Freeway Collapse
Freeway Collapse on Highway 580 Eastbound
Originally uploaded by Thomas Hawk.
Ugh! The freeway collapse was about 1.3 miles from my house, and unfortunately between me and Sunnyvale… That means I’m liable to have some “interesting” commutes for the next few months. Fortunately, Brickhouse […]
Saved by the bark…
Last night at about 11:30pm, I’m sitting on the couch next to Rashi, who is curled up in a ball sleeping… I’m getting ready to pick up Krista from SFO… Outta nowhere we hear someone run up our front steps and knock on the door… and try the handle.
Rashi goes nuts, barking like crazy… […]
Upcoming 2.0 Launches!
I knew it was coming, but was blown away when I saw it… Upcoming 2.0 has launched.
Upcoming has been one of my favorite Yahoo sites for quite a while… I cannot believe that such a small team kicks so much ass. Congrats guys!
Why the famous get famouser…
Kottke points to a great article by Columbia’s Duncan Watts…
The social context of content has everything to do with it’s meaning. It’s one of the reasons that I think that a purely pixel-based algorithmic approach to, say, image recognition is doomed. In optimistic moments, I’ve said that the computer vision community may produce […]
Kurt Vonnegut… gone.
Moments ago I learned Kurt Vonnegut passed.
I don’t read much fiction, but I loved Vonnegut. I even picked up his more recent stuff… Like Dylan, even when he was not at his peak, he was still worthwhile.
Sometime around 1986 he did a lecture at the University of Michigan. I somehow weaseled my […]