Sweet Spot

I would enjoy an interactive exercise bike and/or treadmill that could integrate with sites like http://www.gmap-pedometer.com so you could actually run or bike the course of any route you can create. Its resistance and elevation would change based on ground covered. This would allow the user to gauge one’s ability to handle a course that is not easily accessible, or try to tackle something like a Tour leg or the Ironman, rather than prepackaged (and not very realistic) courses. Then you could also compare times to winners, or see where you might fall in the pack of a competition, if you are planning on taking part in a triathlon, bike race, or marathon.

I think in the future i would like to see how nature centers in US use technology for education. What kind of technology and How it is used?

I fear the length of time that will be required for the American Psychological Association, the Modern Language Association, and the other popular academic publication style guidelines to acknowledge modern search and retrieval methods. Read the rest of this entry »

This is not really what I wanted to do with this blog, but I have to give a shout-out to three lovely things that already exist. (I wish I’d invented em, I guess.) Read the rest of this entry »

Certain products are so highly evolved in their genre it’s hard to imagine improvement. The old hardy Bell telephones come to mind, as do the electromechanical Selectric typewriters. In many ways, they were perfect. Read the rest of this entry »

My question is:
WHY ISN’T A SCANNER AN INTEGRATED PART OF MY ‘MOBILE OFFICE’ LAPTOP?

I try but usually fail to do the GTD or Getting Things Done routine. One strike against me is that I have a very mobile lifestyle, including two offices, a lab in another building, and finally lots of travel (not to mention my messy home.) Inboxes work, but it’s hard to geographically distribute them when they involve paper. Read the rest of this entry »