Archive for February, 2007
Holly already posted the best of our pictures of the iced-up outdoors during this weekend’s storm. If you want to see the rest, feel free to click over to our Flickr stream: Ice storms are freaky, freaky things. I’d never experienced one before moving to Iowa. They are scary, and I gotta [ READ MORE ]
I am having a hard time concentrating on work after lunch. Here are the things I am thinking about instead of the mountain of work I have to do (I’ll get right back to it, I promise!) : Maybe training monkeys to move robot arms with their brains was a bad idea; who knows how [ READ MORE ]
So I’ve posted before about such transhumanist ideas as adding new senses and other abilities, and specifically about a lab at Duke where they teach monkeys to use a robot arm as if it were their own appendage, based solely on brain wave readings. That is, the robot arm is running on the monkey’s [ READ MORE ]
You would not believe how often people mess up my name. How is “Jack” a difficult thing to remember? I get enough mentions in Mother Goose rhymes and popular slang, heaven knows. I just got an email — sent to a work address that begins with “jack-pinette”, and in response to a short [ READ MORE ]