//Doha//Monday//WISE2009//Day One Life in a hotel is simple for conference attendees. You wake up knowing what you will wear, where you will eat (but not what), and what you are doing the rest of the day. I find serendipity only in the face-to-face encounters with other attendees. I have animated discussions with educators and policy-makers [...]
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Travelogue: First Day in Doha
Posted in Uncategorized on November 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Canada Syndrome
Posted in Uncategorized on January 4, 2009 | 4 Comments »
While freeing up some space on my laptop, I found this amusing little experiment. My intention was to create a complete document of an entire vacation as a single comic book. To my current way of thinking, it’s far better to put these half-finished things out than to sit on them indefinitely. This story unfolds [...]
Cardboard and Christmas Present Camera
Posted in project, Uncategorized on January 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Experiment that Started the Experiment Holding a piece of scrap-paper in one hand, the ball resting on a table, and snapping a picture I suddenly become interested in spherical lenses. I remember that some of the earliest microscopes (from the 1600′s, I think) were made with polished balls of glass. I decide not to [...]
Algorithmic Brushing
Posted in Uncategorized on December 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Using only information in the image, is it possible to algorithmically choose angles for brush strokes? I started fooling around with this idea back in 1988, and have been resurrecting it off and on over the years – this version runs in Processing. Get the source here. Strange Things Around the Eyes This has always [...]
On Leaving Adobe
Posted in Uncategorized on December 4, 2008 | 2 Comments »
When you leave a big company, you have a unique opportunity to send one more message before they shut down your email account. Some folks had some kind words to say about my final email and asked if I would post it. Dear Friends, It has been an utter pleasure to work with you since [...]
Five Dangerous Things – the transcript
Posted in Uncategorized on November 26, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Over the past two years, I’ve gotten some requests to post a transcript of the talk I gave at TED in 2007. It sounded like a reasonable idea until I sat down and listened to myself talk and tried to write down what I actually said – what an exercise in humility. Luckily for me, [...]
From Doodle To Thing
Posted in Uncategorized on September 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I doodle when I am in meetings, or when I am not sure of what to do next, or when I am trying to solve a really hard problem, or when I am avoiding a hard problem. I’m a doodler. I doodle my way out of situations, I doodle to entertain small children, I doodle [...]
India Diaries #1
Posted in diaries, Uncategorized, Writing on March 4, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Day 0 It is late at night. It is early in the morning. We are crossing Northern Canada and the slow undulations of a weak Aurora Borealis tease the horizon. I am watching a Bollywood movie to mentally prepare myself for what is to come. If rickshaw drivers and fruit merchants do not spontaneously burst [...]
Las Vegas in the Year 2000 (part 2)
Posted in Uncategorized on January 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Another of the lost travelogues – a thrilling escape from the clutches of Las Vegas, only to fall under the spell of an exotic temptress. “…A good rule of thumb is to imagine that everything you see is actually leftovers taken from a strangers refrigerator.” Part 2. And, in case you missed it, here’s part [...]
Old Doodle #1
Posted in Uncategorized on January 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
20040713 – staff meeting Originally uploaded by gever tulley I like to look at my old meeting doodles now and then. I especially like the task on this page “mail jay about the non-uniform charge controllers” – that must have been for the flying saucer.
