Did the Anheuser Busch tour this morning, then went to the Soulard district for exploration and lunch. Spent most of the afternoon visiting the antique shops on Cherokee Street, following some spicy Cajun food at the Hard Shell Cafe. (1YY) If there’s been a theme to this trip, it’s been the reawakening of my [...]
Had to put out a few fires this morning. Thank goodness for high-speed wireless and my trusty new iBook. As a sidenote, Apple Works is an absolute travesty. It is twelve steps backwards in the evolution of office applications. Can’t wait for OpenOffice to run natively on Panther. (1YT) Afterwards, I drove to The [...]
On my way from Fort Wright to St. Louis, I stopped over in Bloomington to have lunch with Chris Dent and some of his colleagues, Joe Blaylock, Kevin Bohan, and Matthew O’Connor. Matthew is one of The Canonical Hackers. (1YQ) Lunch conversation was good — spent two hours longer than I had planned. I [...]
Spent the day with Sujean Kim and Isaac Watras touring Kentucky. Our first stop was the Abbey of Gethsemani, home of Thomas Merton and homemade cheese, bourbon fudge, and fruitcake. The abbey itself is beautiful, nestled in the heart of Kentucky and surrounded by acres of fields and forest. (1YF) We attended a prayer [...]
Just completed my adventures in the Midwest and South. Will post my notes from my trip over the next few days. -EEK (1Y4) Some interesting facts about Dayton and Cincinnati, courtesy of Paul Visscher and Jason Cook: (1Y5) The Wright brothers are from Dayton. (1Y6) So are the Sheen’s and the Lowe’s. [...]
I worked with Doug Engelbart in various capacities from 2000 through 2003, and I often retell lessons and stories from those experiences. My favorite — untold on this blog so far — is how I almost wrote Doug and his ideas off early in my exposure to him. It’s a tale of one of my [...]
My brother-in-law, Isaac Watras, discovered blogging at the Planetwork Conference two years ago, and has been an avid blogger for the past several months. Isaac is a composer, a cellist, and a teacher, and so naturally, he blogs about music. Alex Ross, music critic for the New Yorker, said that Isaac’s blog “offers mesmerizing brief [...]
Spent the day with my older sister, Sujean, and my brother-in-law, Isaac, tooling around the Cincinnati area. We spent some time at the Cincinnati’s History Museum, which was very good, and we also saw the SuperCroc exhibit. I was a paleontology nut when I was a kid, and I still enjoy looking at fossils. Scientists [...]
The conference wrapped up on Friday afternoon. Powerful stuff — lots of learning, lots of emotion. Several people cried at the end. You read that right. People attended to work, and they did a lot of that, but they were also moved by the experience. More to say on this soon. (1RE) The Krew [...]
Arrived in Nashville on Saturday for the MGTaylor Seven Domains Workshop, a meeting of the minds of many of those tied to the MGTaylor community. I’m working the workshop this week, then am spending a week driving in a circle to Cincinnati, St. Louis, and back to Nashville. If you have suggestions for places to [...]
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