Ubi-recap

I’m sitting at Chicago O’Hare, wending my way back across the US after Ubicomp. The conference goes on for two more days but I have to go to my James Stirling seminar tomorrow, so I’m coming back. Altogether, it was a satisfying conference. It was fruitful, it was fun, it was social. First, Amanda, Eric,… Continue reading Ubi-recap

Ubicomp and fun palaces

It’s always hard to start writing when school starts. I slacked last year, I’m slacking this year. But since today, I leave town, I must publish. My first week of school, I had to turn in a 20 page chunk of my thesis on Cedric Price. If I owe you email and haven’t written, that’s… Continue reading Ubicomp and fun palaces

Web 1.0

Web 1.0 Originally uploaded by douglas. (School starts tomorrow. I don’t believe that Web 2.0 exists. So this is lovely.) Douglas posts cards. See a familiar one in there? I’d peg that at SXSW 99. Or Web 99.

No spectators?

No spectators? Originally uploaded by maximolly. There is something wrong with watching the burn on cable TV, while it pisses rain in Connecticut. But that’s what I did. My camp, the Roarshack, is scrolling by as the man explodes in fireworks before catching on fire.

Terra americana

I’m back in the United States, currently in Minneapolis, after 21 hours of some of the most unpleasant travel I’ve ever experienced. I will never fly British Airways again because of their ranging-from-merely-inconsiderate-to-downright-rude customer service agents on the ground at Heathrow, the 2 1/2 hour departure delay due to the airline not completing its paperwork,… Continue reading Terra americana