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on this day using obsidian bases

Snippet that mimics "On This Day" functionality using Obsidian bases.

Select All. Delete. Breathe.

I’ve accumulated a mountain of digital clutter. We’re talking hundreds of thousands of files scattered across old hard drives, floppy…

Rapid Output 1

This is an experimental blog post to test what it would be like to free write on my iPhone

The Bizarre Story of Nefertiti, Copyrights & 3D cultural data

I've been following with keen interest this story re: 3D scans of an Egyptian bust at the Neues Museum in Berlin.

Staging the next thing

Moving onto the next thing.

My Consulting Wisdom and Platitudes

This post shares hard-won wisdom and practical advice for operating a successful consulting or services business, covering client management, legalities, and financial strategies.

David Nunez Reboot 2012

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…

Robot Wonders and Wanderings 2012-07-07

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 Movies!

Robot and Frank Official Trailer #1 (2012)

Misc. Links re: kids, design, apps, learning

Links on topics including robots teaching statistics, designing creative toys for children, motivating kids in learning, and infant attention spans related to stimuli complexity. 🤖

Quix - useful tweak for web workflow

I learned about Quix today. It’s a bookmarklet-driven shortcut tool for web browsing and has LOTS of potential for shortcuts and helpful…

DINO's Tips for Making the Most out of Book^2 Unconference

Originally Posted on DINO Studio’s blog

Week 40/41 Increasing Capacity

Originally Posted on DINO Studio’s blog

DINO Week 39 - What the heck is DINO doing?

Originally Posted on DINO Studio’s Blog

art&code workshop on OF and iPhone

I’m currently in Pittsburgh at the Art&Code Mobile event.

dorkbot diyCHI

Tonight there is a dorkbot-boston as part of the CHI2009 conference.

double edged sword

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…

Observations at Dev House

This Sunday I participated in DevHouse Boston. It was fantastic, exhausting, and maybe even inspiring.

lifecasting as a digital notebook

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…

My grand project

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.

Expressive Technology

From an email I just sent out:

Meeting edict and energy vacuums

I have a new meeting edict.

Lazyweb Script - make a url / bookmark review taskmaster

I’m Reviewing a whole bunch of urls in a long txt file of collected urls and bookmarks.

Minor fixes to site

Some minor wordpress tweaks

Manchester Airport Has Free, Public Wireless

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

dorkbot12: Last dorkbot of the 2007 season + Arduino SIG:

Permalink Pages looking all weird

Not done converting, yet. Relax.

Spam and Email System

I think I have finally nailed down a reasonable email handling / spam fighting strategy after about a year of tweaking.

Shaking it loose

Returning to a pre-sxsw template for davidnunez.com… finally completing the mephisto to wordpress migration.

Jennifer Lin: Magical improv from 14-year-old pianist

She talks about her creative process during composition.

Calligraphic Graphic Design Style

What is the name of this style of graphic design that I see on T-shirts and posters:

Applescript to import articles into devonthink pro and del.icio.us from incoming NetNewsWire RSS streams

The applescript in this post will take the currently selected headline or tabbed article in NetNewsWire, prompt the user for tags about the…

Converting from Mephisto to Wordpress

Finished pulling in old entries to wordpress.

What Goes in My blog?

Questions, Sketches, Articles

Maker Faire Report

Landed at SFO yesterday morning and went directly to the san mateo fairgrounds.

Prep time for weird, large art

I just heard that the life-sized mousetrap takes 125 man-hours to assemble.

Rebooting blog yet again.

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,…

Traveling to San Mateo

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 /…

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…

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…

Iggy Loves his Bio-Mist

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 and art. lebedev

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…

Applescript to transform mail.app message to GTDAlt inbox item

I’m currently using GTDAlt in TextMate as my GTD processing system. It’s a text based system, so it’s upgradable, portable, etc.

Applescript to import NNW smart folder into Yojimbo

Today I modified this script which facilitates Yojimbo importing from NetNewsWire

Bold experiments

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…

Tartuffe + Chat

I’m providing the chat server for the Yellow Tape Construction Co. performance of I Am Not Tartuffe.

4-hour workweek by tim ferriss

This was the panel not to miss!

Nothing like the last minute

The 11th hour is too late to try to do a relaunch.And yet here we are.

Pre-Pre gathering at Cedar Door

This is going to be a fun sxsw. Once dorkbot is over, I may be able to relax a bit.

Skype Tip: Voicemail Suddenly Stops Working

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.

The Sun, The Moon, and a White Horse

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

Austinist: Robots Run Amuck at dorkbot-austin’s Final (Free) Event of the Year:

FOO Camp wrap up coming

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…

Austin Blogger Meetup tonight

There is another of the monthly austinbloggers meetups tonight:

Wired News: The Age of Cheap, Plastic Robots

As a robot enthusiast and, dare I say, practitioner, there are three trends in consumer/entertainment robotics that I’m tracking and which…

Dorkbot in August cancelled

Please accept our humble apologies, but Dorkbot is cancelled for August. We will not be holding dorkbot this Thursday.

Plans are easy. Starting is hard.

Starting is always the hardest part, dont you think? I definitely have a deep infection of plan-it-out syndrome.

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…

Joel Greenberg's Dorkbot Podcast

This is just way cool. Joel Greenberg posted his wonderfully produced and crisp sounding podcast of dorkbot austin 2 from last week.

Dorkbot Austin 2

A little over a month ago, Dorkbot dropped from outer space onto an audience of over 120 curiosity seekers, geekophiles, and mad scientists.

Iguana Food

Iguanas really like collard greens and mustard greens.

Career Change

I guess the writing was on the wall.

What to do, what to do...

This is good to know…

Iguana Cage

Late last year, I inherited a baby iguana from my brother’s friend.

Now I'm trying a post with ecto

I hesitated to use ecto because it never really worked well with Drupal.

Testing lightbox plugin

Austin gets meshed

I predicted something in 2003 that finally tipped.

RSS Feeds should be redirecting now

The RSS Feeds for my blog should be redirecting to the appropriate place now.

Blog Uploaded

It wasn’t easy installing Typo on my ISP because RoR is quirky.

Maker Faire

I am currently in San Mateo attending Make Magazine’s Maker’s Faire There is QUITE A LOT to blog about.

The (Last-Minute) Unofficial Geek Guide to SxSW-Interactive 2006

Last year, I wrote The Unofficial Geek Guide to Getting Over Yourself at SxSW Interactive 2005.

Redesigning

Clearly, I am spending some time redesigning my site.

synonyms for creativity framework

Your creative ideas and projects will evolve and devolve among various states. The broad description of how ideas turn into reusable…

Stretching Daily

Creativity is a skill that needs nourishment, practice, and brutal honesty.

Okay. And now we begin.

No insincere apologies. No excuses. No detailed stories. No empty, unrealistic promises.

I was an Octopus for halloween.

I Was an Octopus for Halloween(octopus-halloween.jpg) More photos on Flickr(https://www.flickr.com/photos/davidnunez/sets/1333824/)

Whatever...

A huge pet peeve of mine:

What Should I Do With My Life.

Now seems like a very appropriate time to post my notes on Po Bronson’s book, What Should I Do with My Life.

Objects of My Life: Marathon Shoes

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”…

Wiki Sketchbook

8/19/2005 – took down wiki for now

Melon Patch Tour 2005

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A Creative Framework

I was flipping through some old idea journals and I found this little diagram I drew, arrogantly titled, “David’s Guide To Cultivating…

Project List

I would also want to add a taxonomy of tags related solely to individual projects and project categories so I could find all posts…

Shaking loose.

Something gave me a mental shake today.

Dinner with my geek friends

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…

Backlog of books.

I realized today I have about 9 books in slow rotation that are each about 50 pages or less from being completely read.

Wired NextFest

I hung out in Chicago last week.

Let's start here.

Step 1: Don’t obsess.<br/>Step 2: Constantly ponder Step 1.

memento

memento mori is an art term used to describe an image included in a work that reminds the viewer of their own mortality.

I rode the Rosedale Ride

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…

a traves de mi.

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…

SxSW: What to put in my bag?

Here are some things I’m putting in my “Carry around” bag:

Full RSS Feeds

Back to full text RSS feeds. Sorry for the bumps along the way.

Blog updating like mad

I spent the whole day doing blog updating.

Me, Myself, and I.

me, me, me, I, me, me me, me, I, I.

First Entries Brainstorm

Website Brainstorm

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…