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2018 365

December 2018

  1. A year of shared virtual reality
  2. Hot and cold
  3. Baby it’s bad out there
  4. If Troy Donahue can be a movie star…
  5. This week I built a bridge
  6. My number one rule for research
  7. The irony of Christmas
  8. Miss Brill in Penny Lane
  9. I feel bad for bridge players
  10. Quiet work day
  11. Retreat
  12. Probabilistic clairvoyance
  13. Tell us a story
  14. Transcribed text, with feeling
  15. Future Reality research research
  16. Where have you gone Joe DiMaggio?
  17. An early influence
  18. Uneventful flight haiku
  19. This evening I heard a Stradivarius
  20. Good day at work
  21. Writing patents
  22. A visitor in town
  23. Returning to NY
  24. Astronauts
  25. Compare and contrast
  26. Celebrating the process
  27. Serious about deadlines
  28. Hold the phone
  29. The wonderful variety of ideas in our lab
  30. Sunday project
  31. Science fiction as time travel
  32. Dad’s advice

November 2018

  1. Disney, Verizon and the New York Times
  2. *-aholic
  3. A flash of intuition — then you go to work
  4. Immersive media
  5. Eatymology
  6. When entertainment technology goes wrong
  7. Generative visual grammars
  8. Inside the unopened door
  9. The unopened door, part 20
  10. The unopened door, part 19
  11. The unopened door, part 18
  12. The unopened door, part 17
  13. The unopened door, part 16
  14. The unopened door, part 15
  15. The unopened door, part 14
  16. The unopened door, part 13
  17. The unopened door, part 12
  18. The unopened door, part 11
  19. The unopened door, part 10
  20. The unopened door, part 9
  21. The unopened door, part 8
  22. The unopened door, part 7
  23. The unopened door, part 6
  24. The unopened door, part 5
  25. The unopened door, part 4
  26. The unopened door, part 3
  27. The unopened door, part 2
  28. The unopened door, part 1
  29. Happy Birthday Sci Fi
  30. Halloween 2018

October 2018

  1. Stress management
  2. The Gumbinator
  3. Every once in a while you get lucky
  4. It can happen here
  5. Future friendly faces
  6. Be careful what you wish for
  7. An appetite for programming
  8. Too many talks
  9. At the theater
  10. Working on just one thing
  11. Gestation period
  12. Native blood
  13. Writing fiction
  14. Karaoke in Berlin
  15. Vision talk
  16. Alexanderplatz
  17. In Berlin
  18. Reading gothic horror stories
  19. Future selfie
  20. Future object permanence
  21. Not Virtual Reality
  22. Analysis of Oceans Eight
  23. White Mirror mirror
  24. Walking through Paris
  25. Compassion
  26. Let’s get down to it
  27. 16 research talks
  28. Political conversations in Europe
  29. A day in Paris
  30. Kranzberg’s first law

September 2018

  1. First night
  2. In case there was any doubt
  3. haiku review
  4. I stand corrected
  5. A Baptist at a Bar Mitzvah
  6. All in a dream
  7. Some days
  8. Standards for this sort of thing
  9. Equinox haiku
  10. Idea for a TV series
  11. The great synthetic media debate
  12. Shocked — shocked!
  13. A reflection on a reflection
  14. Smokey or the Bandit, part 2
  15. Smokey or the Bandit, part 1
  16. Work, yet not work
  17. The mysterious sign on the door
  18. Three Hundred and Sixty Degrees of Solitude
  19. Two neurosis haiku
  20. A good day?
  21. Interface devices
  22. Between you and me
  23. The good show
  24. Choose your own adventure
  25. The new Brick and Mortar
  26. Free association using Google word suggestions
  27. First class
  28. Novel television
  29. Wonder
  30. Talking about movies in 1860

August 2018

  1. The great debate
  2. Miniatures
  3. Email from the future
  4. Poem
  5. Jury duty
  6. Lenny at 100 and a day
  7. When the story world contradicts itself
  8. Minds, bodies and airports
  9. The best frame is the one you forget is there
  10. There’s no place like phone
  11. Paftan and Pantaf
  12. Comparing dystopian predictions about A.I.
  13. User modifiable story worlds
  14. Who is the audience?
  15. To do list
  16. Accidental aphorism
  17. Establish your reality, then change it
  18. Interesting discussion
  19. Comparative visions
  20. First day of SIGGRAPH
  21. Making miniature mammoths move marvelously
  22. And so it begins
  23. Making the future happen
  24. South of the border
  25. One of those crazy days
  26. Super glasses!
  27. Notes on Future Language, part 8
  28. Notes on Future Language, part 7
  29. Notes on Future Language, part 6
  30. Notes on Future Language, part 5
  31. Notes on Future Language, part 4
  32. Notes on Future Language, part 3

July 2018

  1. Origin stories
  2. Notes on Future Language, part 2
  3. Notes on Future Language, part 1
  4. Power play
  5. Collaborating with myself
  6. A little bit every day
  7. Idea for an app
  8. Image from a train
  9. Primal Beatles
  10. Sleep
  11. Procedural animation will be good for animators
  12. Dance lesson
  13. Well, that clears that up
  14. A good day
  15. Imaginary mammoths
  16. Moving the window
  17. Why the mammoths went extinct
  18. Jurassic Park superpower
  19. Homunculus
  20. Making worlds
  21. Consistently contradictory commentary
  22. Collaboration considered helpful
  23. VR and beer
  24. Non-virtual pachyderms
  25. Procedural animation from the inside out
  26. Trunk
  27. Tending my garden
  28. Hit lit wit bit pit nit fit
  29. Productivity measured in BTU/hr
  30. “Oh.”
  31. Two samurai warriors

June 2018

  1. On the tenor sax
  2. <3
  3. Concert with blindfold
  4. Somewhere between North Dakota and Michigan
  5. The night Emma Lazarus rose from the dead
  6. Future illusions of reality, part 3
  7. Future illusions of reality, part 2
  8. Future illusions of reality, part 1
  9. Remembering names
  10. Saxophonists
  11. Saving grace
  12. Narrative threads
  13. PFFFT
  14. Stories, games, and the hero’s journey
  15. Urban jungle
  16. The real Mickey Mouse
  17. Hollywood news bulletin
  18. Special places in hell
  19. Possibly a sound idea
  20. Battle by Bard, part 2
  21. Battle by Bard, part 1
  22. Hear Now
  23. Origin stories
  24. How I spent this evening
  25. A great idea, but…
  26. A new daily blog
  27. Watching Solo solo
  28. The magic coin
  29. Oulipo sequences

May 2018

  1. Oulipo sequels
  2. Available Wi-Fi networks
  3. Best marketing lesson
  4. Post post commentary
  5. A taste of virtual reality
  6. Sure, ok
  7. Why I like three day weekends (a haiku)
  8. Magic by any other name
  9. Meetings in different places
  10. So there’s that
  11. Speaking to computers
  12. Short talks are harder
  13. A day in Kingston
  14. Novel forms of virtual reality
  15. Dream workshop
  16. Useful procrastination
  17. The future history of AI
  18. Mood app part 2
  19. Mood app
  20. Dance VR puppetry
  21. Rethinking 360 o VR
  22. There are certain songs
  23. New frontiers of artificial intelligence
  24. Go ogling
  25. Group blog
  26. Rubber bands and chewing gum and fractal programming
  27. Working Saturday
  28. May the fourth
  29. Just saying
  30. Inconvenient truth
  31. Reverse engineering acronyms
  32. WFAFBOWB

April 2018

  1. A shadow in a dream
  2. Cinematic prototyping
  3. VR and the body
  4. Center of the dome
  5. Stupidity is worse than venality
  6. Internet for non-humans
  7. Private AR and ethics, continued
  8. Private AR and ethics
  9. Airport Zen
  10. Transparent process
  11. Procedure versus data, part 3
  12. Procedure versus data, part 2
  13. Procedure versus data, part 1
  14. You can’t make this stuff up
  15. Punnishingly descriptive
  16. 2 x 50
  17. Sketchtext
  18. Starting a meeting at Google
  19. Writing in VR
  20. Venom
  21. Math with my brother, part 6
  22. Math with my brother, part 5
  23. Math with my brother, part 4
  24. Math with my brother, part 3
  25. Math with my brother, part 2
  26. Math with my brother
  27. The ending of Casablanca
  28. Answers to the minions quiz
  29. A Perilous Rampage Is Launched

March 2018

  1. Eclectic trivia contest
  2. Can you name their minions?
  3. When you really need that 3DBB, part 3
  4. When you really need that 3DBB, part 2
  5. When you really need that 3DBB
  6. A Ben Carson moment
  7. Limerick on a Stormy evening
  8. Before the Cave, Book I (complete)
  9. VR bike
  10. The Edge, part 8
  11. The Edge, part 7
  12. The Edge, part 6
  13. The Edge, part 5
  14. The Edge, part 4
  15. The Edge, part 3
  16. The Edge, part 2
  17. The Edge, part 1
  18. Great idea for a TV comedy
  19. Bounce
  20. Morning me / evening me
  21. Inter-tribal auto-corrected reality
  22. Auto-correcting reality
  23. Almost clever
  24. Reflections on two narratives
  25. Before the Cave, part 31
  26. Before the Cave, part 30
  27. Before the Cave, part 29
  28. Before the Cave, part 28
  29. Before the Cave, part 27
  30. Before the Cave, part 26
  31. Before the Cave, part 25
  32. Before the Cave, part 24

February 2018

  1. Before the Cave, part 23
  2. Before the Cave, part 22
  3. Before the Cave, part 21
  4. Before the Cave, part 20
  5. Before the Cave, part 19
  6. Before the Cave, part 18
  7. Before the Cave, part 17
  8. The cycle of collaborative innovation
  9. Before the Cave, part 16
  10. Before the Cave, part 15
  11. Before the Cave, part 14
  12. Before the cave, part 13
  13. Before the cave, part 12
  14. Before the Cave, part 11
  15. Before the Cave, part 10
  16. Before the Cave, part 9
  17. Great introductory books
  18. Before the Cave, part 8
  19. Before the Cave, part 7
  20. Before the cave, part 6
  21. Before the Cave, part 5
  22. Before the Cave, part 4
  23. Before the Cave, part 3
  24. Before the Cave, part 2
  25. Before the Cave, part 1
  26. And novel undertakings
  27. Mammoth undertakings
  28. CG programming for non-programmers, lesson 28

January 2018

  1. CG programming for non-programmers, lesson 27
  2. CG programming for non-programmers, lesson 26
  3. CG programming for non-programmers, lesson 25
  4. CG programming for non-programmers, lesson 24
  5. CG programming for non-programmers, lesson 23
  6. Intermission
  7. CG programming for non-programmers, lesson 22
  8. CG programming for non-programmers, lesson 21
  9. CG programming for non-programmers, lesson 20
  10. CG programming for non-programmers, lesson 19
  11. CG programming for non-programmers, lesson 18
  12. CG programming for non-programmers, lesson 17
  13. CG programming for non-programmers, lesson 16
  14. CG programming for non-programmers, lesson 15
  15. CG programming for non-programmers, lesson 14
  16. CG programming for non-programmers, lesson 13
  17. CG programming for non-programmers, lesson 12
  18. CG programming for non-programmers, lesson 11
  19. CG programming for non-programmers, lesson 10
  20. CG programming for non-programmers, lesson 9
  21. CG programming for non-programmers, lesson 8
  22. CG programming for non-programmers, lesson 7
  23. CG programming for non-programmers, lesson 6
  24. CG programming for non-programmers, lesson 5
  25. CG programming for non-programmers, lesson 4
  26. CG programming for non-programmers, lesson 3
  27. CG programming for non-programmers, lesson 2
  28. CG programming for non programmers: lesson 1
  29. Teaching computer graphics programming to non-programmers
  30. 12*34*5+67-89

2017 366

December 2017

  1. Tenth anniversary
  2. AI vs I
  3. All the TV shows
  4. Worst poem ever
  5. Spectrum of behavior
  6. Proper motivation
  7. One on, one off
  8. Confraglidation
  9. Just the four of us
  10. Don’t perfume the roses
  11. Wearing some device on your head
  12. The sound of one pendulum swinging
  13. Advanced class
  14. Star Wars reconsidered
  15. Appearance in the far future
  16. After seeing The Last Jedi
  17. Some weeks are longer than others
  18. Dimensions of shared VR
  19. Moment of sanity
  20. Phone drinking
  21. If light were faster
  22. The New Guilded Age
  23. Paleo DNA digital data storage
  24. Mutation-resistant code
  25. Write-only memory
  26. Reality television
  27. Future interior decorating
  28. Haiku from a parallel universe
  29. Future New Yorker cartoon spoiler
  30. Some plastic device on your face
  31. Biomechanical turk
  32. The end game

November 2017

  1. Domestic quandrary
  2. Autodidacticism
  3. Just around the corner from famous
  4. My smarter friend
  5. Perfect movie
  6. The evolution of evolution
  7. Thanksgiving 2017
  8. A taxing situation
  9. Algorithms are fractals
  10. Future phones
  11. IP Gerrymandering
  12. Lance Williams, 1949-2017
  13. A history of failed film techniques
  14. That guy
  15. Nostalgia
  16. Night before the trip
  17. Cognitive time dilation
  18. Comedy for our times
  19. Fun with pseudo-science
  20. Situational armor
  21. Yes
  22. Blade Runner 4098
  23. Like sending your child to kindergarten
  24. Something ironic
  25. When I was in high school
  26. Applied math
  27. Choice of argument
  28. Dinner party
  29. Cultural time travel
  30. Self-referential Halloween costume

October 2017

  1. Not just evil, but particularly evil
  2. Art is a conversation with the world
  3. Chronoversity
  4. Dreaming up new ideas
  5. Refuge
  6. Minds on fire
  7. Good design doesn’t need underlining
  8. That moment
  9. Full disclosure
  10. A different kind of Augmented Reality
  11. Snap chats
  12. Future conversational pinging
  13. Bonsai roots
  14. The comedy of the commons
  15. That song in your head
  16. The most productive decision
  17. Killing your own supporters, for fun and profit
  18. Paraskevidekatriaphobic haiku
  19. The fourth wall, revisited
  20. Future news
  21. A simple plan
  22. Future present
  23. And it’s a wrap!
  24. This evening at Snug Harbor
  25. Some things never change
  26. Wistful moment this morning
  27. Sputnik!
  28. VR costume or VR puppet?
  29. Meanwhile
  30. October has come calling

September 2017

  1. Math notation and 3D, part 2
  2. Math notation and 3D
  3. Looking at the stars
  4. Unpacking the travel ban, part 2
  5. Unpacking the travel ban
  6. The beer comes to you
  7. A dog year is the square root of a computer year
  8. Vichy revisited
  9. Everything is new
  10. Dinner with Shakespeare
  11. Mess/cleanup algorithms
  12. Comfort coding
  13. The Mumbai method
  14. Multimedia
  15. Karma Chameleon
  16. Future theater
  17. The post-biological evolution of appearance, part 2
  18. The post-biological evolution of appearance
  19. The dawn of a new era
  20. How much mystery?
  21. The McCarthy comparison
  22. Chocolate cake
  23. Portable whisper gallery
  24. St. Martin
  25. The medium and the message
  26. A shift in perception
  27. I made this
  28. Respite
  29. Unexpectedly shared sentiment
  30. Taking the blame

August 2017

  1. Rain and sunshine
  2. The other side
  3. The memory of places
  4. The emerging mobile class
  5. The Arpaio principle
  6. Eponymous
  7. Flywheel
  8. Convergence
  9. Prototyping VR theater
  10. Random thought
  11. Perpetual eclipse
  12. Fast cars with spoilers
  13. Spin control
  14. Sight and sound
  15. Back to the future
  16. The varying benefits of future wearables
  17. The dark crazy place
  18. Melodrama and the duality of fictional narrative
  19. Spontaneous glass harmonica orchestra
  20. 36 questions, revisited
  21. Sensory superpower
  22. Tonight at Sea Island
  23. Purest heaven
  24. Two mathematicians
  25. Lego bricks of VR theater
  26. Emerging trends in gangster fashion
  27. Lifestyle contrast
  28. Interconnected advances
  29. The far vision of old-timers
  30. Future glasses
  31. Siggraph haiku
  32. New movies

July 2017

  1. VR in the material world
  2. Old movies
  3. June Foray, 1917-2017
  4. POSTIT notes
  5. Trump bans Jews from the military
  6. Social media considered harmful, last part
  7. Social media considered harmful, part 3
  8. Social media considered harmful, part 2
  9. Social media considered harmful, part 1
  10. The death of place memory
  11. The non-linearity of productivity
  12. Productive relaxation
  13. The surprising price of avocados in London
  14. Overheard this week in London
  15. Secrets of the Knights Templar
  16. Why animation may become more procedural
  17. Great story, terrible sequel
  18. The future of interchangeable information devices
  19. Political undo function
  20. Channel surfing
  21. A room with a view
  22. Instant lookup
  23. Economic matchmakers
  24. After the demo goes well
  25. New computer!
  26. Strategic failure
  27. Sandra Magnus has a super power
  28. Virtual family structure
  29. The long dream
  30. Reverse vacation time

June 2017

  1. Always two there are
  2. How it begins
  3. The utopia solution
  4. The utopia problem
  5. Future conversations with past minds
  6. Why not take a more direct approach?
  7. A potential downside of Moore’s Law
  8. The history of “language”
  9. The history of virtual reality
  10. Neuro-Buffy
  11. xyz
  12. Twenty first century haiku
  13. How to know you are in Seattle
  14. Future game control design
  15. Death metal vegan
  16. Market penetration
  17. Being Harry Potter
  18. A mighty oak falling
  19. The first thing that came into my head
  20. Freedom requires security
  21. How we got from there to here:
  22. How we will get from here to there:
  23. Obscure programming language jokes
  24. Fermi’s paradox
  25. First day of the event
  26. Day before the event
  27. Change blindness
  28. Cultural differences
  29. Covfefe explained
  30. Alas and alack

May 2017

  1. Cooperative species
  2. Museum of Museums
  3. Tiny people standing on your desk
  4. Long term loyalty haiku
  5. Lisa Sonata
  6. Anniversaries
  7. A long…
  8. Manchester
  9. Theoretical limits of human intelligence
  10. Time turns upside down
  11. The funeral singer
  12. Chess to be another
  13. A fundamental principle of computer science
  14. Double time
  15. Until we remember
  16. Contradictionary
  17. Political science
  18. Traveling so far
  19. Context
  20. Goddamned steam
  21. Both exciting and humbling
  22. Welcome to the new politics
  23. An actual patriot
  24. Splendid isolation
  25. A moment of sanity
  26. When we all change, the change is invisible
  27. The last thing on my mind
  28. The real Wolverine
  29. Facial expressions in movies
  30. Gallows humor
  31. A disquisition on Congress footing the bill for the presidential lifestyle
  32. Prosthesis

April 2017

  1. Ensnare your brides in starch!
  2. The evidence of travel
  3. Jonathan Demme
  4. Beautiful sentences
  5. That’s amore!
  6. Future conditional, part 3
  7. Future conditional, part 2
  8. Future conditional
  9. Our lab’s first Prime Minister
  10. Vacation from stupidity
  11. Why is The Matrix?
  12. Best film in years
  13. Mom Jam
  14. The three pillars
  15. Spoonless
  16. Walls
  17. Introducing the future
  18. Anxiety attack
  19. The mom and the monk
  20. The rights of coffee
  21. Words matter
  22. Conversation starter
  23. National Academy of Inventors
  24. Joe Harris
  25. Series of interest
  26. Present in the moment
  27. Isn’t it amazing
  28. Provenance
  29. Joint session
  30. Confluence, part 2

March 2017

  1. Confluence
  2. The top 0.0001%
  3. Folded spaces
  4. Healthcare debacle haiku
  5. Reflecting on mirrors
  6. The Wolverine as political allegory
  7. A cure for loneliness
  8. A definition of magic
  9. Misdirection
  10. History repeats itself
  11. The far corners of possibility
  12. Reality and push buttons
  13. Rogue movies and others
  14. These immigrants
  15. Making coffee in the morning
  16. Best episode ever
  17. Slogan
  18. Miyazaki in the Moonlight
  19. SXSW
  20. A matter of gravity
  21. Annibuffyversity
  22. Virtually me
  23. Cultural differences
  24. Snap judgment
  25. Twitter twit
  26. The ice cream cone strategy
  27. Stupidity on tapp
  28. Sixty million dollars is pretty impressive
  29. The first time you heard that song
  30. The dream circle

February 2017

  1. Apophenia
  2. National tragedy haiku
  3. Chain reaction
  4. Headline address
  5. Speaking of bubbles
  6. Bubble haiku
  7. The greatest enemy our nation is facing
  8. Shoes in the ocean
  9. Future contingent privacy
  10. Future nature walk
  11. Ethical considerations
  12. Backstage pass
  13. Crocoduck
  14. Continuing the ray tracing breakdown story
  15. Ad-speak, part 2
  16. Ad-speak
  17. Picking up the guitar again
  18. Smell the Reichstag burning
  19. Parallel lives
  20. Two questions
  21. Women of the future
  22. Solidarity
  23. Success!
  24. Tools for students / tools for teachers
  25. Notes on a native son
  26. New lab
  27. Ray tracing breakdown
  28. Holocaust Remembrance Day
  29. Description / Experimentation / Navigation

January 2017

  1. There are heroes
  2. Bubble breakdown
  3. Puzzle orgy
  4. Psychological profile
  5. Kickstarter
  6. RIP MTM
  7. When art flourishes
  8. Making a bubble
  9. Narcissistic sociopathy
  10. Trump and God
  11. Message of the day
  12. Yes we could
  13. Unintended lessons
  14. Analogy
  15. Trumped
  16. Watching some guy with my name on TV
  17. One minute less
  18. Stories of your life
  19. From the top
  20. Plato’s 4D cave
  21. Qualified support
  22. A fifth of vodka, revisited
  23. Roundhouse kicks
  24. Irony in the modern age
  25. The future in ten minutes
  26. Better than virtual
  27. What I did yesterday
  28. What I did today
  29. Ontological time machine
  30. 98 * 76 – 5432 + 1
  31. Pragmatic perspective

2016 365

December 2016

  1. Impossible puppets
  2. Interactive projection in the theater
  3. Dark matters
  4. Binaural
  5. New, but not too new
  6. Another kind of virtual reality
  7. Cross-cultural
  8. Arrival
  9. Artificial Intelligence in your face
  10. Hush
  11. Opening the portal of digital communication
  12. Days / daze
  13. Leave to come back
  14. Joie de vivre
  15. Catachresis
  16. Petition
  17. The best view
  18. Not jazz or improv
  19. The talk after the talk
  20. In Paris
  21. First World problems
  22. Not fewer every day
  23. Gutenberg 2.0
  24. Fewer every day
  25. A sort of time machine
  26. Cute names for racist, far-right fringe movements
  27. The music analogy
  28. Subjective clock
  29. Concert sales
  30. A footnote to history

November 2016

  1. The kid in the high tower
  2. Arbutus
  3. A wondrous thing
  4. Canadian opportunity
  5. Valuable waterfront property
  6. Preflight haiku
  7. A Thanksgiving story
  8. The forgetting test
  9. First thought best thought
  10. 2,500,000 Hamiltons
  11. Strump speech
  12. An opportunity missed
  13. “And I did not speak out”
  14. Rethinking the internet economy, part 2
  15. Rethinking the information economy
  16. Letter from the NYU President
  17. The eye of a hurricane
  18. Defying the Nazis
  19. Sense of purpose
  20. Leonard Cohen, 1934-2016
  21. What makes America beautiful?
  22. It’s complicated
  23. The Butcher’s Tale
  24. In the balance
  25. Lost in translation
  26. Reality sliders
  27. Barranquilla, continued
  28. Barranquilla
  29. It’s not enough that we are interested in them
  30. Twin effects

October 2016

  1. Halloween in New York City, 2016
  2. Today I made a robot
  3. Sunny afternoon
  4. Flow
  5. Going negative
  6. Politician versus non-politician
  7. A comment on yesterday’s post
  8. Antitropic haikus
  9. Football
  10. Cross over moment
  11. Rearranging the furniture
  12. A timely wrinkle
  13. Who does that?
  14. Pure joy
  15. VPU
  16. Capitalism and virtue
  17. Canadian hypercubes
  18. Chalktalk to China
  19. Two orthoginal dimensions
  20. The “Lonesome” Rhodes moment
  21. The Canadian view
  22. Tribute band
  23. Hate agendas
  24. The demo worked
  25. Real history
  26. Astronauts
  27. Punch drunk
  28. Sputnik was a baby boomer
  29. Creating the future
  30. Analogies, part 2
  31. Analogies, part 1

September 2016

  1. Change of mood
  2. Cartoon violence
  3. The greatest political force in our time
  4. So here’s a question
  5. How they decide who won the debate
  6. Day off
  7. Learning a new word
  8. November 9, 2016
  9. Living in the future
  10. What Trump is really promising
  11. Working in groups
  12. Right of transcendence
  13. Parallel inventions
  14. Long flights
  15. Carol Burnett
  16. Your ideal self
  17. Poelm
  18. Blog days
  19. Mysogyny
  20. Remembrance
  21. Unburdened
  22. Branding
  23. This is just so beautiful
  24. Present tense
  25. Virtually real
  26. Bear
  27. Bartenders and film editors
  28. Alien speech generator
  29. Penn Station
  30. Amazing coincidence
  31. The old ways

August 2016

  1. 2x2x2x2, part 7
  2. Relativity
  3. 2x2x2x2, part 6
  4. If I had a Holo…, part 2
  5. If I had a Holo…
  6. 2x2x2x2, part 5
  7. String theory
  8. 2x2x2x2, part 4
  9. 2x2x2x2, part 3
  10. Long dead days
  11. The scariest thing of all
  12. Today’s hero
  13. Self-fulfulling prophecy
  14. That darned subconscious!
  15. That exact moment
  16. Reality is…
  17. The next line of dialog
  18. 2x2x2x2, part 2
  19. 2x2x2x2
  20. No limits
  21. Through the looking glass
  22. Feelings and reality, part 2
  23. Feelings and reality
  24. Other people are unknowable
  25. Gathering together in a room to discuss the future
  26. Negative review service
  27. Unexpectedly off-line
  28. Sharing parts of documents
  29. The limits of unreason
  30. Compatibility service
  31. Today’s lesson

July 2016

  1. How to make phones better
  2. Core wars 2016
  3. Singular expectations
  4. Best quote
  5. Real Time, Live!
  6. E.T.
  7. Faster Forward
  8. Red sun in a smoldering sky
  9. Alternate reality airport
  10. Cruz control
  11. My speech
  12. Deep nap
  13. Demos and narratives
  14. Debugging
  15. Be afraid. Be very afraid.
  16. Monsters, virtual and otherwise
  17. Constraints and possibilities
  18. Virtual virtual reality
  19. Mixed realities
  20. VR bars will be a thing
  21. Facial diversity
  22. Fibonacci fibonacci
  23. Indeterminately located
  24. The Marx Brothers, revisited
  25. Client-side
  26. Scary political humor
  27. Slow energy
  28. Affairs of State
  29. Self-driving news
  30. At the corner market
  31. Solar electric hydroponics

June 2016

  1. At our best
  2. Down the rabbit hole
  3. Panel discussion
  4. $2,000,000,000,000.00
  5. Home stretch
  6. Brexitology
  7. Limits of the technology
  8. Computers and visual iconography
  9. The best thing
  10. Parallel lives
  11. Summer cold
  12. Haiku in a dream
  13. Go-to TV series
  14. Cinematic fingerprints
  15. My go-to movies
  16. Nerd humor
  17. Sad and horrified
  18. Drama
  19. Programming in Arabic
  20. Stateless
  21. Biking in Paris
  22. 404
  23. The non-linearity of time away from research
  24. Stairway to Absurdity
  25. Sonic illusion
  26. Why is the Matrix?
  27. Great speech
  28. Keyboards
  29. The mystery
  30. Reality checks

May 2016

  1. Virtually virtual
  2. Time slip
  3. Finishing the cat
  4. Vortex
  5. Today
  6. Subtlety as a sign of medium maturity
  7. Multi-institutional collaboration
  8. Antique store
  9. Architecture for alternate bodies
  10. Future juggling
  11. Nonlinear coding strategies
  12. Future fashion
  13. Show and tell
  14. More uses of failure
  15. The uses of failure
  16. Grasping the future
  17. YouTube comments
  18. Ideas and demos
  19. Great quote
  20. Diegetic prototyping as design methodology
  21. Teleportation for telepresence robots
  22. Postmodern moment
  23. Weekend off
  24. Future superpowers
  25. Easy concept / hard concept
  26. It’s all geek to me
  27. Onemotipoetic
  28. Incompressible
  29. Uplifting art
  30. Degrees of difference

April 2016

  1. Zeppelin
  2. FrieNDA
  3. Less is more
  4. Threads
  5. Irony
  6. Obvious
  7. Two flights
  8. William Shakespeare
  9. In a fair fight
  10. Pass / fail exam
  11. Luckily, there’s no rush
  12. Future signage and its implications
  13. Great idea for a message T-shirt
  14. 20 minute talk
  15. At home in the Cloud
  16. Maximum emotional fidelity
  17. Reflections on a reunion
  18. Gathering of the tribe
  19. Neological
  20. Apple records
  21. Lesser of two evils
  22. Time machine
  23. Powers of 2
  24. Contact lenses
  25. Not seeing things
  26. Two versus three
  27. Do you know anyone…?
  28. Carnegie Hall
  29. The romantic view of programming
  30. Conference jury haiku
  31. On a great big lake

March 2016

  1. Deliberate mismatch
  2. Here’s looking at you
  3. Bodies and pianos
  4. I now pronounce you…
  5. What’s cooking?
  6. Princess Bruschetta
  7. Personal principles
  8. Heartsick
  9. Momentary Utopias
  10. Some things never change
  11. General knowledge
  12. Silly Putty and a knife
  13. Conversational haiku
  14. Event for Marvin
  15. Future non-verbal communication
  16. Meeting on an alien planet
  17. Holodeconstruction
  18. The important question
  19. Artistic time
  20. North of the border haiku
  21. Fortunate accidents
  22. George Martin
  23. The show before the show
  24. VR is the opposite of cinema
  25. Gateways
  26. Panel dynamics
  27. Friday evening haiku
  28. Donald and the KKK
  29. We robot
  30. Vegan hunting lodge
  31. Future present

February 2016

  1. Weimar States of America
  2. Virtual absence
  3. Virtual fidelity
  4. Solid seeing
  5. Airport time bubble
  6. Self-referential haiku
  7. Self-driving iPads
  8. The tragedy of administration
  9. Old music, new music
  10. Contemplating the Trump campaign
  11. Together we will have many children
  12. Two kinds of prototype
  13. That research talk
  14. Spelunking
  15. Notable moments in television, part 1
  16. Son of Saul
  17. GWI
  18. Gravity waves
  19. Optimality of genre mash-ups
  20. Rewatching the X-Files
  21. Self driving furniture
  22. There are moments
  23. Only I know the difference
  24. Aha
  25. Forms of magic
  26. A good test
  27. I gave a talk
  28. VR and the elephant
  29. Virtua vérité

January 2016

  1. The gaze of the puppet
  2. A bit optimistic
  3. Mirror mirror
  4. Bit
  5. Marvin
  6. Font / unfont
  7. Unjargon
  8. Old fashioned selfie
  9. Train of thought
  10. Unfont design
  11. Font design
  12. Metonymic haiku
  13. Deadline time
  14. Greenland time
  15. Realpolitik
  16. Boundaries
  17. Future improvisational dance
  18. Inspiration haiku
  19. Elmer’s Glue, revisited
  20. L’Holodeck, c’est les autres
  21. Old friends
  22. Bot or not
  23. Cool demos
  24. Seeing two different movies together
  25. Cross-country haiku
  26. Artificial levitation
  27. Some movies
  28. Natural
  29. Procedural
  30. 1*2*34*5*6-7-8-9

2015 366

December 2015

  1. December 31 haiku
  2. Souvenirs
  3. Edible chess
  4. Old Yiddish saying
  5. To code or not to code
  6. Survival of the least annoying
  7. Potato to moonbeam
  8. $150K
  9. The Force is strong in this one
  10. Wishful haiku
  11. If you could assume any temporary form
  12. Recent advice
  13. Future fun
  14. Something old, something new
  15. The perfect customer
  16. Realism considered harmful
  17. Technoplex
  18. EJ
  19. Future reality tipping point
  20. Just one story
  21. Zombie apocalypse
  22. Everything is relative
  23. Fate and the blog
  24. Think about it logically
  25. Wow
  26. Best meal
  27. VR for mom
  28. Good day
  29. Us
  30. Server farm
  31. Art
  32. The politics of math

November 2015

  1. Boom boom
  2. Holmes for the holidays
  3. Star turns
  4. Thanksgiving
  5. Only human
  6. Flight done right
  7. In another 50 years
  8. Body relative
  9. My day
  10. Male bonding
  11. Still crazy
  12. Every six months or so
  13. L’éléphant dans la pièce
  14. Common interests
  15. Future schlock
  16. I looked for you today in Washington Square
  17. Devastated
  18. Digital amnesia
  19. KenKen
  20. Authenticity knob
  21. Promenade time machine
  22. Dia de Los Holos
  23. Finally got it right
  24. The gold standard
  25. Flight
  26. Every love story is a ghost story
  27. The purpose of nightmares
  28. November
  29. A lump of clay
  30. Two paths to the future of artificial intelligence

October 2015

  1. This evening
  2. Parallel lines
  3. Curved lines
  4. Second time around
  5. Puppetry by music
  6. Spice
  7. Making pictures with math
  8. Shared language
  9. Real life
  10. Back to the Future Reality
  11. Awesome evening
  12. Beyond VR games
  13. Essentially human
  14. Something new
  15. Some magic new kind of coffee
  16. Silly high art
  17. An email from the future
  18. Stud bolt
  19. Playing the sympathy card
  20. Third date
  21. Gender reversal
  22. Like water
  23. The danger
  24. Anthills in the sun
  25. The best special effects
  26. First person perspectives
  27. Perfect
  28. As in a dream
  29. The happy medium
  30. Looping for poets
  31. Every fifty years

September 2015

  1. Silly rabbit
  2. Memory palaces and embodied cognition
  3. Idea market
  4. Multidimensional starfield
  5. Hand waving
  6. Plates in the air
  7. The inverse bandwidth law of linear time travel
  8. Imperfect crystals
  9. Fate steps in and sees you through
  10. Definitions of reality, part 2
  11. Definitions of reality, part 1
  12. Box in pocket
  13. Forcing function
  14. Parallels
  15. Never meta-haiku I didn’t like
  16. If your car wore glasses
  17. Erdős-Bacon number
  18. The great debate
  19. The seasons do not know us
  20. It’s easy. You just…
  21. First class
  22. Calibrated
  23. Chrysalis, part 7
  24. One bad joke deserves another
  25. Generalizable example
  26. Dorothy was right
  27. Penguin as Prufrock
  28. Human to machine or human to computer interaction?
  29. Robots are puppets

August 2015

  1. Free will
  2. Oliver Sacks
  3. Book stores in train stations
  4. In the key of Monday
  5. Existential haiku
  6. Somebody else’s body
  7. There you are
  8. Toni Colette is God
  9. Future shoes
  10. Chrysalis, part 6
  11. Coming home
  12. Language in future reality
  13. Visualizing personality
  14. Teaching and the mountain
  15. Performance in future reality
  16. Chrysalis, part 5
  17. A Vancouver walk
  18. Mental saccades
  19. Why you can’t travel back in time
  20. Seeing the trees for the forest
  21. Chrysalis, part 4
  22. Debate
  23. Juggernaut
  24. Future reality
  25. Literary microinvestments
  26. Crysalis, part 3
  27. Hillary Clinton was wrong
  28. Disavowal
  29. Chrysalis, part 2
  30. Time with dad
  31. Chrysalis, part 1
  32. How we talk about movies

July 2015

  1. Everything you always wanted to know about Inside Out (but were afraid to ask)
  2. The demo is what you show
  3. The virtues of mountain climbing
  4. Into the unknown
  5. Dinosaurs!
  6. Bad joke of the day
  7. Transitional stage
  8. Bowen Island
  9. Finding the bug
  10. Geeky fun
  11. Avatars
  12. Every city will have one
  13. How self-driving cars will take over
  14. The sparkled shore
  15. Morse code
  16. Extraproprioception
  17. The Moon wasn’t a planet either
  18. Tomorrow isn’t what it used to be, part 4
  19. Tomorrow isn’t what it used to be, part 3
  20. Tomorrow isn’t what it used to be, part 2
  21. Tomorrow isn’t what it used to be, part 1
  22. Hanging with Einstein
  23. Northwest haiku
  24. The Holomen
  25. Art or reality
  26. Some implanted evening
  27. A map in thought
  28. Frankepedia
  29. Futurepedia
  30. The future of ghosts

June 2015

  1. Seeing ghosts
  2. Blue balloon
  3. Fiction versus nonfiction
  4. Pretty darned cool
  5. Non-colocated intersubjectivity
  6. Diversity
  7. Everything a kid could ever want
  8. Expanded vocabulary
  9. The rights of office products
  10. Conservation laws
  11. Commercial shock
  12. Counting by twos
  13. Mess-o-metrics
  14. Agendas
  15. Home key
  16. A Titanic plot twist
  17. Betrayal
  18. Holiday greetings
  19. Both sides now
  20. Eiffel Tower haiku
  21. Accordion talk
  22. Polymathy
  23. Artist / scientist
  24. In the garden
  25. If gold ruste, what shal iren do?
  26. Dedication
  27. On the TGV
  28. Interface design
  29. Between Dublin and Paris
  30. Unplugged

May 2015

  1. Dublin books
  2. Lighthouses
  3. The minimal subproblem
  4. What is the self? Part 2
  5. What is the self?
  6. Best origin story
  7. Track 45 left, part 4
  8. John and Alicia
  9. Track 45 left, part 3
  10. Track 45 left, part 2
  11. Track 45 left, part 1
  12. Programming is magic
  13. First day in Paris
  14. Cool idea for a T-shirt
  15. Waiting for Frankenstein
  16. One of those moments
  17. VR accessories
  18. Ignoring the cheap shot
  19. 10%
  20. New Media, part 2
  21. New Media
  22. Normal inside jokes
  23. So much for comforting thoughts
  24. After the panel
  25. The Holodeck is other people
  26. So many futures
  27. How many times I can snap my fingers
  28. My shortest poem ever
  29. Day before a long trip
  30. Ghosts
  31. Sim card

April 2015

  1. After you are back in the real world
  2. Definitions
  3. Religious robots
  4. Computer programming as literature
  5. Wagon train to the stars
  6. Putting a name on a face
  7. Atoms versus bits
  8. High altitude haiku
  9. Questions
  10. WikiRant
  11. Maybe that’s why they call it …
  12. Two robots walk into a bar
  13. L’ecole d’escalier
  14. Reunion
  15. Virtual irony
  16. The long nose, part 2
  17. The long nose, part 1
  18. Ready Player Two
  19. Antimarket opportunities
  20. Possible bodies
  21. Neopaleolithic
  22. Perchance to dream
  23. Talking is easy
  24. Cheat sheets
  25. Never / always apologize
  26. Nearing a cusp
  27. The nature of freedom, part 2
  28. The nature of freedom
  29. Wending wall
  30. Evil

March 2015

  1. Future great dead people
  2. Abelian
  3. Stick figures on the Holodeck
  4. But everyone knew her as Nancy
  5. Trails
  6. Goodnight moon
  7. Lush life
  8. Superman is listening
  9. Open source
  10. Less is more
  11. NPCs on the Holodeck
  12. Equinoxious
  13. Trans-human
  14. Reality shift
  15. Soapmaking
  16. Two slices of pi
  17. How I love a crowd: Esthetics of poetry games and piems
  18. Pi day, 2015
  19. When responsibilities collide
  20. When belief systems collide
  21. There’s the rub
  22. Invisible walls
  23. Keep your eyes on the road
  24. Closings, part 2
  25. Closings, part 1
  26. The silent city
  27. Science fictions
  28. What’s in a name?
  29. Mr. Nimoy
  30. Mr. Spock
  31. The first thing we do, let’s kill all the MoCaps.

February 2015

  1. Your virtual body
  2. Antitribal
  3. The body electric
  4. Voting with your pain
  5. If only
  6. The whiteboard problem
  7. In palaces of future memories
  8. Let’s walk over here
  9. Holodeck server
  10. Their “Hamlet”
  11. A question of balance, part 4
  12. A question of balance, part 3
  13. A question of balance, part 2
  14. A question of balance, part 1
  15. Movie 43, revisited
  16. Precambrian Steampunk
  17. The room is broken
  18. Unique option for image search
  19. The future of travel
  20. Virtual dystopia, part 2
  21. Virtual dystopia, part 1
  22. Virtual dystopias
  23. Valve demo, revisited
  24. A new pair of eyes to look through
  25. Influences
  26. Listen up!
  27. Zen and the art of interactive diagrams
  28. Over coffee with Mom
  29. Hello World!

January 2015

  1. Musical gestures
  2. Immortality for fun and profit
  3. The curious incident
  4. Slippery slope
  5. Time-out
  6. Running in VR
  7. Battling APIs
  8. Hologrammatical errors
  9. Virtual irony
  10. Dipping a toe in the water
  11. Dedication
  12. Old notebook
  13. Product placement
  14. To bcc or not to bcc
  15. Dream job
  16. 26 letters/a shape hidden in haiku/a conversation
  17. Haiku: zen
  18. Haiku: yourself
  19. Haiku: why xenophobia
  20. Haiku: secrets truth unbeliever verb
  21. Haiku: never one possibly quiet real
  22. Haiku: innocent jellyfish kindness love mine
  23. Haiku: experience fun god human
  24. Haiku: chance desire
  25. Haiku: beauty
  26. Haiku: adulthood
  27. Postmodern design for the coming virtual age
  28. Physiology and mind
  29. In the year 75015151057
  30. -10+9*8-7+654*3-2*1
  31. An odd little stretch of time

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