Category: Fun

Summer in Maine

50 degrees and rainy can’t stop a determined lobster bake crew. Rose didn’t let the cold slow her down either.

How to Ruin Your Child

What is the point of becoming a parent if you can’t pass your terrible, heart-wrenching sports traditions on to your unsuspecting progeny? Last Sunday, my father and I took Rose to the new Red Sox spring training park in Naples, Florida, for opening day. The weather was perfect, and the team came to play, beating […]

Fatherhood Geekery

Back in November I saw a post on Google+ speculating about whether a quilt stitched to include a QR code would make a nice wedding gift. Weddings aside, immediately I knew this was a must-have item for my daughter Rose, who at that point was still a few weeks away from being born. I hadn’t […]

Metro Music

…or, since it’s NYC, Subway Symphony? Either way, a very cool representation of a public transit system through color, motion, and music. Conductor: www.mta.me from Alexander Chen on Vimeo. Conductor (2011) by Alexander Chen. Video capture. View live at: mta.me Conductor turns the New York subway system into an interactive string instrument. Using the MTA’s […]

Flight of the Starlings

Spectacular video capturing and presenting some remarkable starling flight patterns. Together, a flock of starlings is called a “murmuration.” The science behind their flight is pretty interesting, too. Murmuration from Sophie Windsor Clive on Vimeo.

Visualizing 7 Billion

The news today that the world population has hit 7 billion is challenging to process. NPR.org makes it more intelligible with this video showing how that population has changed over time in different regions of the world.   I love visualizations like this, that take something so mind-bendingly complex and make it so simple and […]

Bathroom Sink Interface Usability Problem

I’m taking a thought-provoking class at the USDA grad school called “Information Architecture and the User Experience.” We meet on Wednesday nights and talk, basically, about how information is organized. Everyone has had experiences where we go to a website and after a few minutes of clicking around in search of whatever brought us there […]

My First Tomato

Isn’t it a beauty? Grown in Washington, DC, driven 10 hours north on 95, and devoured as part of a salad in Cape Elizabeth, Maine on Friday, August 5th, 2011. You will be missed.