AirTraffic Worldwide

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Fissure

Yesterday, I didn’t think much of stepping across a chair in my living room, until I hit my toe. The event wasn’t spectacular, but the sound produced was unique. Despite the immediate pain, I took note of the distinctive sound. Afterward, there was soreness, but movement and flexibility in the toe were fine. I had [...]

Smell

Here’s an entry from when I was is Pont-Aven that I saved, but didn’t post. Barchael was discussing some olfactory possibilities for the upcoming exhibition, so I thought it would be appropriate to post this, since it’s been sitting in my “drafts” category:
I was just visciously assaulted by one of my fellow students with a [...]

The Jerk – All I need is this ashtray, this paddle game, this…

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Language and its politics can be fascinating

I just found this story on the bbc. I remember a number of years ago, the French version of this same story. I like that people are trying to be linguistic purists and trying to reject English words. I think it’s all a part of the development of language. Each incorporates elements from others and [...]

An important thought

“If an idea is any good, It’s on the verge of being stupid”
— Michele Gondry as quoted by Lauri Faggioni
(from the “making of” The Science of Sleep)

Eschatology

Another interesting article from the BBC.

Scratch

This is a project I was playing with using a programming game designed at MIT to teach children programming. This project is for a Max/MSP class. This is just an experiment to see how it works. Unfortunately, I liked the effects better when it was running on my computer, as opposed to how it runs [...]

Newness

Today I went on a shopping expediation with Mike for our photo shoot tomorrow. In the process we didn’t exactly find what we were looking for. However, we did add one extra bike to our collection for the Stationary Bike Club. If nothing else, that is a step in the right direction. Also, in this [...]