I had a great conversation during tea time at Adaptive Path this evening with Jesse James Garrett, about the role of subtlety and nuance in physical interaction design. Central to the conversation was Microsoft’s Project Natal, an upcoming system for the Xbox 360 that lets you use your full body to control games. While large […]
Monthly Archives: June 2009
I’ll bet you can’t guess how this one ends.
June 5, 2009
The new bike is fast. It shaved five minutes off my three-mile commute this morning. Chris, John and I, in celebration of surviving our first week as interns, took the Muni from SoMa through Chinatown to Italytown to grab some tasty slices of pizza. We ate them in a park while an old woman lurked […]
Spry. Or Perhaps The Faun.
June 4, 2009
Today I bid farewell to the Frankenbike, as my friend put the finishing touches on a more proper bike that he’s been building for me to use for my mighty summer. I talked to Kate, and she said the going price for a used bike in Walla Walla was about thirty bucks. I paid a […]
Won’t you be my neighbor?
June 3, 2009
I’m proud to say that this all went down less than six blocks from my flat. Talk about busted.
Tactile
June 3, 2009
This morning I learned that I might need to start dosing myself with caffeine before starting my daily bicycle commute. While traveling in a pack of bike commuters I realized I was pretty zoned out, which isn’t exactly the safest thing when biking in traffic. Things can turn gnarly in an instant, and it’s imperative […]
Napkin
June 2, 2009
All my mail is being forwarded for the summer, and it’s always shocking how long it takes something to wind up at its desired location. After more than a month in the system a stern letter from the IRS finally wound its way to my disciplined staff of Dutiful Mail Handlers in Minnesota. I’m summarizing […]
Fainting Spells
June 1, 2009
Kate is back from her canoe trip, which proved to be a frigid paddle through the arctic wastes of northern Minnesota. Meanwhile, I’m enjoying the ethereal orange glow of a fogged-in city. Today was my first day at Adaptive Path, and I’m likin’ what I see so far. There’s a lot of stuff goin’ on […]
