…though I’m not sure I want them to be smarter. Sometimes for amusement, I close the ads just to see what comes up. Mostly I mark them all as irrelevant, since I’m not really interested in anything Facebook might recommend as an ad. I just read a post by my friend Tom–and managed to get… Continue Reading Facebook Ads aren’t so smart…
[fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=”yes” overflow=”visible”][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type=”1_1″ background_position=”left top” background_color=”” border_size=”” border_color=”” border_style=”solid” spacing=”yes” background_image=”” background_repeat=”no-repeat” padding=”” margin_top=”0px” margin_bottom=”0px” class=”” id=”” animation_type=”” animation_speed=”0.3″ animation_direction=”left” hide_on_mobile=”no” center_content=”no” min_height=”none”] Ok, I’m spoiled at MIT. We have a completely open network, anyone can connect for up to 14 days through self registering. And once you’re on the network, you can run… Continue Reading Dumb networks…
Sunday, March 14, 2010: Rolling Hills 2, 90 minutes, 21.7 miles, 532 calories, 70 watts Monday, March 15, 2010 Tuesday, March 16, 2010: Rolling Hills 2, 30 minutes, 7.3 miles, 183 calories, 74 watts Wednesday, March 17, 2010 Thursday, March 18, 2010: 2 miles 262 calories (175*.5 + 275*1) Friday, March 19, 2010: 4 miles… Continue Reading Exercise–Week of March 14, 2010
I’m working with Prof. Kimerling’s 3.003 class at MIT this semester. As part of the class, he has a number of guest speakers. Fred Salvucci presented a two hour “History of Transportation in Boston” and that’s where I heard this crazy historical fact. In the 1800s, enterprising entrepreneurs created ponds around the greater Boston area… Continue Reading Clearly I’m not an entrepreneur…
[fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=”yes” overflow=”visible”][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type=”1_1″ background_position=”left top” background_color=”” border_size=”” border_color=”” border_style=”solid” spacing=”yes” background_image=”” background_repeat=”no-repeat” padding=”” margin_top=”0px” margin_bottom=”0px” class=”” id=”” animation_type=”” animation_speed=”0.3″ animation_direction=”left” hide_on_mobile=”no” center_content=”no” min_height=”none”] and, happy belated… [/fusion_builder_column][fusion_builder_column type=”1_1″ background_position=”left top” background_color=”” border_size=”” border_color=”” border_style=”solid” spacing=”yes” background_image=”” background_repeat=”no-repeat” padding=”” margin_top=”0px” margin_bottom=”0px” class=”” id=”” animation_type=”” animation_speed=”0.3″ animation_direction=”left” hide_on_mobile=”no” center_content=”no” min_height=”none”] …of course I was reminded about… Continue Reading Happy…
Update: Statement as of 5:35 PM EDT on March 15, 2010 … Record daily maximum rainfall set at Boston MA… a record rainfall of 1.88 inches was set at Boston MA today. This breaks the old record of 1.39 set in 1953. Weather Underground. (2010, March 15, 11:15pm) Lexington, MA. Retrieved on March 15, 2010… Continue Reading River Avalon
John Seely Brown gave the 2010 MacVicar Lecture at MIT on Wednesday, March 10. I’ve had the opportunity to hear JSB talk a number of times through my work in Open Education, and also talk with him in detail about our projects in the past. Here are some observations I made during his talk that… Continue Reading John Seely Brown’s MacVicar Lecture
Sunday, March 7, 2010 Monday, March 8, 2010: Rolling Hills 2, 30 minutes, 7.3 miles, 177 calories, 70 watts Tuesday, March 9, 2010 Wednesday, March 10, 2010 Thursday, March 11, 2010 Friday, March 12, 2010 Saturday, March 13, 2010 All of this is done on my Schwinn 231 Recumbent Exercise Bike
Saw this on TechCrunch this morning. [fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=”yes” overflow=”visible”][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type=”1_1″ background_position=”left top” background_color=”” border_size=”” border_color=”” border_style=”solid” spacing=”yes” background_image=”” background_repeat=”no-repeat” padding=”” margin_top=”0px” margin_bottom=”0px” class=”” id=”” animation_type=”” animation_speed=”0.3″ animation_direction=”left” hide_on_mobile=”no” center_content=”no” min_height=”none”][/fusion_builder_column][/fusion_builder_row][/fusion_builder_container]
I’m not sure when I’m going to use these…but I found some great binary and Matrix-esque videos/animations at istockphoto.com. (And really I don’t know why I went there in the first place.) [/fusion_builder_column][/fusion_builder_row][/fusion_builder_container]