverage (Kris, among others, post stories and announcements related to.http://justagwailo.com/filter/2006/09/18/second-time |