Kestrachern

Some of you may know of Ted, a conference on Technology, Entertainment, & Design.  This years conference concluded last month and the highlight was a talk by Pattie Maes & Pranav Mistry - Unveiling the “Sixth Sense,” game-changing wearable tech. Their presentation blew me away.  For about $350 in off the shelf components they built a fully interactive meta environment that layers [...]

Tonight two pairs of parrots have been fighting over a perch on a defunct palm tree in the front of Chez Kitteh.  It was an awesomely noisy contest.  I think I took nearly a hundred photos. These parrots look slightly smaller and darker on the head than the parrots that reside on Telegraph Hill.  They are just [...]

Wow its Tuesday and I’m actually getting the weekend wrap-up out the door. Friday a new camera arrived, Canon EOS Digital Rebel!!!!  whoo!!!!  it has been nearly 5 years since I’ve had a digital SLR..  I’ve already taken several hundred photos with it… but have yet to download any.  I also converted my photos from [...]

Seven times I called Ghana today and it went a little something like this: 1.  forgot to add a + to the number 2. could not connect 3. Yay jess answered! and we talked and we got disconnected 4.  Jess can hear me, all I hear is distorted choppy voice 5. I can hear Jess, [...]

So Thursday is arrived and I realized I’ve not written anything about the recent weekend adventures… I found myself watching the first season on Farscape this weekend whenever I was sitting down to code, play cards, eat or whenever iTunes was not on random play.   I think I’ve only seen the first season and have really [...]