Monthly Archives: May 2008

I spend a lot of time worrying about the data. No data in particular (I’m not a sysadmin, thank goodness) but the totality of human knowledge. Fritz and I have spent lots of time arguing about the best solution to … Continue reading →

My cousin Mike Stone graciously posed so that I could get some shots of the video booth in action. On Sunday we introduced an exciting innovation — headphones so that we could tell what was happening inside the booth.  It … Continue reading →

Since mechanical engineers vastly outnumber software engineers at this event, there are a lot more things that look like robots than there are things which act like robots. The only ones that have the potential to rise up and murder … Continue reading →

One of the main attractions of the fair was a giant-sized version of the kid’s game mousetrap.  Instead of marbles it used bowling balls, and instead of the little plastic mouse they had burlesque dancers in mouse suits. I didn’t … Continue reading →

Stop skimming for a minute, and look at this! The people who make these insist on calling them ‘muffins’ even though they are, obviously, cupcakes.

We’re spending our time shepherding strangers into this box, where they are reading brief excerpts of Fritz’s book into a camera via a teleprompter. The nondescript nature of the box is turning out to be a real asset, because people … Continue reading →

Cavalcade of links:  I’m at Maker Faire in San Mateo helping Fritz promote his book via his home-made video booth. Fortuitously, Fritz’s father-in-law is a professional cameraman and lives here in the bay area.  So he has provided us with … Continue reading →