Zodomatica Bits of Tzaddi’s Life

Seeing as it’s 6am, you might ask how I can already have a priceless moment to write about. You’d be up early too to notice it’s 6am (since I don’t bother publishing the exact timestamp). But I thought I’d throw that in. It illustrates how life can change so much from a simple thing like [...]

Posted: May 27th, 2007 under Life.
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Last night I attended Scott Berkun’s lecture covering some of the topics from his book The Myth of Innovation (thanks, VanUE!). It was enlightening and a good laugh. Mostly the discussion was around the perceptions of innovation (epiphany, genious, etc.) versus the historical reality (lots of sweat, hard work, and collaboration). I recommend you see [...]

Posted: May 25th, 2007 under Culture Consumed, Design, Life.
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Believe it or not I got around to putting some puppy photos into a flickr album. Hopefully all those folks who said “aww, you gotta send me pictures”, actually meant it.
Here it is: Maggie and Jack in action. It’s kind of hard to capture them in anything but a blur as I’m sure [...]

Posted: May 20th, 2007 under Life.
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I was babysitting my niece and nephew last weekend. Fascinating to see how they interact with computers. Jeremy (almost 12) comes in the door, grabs the laptop, and plunks himself down in front of the TV. Multitasks away. I invite him to join Makerra (8) and me in some craft-making. He joins us, and still [...]

Posted: May 11th, 2007 under Computers & Tech, Marketing, Usability & HCI.
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The evidence is overwhelming, as you can see.
Bad enough we’ve been finding feathers all over the laundry room (evidence of struggle, but no bird to be found). And bits and pieces here and there on our sidewalks. Today’s catch was so fresh the blood looked like brilliant, wet, artist’s paint. Poor thing.
Oh, and the [...]

Posted: May 9th, 2007 under Life, Peeves.
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