The Curious Engineer

Ken's Blog

2023–2026

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October 2026

  1. Future XR glasses
  2. First build a prototype
  3. Fleeing to Miami
  4. The future of AI as a utility, part 2
  5. The future of AI as a utility, part 1
  6. Puzzles
  7. Quality of life
  8. On-line simulation
  9. Better heroes
  10. A lightbulb moment
  11. What is he really saying?
  12. Asking an A.I. rather than other people
  13. Virtual window
  14. The project is not completely yours
  15. Digital double
  16. Vibe vibing
  17. Oysters
  18. World Builder revisited
  19. Those who know, know
  20. Escaping into code
  21. Livestreaming an execution
  22. Ken's Blog
  23. Moral courage
  24. What he meant was…
  25. Computational colonialism
  26. The Our Town principle
  27. Tiny people
  28. Swapping stories
  29. My contest
  30. A new beginning

September 2026

  1. Only one project
  2. The simulation of the simulation
  3. Boundary conditions
  4. Classical musicals
  5. Repeated viewings
  6. Matrix order
  7. Jim Henson
  8. Tower of Babel
  9. Spelling errors
  10. Halloumi poem openings
  11. All the knowledge in the world
  12. The future
  13. Tune typing
  14. So much depends
  15. Politics
  16. The highest level programming language
  17. Emulation
  18. Rank
  19. 28 years later
  20. The ceremony downtown
  21. The one thing everyone could agree about
  22. A love-hate relationship
  23. Noise is everywhere
  24. Every once in a while
  25. The ladder of tools
  26. The frog in the pot
  27. Implicit
  28. Great Lakes
  29. Tools
  30. Slept

August 2026

  1. Who came first?
  2. Aesthetically terrifying
  3. The concert at Candlestick Park (8/29/66)
  4. Transform simulator
  5. Tim Curry
  6. Thought for the day
  7. Dolly Parton
  8. Enders Game, the documentary
  9. A virus is destroying our military
  10. From demo to tool
  11. A world of ray traced boxes
  12. AI and the future of montage
  13. Inbetween days
  14. The unfairness of time
  15. Internal and external worlds
  16. Magic in storytelling
  17. Successful failures
  18. Mirror mirror
  19. Remote versus in person meetings
  20. Formal presentations
  21. Moments of grace
  22. Ersatz
  23. In collaboration with A.I.
  24. A problem with AI conversation assistants
  25. Putting together a talk
  26. Soma cube, part 2
  27. Flat earth mystery
  28. Holographic Zoom
  29. If you could record everything that happens
  30. AI for students to check their work
  31. Who invented it first?
  32. Time capsule musical

July 2026

  1. Soma cube
  2. Post-digital
  3. No sense of decency
  4. In demos begin responsibilities
  5. The Odyssey
  6. A name for everything
  7. Productive illusions
  8. Productive
  9. Crosstown elephants go West
  10. Fate
  11. When things go unexpectedly right
  12. Electronic Theater
  13. Spain won
  14. Originalist casting
  15. The underlying message
  16. Mexican food
  17. Predictive A.I.
  18. A terrible mistake
  19. My program
  20. Uncle Miltie
  21. I changed only one detail
  22. A conversation at SIGGRAPH
  23. Proper attribution in chatbots
  24. Righteous anger
  25. Making tools
  26. Sheer stupidity
  27. Iago dies
  28. Celebrating July 4th
  29. After the push
  30. Where the learning happens
  31. The good news and the bad news

June 2026

  1. Beating the odds
  2. Programming without AI
  3. Two notable events
  4. A good start
  5. Triage mode
  6. Happy Birthday George Orwell
  7. When bad things happen
  8. Conservation of blue
  9. 100% Garbo
  10. Self-sabotage
  11. What makes “Groundhog Day” profound
  12. Juneteenth
  13. Darwinian
  14. A hypothetical question
  15. Meeting ourselves
  16. The average person
  17. Herpetology
  18. Graffiti removal
  19. DEIMAG, part 6
  20. DEIMAG, part 5
  21. DEIMAG, part 4
  22. DEIMAG, part 3
  23. DEIMAG, part 2
  24. DEIMAG, part 1
  25. My current plan
  26. Incentives, part 2
  27. Incentives, part 1
  28. Multitasking
  29. The future of science
  30. A good thing

May 2026

  1. Happy birthday Walt Whitman
  2. Math knows no borders
  3. Running riddle
  4. In praise of Courier font
  5. Stone soup
  6. The God deal
  7. Chatbots and Pong, part 2
  8. Chatbots and Pong, part 1
  9. A walk in the garden
  10. CBS got cancelled
  11. Your custom-made movie
  12. Infinite Improbability Drive
  13. Successful failures
  14. Happy birthday Bertrand Russell
  15. Misquote of the day
  16. WebGPU
  17. The Ides of May
  18. Elephant
  19. Five most favorite movies
  20. The right special guest
  21. Yummy chocolate bonbon
  22. AI detecting AI
  23. From doing to teaching
  24. Deconstruction
  25. Restoring wonder
  26. The real reason AI is dangerous
  27. Demoing the future
  28. A certain phrase
  29. Theater is forever
  30. Sorry about that Chief
  31. May 1
  32. Two birthdays

April 2026

  1. My Musical
  2. Economic models
  3. Precognition
  4. Mortality
  5. The original version
  6. Wisdom per word
  7. Dangerously wonderful
  8. Power and trustworthiness
  9. Gaming games
  10. Always, there must be risk
  11. Virtual coffee
  12. Blackout
  13. Hammering
  14. Some things that are true
  15. Frustrating
  16. Today I asked the students
  17. Doctored image
  18. Funeral
  19. New ideas
  20. The First Lady will now clarify
  21. One nice thing about VR
  22. Betty Crocker
  23. Monstrous
  24. Remembering names
  25. Bette Davis
  26. Programming after AI
  27. Sad coincidence
  28. Political posturing
  29. Happy birthday Apple!

March 2026

  1. Rock climbing as metaphor
  2. There is no such thing as pure VR
  3. Research focus
  4. No Kings Day 2026
  5. Donate those dollars
  6. Political satire
  7. YouTube is not a social media platform
  8. The unknown genius
  9. The price of sudden fame
  10. A rhyme about time
  11. Poll tax
  12. Holy crap!
  13. Uncanny
  14. It’s what’s left out that leaves us in
  15. Transcendence
  16. Day off++
  17. Pie day
  18. The Pi moment
  19. Dinosaur chess
  20. The long term effects of vibe coding
  21. 2D versus 3D
  22. The joy of precision
  23. PIE
  24. Hypothetically speaking
  25. WWIII
  26. Unconditional surrender
  27. The thing at the East Wing
  28. Talarico in 2028
  29. The proof that time travel is impossible
  30. Desert foxes
  31. Happy birthday Peace Corps

February 2026

  1. I wish I’d been wrong
  2. Sorcerer’s Apprentice
  3. Firing FBI agents
  4. Time for another distraction
  5. AI as theater
  6. Occam’s razor
  7. Snow day
  8. The Court’s ruling on tariffs
  9. 8.3M views and counting
  10. Happy birthday phonograph
  11. 6.8M views and counting
  12. Colbert’s interview of James Talarico
  13. Disney songs
  14. Happy birthday modern computer era
  15. Peering into the Foxiverse
  16. Friday the 13th
  17. Annotating your coffee
  18. My agent will talk to your agent
  19. The first shot across the bow
  20. The two sides of the AI question
  21. Handcrafted
  22. The wrong Disney movie
  23. Analogy
  24. Digital rectangles
  25. Seven very useful words in research
  26. “Not yet.”
  27. American Herstory
  28. $2500
  29. No news

January 2026

  1. Happy 101
  2. Bad movie / bad theater
  3. The umbrella scene
  4. The inverse law of efficiency
  5. The loss of faith moment
  6. A murder in Minneapolis
  7. In praise of setbacks
  8. Freedom is the absence of fear
  9. Clown show
  10. Two speeches
  11. Civilized
  12. MLK, part 2
  13. MLK, part 1
  14. Don’t hold your breath
  15. Doctors
  16. Green sky people
  17. Smart surfaces
  18. A great letter
  19. Industry Protection Agency
  20. That’s fine, dude I’m not mad at you.
  21. Vital statistics
  22. It’s not just the crime
  23. Renee Nicole Good
  24. Pure evil
  25. Anniversary
  26. A recovered childhood memory
  27. The zoo of exotic presidents
  28. I have a question
  29. Isaac Asimov
  30. 10+98*76-5432*1

2025 365

December 2025

  1. How big is Pam Bondi’s desk?
  2. Life lessons
  3. Demos
  4. Gemini
  5. Public Law 88-260
  6. Three episodes
  7. Reality
  8. December 24
  9. Pink people
  10. Ambiguous summary
  11. Winter solstice
  12. Pie shopping
  13. The cancer analogy
  14. Saki
  15. The silver lining
  16. ITP winter show
  17. Rob Reiner
  18. Coin of the realm
  19. Happy Birthday Dick Van Dyke
  20. An artist and an engineer
  21. How the universe works
  22. A font of foolishness
  23. The importance of dreaming
  24. The future of garages
  25. Blue Marble
  26. Existential threats
  27. Breakthrough
  28. Family planning
  29. Vibe coding menus
  30. Interoperability
  31. New month

November 2025

  1. Absurd coincidence
  2. Playground
  3. Cusp, part 3
  4. Cusp, part 2
  5. Cusp, part 1
  6. Legal is Illegal
  7. Gaussian blur
  8. Aptly named
  9. Protecting the Jews
  10. Updating applets
  11. Acceptance speech
  12. The right decision
  13. An AI summary
  14. From an airplane window
  15. The shutdown served its purpose
  16. Future skills
  17. Conservation of failure
  18. SNAP judgment
  19. Implosion
  20. The Central Park Metaphor, part 5
  21. The Central Park Metaphor, part 4
  22. Except
  23. Day with friends
  24. The Central Park Metaphor, part 3
  25. The Central Park Metaphor, part 2
  26. The Central Park Metaphor, part 1
  27. I guess we will find out
  28. Procedural storytelling
  29. Isn’t it ironic?

October 2025

  1. Halloween dentist
  2. Gazooks!
  3. Learning by teaching
  4. Raid on Old Irving Park
  5. Idiot ballroom
  6. Gaslighting
  7. A sad fact of life
  8. An old joke
  9. Nancy Pelosi has the right idea
  10. Unraveling
  11. Seven million, part 2
  12. Seven million, part 1
  13. Leigh Hunt
  14. Two things about weddings
  15. No kings
  16. Mayoral debate
  17. Two startling news items
  18. Free speech
  19. Columbus Day
  20. Nobel Peace Prize snub
  21. Preflight elevator ride
  22. Surrogates, revisited
  23. Happy birthday Hongul
  24. The highest honor
  25. Peacefood Cafe
  26. Futopia
  27. What do you do?
  28. Sutton’s Law
  29. Uncomfortable
  30. There is always a silver lining
  31. Logical conclusion

September 2025

  1. Building a talk
  2. A novel invention
  3. Flexibility
  4. It’s the stupidity
  5. Badge of honor
  6. Sometimes I forget
  7. Spanky and his gang
  8. What is important
  9. Opposite man
  10. Time travel story, part 2
  11. Time travel story, part 1
  12. The Madness of King George
  13. A good day
  14. Cancelled
  15. Transcription of presence, part 3
  16. Transcription of presence, part 2
  17. Transcription of presence, part 1
  18. A rational discussion
  19. Inverse law of travel distance
  20. Killing speech
  21. A day of mourning and reflection
  22. At sea
  23. Le mortel ennemi du bien
  24. Reading minds
  25. Strange possibilities
  26. Irony
  27. Those pesky numbers
  28. My favorite molecule
  29. Shades of meaning
  30. Body swapping service
  31. Finally
  32. Edifice complex

August 2025

  1. Stranger than fiction
  2. WebGL
  3. Silver lining
  4. Submarine warfare
  5. Happy birthday ChatGPT
  6. The obvious question
  7. Hogan’s Heroes
  8. Like desktop publishing
  9. Trolling the troll
  10. Future recording technology
  11. Reality is so Woke
  12. ogden nash
  13. Off switch
  14. Animal Farm
  15. Three steps
  16. It was sixty years ago today
  17. Filters
  18. The Gilded age, part 4
  19. The Gilded Age, part 3
  20. The Gilded Age, part 2
  21. The Gilded Age, part 1
  22. Meeting new people
  23. Ethical question
  24. Provenance and moon dust
  25. The silver lining
  26. Biff
  27. The menu analogy
  28. The second pandemic
  29. For the children
  30. A bold and decisive move
  31. Lula

July 2025

  1. A fun number game
  2. Book burning
  3. The Mortal Storm
  4. Tom Lehrer
  5. Sports team name
  6. Aliens on Earth, part 3
  7. Aliens on Earth, part 2
  8. Aliens on Earth, part 1
  9. How to make $10 billion
  10. CBS
  11. The excuse
  12. Speed
  13. CVI
  14. In the air
  15. There’s no gift like the present
  16. Memorize while you’re young
  17. Two A.I.s got to talking
  18. Icing Elmo
  19. Stranger than fiction
  20. After A.I.
  21. Branching out
  22. Superpower
  23. Cleaning house
  24. Life happens
  25. Rectangles
  26. Running around the tree
  27. Hit piece
  28. Don’t cross the boss
  29. The Uncle Miltie moment
  30. Dennis Moore, the documentary
  31. High school reunion, part 3

June 2025

  1. High school reunion, part 2
  2. High school reunion, part 1
  3. And spaghetti!
  4. Pirates!
  5. Mayor
  6. A case against A.I. art
  7. Heat wave
  8. Fantasia
  9. Jose Vance
  10. Today in technology
  11. Happy Juneteenth
  12. First they came…
  13. Innocent children
  14. Annotated reality
  15. The day after No Kings Day
  16. Notable birthdays today
  17. On the day before No Kings Day
  18. Poetic meter
  19. What we can do about it, part 4
  20. What we can do about it, part 3
  21. What we can do about it, part 2
  22. What we can do about it, part 1
  23. The illusion that everything is normal
  24. I did the math
  25. Little boys throwing tantrums
  26. Poetic Justice
  27. Thought for the day
  28. A house without walls
  29. One pixel over

May 2025

  1. A measure of grace
  2. House
  3. Intimations of immortality
  4. Another favorite quote
  5. It’s what you do with it.
  6. Memorial Day
  7. Harry Potter and the Stupid Title
  8. Commencement speakers
  9. Happy birthday Java
  10. Blood Libel
  11. Songwriters and name combinations
  12. Starter kit
  13. Monday songs
  14. I’m with Bruce
  15. Happy birthday Alan
  16. Reality as a simulation
  17. Recurring narrative pattern
  18. The missing word
  19. Two examples
  20. Happy birthday Mr. Lear
  21. A.I. classes
  22. The moment when it works
  23. Provenance, part 2
  24. Provenance, part 1
  25. Door code
  26. There’s nothing like a live audience
  27. At the planning committee meeting
  28. AI assisted stupidity
  29. What nobody seems to notice
  30. Because of things
  31. NSF grant terminations

April 2025

  1. Stillness
  2. Births and deaths
  3. Call me old fashioned
  4. He’s doing it to sell cars
  5. Asymmetry
  6. A scientific day
  7. Today’s question
  8. Drawing with code
  9. Do the math
  10. Autocorrect
  11. Absurdist performance art
  12. The most productive thing
  13. In the air
  14. Our relationship with words
  15. There is a lesson here.
  16. 2D and 3D
  17. Thank you Harvard
  18. Family
  19. By any means necessary
  20. The Musk diaries
  21. Habeas corpus
  22. Tom Lehrer
  23. Breaking news
  24. Due process
  25. Hands off!
  26. What’s at stake
  27. 50 years ago today
  28. My favorite TV show
  29. VR and movies
  30. The Onion

March 2025

  1. SWI
  2. John Astin
  3. Future poll
  4. Getting older
  5. Signal achievements
  6. DEI, part 4
  7. DEI, part 3
  8. DEI, part 2
  9. DEI, part 1
  10. Step, test, retreat
  11. AI, XR and furniture
  12. What happens if
  13. The irony of deadlines
  14. What would Socrates think?
  15. Crazy like a fox
  16. Annexation
  17. Late breaking news
  18. Albert Einstein
  19. 2500
  20. Five years later
  21. 28 presidents
  22. Malhuret’s speech
  23. The news
  24. Latent space, part 5
  25. Latent space, part 4
  26. Latent space, part 3
  27. Latent space, part 2
  28. Latent space, part 1
  29. Negative consequences
  30. The good guys and the bad guys
  31. Learning another language

February 2025

  1. Audio annotated objects
  2. Annotated objects
  3. Theater
  4. It’s the pathology, stupid
  5. Existentialism
  6. Orwellian doublespeak
  7. I already feel sorry for President Mills
  8. Efficiency
  9. The high price of eggs
  10. The Manchurian rattlesnake
  11. Hmmm…
  12. Protest
  13. Legalities
  14. Heroes and villains
  15. Cancer, part 2
  16. Cancer, part 1
  17. Two birthdays
  18. I wonder
  19. Stop the steel!
  20. A true patriot
  21. Hay King
  22. The best response
  23. A very special birthday
  24. Breaking news
  25. Fare beaters
  26. After you die
  27. Bob Roberts, the Sequel
  28. Evolution

January 2025

  1. Degrees of knowing
  2. Happy Birthday Doug Engelbart
  3. On the other hand
  4. The memo
  5. Different devices
  6. Hypothetical speaking
  7. Retired names
  8. Lucy
  9. Notes on an insane clown show
  10. Braunhemden
  11. Train to Busan
  12. Smart stupid robots, part 2
  13. Smart stupid robots, part 1
  14. Dictionary
  15. Birthday dinner game
  16. Minecraft in higher dimensions
  17. Absurdist tragedy
  18. Future chat
  19. Who is Dwight Schrute?
  20. Robots showing emotion, part 3
  21. Robots showing emotion, part 2
  22. Robots showing emotion, part 1
  23. Rummikub
  24. Noise revisited, part 6
  25. Noise revisited, part 5
  26. Noise revisited, part 4
  27. Noise revisited, part 3
  28. Noise revisited, part 2
  29. Noise revisited, part 1
  30. What are the odds?
  31. 10-9*87+65*43+2+1

2024 366

December 2024

  1. The first 500 digits of pi
  2. Reincarnation, revisited
  3. One foot in each world
  4. Frozen in amber
  5. Superfan
  6. Suze Rotolo, part 5
  7. Suze Rotolo, part 4
  8. Suze Rotolo, part 3
  9. Suze Rotolo, part 2
  10. Suze Rotolo, part 1
  11. Pop quiz
  12. Planning a project
  13. Rewatch
  14. Final projects
  15. Prospectus
  16. Birthday dinner party
  17. TalkingGPT
  18. Automat, part 2
  19. Automat, part 1
  20. Old friends
  21. Glass houses
  22. Pay by phone
  23. Ad absurdum
  24. Unintended consequences
  25. Never mind
  26. About 100
  27. Shooter rooters
  28. Dinosaurs
  29. Dinosaurs
  30. Pardon?
  31. Temporal insurance
  32. An ending and a beginning

November 2024

  1. Birthday boys
  2. To do is to be
  3. Ostensibly
  4. The evening before
  5. Let’s talk about sects
  6. Demon’s share
  7. Parallel realities
  8. A standard candle
  9. RIP Peter Sinfield
  10. Disclosure
  11. Crossover point
  12. TBTM
  13. A slice of pizza
  14. Time traveling with Nez
  15. Rule by Mafia
  16. What and where
  17. Spiderman
  18. Fascinated
  19. (Yet another) election post-mortem
  20. A glimpse into the future, part 3
  21. A glimpse into the future, part 2
  22. A glimpse into the future, part 1
  23. This time we’re doing it backwards
  24. Optimistic
  25. The hope
  26. Idiocracy
  27. The creep, part 8
  28. The creep, part 7
  29. The creep, part 6
  30. The creep, part 5
  31. The creep, part 4 (Halloween edition)

October 2024

  1. The creep, part 3
  2. The creep, part 2
  3. The creep, part 1
  4. Every day
  5. The mystery of theater
  6. Creating worlds
  7. Presentation software
  8. Teaching and storytelling
  9. Poem revisited
  10. Ghosts and donuts
  11. Happy Birthday Madam President
  12. Always two there are
  13. In flight
  14. When someone shows you who they are
  15. In the Fox house
  16. Gaze tracking
  17. Unorthobox
  18. In praise of conference workshops
  19. That made me very happy
  20. Swipe right
  21. The mystery of naps
  22. Hongul Day
  23. I see Mitt Romney’s point
  24. Our future relationship with genAI
  25. A day of programming
  26. Playwright
  27. Every failure is a lesson
  28. Today’s questions
  29. Something really useful
  30. Pets

September 2024

  1. Simplify, simplify, simplify
  2. The wisdom of children
  3. Technology and art
  4. Regarding inventions
  5. Harris economic plan
  6. Orion
  7. Trumbert Trumbert
  8. Memorizing
  9. Is and was
  10. Today’s post is a concept of a plan
  11. Star tech
  12. Happy Birthday Paul Williams
  13. Alternate title
  14. It must be challenging
  15. Everything is political
  16. Every day a universe
  17. Coopetition
  18. Printed tee shirt
  19. Student of life
  20. The grownup in the room
  21. Herbie Flowers
  22. Solar highway
  23. In The Fog
  24. Denier, denier, pants on fire
  25. For Robert M. Pirsig
  26. The irony of youth culture
  27. Yellow Submarine and AI
  28. Seasons
  29. Real world / virtual world
  30. Everything is an instrument

August 2024

  1. Disaster day
  2. In praise of old movies
  3. Power balance
  4. Unintentionally funny
  5. Programming Turing test
  6. A dream
  7. Making my bed
  8. Borges birthday
  9. My dad’s favorite poem
  10. Advice to young writers
  11. After a point
  12. Doing nothing
  13. Age scrolling
  14. Alain Delon
  15. Computer years
  16. Thought for the day
  17. Webb birthday
  18. Origin stories, part 2
  19. Origin stories, part 1
  20. Moon
  21. Bot-assisted conversation
  22. Search by remix
  23. Flying around the world
  24. Mood thermostat
  25. Another use for noise
  26. Good news today
  27. Stories with alternate words
  28. Alternate words
  29. Math + Art
  30. Hard to focus
  31. End of Siggraph
  32. Whither AI, part 3

July 2024

  1. Whither AI, part 2
  2. Whither AI, part 1
  3. Fast Forward 2024
  4. Coconut trees
  5. What I learned today about demos
  6. Order and chaos
  7. Fast forward
  8. Cautiously optimistic
  9. Soup of the day
  10. Late breaking news
  11. Lipstick on a pig
  12. Whole Foods
  13. Ageism
  14. Quote of the day
  15. The benefits of natural stupidity
  16. I think the fix is in
  17. Discretion
  18. When I’m Sixty Four
  19. Two kinds of literacy
  20. Cousins
  21. Research versus demo
  22. All my failures
  23. On the other hand
  24. Ginsburging
  25. Don’t Let SCOTUS OutVote Us
  26. Shirley Knight
  27. The last Independence Day
  28. Robert Towne
  29. King Joe
  30. Matrix order
  31. Last day of the month

June 2024

  1. Mickey
  2. Egg drop
  3. Local change search
  4. Analogy
  5. An invitation to collaborate
  6. A fresh outlook
  7. What Tolkien didn’t say
  8. Donald from Ellenville
  9. The 1,10,100 rule
  10. Donald Sutherland
  11. Juneteenth
  12. You could Google it
  13. A Gentleman’s Agreement
  14. The XR Singularity
  15. Circular doorways
  16. Computer birthdays
  17. If garages become portals
  18. It’s not just what you know
  19. Rush hour brain drain
  20. After chatbots
  21. Geography is destiny — or is it?
  22. Shakespeare and language
  23. Statistics
  24. Sherlock Holmes, computer scientist
  25. Time machine
  26. Shiny new toy
  27. The most productive thing
  28. I wonder if
  29. Future coffee machine

May 2024

  1. Pont Neuf
  2. Today’s verdict
  3. Weather modification
  4. Universal translator, sort of
  5. Extreme life logging
  6. Parallel open fifths
  7. Cross Reality
  8. On his birthday
  9. Patterns
  10. Songs that don’t rhyme
  11. Undetected earworm
  12. Good architecture
  13. Crowded
  14. Unlucky four
  15. Future privacy
  16. Phrases in songs
  17. Speakers
  18. Dinosaurs and robots
  19. From 2D diagrams to 3D simulations
  20. In praise of 2D diagrams
  21. Webb surfing
  22. Universal translator
  23. It was 50 years ago today
  24. Reincarnation on the silver screen
  25. XR and interactive animated characters
  26. Dune 2
  27. Non-corporate holiday ideas
  28. Ruining the fun
  29. Some food for thought
  30. Learning
  31. Happy birthday Peter Lax
  32. 180 degrees

April 2024

  1. Chinese restaurants
  2. Travel
  3. Movies that move the needle
  4. Happy birthday L.W.
  5. When the demo works
  6. Terminology
  7. Happy birthday W.S.
  8. Given what is going on
  9. Sometimes
  10. Passthrough, part 5
  11. Passthrough, part 4
  12. Passthrough, part 3
  13. Passthrough, part 2
  14. Passthrough, part 1
  15. Leonardo and the Two Cultures
  16. Whatever I do
  17. Cherish that
  18. Real-time AI
  19. I realized today
  20. Drawing in the air
  21. 40 Years an Eclipse
  22. Eclipse
  23. Pianoforte
  24. Thought for the day
  25. Theater of the Gods
  26. Wargames for the soul
  27. At a moment’s notice
  28. Guest writer
  29. Easter

March 2024

  1. The Phantom Premise
  2. Very simple
  3. Debugging with comments
  4. Sleepless sci-fi
  5. Life without sleep
  6. Walking faster
  7. We had one of those
  8. Look at the bright side
  9. Vernor Vinge
  10. Time machine
  11. Doing research
  12. Stinky tofu
  13. On accident
  14. Defensive music listening
  15. Resistance
  16. Super power
  17. Pie day
  18. AI you forever
  19. Eric Carmen
  20. AI audience
  21. Oscars 2024
  22. Wizard of Oz research
  23. The decisive advantage
  24. Future house design
  25. Preparing a presentation on a flight
  26. The Sorcerer’s broom
  27. Realism 101
  28. Instant knowledge
  29. Modern Turing test
  30. Fate, part 6
  31. Fate, part 5

February 2024

  1. Fate, part 4
  2. Fate, part 3
  3. Fate, part 2
  4. Fate, part 1
  5. The long arc of causality
  6. The Aha moment, part 10
  7. The Aha moment, part 9
  8. The Aha moment, part 8
  9. The Aha moment, part 7
  10. The Aha moment, part 6
  11. The Aha moment, part 5
  12. The Aha moment, part 4
  13. The Aha moment, part 3
  14. The Aha moment, part 2
  15. The Aha moment, part 1
  16. Music from the gods
  17. Darwin and Lincoln
  18. Red alert
  19. Last shot of The Fabelmans
  20. Necessary medicine
  21. Rhyme or reason
  22. Books++
  23. Sweatpants
  24. Exactly the opposite
  25. Physical museum, virtual art
  26. VR is film, XR is theater
  27. Actor blends
  28. Future choreography
  29. List of famous people

January 2024

  1. Hinton Battle
  2. What is real
  3. Conspiracy theories
  4. Three birthdays
  5. Irony
  6. Universal translator
  7. Happy birthday M0001
  8. The future of design
  9. Duality
  10. Journeys
  11. Opposite songs
  12. The real VR
  13. Getting to easy
  14. Loss
  15. Lost in translation
  16. Future story
  17. The recalcitrant math problem
  18. ChatGPMe
  19. Perception of beauty
  20. Jerome Bixby
  21. Jurassic twist
  22. Writing the Abstract
  23. Weisenbaum: deciding versus choosing
  24. After money
  25. Do over
  26. And yet
  27. Digital double
  28. Favorite Beatles Song
  29. The future of attention
  30. 10+9+8*7*6*5+4+321

2023 365

December 2023

  1. The real meaning of New Years
  2. Best advice ever
  3. Subtitle match game
  4. These early days of wonder
  5. Steve Martin, part 2
  6. Steve Martin, part 1
  7. Two days in one
  8. Guided tours
  9. Portable Skylight
  10. A glimpse into the future
  11. Diagrams in the air
  12. Meta movie moments, part 3
  13. Meta movie moments, part 2
  14. Meta movie moments, part 1
  15. Best quote
  16. First you need to build the house
  17. Reminders
  18. Computers dreaming
  19. On hold
  20. Faculty pizza
  21. XR, the higher bar
  22. The Lion King
  23. Virtual exercise
  24. Play reading++
  25. The iPhone of songs
  26. Objects with code
  27. Uncertain
  28. O’Connor and the Doctrine of Discovery, part 2
  29. O’Connor and the Doctrine of Discovery, part 1
  30. Enfolding
  31. Wondrous things
  32. Dynamic furniture

November 2023

  1. Deadlines
  2. Happy birthday William Blake
  3. Future board games
  4. A room with a view
  5. A.I. Etiquette, part 2
  6. A.I. Etiquette, part 1
  7. Sometimes four there are
  8. Always two there are
  9. Cold rainy days
  10. Immersion
  11. Happy feet
  12. Technological nostalgia
  13. Psychic cable
  14. Bodies
  15. Polishing
  16. Intentionality
  17. Why it is still a book
  18. Is it still a book?
  19. Sunsets
  20. Motivations
  21. Interactive textbook
  22. Productivity
  23. Vote
  24. Flow
  25. What I like about theater
  26. Why wait if you don’t need to?
  27. Now and Then
  28. Happy Birthday George Boole
  29. Visual music
  30. Virtual sculpture

October 2023

  1. Thought for the day
  2. Pet dragon
  3. If Harry Potter were a musician
  4. The doors of perception
  5. Future XR dinner
  6. Mornings and evenings
  7. My response to the teaching challenge
  8. Coding and generosity
  9. A measure of light
  10. Teaching challenge
  11. Live theater with XR
  12. I forgot my glasses
  13. Vision Quest
  14. Budget airline
  15. Collaborators
  16. The irony is not lost on me
  17. Friday the 13th
  18. Circumstance reveals character
  19. XR at home
  20. The dawn of the age of computer graphics
  21. Traveling by map, revisited
  22. A.I. augmented conversation
  23. A dream foreshadowing reality
  24. When everyone has one
  25. Glass spheres
  26. In a rational society
  27. 3D Puzzles
  28. The right move
  29. Future photos

September 2023

  1. Jim Dale was right
  2. Brief encounter
  3. Real magic
  4. Just because you’re lucky
  5. Familiar face
  6. Music
  7. Animated diagrams
  8. Clouds
  9. Tools for mixed reality
  10. Creators of worlds
  11. 50 year anniversary
  12. Poetry of Earth
  13. Flying cars
  14. AI in movies
  15. Today’s math
  16. Time haiku
  17. Whether weather
  18. Bug vacation
  19. Old people
  20. Sad day
  21. Brooklyn
  22. If every day
  23. The last line of the movie
  24. The day after sheer dumb luck
  25. Sheer dumb luck
  26. Juxtaposition
  27. Labor Day
  28. Shifts in reality
  29. The quantum nature of intelligence
  30. Thirty days has September
  31. September

August 2023

  1. Teaching computer graphics
  2. Helicopter
  3. Who is the creator of AI art?
  4. Comment from an AI
  5. Archaeological
  6. P01135809
  7. Face to face
  8. Future collaborative Generative AI
  9. One minute time-out
  10. Now I am become Life
  11. Electro-mechanical
  12. Self driving cars
  13. Volumized
  14. Mountains
  15. What would change?
  16. Travel by Costco
  17. Amortized productivity
  18. Plugged in at the beach
  19. Future sound track
  20. Day after Siggraph
  21. Last day of Siggraph
  22. Fourth Day of Siggraph
  23. Third day of Siggraph
  24. Second day of Siggraph
  25. First day of Siggraph
  26. Drunken sensors
  27. Stealing ideas from myself
  28. Worlds in miniature
  29. String theory
  30. Digital analog clock
  31. Sinéad and Paul

July 2023

  1. Epistemological scepticism
  2. Future recast
  3. Oldest known living critter
  4. Happy 101
  5. Parallels
  6. Lexical math, part 3
  7. Trivial pursuit
  8. Mix and match
  9. Newly updated guidelines
  10. Tony Bennett
  11. Lexical math, part 2
  12. Urban wisdom, entry #43
  13. The ethics of synthetic faces
  14. Extras
  15. Urban wisdom, entry #37
  16. Live orchestra
  17. A striking situation
  18. Just one thing
  19. Lexical math
  20. All the famous people
  21. The central mystery
  22. Social protocols
  23. Never forget anything
  24. Reality
  25. Flying the helicopter, part 4
  26. Flying the helicopter, part 3
  27. Flying the helicopter, part 2
  28. Flying the helicopter, part 1
  29. That particular detail
  30. My dream

June 2023

  1. So that happened
  2. More, not better
  3. Good morning kids
  4. Computer scientist in the family
  5. A stone’s throw
  6. Limerical lament
  7. Multiple wars
  8. Forgotten collaborations
  9. The golden age of science fiction
  10. Seasons
  11. Early days
  12. Juneteenth
  13. Birthday tribute
  14. Bad grammar
  15. New look
  16. Future face to face conversation
  17. Deleted
  18. Out of this world
  19. Little plastic dinosaurs
  20. A.I. in education
  21. Future nostalgia
  22. Animation as philosophy, part 2
  23. Animation as philosophy, part 1
  24. Barry-centric coordinates
  25. Categorical
  26. Real-life replicator
  27. Life and death
  28. Tradeoff
  29. When all the world’s in tune
  30. Time is relative
  31. Life and death decisions

May 2023

  1. DIY
  2. Alien landscape
  3. Parallel universes
  4. Regarding Henry
  5. Our great contradiction
  6. Not Bob Dylan
  7. Lesson learned today
  8. Breaking the ice
  9. No VR headsets in Costco
  10. Clapping for Tinkerbell
  11. As metaphors go
  12. Letter from Birmingham Jail
  13. A Sunday month
  14. The cutting edge
  15. The future of books
  16. Parasites
  17. Birthday boys
  18. Undo
  19. The demo in the oven
  20. The persistence of memory
  21. Magic slider
  22. Viscosity
  23. The winter of his discontent
  24. Best post credit sequence ever
  25. SAD
  26. WarGames
  27. May the fourth be with you
  28. Reductive thinking
  29. Next step for Scratch
  30. Reset

April 2023

  1. Cinquain
  2. A demo is a promise
  3. On the security line
  4. Carbon cycle
  5. Somewhat irrationally
  6. Coincidence
  7. Wearable social media
  8. Exuberantly fascist
  9. The upload fallacy
  10. Failsafe
  11. Elision
  12. Watching movies on airplanes
  13. The question of taxes
  14. Sense memories
  15. Zoom and the Brady Bunch
  16. Unlucky day
  17. Definitive song
  18. Collaborative art 2.0
  19. Reality superuser
  20. Backwards time travel
  21. Simple is better
  22. National unicorn day
  23. At an airport on Saturday
  24. Collaborative art + history
  25. At the seder
  26. Passover
  27. Teach your children, part 2
  28. Teach your children, part 1
  29. The value of students
  30. NY Times April 1 crossword

March 2023

  1. The doctor is out
  2. The simplest thing
  3. Instruments
  4. Visions of the future
  5. New powers
  6. Gordon Moore
  7. Proposal deadline
  8. Group mind 1.0
  9. When software almost works
  10. Shiny new toy
  11. Pass / fail
  12. Redemption spectrum
  13. Dancing in the aisles
  14. Dancing in the theater
  15. St. Patrick’s Day
  16. Continuous interfaces
  17. The Ides of March
  18. Pi day
  19. Making diagrams
  20. Zoom anniversary
  21. That moment in the movie
  22. Some days
  23. Future skills
  24. On accident
  25. Celebrations
  26. Over dinner
  27. Circular projection
  28. The opposite of woke
  29. In praise of six hour flights
  30. 29:59
  31. Happy 50th!
  32. First thought

February 2023

  1. Frankencode
  2. Intersection
  3. Zeppo
  4. Upside down, part 2
  5. Oldest living
  6. Upside down, part 1
  7. ABCs
  8. Palindrome around the world
  9. Dilemma
  10. Timeless
  11. What you can’t explain to the future
  12. Perfect
  13. Ok with that
  14. Except you
  15. Talking to my phone
  16. Personal style
  17. Virtual representation
  18. On the fence
  19. Future bar charts
  20. Quoting the Bard
  21. Context and amazement
  22. Tragedy
  23. Backronyms
  24. Parades
  25. Poetry in flight
  26. The definition of politics
  27. Two characters on a stage
  28. Black History Month

January 2023

  1. Corollary to Clarke
  2. Epiphemera
  3. Invention needs customers
  4. Piano lessons
  5. An awkward conversation
  6. Imagine
  7. Fruit cake
  8. Ernie Kovacs
  9. Silver lining
  10. Made words
  11. RIP David Crosby
  12. Dreamcast
  13. Tune Typing revisited
  14. Potter’s Edge
  15. Looking out over the water
  16. Zen of coding
  17. Tune Typing
  18. Forgetting pill
  19. The Genie is out of the bottle
  20. Beyond colorization
  21. Thought experiment
  22. Future multitasking
  23. Media and artificiality, part 2
  24. Media and artificiality, part 1
  25. An ounce of integrity
  26. The greatest gift
  27. Jumping the easter egg
  28. ChatGOP
  29. Foundation
  30. 10*98-7*6+543*2-1
  31. Poem from the future

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