Comments for some things right

Comment on Book 2.0 by Jiro

Jiro — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 23:06:57 +0000

I am so impressed and cant wait for the next book. I want to see all 80. And I want to test all of them on Piper.

Comment on Hex-tree GPS Encoding by Steve Davee

Steve Davee — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 23:18:41 +0000

Oops. Of course I meant latitude. Doh!

Comment on Hex-tree GPS Encoding by Steve Davee

Steve Davee — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 22:23:59 +0000

This is great fun.
I love how you can go as detailed location-wise as you want in this system. The interesting artifact of the use of the Mercator projection is that the accuracy of each identified point would vary with longitude, by an ever greater amount as you approach the polar longitudes. There’s some very cool math there as well…

As scale and maps has been a theme for my math class this year, I look forward to presenting ideas such as this to provoke different thinking about coordinate systems, locations, and maps. Also, it would make a nice intro to hexadecimal. All very cool.

Comment on Giraffstronaut by JJT

JJT — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:02:27 +0000

Zazzle is another to check out: http://www.zazzle.com/

Here’s a nice resource page on options as well:
http://www.squidoo.com/cafepress_alternative

Found you via the TED talks – great stuff!

.JT.

Comment on Las Vegas to New Orleans by Amit

Amit — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:31:57 +0000

great story

Comment on On Leaving Adobe by idea-maker’s principle: defer judgment « The Improvised Life

idea-maker’s principle: defer judgment « The Improvised Life — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 03:34:13 +0000

[...] engineer Gever Tulley left his job at Adobe to start his Tinkering School for Kids, he posted a letter on his blog, ‘some things right ‘, to the people he had worked with. In it, he left them [...]

Comment on On Leaving Adobe by Kristan

Kristan — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 16:37:25 +0000

Great email. Here via your TED talk about Tinkering School (and then via Googling you). I’m doing my best to take your advice (have been for about 2 years now) but it’s scary and slow… Still, seeing your projects, your success, and your passion is so encouraging. Thanks!

Comment on Giraffstronaut by Shaun Kjar

Shaun Kjar — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:15:32 +0000

Check out shirt.woot.com I think this could be a big seller!

Good luck!

-Shaun

Comment on From Doodle To Thing by benry

benry — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:26:38 +0000

Must be fun having doodles come to life. I bet a collection of these, on tables, shelves, etc. over time, could prove interesting to stare at in their own right when trying to solve problems.

Looking at what you have: standing it up, like the drawing bottom right, it could be a new fangled post-office box skeleton; on it’s side a new kind of guitar capo.

Comment on Five Dangerous Things – the transcript by Evan

Evan — Thu, 07 May 2009 23:13:55 +0000

I am watching your TED talk as I write. Love it. I did all those things as a kid (and still do). My wife and I have a 2 yr old boy and 6 week old girl and I can’t wait to introduce them to all of these things and more. I will look for your book.