Sometimes I skim Kevin Kelly's Cool Tools blog. It's this listing of things he comes across that seem like really good ideas, and why he thinks so.

For example, today, he provides an extensive review, with notes and pictures, of a Physics textbook, Motion Mountain, which is available for free as a PDF download.

Student Unofficial Transcript
Indiana University Bloomington
Name : Blaylock,Joseph Robert
Student ID : redacted
SSN : redacted
Birthdate : 10-21-XXXX
Address : address redacted
Bloomington, IN
United States
Print Date : 12-23-2007
Request Nbr : blah - - - - - Degrees ( Read more... )

It hardly seems worth the effort to note the problems with an article posted at the Register, but having been through it, I can't resist.

Earlier, I linked to the article hereI'm pretty sure that the power didn't go out because circuits were overdrawn. I think the conference was powered and cooled perfectly adequately. The report I received was ( Read more... )

Hey, you can actually see me in this picture, arranging marketing materials to make a backstop for the slot racers (which have a tendency to fly off the track): http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/11/sc07_cluster_challenge_day_one. ( Read more... )

I'm waiting on the day shift to come and relieve me so I can get some rest and a shower ( Read more... )

So I'm in Reno, at SC07. Since I got up at 04:30 EST on Saturday to begin traveling here, it's been one thing after another, and few chances to break or rest. Setup, deployment, testing, tweaking, running, testing, running. The official kick-off was at 20:00 PST, and since then, we've been waiting for our HPCC run to finish. Right now, I'm ( Read more... )

Ok, it's official. Saturday, Dec 29th. Bloomington. Time and details to follow.

Wow, so my last month or so has been super-duper busy. I don't even know how to talk about it all. So I'm going to start by just listing some things that are Really Cool, that have come up in the past month and struck me forcefully with their awesomness.

Read on, you may be included!

( A List of cool things, some explanatory notes, and a request to the reader. )

Okay, I think I've finally finalized my schedule for the Fall term. At least, here's hoping:

• Monday:
  
  • 14:30-15:45, COGS-Q240, Stotz/Allen
  • 19:00-21:00, CSCI-H498, Springer
• Tuesday:
  
  • 09:30-10:45, MATH-M343, Gerber

I've been consuming a lot of media over the last few months, to the point where I've overwhelmed my ability to track it. I'm posting this consumption list to give people some idea about what I've been up to, but I think that future installments, if they come, will come without annotations of any kind, because it just makes it all too much of a ( Read more... )