January 2007
4 posts
on haptics, mobility, and the out-of-touch future
Just got back in from an interesting session at UBC, featuring two speakers for an “HCI Industry Colloquium” — UBC prof Karon MacLean and Nokia N-Series UX designer Ryan Opina talked about what they do for a living to an audience of UBC CS undergrads, grads, profs, and a few odds-and-ends “industry types” (of which I suppose I include myself). A somewhat appropriate...
why I love cyclocross
From the World Cup #11 Cyclocross race in Hoogerheide, NL. Wicked. Thanks to Ryan for pointing that one out.
greg down under
My good friend Greg Descantes, local Vancouver cycling photographer extraordinaire, is down in the scorching heat of the Australian summer (40 ° anyone?) shooting the Jacob’s Creek Tour Down Under. This is a big event, the kickoff of the season for many big-name pros, and a huge race for the Aussies. Greg’s got some great shots so far of the team presentation, the opening crit in...
on ideology
And now, for some philosophy… Within a given society, political consciousness may be said to emerge through the realisation that certain opinions paraded as a priori truths by influential figures may in fact be relative and open to investigation. If they have been declaimed with sufficient confidence, however, these truisms may seem to belong to the fabric of existence no less than the trees...