Friday night I went to a fellow congregant's home for a monthly shabbat gathering ( about which I've written before). I've been to most of these gatherings though ( Read more... )

A coworker is currently helping to train a bloodhound for police work. She is not in the law-enforcement business; she happens to run an animal sanctuary when she's not being a software geek, and somehow that apparently led to this. How cool. (Also sounds like a lot of work; she's training with the dog every morning and evening for the next ( Read more... )

Hey, CMU's new robotic receptionist (complete with personality) has made national news. It (she?) sounds like a neat project. I like that they are giving the robot a personality of sorts; an article in the local paper talked about her recent date with a vacuum cleaner, for example.
Friday night after services three different people who ( Read more... )

I just got a phone message, at work, from a researcher in Belgium who had questions about NetBill, a project I worked on at CMU in the mid-90s. Nifty ( Read more... )

For those of you who were around CMU in the early 80s (or those in fandom):

This weekend I learned that Leonard Zubkoff was killed in a helicoptor crash shortly before labor day. There is more information here: http://www.puffin.com/puffin/lnz/Leonard.htm . (Thanks to figmo ( Read more... )

This weekend I got a phone call from the Tartan, the CMU student newspaper. When I was a student I was news editor and then editor in chief. During that time, among many other things, I wrote some of the earliest articles about CMU's budding plans to team up with IBM to put a computer in every room and on every desk. It was 1982; this was ( Read more... )