Gone Fishin’
There’s not going to be a lot of posts for a while, because we’re here: View Larger Map We’ll tell you all about it when we get back. Until then, there’s not going to...
Random Ramblings from the Garrity Family
There’s not going to be a lot of posts for a while, because we’re here: View Larger Map We’ll tell you all about it when we get back. Until then, there’s not going to...
SIGGRAPH is next week. I’m not going to make it this year. We’re going to be on vacation. It’s in New Orleans this year too, which is one of the nicer venues. Here’s the...
Since the presidential election, there’s been a lot of action on making it easier for the public to get information about what the government is doing. For examples, check out Data.gov, Sunlight Labs, and...
I just finished reading The Architecture of Happiness by Alain de Botton. It’s an interesting exploration of what makes good architecture work, and why so much architecture doesn’t work. The last chapter is really...
Another band concert last night. It was a beautiful night for it, and the band sounded great … … but Tom and Pete spent most of the concert way in the back, whittling.
Go check out this interesting dance piece. It’s a performance of William Forsythe’s One Flat Thing, reproduced with visual annotations added using a graphics package called Field. It was done by Norah Zuniga Shaw.
When we were in Hawai’i two years ago, we went up to the top of Mauna Kea. It’s an amazing place. Standing on the barren cinder cone while breathing the thin air at more...
This is the sort of thing that usually goes in my work blog, but the kids are both big fans of Spore, so I’m going to post it here instead. Chris Hecker has written...
Glen Whitney is trying to create a museum of mathematics. There have been articles about the project recently in the New Yorker, Gelf magazine, and the Daily News. His website for the project is...
Tom turned 15 yesterday. It was pretty low key because he’d already had a party with his friends at the end of school. In a bit of an O Henry moment, he got a...