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David Nunez

Dir of Technology at the MIT Museum • Writing about emerging tech's impact on your life • Speculative insights on the intersection of humanity and technology 🤖

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Cirque du Soleil

Whoa! Austin scored a coup: Cirque du Soleil is bringing Alegria to Austin Spring 2003! Tour Schedule Austin tends to get passed over in favor of Houston and Dallas (bigger markets, I suppose), so I'm hoping this is going to be a trend! I'll need to

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100th Entry

I’ve been holding off on entries because I’ve attached an artificial significance to THIS entry… it is the 100th entry for davidnunez.com. I guess I wanted to make sure that I gave it the “appropriate attention” it deserved. So I went back and reread everything, and I

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"Lubbers"?

Hmmm… Isn’t this one of the plagues of the Apocolypse? How To Stop Giant Grasshoppers? `Hit ‘Em With 2-by-4,’ Expert Says - Orlando SentinelEUSTIS -- Monstrous grasshoppers -- too nasty-tempered and toxic to be eaten by natural predators and too big to be bothered by conventional pesticides -- are

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Pathogen image

I spent some time modifying Pathogen and got it to make this image. Without getting too much into it, the particular situation visualized here would never happen in a real evolution in forum interactions. Among many other things, it assumes that the 94 individuals in this simulation (can you count

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10 cents

In a meeting today: “Java Programmers are a dime a dozen. Absolutely worthless.” Gulp.

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Web Log Honesty

Sean's running into the "How honest can I be if I have an audience?" question. I'd love to know what he discovers.

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First week observations

It's been a week since I started my web log experiment. Here are some observations: * I've noticed that I am fairly obsessed with checking the access logs to see if anyone is listening. * It still takes a little time and effort to make an interesting entry

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Quick Links

* MT-Search: Search is a vital function in my opinion. * "They don't stand behind their products!": Thanks Mike!

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Why I'm worried about writing in a web log.

My job is all about building relationships, deal-making, networking, and politics. Every day, I am privy to conversations which must be kept confidential not only to preserve the relationships’ confidence, but also simply to be successful with my work. For example, when I’m in the middle of negotiating a

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It begins

I was in Framingham, MA over the weekend for a little reunion with some of the boys from Rice (second year in a row). Somehow, over a game of Skip-bo, the topic of web logs came up. We talked a little bit about what they were and what they represented