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A test post demonstrating the publishing pipeline and Phase 4 content architecture features.
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A test post demonstrating the publishing pipeline and Phase 4 content architecture features.
How the shift from scheduled broadcasts to on-demand streaming changed the way we gather around our stories.
On how experiencing the world through screens during a pandemic creates a collective sense of unreality.
Snippet that mimics "On This Day" functionality using Obsidian bases.
I’ve accumulated a mountain of digital clutter. We’re talking hundreds of thousands of files scattered across old hard drives, floppy…
This is an experimental blog post to test what it would be like to free write on my iPhone
I've been following with keen interest this story re: 3D scans of an Egyptian bust at the Neues Museum in Berlin.
Moving onto the next thing.
This post shares hard-won wisdom and practical advice for operating a successful consulting or services business, covering client management, legalities, and financial strategies.
I am beginning a transition this week. It’s been a long time coming, actually, but there will be a flurry of activity in the upcoming…
Blinky™ on Vimeo – Horror short film about a robot helper at home – things go wrong. Horribly wrong. I thought the robot’s smile was an…
Robot and Frank Official Trailer #1 (2012)
Links on topics including robots teaching statistics, designing creative toys for children, motivating kids in learning, and infant attention spans related to stimuli complexity. 🤖
I learned about Quix today. It’s a bookmarklet-driven shortcut tool for web browsing and has LOTS of potential for shortcuts and helpful…
Originally Posted on DINO Studio’s blog
Originally Posted on DINO Studio’s blog
Originally Posted on DINO Studio’s Blog
I’m currently in Pittsburgh at the Art&Code Mobile event.
Tonight there is a dorkbot-boston as part of the CHI2009 conference.
I giggled out loud, had a brief moment of “Wow, I can’t believe this is what I get to do for a living right now,” and then came crashing…
This Sunday I participated in DevHouse Boston. It was fantastic, exhausting, and maybe even inspiring.
I had a meeting this morning which I think will help seed a nice, grand project over the next year. We discussed creating an augmented…
I moved to Boston right after July 4th of this year and have had the opportunity to introduce myself to lots and lots of new faces.
From an email I just sent out:
I have a new meeting edict.
I’m Reviewing a whole bunch of urls in a long txt file of collected urls and bookmarks.
Some minor wordpress tweaks
It’s not really on the way to or from anything, but FYI: Manchester, NH airport has free, public wireless (not open – one nag/term page to…
dorkbot12: Last dorkbot of the 2007 season + Arduino SIG:
Not done converting, yet. Relax.
I think I have finally nailed down a reasonable email handling / spam fighting strategy after about a year of tweaking.
Returning to a pre-sxsw template for davidnunez.com… finally completing the mephisto to wordpress migration.
She talks about her creative process during composition.
What is the name of this style of graphic design that I see on T-shirts and posters:
The applescript in this post will take the currently selected headline or tabbed article in NetNewsWire, prompt the user for tags about the…
Finished pulling in old entries to wordpress.
Questions, Sketches, Articles
Landed at SFO yesterday morning and went directly to the san mateo fairgrounds.
I just heard that the life-sized mousetrap takes 125 man-hours to assemble.
I was making a list of things I wanted to do with my personal website. Before SxSW I spent many hours getting the blog running mephisto,…
I’ll be at Maker Faire from Wednesday until Monday of next week… I’ll try to post some behind-the-scenes stories and event photos /…
PBS Frontline did a moving story about ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease). It followed Stephen Heywood’s 5 year, rapid descent into the physically…
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…
This is my iguana (about 10″ Snout to Vent, so about 2 years old) after he was spritzed with Bio-Mist, an aloe vera and cactus juice…
Justin.tv jostles for attention as the new ze frank. Justin and 3 of his friends have started a company to make online, live video easy. He…
I’m currently using GTDAlt in TextMate as my GTD processing system. It’s a text based system, so it’s upgradable, portable, etc.
Today I modified this script which facilitates Yojimbo importing from NetNewsWire
This is going to be one of those things that seems all grand (and grandiose) today, and it only gains power and momentum if I actually go…
I’m providing the chat server for the Yellow Tape Construction Co. performance of I Am Not Tartuffe.
This was the panel not to miss!
The 11th hour is too late to try to do a relaunch.And yet here we are.
This is going to be a fun sxsw. Once dorkbot is over, I may be able to relax a bit.
I’m posting this tip because it took me a course of a week to enter the right combination of search terms to get an answer.
My friend Maida told me of a superstition where if you see the sun, moon, and a white horse all in the same glance, you can make an…
Austinist: Robots Run Amuck at dorkbot-austin’s Final (Free) Event of the Year:
For those of you that cared enough to email me desperate for gossipy wrap-ups of FOO: I’m catching up with the RealWorld right now, but I…
There is another of the monthly austinbloggers meetups tonight:
As a robot enthusiast and, dare I say, practitioner, there are three trends in consumer/entertainment robotics that I’m tracking and which…
Please accept our humble apologies, but Dorkbot is cancelled for August. We will not be holding dorkbot this Thursday.
Starting is always the hardest part, dont you think? I definitely have a deep infection of plan-it-out syndrome.
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…
This is just way cool. Joel Greenberg posted his wonderfully produced and crisp sounding podcast of dorkbot austin 2 from last week.
A little over a month ago, Dorkbot dropped from outer space onto an audience of over 120 curiosity seekers, geekophiles, and mad scientists.
Iguanas really like collard greens and mustard greens.
I guess the writing was on the wall.
This is good to know…
Late last year, I inherited a baby iguana from my brother’s friend.
I hesitated to use ecto because it never really worked well with Drupal.
I predicted something in 2003 that finally tipped.
The RSS Feeds for my blog should be redirecting to the appropriate place now.
It wasn’t easy installing Typo on my ISP because RoR is quirky.
I am currently in San Mateo attending Make Magazine’s Maker’s Faire There is QUITE A LOT to blog about.
Last year, I wrote The Unofficial Geek Guide to Getting Over Yourself at SxSW Interactive 2005.
Clearly, I am spending some time redesigning my site.
Your creative ideas and projects will evolve and devolve among various states. The broad description of how ideas turn into reusable…
Creativity is a skill that needs nourishment, practice, and brutal honesty.
No insincere apologies. No excuses. No detailed stories. No empty, unrealistic promises.
I Was an Octopus for Halloween(octopus-halloween.jpg) More photos on Flickr(https://www.flickr.com/photos/davidnunez/sets/1333824/)
A huge pet peeve of mine:
Now seems like a very appropriate time to post my notes on Po Bronson’s book, What Should I Do with My Life.
I ran and completed the Houston marathon a few years back in a little over 5.5 hours. It was barely too slow to count as an “official”…
8/19/2005 – took down wiki for now
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I was flipping through some old idea journals and I found this little diagram I drew, arrogantly titled, “David’s Guide To Cultivating…
I would also want to add a taxonomy of tags related solely to individual projects and project categories so I could find all posts…
Something gave me a mental shake today.
I had a nice dinner with a couple friends (both very smart and both very geeky… my kind of people) and I got all inspired by some…
I realized today I have about 9 books in slow rotation that are each about 50 pages or less from being completely read.
I hung out in Chicago last week.
Step 1: Don’t obsess.<br/>Step 2: Constantly ponder Step 1.
memento mori is an art term used to describe an image included in a work that reminds the viewer of their own mortality.
I had the best ride of my life, yesterday. About 62 miles of biking, friendly conversations along the way, lots of orange slices, and a…
I used to write a lot of stuff in Spanish… poetry mostly; there was a time that was the only way I felt safe connecting with that part of…
Here are some things I’m putting in my “Carry around” bag:
Back to full text RSS feeds. Sorry for the bumps along the way.
I spent the whole day doing blog updating.
me, me, me, I, me, me me, me, I, I.
Website Brainstorm
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…