Medical Hacking
PBS Frontline did a moving story about ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease). It followed Stephen Heywood’s 5 year, rapid descent into the physically…
Essays
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STS Forum Notes
Attended in the UT STS forum on Surveillance this morning. I came in a few minutes before the program started and they had a group of…
The 20 minute rule - Taking action that leads to the Build
Earlier today I sent out what amounted to a call to arms to friends and mailing lists. I was urging people to drive towards the objective…
Get a little anxious, information overload, tagging
This is a braindump of something I would like to think about and possibly approach some solutions this year. Information overload makes me more than a little...
Interviews in Geekland
I participated in an interview panel for an NSF-funded project and reflected on how brutally unfair tech interviews often are compared to more professional hiring practices in other sectors.
Artisans
Last night, I was watching something on the Discovery channel called "Motorcycle Mania." It was a thinly veiled marketing vehicle for the Discover Channel's...
A matter of time.
What would you do with an extra 35 hours a week you could use for yourself to do whatever you wanted? Since I have a short little break this weekend, I've...
new ways to kill myself
Today in welding class, we learned about two new instruments of death. Both were for arc welding, but slightly different. The Plasma cutter, in particular,...
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...
Scorpions Part Deux
So. It turns out that if you shovel up a bunch of dirt right in front of a forest and plop down a brand new house with delicious wood and dark nooks and...