Randy Pausch "Time Management"

Chess In 1851

SEE HERE

Speed Chess Is Totally Insane, but Fun!

Screwtape from Max McLean (Letter #12)

Here's a short excerpt from The Screwtape Letters as Max McLean interprets it. Quite a marvelous production. Our oldest son treated us to it when it was in Washington last year on the occasion of our 40th wedding anniversary. HERE's a column about it. Screwtape's secretary Toadpipe is played by Australian actress Elise Girardin as a mime, with no spoken lines but all the more eloquent for that as she illustrates with posture and posing the ideas Screwtape is projecting. This is a wonderful performance and you should see it if you get the chance.

Is the iPad Approaching the Dynabook level?

SEE HERE Now that iPad is here there is research afoot to see if it is useful for doing the kinds of things that Alan Kay's Dynabook vision envisioned. We'll see, but it seems as if sooner or later we have to get there.

UPDATE: 8-19-2010 I went and saw one up close and personal at the JMU College bookstore and spent some time with it. The long and short of it, is that the iPad is cool. As a web browser it's great and fun. As a computer it's not all that hot. The touch screen just doesn't make it as a keyboard and if you can do text entry easily and fast then for touch-typists like me at least, it's a loser! I guess I'll wait to see what the next round of technology brings.

You Can Still Have Fun On Airplanes

First Comment on the Thread: (at least when I copied the embed code) was:

If this happened on a US Airways flight, the plane would have returned to the terminal and everyone on board would have been dragged off to jail.

Fun is NOT tolerated on US flights!

Ironic/sad that the Germans are more able to loosen up than the Americans.

Belloc Singing

Recording made in 1932 of Belloc singing.