I was searching on my name on various clustered-search engines (like Clusty.com) and one of them had indexed my profile page on Drivl.com. I remembered registering a few months ago, but even after visiting the site, I have no idea why.
Any insight into what I was thinking would be greatly appreciate.
Just this last weekend, we had an econ-related lecture I helped organize for the local Reed alumni chapter. I’d originally wanted to have Yoram Bauman PhD do some standup comedy before the lecture, but when it came down to it, I couldn’t figure out a good way to have stand-up comedy and a serious discussion about economics in a two hour period without compromising one or the other.
Now we may have lost our chance. Yoram was just linked from the widely read and influential blog of Jason Kotke, who pointed to a YouTube Video of Yoram doing one of his bits. I’m sure it will be mere weeks before Yoram is hanging out with Jon Stewart, Alan Greenspan, and Bono, and has no time for us little people.
I have a little secret. I have grown to hate computers. I hate that most of the activities in my life now take place confined to a screen, keyboard and mouse interacting with 25 year old visual metaphors. I miss working in a darkroom, or dipping a pen in ink.
All day is spent clutching a mouse and pecking at keys. The tactile experience is completely impoverished and everything is so cramped and confined. It’s impossible to stretch out even with a couple of big monitors.
I used to edit papers by printing them out on a continuous strip of old fanfold computer paper and then laying the whole thing out on a big table. It made it so easy to reorganize things. I could draw arrows between paragraphs multiple pages from another as I figured out how to turn a rough draft into a well organized paper. Of course then I had to enter my changes into the computer, but it wasn’t that bad, and it actually helped having all the changes sketched out before I started committing them.
I actually broke out my old sketchbook and bought a set of brush pens to try and get away from the computer. It felt good, but as much as I hate the experience, I was drawn back to my resting place in front of the computer.
Which is all background for why I find this demo by Jeff Han at TED so cool. It’s a big touch sensitive display that responds to multiple touches, which lets you interact with things in a pretty complicated way. Check it out.
I want one, a really big one and I want it last week.
thanks to Chasjr3 & sarahliz for the link.