http://rich.headsnet.com/notebook Thu, 12 Jun 2008 14:44:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I'm reading a review of Nordhaus' book on the economics of various policy responses to global warming by Freeman Dyson, and it's making me wonder, what did other civilisations on the brink of collapse say about their future? Are there Cambodian editorials somewhere, making passing comments like "of course, not ... http://rich.headsnet.com/notebook/2008/06/12/statistics/ I've been thinking a lot about time, recently. More specifically, about how we perceive it, and relate to it, and talk about it, and I've been wondering if we wouldn't benefit from having more ways of making it visible. I don't mean just ways of representing it passing: clocks are ... http://rich.headsnet.com/notebook/2008/06/02/shadow-fixing/ Spent the last couple of evenings playing games in the sun and the rain with Interesting Games Lab: snakes and ladders with a pantone twist in a multistorey car park, searching for lovers and dancers and hiding behind pillars around Harbourside, training human dolphins to do tricks using only applause, ... http://rich.headsnet.com/notebook/2008/05/23/iglab4/ How to move away from the turgid and despicable tolerance of mental sluggishness and egotistic long-windedness that characterises the workshop? The fatal blow to the agenda occasioned by alloting only a couple of minutes for each attendee to share their name and affiliation must be dodged; the intake of breath ... http://rich.headsnet.com/notebook/2008/05/20/onwards-together-with-vigour-for-glorious-better-talking/ Spoke at geeKyoto yesterday: had a wonderful time and left feeling energised and inspired. Lots of different things to think about, a few changes I want to make to the way I live, and (hopefully) the start of some really interesting conversations: there were some really bright and talented people ... http://rich.headsnet.com/notebook/2008/05/19/geekyoto/ Most places I've lived have been in the process of remaking themselves, whether reconfiguring local shops to better reflect a newly gentrified demographic, or tearing down post-war terraces to make room for plate glass and swipe-card gates, and as a result part of my landscape has always been cranes: sturdy ... http://rich.headsnet.com/notebook/2008/04/08/cranes-and-fireworks/ In the UK again. What to write? Everything was splendid, apart from leaving. Being back will probably improve with time. Looking forward to the snow tomorrow and folding washing in the warm. http://rich.headsnet.com/notebook/2008/04/05/back/ Having a brilliant time out of the office, left in rather a hurry and left more undone than I'd like, but can feel my shoulders going down more each day and am beginning to realise that living your whole life for work is stupid. Have been paintballing in Norfolk, walking ... http://rich.headsnet.com/notebook/2008/03/15/postcard/ I have a thought, unformed, recorded here to await the fingers of an overenthusiastic evening class, manipulations I am sure that will be distinguished more for their earnestness than their deft nature or sureness of direction, yet still the thought stays here, and if I haven't handcuffed it to the ... http://rich.headsnet.com/notebook/2008/03/04/private-transparency/ My first Flickr spam has taken the considerate step of warning me about dodgy mails: SIMULATED USERS ON FLICKR: CAUTION!!! Dear friends I'm be menaced and importunaded per “users” - newly arrived on FLICKR - because a picture by me uploaded in 27JAN2008. See the photo, one of menaces and my reply ... http://rich.headsnet.com/notebook/2008/02/21/importunaded/