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December 2022

  1. Code encounters of the third kind
  2. The last question
  3. Talking to computers
  4. Notable deaths
  5. A day off
  6. Jews and Christmas
  7. Chocolate
  8. Robot with cocktail
  9. Some judgment
  10. No judgment
  11. What didn’t happen
  12. Future blog
  13. Somebody saw this coming
  14. A bunch of bananas
  15. A good day for birthdays
  16. A gift
  17. Future energy
  18. Wednesday
  19. Future creatives
  20. Paint by talking
  21. Happy birthday Emily
  22. Time and distance
  23. Situational kinship
  24. A I. assistant
  25. Shocked, shocked
  26. Teaching computer graphics
  27. A beautiful thing
  28. Search photos
  29. World building
  30. New month, new possibilities

November 2022

  1. This just in
  2. Tessering through the wardrobe
  3. Three words
  4. Why and how
  5. Celebrations
  6. Primary source material
  7. Universal dates
  8. Fibonacci day
  9. No class on Thursday
  10. Character arc
  11. The Cat in the Rap
  12. Disappointed
  13. Design spec
  14. Analogies
  15. A flower
  16. Scale
  17. Overreach
  18. RedCom
  19. Doors
  20. A bottle of wine
  21. Rings of silicon
  22. Liminal space
  23. Complicated
  24. Alien eyes
  25. Cut / paste
  26. Thanos
  27. Fiction in education, part 2
  28. Fiction in education, part 1
  29. Story structure
  30. November is the staging month

October 2022

  1. Good news
  2. Logical
  3. The day it all started
  4. Beautiful math
  5. Getting better
  6. Dinosaurs
  7. Ego death reconsidered
  8. Future actor mixtures
  9. Ceremony
  10. Unjustified
  11. Initial confusion
  12. Bela Lugosi
  13. Diagrams
  14. Future social media stream
  15. Updating history
  16. Reordering Wikipedia history, part 3
  17. That play you know by heart
  18. Coarse to fine
  19. Reordering Wikipedia history, part 2
  20. Reordering Wikipedia history
  21. Only Connect
  22. Theater and likability
  23. Hongul
  24. Three plays in one day
  25. Everyday robots
  26. Programming the world
  27. Moving books
  28. Space Age in old age
  29. Exotic words
  30. Reality apps
  31. Infinitely distant

September 2022

  1. Last day of the month
  2. The third explanation
  3. Why VR?
  4. Count your blessings
  5. Off switch
  6. Rings of She-Hulk
  7. Retcasting
  8. Games and stories
  9. Physically gathering
  10. Birthday boys
  11. What foods these morsels be
  12. Hate comments
  13. Blurring the lens
  14. State of egg
  15. Hindsight
  16. Keep going
  17. Random notes on paper
  18. Breathless
  19. Slashdot
  20. Trauma
  21. HBHD
  22. Scrolling back during a Zoom meeting
  23. Identity, part 2
  24. Widget Wednesdays #34
  25. Identity, part 1
  26. 3D printer
  27. Narcissist
  28. Accessing a car
  29. Chrome at 14
  30. New beginnings

August 2022

  1. Call from the tip line
  2. Mary Shelley
  3. Cleaning the apartment
  4. Conversations with self
  5. A powerful day
  6. Judith Durham
  7. Title phrase
  8. Widget Wednesdays #33
  9. Virtual art gallery
  10. Vodka ice pops
  11. Stinkoscope
  12. Roborista
  13. Metaversal, part 6
  14. Metaversal, part 5
  15. Widget Wednesdays #32
  16. Metaversal, part 4
  17. Metaversal, part 3
  18. Metaversal, part 2
  19. Metaversal, part 1
  20. Post conference post
  21. Last day of Siggraph
  22. No Widget Wednesdays
  23. Tron parties
  24. 8/8/22
  25. Location alarm
  26. Whales swimming serenely through the air
  27. Day of preparation
  28. High wire act
  29. Widget Wednesdays #31
  30. Magic lantern
  31. On this day in history
  32. Four letter fish

July 2022

  1. Rocket Man
  2. Implicit and explicit house rules
  3. Words I don’t know
  4. Widget Wednesdays #30
  5. Constitutional amendment, part 4
  6. Consitutional amendment, part 3
  7. Constitutional amendment, part 2
  8. Constitutional amendment, part 1
  9. Deionization
  10. Cool use of noise
  11. Widget Wednesdays #29
  12. Hottest day ever
  13. Into the marketplace
  14. Definitions
  15. Shoeless Joe
  16. 42
  17. Showing code / editing code
  18. Widget Wednesdays #28
  19. Looking at the stars
  20. Simplify, then simplify again
  21. Visual problem solving
  22. Sleep
  23. Late Breaking News
  24. Doing versus showing
  25. Widget Wednesdays #27
  26. Useful anger
  27. Celebration?
  28. A thought after watching a play
  29. Upon finishing the project
  30. Brick by brick

June 2022

  1. Future vision
  2. Widget Wednesdays #26
  3. Ketchup
  4. Birthdays
  5. Pride
  6. Theocracy
  7. Future lament by Clarence Thomas
  8. My flying car
  9. Widget Wednesdays #25
  10. HBJPS
  11. Interesting parallel
  12. Juneteenth
  13. You say it’s your birthday
  14. Some thoughts
  15. Time market
  16. Widget Wednesdays #24
  17. Two hundred years ago today
  18. Radical asymmetry
  19. Humor
  20. The only thing absolutely necessary for theater
  21. Exploring the attic
  22. That song in the musical
  23. Widget Wednesdays #23
  24. Life stream
  25. Not acting your age
  26. Talking about the future
  27. Defective / invective
  28. National Doughnut Day
  29. Days of future past
  30. Widget Wednesdays #22

May 2022

  1. Ken's Blog
  2. Cosmic joke
  3. Tanks but no tanks
  4. Stranger Things, season 4
  5. From bad to verse
  6. The Bible, The Bard and The Beatles
  7. Widget Wednesdays #21
  8. Simple is good
  9. Future public transport
  10. The utility of pets
  11. Grateful
  12. Stranger than Stranger than Fiction
  13. Interactive-lite
  14. Widget Wednesdays #20
  15. Ideas in dreams
  16. Bingeing
  17. Faces
  18. One-to-one correspondence
  19. Kinesthetic reality
  20. Kingmaker
  21. Widget Wednesdays #19
  22. Births but not deaths
  23. Reviewing old posts
  24. Private conversations in public
  25. Existential asymmetry
  26. Future eye contact
  27. Purple crayon
  28. Widget Wednesdays #18
  29. Computers and art
  30. Orphan no more
  31. STtNG
  32. Theater twice

April 2022

  1. Parallel
  2. In praise of deadlines
  3. Widget Wednesdays #17
  4. Future subjective time
  5. A great day for invention
  6. Arts and crafts
  7. Direct brain interface and future language
  8. Thinking about thinking
  9. All the smarts of a doorknob
  10. Widget Wednesdays #16
  11. After a good day of programming
  12. Complicit and impolitic
  13. Like a door opening
  14. That’s why it’s called hardware
  15. Future restaurant trip
  16. VR fractals
  17. Widget Wednesdays #15
  18. New phrases
  19. Song lyrics
  20. Who knows
  21. Tossed around like salad
  22. In-person meeting
  23. All the difference
  24. Widget Wednesdays #14
  25. People as data
  26. The world will be too much with us
  27. Future homepage
  28. Just a little bit of programming
  29. April 1

March 2022

  1. Flashcard strategies
  2. Widget Wednesdays #13
  3. Old phones and Zoom
  4. American Beauty
  5. Migrating from feature to structure
  6. The Casablanca problem
  7. Like that scene from Bugsy
  8. Working from a coffee shop
  9. Widget Wednesdays #12
  10. Vocabulary
  11. Future meeting
  12. Virtual vacation
  13. In praise of long flights
  14. When will it no longer matter where you are?
  15. Words that aren’t
  16. Widget Wednesdays #11
  17. Classics
  18. Talking titles
  19. Great theater
  20. Gathering your toys
  21. Two years
  22. No good deed goes unpunished
  23. Widget Wednesdays #10
  24. Mooz
  25. Spelling Bee
  26. DIY version control
  27. What you keep
  28. Face to face
  29. Because the world has changed
  30. Widget Wednesdays #9
  31. The mystery of Web pages and emails
  32. Useful idiots, part 3

February 2022

  1. Useful idiots, part 2
  2. Useful idiots, part 1
  3. Visceral
  4. Tragic
  5. Widget Wednesdays #8
  6. Multiple projects
  7. Topological
  8. 2202022
  9. Better tools
  10. On the internet…
  11. Overheard in an elevator
  12. Widget Wednesdays #7
  13. Infinitely stupid
  14. Valentines to technology
  15. Gamified
  16. The minimal example
  17. Scientific methods
  18. Garden Party
  19. Widget Wednesdays #6
  20. New media vs old media
  21. Future house, with glasses
  22. Best of both worlds
  23. The future of travel
  24. Zoom etiquette
  25. Psych
  26. Widget Wednesdays #5
  27. In praise of the post office

January 2022

  1. Tap and go
  2. Future theater
  3. Company
  4. The metaphysics of books
  5. Barriers to learning programming
  6. Widget Wednesdays #4
  7. Iconic theater posters
  8. Infinitely better
  9. Links to galleries
  10. Non-colocated Olympics
  11. Creating a pitch
  12. Designing for non-existent hardware
  13. Widget Wednesdays #3
  14. Reversal
  15. Two birthdays
  16. First you make it, then you figure it out
  17. E-Turtles
  18. Second order games
  19. Bad art day
  20. Widget Wednesdays #2
  21. The luxury of daily blogging
  22. Dates that come up in art
  23. Funny plurals
  24. Physical prototyping
  25. Limitations
  26. January 6
  27. Widget Wednesday #1
  28. Virtually on-line
  29. HBJRRT
  30. Morning coding
  31. 10*9*8+7+6+5+4*321
  32. Doubly obscure

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December 2021

  1. Reality filter
  2. Useful mistakes
  3. Fungible
  4. Biopics and reality
  5. The idea of movies
  6. Webb page
  7. T-minus one day
  8. We tell ourselves stories in order to live
  9. First Site
  10. Sadly
  11. Precisely imprecise
  12. Road trips
  13. Department of stupid questions
  14. MCRR readiness
  15. Note to self
  16. Cleaning house
  17. In the back of your mind
  18. Monte Carlo stars
  19. 11 minutes
  20. Answers to the puzzle
  21. RIP Nez
  22. Math in flight
  23. During a conversation
  24. Puzzle
  25. What they didn’t say in Dune
  26. Dune
  27. Entropy
  28. Phone coverage as a 3D shape
  29. The Monroe contradiction
  30. Unrepentient
  31. A slippery slope

November 2021

  1. Tessering through the wardrobe
  2. Hybrid reality
  3. Sondheim
  4. Franksgiving
  5. Mixed emotions
  6. Working demo
  7. Strategic thinking
  8. Long term goal
  9. Reenactment
  10. Four birthdays
  11. A good interface principle
  12. From bad to verse
  13. Operating manual
  14. Remember to breathe
  15. Understanding
  16. Sci-fi and magic
  17. WMD
  18. Creative joy is infectious
  19. Augmented reality and street crime
  20. The irony of autumn
  21. Noses
  22. Convergent avatars
  23. Juanita knew better
  24. Acquisitive vs inquisitive
  25. Demo day
  26. King Tut revisited
  27. Brainstorming
  28. Passion
  29. The Waist Land
  30. Widgets

October 2021

  1. John Carmack’s notes
  2. Fashionable research
  3. Chocolate day
  4. Kindergarten
  5. Profits over people
  6. Seasons
  7. Waking up early
  8. Life stream
  9. Elephant
  10. Hybrid
  11. Good day’s work
  12. Redefining words
  13. Dealing with reality through unreality
  14. The end of trivia contests
  15. Troll Hunters
  16. Bureaucracy
  17. The long lens of history
  18. Student demos
  19. Thoughts while coding
  20. A kind of poetry
  21. Dream search
  22. Recording dreams
  23. Reverse engineering
  24. When are we not “here”?
  25. Something old / something new
  26. Late to the party
  27. And then there are
  28. Day off
  29. Nick and Nora
  30. Not bad for a calendar day

September 2021

  1. Sunset
  2. The perils of architecture
  3. Levels of reality
  4. Those moments
  5. Breaking the fourth wall
  6. Amusement park rides
  7. Magic in the real world
  8. Harry Potter and the future of user interfaces
  9. Reading group
  10. The song that makes you cry
  11. The worst days
  12. Today’s super power
  13. Objective versus subjective experience
  14. Connecting levels of engagement
  15. Programming as storytelling made easy
  16. Programming as storytelling
  17. Prerecorded
  18. Deeper
  19. Soundtracks
  20. Anniversary
  21. Questions
  22. Unpacking procedural shaders
  23. In person and maskless
  24. Levels of non-presence
  25. Happy birthday R.M.P.
  26. Things going virtual
  27. Too much power
  28. Height
  29. Encyclopedia
  30. The winds from other storms

August 2021

  1. Thresholds of ridiculous
  2. Flight
  3. Scaling up
  4. Before the cover version
  5. Life is a fractal
  6. Virtual preservation
  7. Virtual projection inflection point
  8. I couldn’t resist
  9. Virtual and real travel
  10. If dinosaurs, continued
  11. Replace one day
  12. With love and a fiction
  13. If dinosaurs
  14. Miniature train neologism, part 2
  15. Miniature train neologism
  16. Personalities and species
  17. Fitness function
  18. Obvious question of the day
  19. A really expressive Martian
  20. Looking forward
  21. Real Year Live
  22. Real Time Live
  23. Being there
  24. Blended editor
  25. Different kinds of blended reality
  26. H30BWWW
  27. Life is what happens
  28. An august event
  29. Uncertainty
  30. Fastest human
  31. The last 5%

July 2021

  1. New computer
  2. Personal pop song production
  3. Turning on a dime
  4. The economics of time travel
  5. Dipping a toe
  6. Your commercial
  7. Inside and outside the box
  8. Origin story
  9. Paradigm shifts
  10. Click to enter
  11. Entropy
  12. With apologies to Robert Browning
  13. Fixing the bug
  14. Economic shift
  15. Sometimes
  16. Beautiful flowers
  17. Future sports
  18. Virtual pets
  19. Hospitals
  20. Post-physical jewelry
  21. Encyclopedic
  22. Quote and intention
  23. Virtual coffee shop
  24. Objective and subjective time
  25. Prototypes and the general case
  26. Fireworks
  27. Future note-to-self
  28. Orange
  29. Previously owned
  30. Three parts of software development
  31. 2D versus 3D

June 2021

  1. Making plans
  2. Future interior design
  3. Train of thought
  4. Special knowledge
  5. Some days
  6. Genotype / phenotype
  7. New toys
  8. Giving demos
  9. Almost like…
  10. Why do songs work?
  11. Revisiting old songs
  12. Summer days
  13. Restaurants versus cooking at home
  14. Multiple deadlines at once
  15. The human mind
  16. simplicity X power = constant
  17. The thing that you don’t know
  18. Strange weather
  19. Sweet Tooth
  20. The odd pace of software development
  21. Loki
  22. Programmum non nocere
  23. Architect birthdays
  24. Virtual tall ceilings
  25. LOTR spinoff idea #147
  26. Symmetry
  27. Reemergence
  28. Retrospective
  29. The company of strangers
  30. Designing for future hardware

May 2021

  1. Future gestural language
  2. As Voltaire never said
  3. Words and music
  4. Customized Web views, continued
  5. Customized Web views
  6. Coming out of the cave
  7. Everybody knows (even if they don’t)
  8. Space and motion
  9. Visualizing narrative
  10. Rewatching a favorite TV series
  11. Precision economy
  12. Blurring the distinction
  13. Normal tourist visit
  14. Happy accidents, part 3
  15. Happy accidents, part 2
  16. Happy accidents, part 1
  17. Be careful how you pronounce things
  18. The Pandemicon
  19. Alternating real and virtual meetings
  20. A Limerick for Edward Lear
  21. Polishing
  22. Enjoy all your Mondays
  23. Three letter names, part 3
  24. Bump textures
  25. Three letter names, part 2
  26. PhD defense
  27. Three letter names
  28. May the fourth be with you
  29. Revisiting, revisited
  30. Convergent recursion
  31. Chocolate

April 2021

  1. Collaborating with yourself
  2. Finding old code
  3. What Zoom is better at
  4. Editing an email after sending it
  5. Fonts with personality
  6. first_name|title|default
  7. Big Bang binge books
  8. Asymmetric interfaces
  9. Meetings in real and virtual space
  10. Learning and VR
  11. Greek alphabet
  12. Crossover
  13. Deepest
  14. Deeper
  15. Two scientists walk into a bar
  16. Smart clay
  17. Total recall
  18. Text in the air
  19. Moving a fridge
  20. Lazy day
  21. On-line conference jury
  22. Harry and Marv
  23. What question are you asking?
  24. One hour a day
  25. The state of ice cream
  26. Sometimes
  27. The tricky part
  28. Wireless brain interface
  29. Talking about science
  30. Redirected coffee

March 2021

  1. Future furniture
  2. Virtual pets
  3. Exceptions to the rule
  4. Hidden commercial agenda indicator
  5. Reality haiku
  6. Writing workshop
  7. Production versus research
  8. Imagining future teaching
  9. Trains, planes and automobiles
  10. Negative space
  11. Early days for immersive media
  12. Orion
  13. Original earworms
  14. What to do when the clouds part
  15. Emotion recollected in tranquility
  16. Data mining for everyone
  17. The rule of 1 + 3
  18. 3.14 2021
  19. Fibonacci day
  20. One year
  21. You are you
  22. Karma is a boomerang
  23. Entering the movie
  24. Visual music
  25. Holographical
  26. After WandaVision
  27. Seeing eyes
  28. Zoning out in future extended reality
  29. Math coding versus art coding
  30. Demos from the future
  31. Future cool shades

February 2021

  1. It may look like a walnut
  2. Fractal presentations
  3. Apps between us in reality
  4. Apps between us in Zoom
  5. Stuff between us in Zoom
  6. Reality distortion field
  7. Relaxation and productivity
  8. Bingeing all the versions
  9. The rule of banana
  10. Future imperfect
  11. Future perfect
  12. Mix and match movies
  13. After the proposal is submitted
  14. A proposal is like a house
  15. Mindfulness
  16. In-between day
  17. Future weather
  18. H.B. T.A.E.
  19. Visible and invisible
  20. Beyond The Mandalorian
  21. In a state
  22. In praise of WandaVision
  23. Animated t-shirt
  24. Zoom hair
  25. Pi moment
  26. First class
  27. Party talk as scientific instrument
  28. Soul inspiration

January 2021

  1. The real test, reconsidered
  2. The real test
  3. VR Zoom backgrounds
  4. Number of clicks
  5. Future stuff
  6. Creative marketing
  7. Future bots
  8. Odd parallels
  9. Week notes
  10. Conflict management
  11. Reality buttons
  12. Troll-less
  13. Inauguration
  14. Democracy in action
  15. Day without a phone
  16. The company of strangers
  17. Text in the air
  18. Birthdays and the nature of historical time
  19. Zoom breaks
  20. Starting with birthdays
  21. Capital baby names
  22. Scaffolded learning
  23. Issues with 1.5D
  24. Issues with 2.5D
  25. Deadly clown convention
  26. Storming the barricades
  27. 2.5D
  28. Unexpected political outcomes
  29. Nostalgia
  30. Palindromic month
  31. 10*98+765*4/3+21

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December 2020

  1. Future coding in VR
  2. Collaborative design by coding
  3. Green tree irony
  4. TV commercials
  5. The question in question
  6. Crazy rich
  7. Birthdays today
  8. Multicultural language
  9. Low level optimization
  10. Conjunction
  11. Best comeback ever
  12. When product placement goes wrong
  13. Music in a dream
  14. 24 hours
  15. No commute blues
  16. Optimal emotional variance
  17. Jewelry shop
  18. Breakout room
  19. Accidental mnemonic
  20. 50 states
  21. Systems
  22. Magical robots
  23. Future pencil
  24. Here and there
  25. Irony
  26. Keywords
  27. Museums for dogs
  28. Future crafts
  29. Schoenberg
  30. Madness
  31. Toy store
  32. Xmas filter

November 2020

  1. Little random notes
  2. Watching old movies
  3. If people were animals
  4. Misgivings on Thanksgivings
  5. Future educational assets
  6. A good start
  7. Future physical appearance
  8. Time management
  9. A tree
  10. Working backward
  11. Change
  12. how often
  13. Dog gossip
  14. Backlash
  15. Forbin 66
  16. Brevity
  17. Democracy
  18. Virtual assistants
  19. Rules and tools
  20. Eviction notice
  21. BPD and ACE
  22. Future Zoom
  23. My new favorite number
  24. Yay!
  25. In the balance
  26. Waiting to exhale
  27. Fingers crossed
  28. Decisive moments
  29. two haiku about you
  30. Two kinds of immersion

October 2020

  1. Reflecting on mirrors
  2. Asymmetry and future teaching
  3. Tooth hurty
  4. Designing a virtual house
  5. Streisand reconsidered
  6. People who need people
  7. If you found a world
  8. Logical conclusion of audio-only MR
  9. Future seeing versus future hearing
  10. Beat pasta
  11. The gifting of physical objects
  12. USB-C
  13. tea in the morning
  14. Virtual furniture store
  15. Invisible friends
  16. Quest 2
  17. Beyond faces
  18. Portable rooms
  19. Movable walls
  20. Walt, Frank and Steve
  21. Being Mr. Collins
  22. How can they tell?
  23. Suppose everyone could program
  24. Good mood pill
  25. Were movies inevitable?
  26. Places in future reality
  27. Systems thinking
  28. LSMFT, part 1
  29. Sketchpad
  30. The problem with economic models

September 2020

  1. Dogwhistling
  2. Virtually expressed ethnicity
  3. The wisdom of kitchens
  4. Political signage
  5. Immersion and interactive narrative
  6. Chillaxing
  7. Old fashioned pixels
  8. Video pass-through
  9. Court fight
  10. The haiku of absurdity
  11. Productivity unplugged
  12. That movie
  13. Socially distanced fitness
  14. Ad oculos
  15. Seatbelts
  16. The film that got everyone arguing in the lobby, part 1
  17. Chocolate shake
  18. Enter title here
  19. Coffee with Fred
  20. Virtual Burning Man
  21. Virtual time zones
  22. Realism versus immersion
  23. Back to back meetings
  24. Reality reversal
  25. Superpresence
  26. Construction
  27. Trollhunters!
  28. Past visions of the future
  29. The metaphysics of Guys and Dolls
  30. Mashups of musicals
  31. First day of the month!

August 2020

  1. Last day of the month
  2. The rhythm of names
  3. Birthday parties
  4. Repurposing a quote
  5. Great quote
  6. Bits and pieces of the future
  7. Some things are the same
  8. Sharing a drink remotely
  9. The defining question
  10. Future house materials
  11. Friday
  12. Sorry to see you go
  13. Aspirational
  14. Creating your world
  15. Seeing a movie again
  16. Folded house
  17. Speaking fast
  18. Beyond the constraints of physical reality
  19. Immersive Zoom backgrounds
  20. Looking up a phrase
  21. Nostalgia for nostalgia
  22. The view outside your window
  23. Invited talks during a pandemic
  24. Notes on prototyping
  25. Meaningful looking fake data
  26. Typing
  27. Full moon over water
  28. Mindfulness
  29. New beginnings
  30. Oklahoma, part 3
  31. Oklahoma, part 2

July 2020

  1. Oklahoma, part 1
  2. Real life
  3. VR script
  4. Sheltering at home in a post-screen world
  5. Bringing creation tools into teaching
  6. If technology were not the limiting factor
  7. This is a time machine
  8. Toppling statues
  9. Mood pill
  10. Border closing
  11. Five second delay
  12. Whether weather
  13. Productively off balance
  14. Rhythm artists
  15. Living near but not within cities
  16. Moving away from cities
  17. Relationship between physical and virtual
  18. Continuity
  19. Outsider culture
  20. Just one question
  21. How rich is a day
  22. Listening to songs in my head
  23. Appliances in a virtual world
  24. Superpowers for a socially distanced world
  25. Scifi that anticipated this
  26. If the mask fits, wear it
  27. Fifth of July
  28. Long distance friendships in a pandemic
  29. Remembering Alan Brady
  30. The size of virtual objects
  31. Turning corners

June 2020

  1. That kind of month
  2. Elly Stone
  3. Original quote of the day
  4. Predictions
  5. Future virtual physical presence
  6. Focus and recenter
  7. House plan
  8. Probability machine
  9. Almost like being there
  10. Father’s day
  11. Long day, short post
  12. Juneteenth
  13. Walt Disney was right
  14. Cars, reconsidered
  15. LGBT
  16. Virtual talks and panels
  17. Everybody works from home
  18. Sometimes
  19. Happy accidents
  20. When science fiction becomes reality
  21. Political shift
  22. Huge porpoises
  23. Work from fury, work from peace
  24. Accessing our inner voice
  25. Visiting a hospital during the pandemic
  26. The consequences of universal augmented reality
  27. Upload
  28. The subversion of peaceful protests
  29. Question of the day
  30. Disinfectant

May 2020

  1. The most valuable real estate
  2. Future Shakespeare
  3. Acknowledge truth
  4. When everyone has a Holodeck
  5. An ethical quandary
  6. Giving an invited talk on-line
  7. Clouds
  8. On-line theater
  9. A good day
  10. Rediscovering
  11. Leapfrogging
  12. Cool image
  13. Quantifying presence
  14. Virtual Cafés
  15. Virtual restaurants, part 2
  16. Virtual restaurants
  17. The beauty of restaurants
  18. Turn off your phone
  19. Future movie actors
  20. Predicting what will change
  21. A lovely evening in May
  22. Mind reading
  23. Eye contact
  24. The more you pay, the more it’s worth
  25. The delicate line
  26. Extended reality house
  27. Optimal emotional variance
  28. Recently at a bank
  29. Hodgepodge
  30. Weekends, virtual and otherwise
  31. Celebrating the physical

April 2020

  1. Watching the video of a Zoom meeting
  2. Rewatching “Raiders of the Lost Ark”
  3. Poem for a pandemic
  4. Essential chocolate
  5. If shoes could talk
  6. Virtual double date
  7. Virtually virtual
  8. Who are you talking to?
  9. Zoombies
  10. Economic shift
  11. How to make money in oil
  12. A sense of shared mission
  13. Coronawave
  14. Pour On The Utterly Stupid
  15. Will social distancing return us to the physical?
  16. Some days
  17. Developing tools for remote teaching
  18. Why are Rom Coms so appealing?
  19. Mutant Gardein burger package
  20. The Bob Newhart episode
  21. Cleaning a room
  22. Virtual afikoman
  23. What we will tell our children
  24. An evening walk
  25. Ads
  26. Future agoraphobia
  27. Topic of conversation
  28. If sheep could talk
  29. The age of prokaryotes
  30. April Fools Day

March 2020

  1. Memorization
  2. Text editor with robot
  3. Sonnet to recite while washing your hands
  4. HTML lite
  5. Lots of kitchens
  6. Social distancing
  7. Tugging on my ear
  8. Political calculation
  9. New tools for a new era
  10. Zoom wedding
  11. Recorded
  12. Putting limits around the virtual work world
  13. Virtual shopping cart
  14. Working without pants
  15. New skills
  16. Virtual meetings are now a thing
  17. Sign of the times
  18. After the road trip
  19. In Middle America
  20. Road trip
  21. Unprecedented
  22. Everyone is going home
  23. Realism in VR teleconferencing
  24. International Women’s Day
  25. Airports
  26. Jedi council
  27. Clever strategy
  28. Future object appearance
  29. Appearance modulation
  30. Dealing with the inner child
  31. First case
  32. End of an era

February 2020

  1. Inflection point
  2. In recent days
  3. Expired phone number
  4. The Mandalorian, considered formally
  5. A grasp of the future
  6. Non-human subjectivity
  7. Day off
  8. Future gestural interfaces
  9. Living on the edge
  10. Future personal info
  11. Teaching operational knowledge
  12. Operational knowledge
  13. A Midsummer Night’s Dream
  14. Thyme machine
  15. No Mandalorian spoilers
  16. Sketching on two sides of the brain
  17. Exercising in VR, part 2
  18. Exercising in VR, part 1
  19. My cool Future Reality Lab post
  20. Not nominated
  21. Political asymmetry
  22. Dark animation
  23. The talk before the talk
  24. Last episode
  25. Edible VR
  26. Animated sculpture
  27. 0202|2020
  28. Silver lining
  29. 50 words

January 2020

  1. Non-copresent beer
  2. Freedom from the tyranny of appearance
  3. Omnipedia
  4. Two and a half quotes
  5. The normal alien
  6. Thoughts while watching a play rehearsal
  7. Museums and emerging technologies
  8. Amtrak to Boston
  9. Speaking in code
  10. Vrogging
  11. Learned dad jokes
  12. Replicator ethics
  13. Like trying to tell a stranger about rock and roll
  14. Thinking like an immortal
  15. A bright and beautiful light
  16. Double negatives considered mathematically
  17. AR app store
  18. Extradimensional explorations
  19. When information is everywhere
  20. Future super powers
  21. Virtual pets
  22. Moments of simple joy
  23. Smile
  24. Future personal space
  25. The finer things in virtual life
  26. I am large, I consume multitudes.
  27. Coming soon, to a museum near you!
  28. Requiem for the future
  29. Little Women
  30. 10-9-8+7*65*4-3+210

2019 364

December 2019

  1. 2020 vision
  2. Future Reality and the 3dbb
  3. Communication technologies move into the body
  4. Opening notes
  5. Star Wars review
  6. When fantasy becomes an every day reality
  7. In days of the future
  8. Reflections on blinking
  9. What we like is what makes us work
  10. What world would you create?
  11. Practical question from the future
  12. 2020 vision
  13. Palindrome days
  14. Train of thought
  15. Song triggers
  16. Final class projects
  17. Magic Schoolbus as metaphor
  18. Voice with cello
  19. A new language for visual storytelling
  20. Mission statements
  21. Technology-independent advice
  22. A visit to the game company
  23. One week to go
  24. Shared Highly Immersive Reality Emulation
  25. Useful diegetic prototypes in Scifi
  26. Political joke in a dream
  27. Just put on the headset
  28. My poem in The New Yorker
  29. VR but not VR
  30. When things go right
  31. Cartoon VR
  32. Toon VR

November 2019

  1. Going for seconds
  2. Thanksgiving joke
  3. The day before Thanksgiving
  4. The Irishman
  5. Less is more, or something like that
  6. Seconds
  7. Dear readers
  8. Trusting your own instincts
  9. Look, a baby carrot!
  10. Calm reality
  11. Discomfiting connections
  12. Parallel worlds in parallel worlds
  13. Human minds in alien bodies
  14. Hanging out at different scales
  15. Cusp of a new phase
  16. Further research development
  17. Unexpected research development
  18. A kind of time machine
  19. 10 minute VR modeler
  20. Going for a walk in the Taj Mahal
  21. Walls
  22. The freedom of dreams
  23. Poem about love
  24. Nunchi (when empathy is not enough)
  25. Now I want to create worlds
  26. Never Metaroom I didn’t like
  27. Imagining the light bulb
  28. Getting work done away from work
  29. A new month

October 2019

  1. VR and Halloween
  2. The end of history?
  3. Successive approximations
  4. The kid has left the picture
  5. Lost in Rio
  6. Something I learned today
  7. Obligations
  8. Letter to a future friend
  9. Dynamic Duos
  10. Word choices
  11. 140 years ago today
  12. Airplane VR
  13. Lessons
  14. Everyday history
  15. Moral universe
  16. Pentimento
  17. Eucatastrophe
  18. The larger picture
  19. Missing the iguana
  20. Faërian Drama
  21. Alternate super heroes
  22. Dotage
  23. Lianas
  24. Little squiggles
  25. Writing about the future gig economy
  26. Soup of the day
  27. 75,000,000
  28. Electronic billboard
  29. Future circus
  30. A joke within a dream
  31. Ethics in technology isn’t easy
  32. Emotional arc

September 2019

  1. If Neanderthals and Denisovans had survived
  2. Browser drift
  3. Forgetting pill
  4. John Carmack at OC6
  5. OC6
  6. What a long strange trip it’s been
  7. A journey of a single step
  8. Time machine
  9. Microwave
  10. Upstream comedy
  11. Nine dates
  12. Sharpiegate, revisited
  13. Outer limits
  14. Lebesgue measure
  15. Calm before the storm
  16. Zom Com Rom Dram Qualm
  17. Stranger than Fiction
  18. No sweat
  19. Existential future reality question
  20. Bloop
  21. The glorious immersiveness of the ordinary
  22. Commercial VR storytelling outside the home, part 2
  23. Why commercial VR storytelling needs to start outside the home
  24. Outside London pubs
  25. Object permanence, or not
  26. Dudgeons and Flagons
  27. George and Leonard
  28. Palate cleanser

August 2019

  1. Forensic futurology
  2. Speaking up
  3. Super powers
  4. Puppies and kittens
  5. Conducting oneself
  6. Future dichotomy
  7. Four Weddings and a Discussion
  8. VR unchained
  9. Some decades from now
  10. text and subtext
  11. Greenland
  12. Geopolitics
  13. Inviting in the vampire
  14. Binary thinking considered harmful
  15. Today in L.A.
  16. Something really new
  17. The difficulty of doing nothing
  18. Postponing the trade war
  19. The movie that ruins the book
  20. Future movie production
  21. Puppet party
  22. Humor and suffering
  23. Money in the bank
  24. That sad moment
  25. Describing someone in a single sentence
  26. The time machine on the wall
  27. Categorically exceptional
  28. Flying in clouds
  29. One day in early August
  30. The future of the Web
  31. Geeking out at the Geek Bar
  32. VR, AR and beyond

July 2019

  1. Art paper presentation
  2. Closing thought
  3. Fast forward 2019
  4. Day before SIGGRAPH
  5. From Z to A
  6. Yellow pill
  7. We have always lived in multiple worlds
  8. Christiany
  9. Global cooling
  10. First person on the moon
  11. 50th Anniversary
  12. Only one more day
  13. Hypothetical question
  14. Human cuttlefish
  15. Tunesia
  16. Colorful blog post
  17. Thoughts on Bastille Day
  18. The answer is 42
  19. Manhattanhenge 2019
  20. rainy days
  21. words
  22. Spiderman VR game, then and now
  23. Future car stuff
  24. Flags
  25. and then we are lost
  26. After the Anthropocene
  27. Tanks but no tanks
  28. Future vision
  29. Future mirrors
  30. Over the top at Facebook
  31. Fiftieth anniversary

June 2019

  1. Sometimes it’s the little things
  2. That bad movie you enjoyed watching
  3. Imaginary t-shirts
  4. June 26
  5. The meta-language of corporate campuses
  6. Shades of meaning
  7. Such a scamp
  8. Cephalopod week
  9. They have cats
  10. Destiny
  11. Camps
  12. Father’s day, extended again
  13. Father’s day, extended
  14. Virtual remake
  15. Day of rest
  16. Flurry
  17. Dinner conversation
  18. Books as gifts
  19. Only those
  20. On the use of bad puns
  21. Algorithms and immortality
  22. Credit sequence
  23. Flashforward
  24. Comment in the New York Times
  25. Juggling plates
  26. Sufferage
  27. Demos from the future
  28. The liminal space between game and story
  29. Roswell agonistes
  30. On his birthday

May 2019

  1. 30 x 5 = 150
  2. The general relativity centennial blues
  3. Yes
  4. Kombucha, by any other name
  5. Conflict resolution haiku
  6. A challenge
  7. On a train, backward
  8. Hours in the day
  9. Notes on the incoming class
  10. The shoulders of giants
  11. Rhombic dodecahedral fun
  12. The fire this time
  13. Gentle with each other
  14. The wisdom of the Sun
  15. Reactionaries
  16. A Vindication of the Rights of Doris
  17. Return to childhood
  18. The better acronym
  19. A day of Shakespeare
  20. Designing future explanations
  21. Reentry
  22. What you realize
  23. Vast and various
  24. Pill game
  25. You take a moment
  26. Even if
  27. The Jedi and the Bumblebee
  28. Being nowhere
  29. Wandering Denisovans
  30. Happy Labor Day!
  31. Custom black t-shirt

April 2019

  1. Terse verse
  2. To a first approximation
  3. Hobnobbing with our fellow wizards
  4. CAVE at Tribeca
  5. D.S.A.
  6. Funny blog
  7. CG love song
  8. Earth Day
  9. Ability, choice and quantum theory
  10. D&D seder
  11. Kate Smith
  12. Beyond my Ken
  13. Future coding
  14. Our ideas will float in the air between us
  15. Notre Dame
  16. Keep looking at the mountaintop
  17. Sentences with split words
  18. Splitting up words
  19. Event horizon
  20. Seeing five years into the future
  21. Haiku haiku
  22. It hasn’t stopped me yet
  23. Five centuries dinner party
  24. The world revealed as an illusion, part 3
  25. The world revealed as an illusion, part 2
  26. The world revealed as an illusion, part 1
  27. Another superintelligence problem
  28. The superintelligence problem
  29. Early scientific influence

March 2019

  1. Chicago tiki bar
  2. That will not be a good thing
  3. Unnaturally giant and oddly intimidating
  4. The sun ain’t gonna shine anymore
  5. Writing down the problem
  6. We’re working on that
  7. Research ratio
  8. Art for nobody
  9. You never know
  10. True story
  11. Murder on the Orient Express, part 1
  12. 3.5D
  13. Explaining 4D rotation
  14. Dream people
  15. Captains Marvel
  16. Secret passageways and cabinets of wonder
  17. The writing is on the wall
  18. π
  19. Even younger
  20. Millennial baby
  21. Classic
  22. Octopedic arias
  23. Anatomically modern human fashion
  24. A fire extinguisher filled with kerosene
  25. Margana
  26. It’s official
  27. To our Children’s Children’s Children
  28. On the Threshold of a Dream
  29. Days of Future Past
  30. Come Saturday morning
  31. Cloudy planet breakdown, part 6
  32. Cloudy planet breakdown, part 5

February 2019

  1. Cloudy planet breakdown, part 4
  2. Cloudy planet breakdown, part 3
  3. Cloudy planet breakdown, part 2
  4. Cloudy planet breakdown, part 1
  5. Stanley Donen
  6. Just for fun
  7. Building the orange
  8. A case study in societal evolution, part 3
  9. A case study in societal evolution, part 2
  10. A case study in societal evolution, part 1
  11. Eating the future
  12. National emergency, part 2
  13. National emergency, part 1
  14. Emotional Subtitles index
  15. Cinematography and editing
  16. Unexpected art
  17. The Answer
  18. A kinship that transcends time and culture
  19. Time machine
  20. Whiteboards anywhere
  21. Whiteboard
  22. Fiction and survival of the species
  23. Standing on the edge of time
  24. The ordinary and the odd
  25. Proud of my country
  26. Hidden in plain sight
  27. Change in perspective

January 2019

  1. The new oil
  2. Why does Harry Potter work so well?
  3. How bad can Mixed Reality get?
  4. Frames
  5. Ascending algorithmically
  6. A conversation
  7. The connecting threads
  8. The usefulness of jet lag
  9. The best thing to think about
  10. International flight
  11. Portrait of a friend
  12. This evening, at a dinner party in Paris
  13. When I was twelve years old
  14. A temporally altered state
  15. Paris, rain, the moon was high
  16. Mystery mustache
  17. Cross currents
  18. A conversation, a document and a shout-out
  19. A magical day
  20. To love a person is to love a journey
  21. Three rabbis
  22. Something there is that doesn’t love a wall
  23. A piece of cake
  24. Back in the lab
  25. Winter snow haiku
  26. Building walls
  27. Document as machine
  28. Crossing the bridge
  29. Pop culture inflection points
  30. Technical language
  31. 10*9*8*7/6/5*4*3+2+1

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