Gestural Input. Tasty tasty gestural input. I am not so impressed with the actual gestural stuff as I am with the multiple large displays and the ease with which a user can move windows and views between each display. The tabletop display becomes a potential valuable work area (much less fatiguing to a person to [...]

CSCW MVP - “Best Talk (I saw)” - Emilee Reader (U Michigan)
I can’t very well give awards to talks I didn’t see. So I won’t say it was the very best talk at CSCW 2008. But this talk was great — it held my attention, taught me some things, and showed (I’m convinced of this [...]

CSCW MVP - “Best Question Asker” - Eric Baumer (UC Irvine)

CSCW MVP - “Best Dressed” - Lucian Leahu (Cornell)

CSCW MVPs… I do this at all the conferences I go to, but privately. But let’s go public. So over the next days, I’ll be posting my MVPs.

George: Hey Barak! Congrats I wanted to invite you over to have a chat about the transition.
Barak: I’ll bring my tape measure!

Sometimes, all that aimless websurfing pays off.

Upcoming Travel for me…
August 18-25 : Apple’s Cocoa Camp
August 29 - Sept 1 : Labor Day on Cape Cod MA (sweet!)
Sept 9 - 14 : Ubicomp 2008, Seoul, South Korea
November 8 - 12 : CSCW 2008, San Diego CA

At the summer camp I went to as a kid, we celebrated (commemorated? desecrated?) Bastille day via a bastardization of the term Bastille. The oldest kids in camp would rouse everyone from their cabins very late at night by beating on pots and pans from the kitchen. Bash Steel, get it? I guess this parade/mob [...]

We’re in Jamaica this weekend. It’s fantastic.Full breakdown of all the fantastic-daytime-tipsy-swimming-eating-redstripe-adventures to come.

Moved 1,000 miles away from my home. Still 3 blocks from a Moe’s. It’s official — Moe’s is a fungus. Die fungus, die.

Man I hope the rumors are true… I want the Apple "Safari Pad" more than anything. Ok, not more than proverbial peace in the middle east.

Here’s the story of an economics student and one of his favorite professors. Who always told a lie.

link to some links I’m scribbling down this weekend: http://cj.crowdvine.com/posts/show/553908

oreo "cakesters" are pretty much the best things ever. so horrible, but also so good.