I am not a number, I am a free man two letters and four numbers. lv2174@columbia.edu, to be precise.
And I joined facebook. Interesting to finally play around with social software that actually gets used, unlike, say, Orkut.
Monthly Archives: May 2006
I am not a number…
10-May-06I just finished Anarchist in the Library, by Siva Vaidhyanathan. I probably wasn’t the right target for this book- too many of the arguments and discussions were pretty old hat to me. It did cover a much broader range than the average info-policy book, but it didn’t seem to tie them all that coherently together, [...]
Misc.
10-May-06Went to a brainstorming session for OneWeb Day last night. While the project seems almost quixotic in some ways, it is definitely a worthwhile project, and I hope it succeeds- I still very clearly remember the first time I had a social conversation with someone from a different country who I’d met and worked with [...]
Somerville Open Studios, etc.
07-May-06Put in a nice five mile walk today, going through a couple of studios in the Somerville Open Studios and enjoying the gorgeous weather. We also got to support Lizzie, both by showing up and by picking up a beautiful print of hers. Look forward to framing and hanging it, and maybe selling it for [...]
Rainbows End- Vernor Vinge
05-May-06Having been a bit cranky and just wanting to get away from it all a bit, in the past two nights I’ve plowed through Rainbows End, by Vernor Vinge. It is typical Vinge in some senses (the renegades who want to stay free of government surveillance use the HURD), but very near-future- set in 2025, [...]
on leaving Cambridge
05-May-06This morning I confirmed I’m definitely going to Columbia in the fall. This is a little weird for me- as everyone on earth knows, I am pretty sick of Cambridge and Boston winters, and I’m not a huge fan of some things about Harvard Law (Doonesbury was hilarious about Harvard yesterday). But I have a [...]
New York, New York
03-May-06I’m getting more and more excited to be at Columbia in the fall- Tim Wu posts a great reason why on Lessig’s blog. Do I want to live there permanently? Almost definitely not. But to live there for a few years, will, I think, be a huge blast.
Chihuly
02-May-06If you liked my Chilhuly pictures, Shelley Powers has a bunch of excellent Chihuly pictures from the currently ongoing show at the Missouri Botanical Gardens. [If you're actually in Missouri, go see them!]
group portrait in second life
02-May-06left to right: Luis, Jeff, Snorp
Lego NXT
01-May-06As some of you know, I’ve been in the Lego Mindstorms NXT beta group. Sadly, I’ve had ~zero time to actually participate, so I can’t say much about the product firsthand, but most people in the group seem quite positive about the whole thing- both the product and the beta experience. Today we’ve been (semi?)released [...]