2022-11-06: So, you say your dog likes to dig, do you?
2022-07-05: Glad they are moving forward, but the image of “all currently encrypted data will become insecure, …
2022-06-12: I would buy Rhythm Heaven for iOS. It’s the only Nintendo DS game I miss. Thank you for listening.
2022-05-26: I still wish symmetric 1GB fibre was available here, but the Comcost Xfinity is now connected to my …
2022-05-24: My flakey ATT DSL is making it easy to not regret ordering Xfinity internet. Looking forward to …
2022-05-22: Finally fed up enough with ATT VDSL being slow and unstable that I’m ordering comcast (which I swore …
2022-03-10: Has anyone tried using eye-tracking w/ video chat, where the knowledge of WHO we are looking at is …
2022-02-28: “Whatcha eating? Are you gonna share?” (It’s always our sweet beige and white #pittie asking, but …
2022-02-10: The mystery of one of our dog’s escape from our yard is solved. We have 6’ fence all …
2022-02-06: I do like an article about fonts (and I am the sort of person would prefers serifs and likes …
2022-01-28: Interesting. Just arrived in Boston for the weekend. Good times. (null)
2022-01-28: Reading Harlan Ellison’s bio on Wikipedia (after reading I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream) and …
2022-01-25: Who are you calling a nerd?
2022-01-19: also found this knickknack someone gave me as a joke gift a long time ago ….
2022-01-19: I also found this mug I made when I was a grad student… still truthy… (yes, it needs cleaning)
2022-01-19: Been a while since I cleaned off the desk in my GT office, found these little stickers. Good times, …
2022-01-18: Last night, we (mostly my daughter) made “succulent” ravioli… also nomnom
2022-01-18: Also these ….
2022-01-18: My daughter made cupcakes tonight. Nomnom.
2022-01-16: “Snowstorm” in Atlanta. Surviving this means I’m clearly prepared to move to Boston
2022-01-08: Why the climate-wrecking craze for crypto art really is beyond satire - John Naughton - The Guardian
2022-01-08: It’s about time we stop using that image Retiring “Lena”, the Playboy nude used to …
2022-01-01: My daughter likes making Korean cream cheese garlic bread, and I approve.
2022-01-01: Happy New Year, everyone. Here’s hoping for health and happiness, and we make some forward progress …
2021-09-12: The youngest dog also was a bit … surprised … with the sound of the smallpipes. I …
2021-09-12: Finally starting to try and get back to regular exercise. Doing yoga first thing every day, and …
2021-09-12: Our youngest pupper loves playing in the hose water … none of our other dogs over have, so …
2021-04-24: Small Network Upgrade I updated my Ubiquiti home gateway from the USG and CloudKey2 to the UDM; it was pretty easy (backup …
2021-01-08: Got fed up with needing to keep keyboard and mouse for both my computers (in my dual setup) within …
2021-01-08: Other options too! Come join Keybase! Encrypted Messaging App Signal Sees Surge in Popularity …
2021-01-08: Had my first tele-health physical therapy apt this morning …. won’t do f2f anything if …
2021-01-08: Haven’t been posting on m micro.blog (or blog) since before the election…. Twitter sucked me …
2020-11-11: Young puppy to slightly older puppy: “PLAY WITH ME NOW”. Slightly older puppy: “… sigh …” Older dog …
2020-10-29: eSports for older adults. Same games, different queues/leagues? Different games? Zero chance …
2020-10-22: For fun, tested the speed of AT&T’s crappy fake 5G on my iPhone XS… yikes, that some …
2020-10-22: My 2015 eGolf has a 24.2 kWh battery, this Hummer EV’s battery is> 200kWh…. holy cow, i …
2020-10-20: I created a “evening meeting lounge” in my Hubs Cloud social VR site, for when I have evening …
2020-10-18: Just voted! If you’re in Dekalb county, get on down to Agnes Scott, less than 10 mins from getting …
2020-10-18: Morning skin care routine: hang out with two puppies on couch, get excessive, somewhat aggressive, …
2020-10-17: Who’s a cute puppy? Yes, you’re a cute puppy, Zoey.
2020-10-17: Nope. Spend less, get a superior @DygmaLab Raise. Split keyboards are better, and you can swap your …
2020-10-16: I don’t care about the better cameras on iPhones. They still suck by objective measures (thats why I …
2020-10-16: American history is filled with evil people making fortunes by destroying others, and then …
2020-10-13: I didn’t even bother to follow the @Apple event today. I have an iPhone XS, it’s …
2020-10-13: Question from a friend: “hey Blair, random question: what webcam do you use? You seem to have a …
2020-10-13: Been using Calendly to have students, colleagues, and external folks schedule meetings with me, and …
2020-10-13: You can buy Waffle House hashbrowns, dehydrated just like the restaurant uses, on their website. …
2020-10-13: Lead story in Morning Brew today: Roblox. Still remember when it was just that horrible game my kid …
2020-10-12: I’d fallen into using Twitter as a news / info source. I decided to dump twitter and go back …
2020-10-12: Was very happy to tweet this, so posting on the micro.blog for posterity: I sold all my @oculus gear …
2020-10-10: Always enjoy reading Jaron’s takes on tech and society. Great counterpoint to the corporate …
2020-05-17: Today would have been high school graduation for my daughter, followed by a @BTS_twt concert at …
2020-04-29: Chilling before the start of the #CHI2020 #SocialVR workshop (see socialvr-ws.com) … excited …
2020-04-26: Transformer blew nearby …. power went out … but not here!
2020-04-26: Trying out the VR exercise app @GetSuperNatural on the Quest. Nice first round. 20 mins, got the …
2020-04-24: My 100 pound dog does not come back when she escapes. Invariably this is the end game, and it …
2020-04-20: Interesting article, but feels misguided in all kinds of ways. www.washingtonpost.com Fortnite and …
2020-04-07: “I’m a big dog and it was warm, so I dug a nice hole, rolled around in the cool dirt, and now I’m …
2020-04-04: The very definition of lazy Saturday (there’s a girl-child in that blanket somewhere under that …
2020-04-04: There is a special place in Hell for ppl who stand w/ their dogs and chat in front of …
2020-04-03: I hope my biggest problem today is the one I currently face: all three dogs want to be petted at the …
2020-03-30: Giving Quill a go to jot off a quick note from my phone onto my micro.blog
2020-03-28: Ok, I’ve earned my next #urbanfarmer achievement: cleaned out what was left of the winter garden(pic …
2020-03-15: I’ll just put these two things out there together. Monty Python was onto something. …
2020-03-15: 2 of 3 dogs (especially the puppy) vote that daddy shouldn’t get any work done this morning. Other …
2020-03-11: Taking a break from keeping up with Covid-19-induced conference and education institutional …
2020-03-09: Thinking about presentations in @ByHubs reminds me again of something I’ve wanted for quite some …
2020-02-20: About a dozen years ago I taught an AR class in the room I’m teaching 3D UI in. I set up a nice …
2020-02-20: It is raining and just above freezing … glad to have bought new rain gear for the bike ride …
2020-02-19: Today’s “Professor doing things with code” moment is hacking on a Slack invitation bot …
2020-02-17: I’ve continue my descent into “learning” to deploy things via modern technology; this morning …
2020-02-15: Charged up the batteries off solar for much of the day, been running the house of the dwindling …
2020-02-15: I just wrote a little shell script that uses awk to process a file from CVS into a .json, and then …
2020-02-11: The recommendations in this article sound really good. I’d take it more seriously if the …
2020-01-25: Delta Skyclub free cocktail of the day: Espresso Negroni. (Exactly that: add some espresso to a …
2020-01-19: Playing with cocktails for a dinner party tonight. Variations on a Vesper and Paper Plane that use …
2020-01-12: The bright side of being “too busy to the point of thrashing” is that I got those pesky New Years …
2020-01-08: Pleased to have finally decided to start using Jumbo. I’ve set Facebook posts to archive after …
2019-12-23: The first attempt at egg nog ice cream was a bit too icy so I’m adding a shot of something to the …
2019-12-23: In random holiday news, my wife and I had a laughing-to-tears I-can’t-believ-you-did-that water …
2019-12-21: Finally finished getting up the most basic set of Christmas lights. The combo of a late …
2019-12-17: I love fancy food. But for my birthday, it must be @publix Red Velvet cake with Cream Cheese icing. …
2019-12-15: I admit that of all the ice creams I’ve made this past year, this egg of ice cream is pretty darn …
2019-12-13: Speaking on a Panel at the OpenSimulator Community Conference tomorrow at 12:30pst. Talking about …
2019-12-09: When I cooked a can of condensed milk to make dulce de leche, I actually cooked two … now I’m …
2019-12-07: I do love this simple Dulce de Leche “recipe” (if “bring to boil water then simmer can on condensed …
2019-11-30: I kickstarted v1 and v2 of the @Paperlike screen protectors. Got the Paperlike2 last night and …
2019-11-24: Breakfast this morning. Continuing my daughter’s weekend of cooking adventures, we made Croque …
2019-11-24: Dinner last night. My teenage daughter has been obsessing over Bon Appetite Test Kitchen videos, and …
2019-11-20: It’s only a matter of time until “Ok, GenXer” becomes the new “Ok, Boomer” … I …
2019-11-20: I was doing a lecture on curves in my 3D graphics class, and needed an example of a complex curved …
2019-11-20: I was showing a web page on my laptop, and a background tab started playing audio. It was surprising …
2019-11-17: Hi. I’m Stella. I would like some of your breakfast, please.
2019-11-17: I gotta say, I do like using a good camera for my “web cam” … me on zoom a few days ago.
2019-11-06: After another random conversation with @larsberg_, I resurrected my favorite fountain pens. Left is …
2019-11-06: Been trying to figure out how to fix my “streaming video camera” setup (Canon SL3 is …
2019-11-01: playing with the new Fuji X-A7 + f2 35mm lens I got to use as my “webcam”
2019-11-01: For Surveillance Economy companies, the low bar should at least be “More trustworthy than Facebook”. …
2019-11-01: Google buys Fitbit. Fitbit assures customers data will remain separate and not be used for Google …
2019-10-28: Ok, I think the time has come to admit that as much as Mastodon appeals to me, I’m not using …
2019-10-26: Yummy #DateNight at home. Foie gras with apples, honey and crostini. Beef tenderloin. Mushroom …
2019-10-24: Removing all the street parking spots from “city center”, converting to bike lanes and pedestrian …
2019-10-21: One of my TAs made this, goofing around with the ray tracing assignment media.discordapp.net
2019-10-20: Street performer in New Orleans yesterday, great voice, singing “I feel like a natural woman” …
2019-10-17: Dog says “The pet rabbit is on the other side of the door!”
2019-10-17: Setting up an avatar for #UIST2019 next week. I’ll be there, but when I’m in the remote …
2019-10-11: I planted a fall garden (because I live in Atlanta, and thanks to global warming, there is no longer …
2019-10-11: I’m going to be attending UIST in New Orleans, and helping run the “Remote Social Experiences” …
2019-10-11: Pleased to see @htcvive calling out the value of privacy in vision-based tracking system design in …
2019-10-06: This video speaks to me. Claire from-the-Bon-Appetit-Test-Kitchen’s videos are adorable …
2019-10-06: I made this Easy Dulce de Leche Recipe yesterday, and just opened the can (using it to make ice …
2019-10-01: California signed their law allowing athletes to benefit from their likenesses through licensing. …
2019-09-26: An amazing group of people! The 29 Newest @Mozilla Fellows are technologists, activists, lawyers, …
2019-09-26: sometimes, Reddit is awesome. i.redd.it/tyqtf7wam…
2019-09-26: Remembered I needed to massage the cure into the pork bellies curing in the downstairs fridge (needs …
2019-09-25: Ok, you want to know why I think YOU SHOULD NEVER BUY AN OCULUS DEVICE? In their AR announcement …
2019-09-25: Ok, I try to avoid too much Apple Fanboi posting, but this tiny excerpt in the list of iOS 13.1 …
2019-09-24: I fired up my new cheap electric tiller and I tilled some earth. That’s not even a euphemism for …
2019-09-24: It’s podcast time! I had a fun chat with Mojtaba Tabatabaie last April and WebXR and web-based …
2019-09-24: And here I thought the “Facebook camera in your living room” was nuts. Now Facebook is going …
2019-09-24: RIP. We pulled Argon4 from Google Play store, it stopped working a while ago and there’s …
2019-09-22: One day in, I’m quite pleased with the series 3 -> series 5 watch update. Bigger screen is great, …
2019-09-22: Hey, look, another vegetable garden bed. You really can get things done when you stop playing video …
2019-09-18: OMG, more Facebook. They literally haven’t found a future-PR-disaster they aren’t …
2019-09-18: I’m still pondering a way to get hardware into every student’s hands for a 3D UI / AR / VR class in …
2019-09-18: How many times will I get “an exclusive invite” to OC6? Don’t they read my feed? 🙄
2019-09-18: I really want to “take advantage” of Nikon’s “Trade up to Z” promo, where I could …
2019-09-18: A good article highlighting the rot at the heart of US Colleges, the dominance of football (“80 …
2019-09-17: This article about learning to bike in the Netherlands makes me so happy … I love biking …
2019-09-17: The good part about often making dumb typos in your code is that you develop some fine (and high …
2019-09-16: ACM UIST conference is in New Orleans in Oct. I’m looking forward to it, because I love both …
2019-09-16: At Alabama, the appearance of students as props in the end zone, and a happy football coach, are …
2019-09-15: Finally replacing the Gateron Red (linear) switches with Kailh Speed Bronze (light clicky) ones. I …
2019-09-09: This coming Thursday, there’s a Democratic Debate, and the Atlanta Reign are playing an …
2019-09-09: There you have it. Tennessee lawmaker calls for removal of higher education apnews.com
2019-09-09: Flight music to Seattle is @todrick, of course. When you are trapped in a flying metal tube, what …
2019-09-09: I finally looked up what bullet journalling is, since everyone is talking about it. Isn’t it just …
2019-09-08: “Throwback to to my youth” concert last night … 3 bands, each been together 40+ years. …
2019-09-08: Went to a concert last night … this is what a modern concert looks like …
2019-09-04: We must reduce our reliance on (and use of) Carbon. In CS, we are not leading on that, esp the …
2019-09-03: Wow, it’s amazing what a small amount of “forward weight” does; the @oculus Quest is super …
2019-09-01: Tonight’s desert is out of the ice cream maker and in the freezer. Two flavors of coconut milk + …
2019-08-31: Pouring some champagne to make sorbet. Yes, that’s some good bubbly, and yes, I mixed it with a ton …
2019-08-30: I am having such a hard time getting my head around this comic… mostly that someone has made …
2019-08-30: My Connect.Tech talk “WebXR: an Introduction to Mixed Reality on the Web” is scheduled for Friday …
2019-08-30: Today’s “oblivious students at GT”: had a student step in front of my bike in the bike lane without …
2019-08-29: Someone commented that they preferred Huel to Soylent, so I picked some up. After trying both the …
2019-08-27: Class went well today; it was the “transformations, matrices, homogeneous coordinates and so …
2019-08-27: And today’s fun factoid from the Morning Brew: meatless meat has fully spread into fast food.
2019-08-25: I created a discord server for my CS3451 (Computer Graphics) class. We’re using web tech, and during …
2019-08-24: I stopped teaching games classes a long time ago, haven’t been in the loop that these things are …
2019-08-24: Great article explaining Google’s BS about privacy and tracking freedom-to-tinker.com …
2019-08-24: Assembling the Glorious keyboard. I put the 14 switches from the sample pack on F1-F8 and …
2019-08-23: Hey friends, my daughter pointed me at this lovely movie project on Kickstarter and hopes more …
2019-08-23: Latest random useful pointer from Morning Brew, the “A Soft Murmur” website, which lets you …
2019-08-22: Achievement unlocked. Nerd level++ Modular mechanical keyboard arrived, with a set of switches …
2019-08-22: If you’re curious what using Android (green) does to your privacy (blue), @samsung created …
2019-08-21: As we design a set of rooms to run a large event in @ByHubs, I am reminded again why #WebXR needs …
2019-08-21: Now that I’m going back into GT a few days week, its Soylent for lunch more often! I just ran out, …
2019-08-20: Today on zoom, the combo of my DLSR-for-webcam and the “slight change” to my hair color looked …
2019-08-19: let the craziness begin. I’m still mostly on leave at GT so won’t be on-campus very …
2019-08-19: I’ve yet to run into a +60 yr old in Overwatch, but do occasionally find a +50 like me. Mostly …
2019-08-19: I’m enjoying the Morning Brew mailing list; quick hits on money, business and the world, mixed …
2019-08-19: Headline should be “Alaska gov relents on destroying university system, imposing only draconian …
2019-08-18: Made another batch of coconut-milk based strawberry ice cream, this time I decided to actually go …
2019-08-15: Teaching Intro to Computer Graphics at @georgiatech starting next week, so I thought it would be …
2019-08-15: My son pointed me at the Glorious PC Gaming Race mice and keyboards. I’m very much enjoying …
2019-08-15: First day of school for the kids, my son is starting high school, so we’ve decided to retire the …
2019-08-14: Mom: how old was the yoga instructor? G: old. He looked like dad, but thin. 🤨
2019-08-13: Ah, the irony. I’m starting up more research on how to support remote attendance at …
2019-08-13: Got an email summarizing the various ways the our family’s healthcare will be worse and more …
2019-08-11: I started pushing my micro.blog through to FB Page. I have ~30 FB friends but have had hundreds in …
2019-08-10: Damn shame I already had my mid-life crisis. apple.news/Aq6YTV3r2…
2019-08-08: OMG, GaTtech continues its quest to maximize the annoyance of using web-based systems. Excessive 2FA …
2019-08-07: Lots of chatter about Ninja hitting 1mil subs on @WatchMixer. Tried streaming to it from W10 and OBS …
2019-08-07: Not sure how I feel about tenured academics who churn out tons of bullshit software patents, feels …
2019-08-06: Morning coffee at the lake
2019-08-05: Powerful interactive illustration of the 2180 mass shootings since Sandy Hook. To make it personal, …
2019-08-05: Whomever said “you don’t own stuff, stuff owns you” is on my mind. So much house maintenance …
2019-08-04: Another “blockchain to the rescue” manifesto, this time about rescuing us from Facebook (which …
2019-08-04: You know your to-do list making skillz are poor when pretty much any “things you’re doing wrong with …
2019-08-04: Easy one: The Replacements xkcd.com
2019-08-04: For those who still use Facebook, I’m mirroring my micro.blog (bmaci.me) onto a page there. It …
2019-08-03: Very much looking forward to role queue. I play support and rank, not really dps. Two games in a row …
2019-08-03: I have to say, #OWL is so much better with2-2-2…. all the games are so much better! Bonus, …
2019-08-03: First map down, #LetItReign. Love the 2-2-2 meta!
2019-08-03: We are almost out of time on the climate, and a sizable number of Americans cheer on a racist …
2019-08-02: Resurrected the WindowsMR device I had in a box, so I could try it with the new Windows laptop. …
2019-08-01: My @atlantareign custom jersey is ready for action! Thanks GHVinyls! etsy.me/2ZpVuOl
2019-08-01: Ikea and Sonos, two great tastes that go great together! It’s a good thing I’ve got a …
2019-08-01: These last months have been kind of crazy, I need to get back to blogging and other writing. But the …
2019-08-01: The implementation of Duo two-factor authentication at @georgiatech feels like it was designed as an …
2019-07-31: Dorking around with @ByHubs, plugged in my iPad to the Mac, started a screen recording (don’t …
2019-07-29: I made the mistake of looking at replies to a climate science fact posted to twitter. Mixed but …
2019-07-29: I usually wear gaming/nerd t-shirts when I’m flying business/first class, just because “mostly old …
2019-07-29: Just discovered education.github.com and classroom.github.com… how had I not seen these …
2019-07-28: My inability to not type two spaces after a period really hampers the speed at which I can send out …
2019-07-28: In addition to starting to be more conscientious of our power usage, it looks like we’re about …
2019-07-26: Bought some energy monitors and plugged them into the bulk of the networking and desktop computers …
2019-07-25: This is so good, I hope someone cleans it up and sells things based on it! …
2019-07-25: “Whynter is coming”
2019-07-24: Welcome to 5G: Privacy and security in a hyperconnected world (or not?) …
2019-07-23: I’m teaching a 3rd year 3D Computer Graphics class at GT this fall (~150 students; insane, but …
2019-07-19: I just scored a BINGO on my “breathless fanboy Silicon Valley BS blog post” bingo card. 😡 Kind of …
2019-07-18: Set up the Vive Wireless Adaptor and Vive Headphone Replacement Strap on the VR PC. Why didn’t …
2019-07-17: A thing that annoys me about my personal attempts at using social media: my complete inability to …
2019-07-17: Stop posting long-form Content to Services Where you Don't Control It I have run across a few posts on Twitter recently generated via twitlonger.com, and I’d like to …
2019-07-13: Time for a Haus Party with @todrick music.apple.com
2019-07-11: To the rocket scientists suing Apple because of their “monopolistic” App Store: this is what happens …
2019-07-11: I loved and hated Rocket League, this is amusing apple.news Congress is bad at Rocket League - The …
2019-07-11: “Peak Silicon Valley”: Uber Comfort costs more, but it’s worth it to the better-off to not have to …
2019-07-10: Is it just me, or have the use of “click on images with X in them” CAPTCHA’s become …
2019-07-10: Not drinking booze right now, been looking into “mocktails”, esp ones that aren’t glorified soda or …
2019-07-06: ‘Sup, nerds
2019-07-03: It’s been 3 years since I looked at Typescript. Nothing has changed, right? I should be good …
2019-07-03: I’ll be hosting all materials for my class this fall on github. I’m teaching CS 3451, …
2019-07-03: The lost of impact, and sharing with the world, that results from our classes disappearing inside …
2019-07-03: Years ago, @georgiatech started using a horrible “courseware” system, like everyone else. At the …
2019-07-03: Can we narrow the Democratic field, please? Biden and Sanders are toast, wonder when they admit it? Seems the remaining viable candidates are …
2019-07-02: I did a Trip Advisor review once, in 2012. Every few months, they send me a helpful message letting …
2019-07-01: What is the opposite of OCD? As in, someone who can’t resist moving one of a group of neatly aligned …
2019-06-30: This is pretty spot on (although I like Harris more than this would imply I should). “If The …
2019-06-30: I’ve rediscovered how much I like the London Fog (Earl Grey tea, half cup of hot water, squirt …
2019-06-29: Spent the last two weeks in Whistler, Vancouver and Seattle. Gotta say, being back in #hotlanta, …
2019-06-28: Irony
2019-06-28: In honor of our campus visit to @SFU with our daughter, I’m listening to some of the best pipe music …
2019-06-28: I’ve had multiple people over the past month tell me they find my frequent use of two spaces after a …
2019-06-27: Oh, this is cute. A “browser for the old internet”, using the wayback machine, so you …
2019-06-22: Sadly, the last one isn’t satire …. 😡 You Are Now Browsing In Incognito Mode - McSweeney’s …
2019-06-22: One less myth… Rice Is for Dinner, Not Repair - iFixit
2019-06-21: “Chrome has become surveillance software, it’s time to switch” (love the corny video in the article, …
2019-06-17: What could be more American than a VR game called “Vacation Simulator”? Presumably one plays this …
2019-06-06: Nice map on Hollywood for Atlanta. I wish I could place bombs like Daco. Up 2-1! #LetItReign
2019-06-06: Go ATLANTA! Love a team that tries (and wins with) the non-standard comp. excellent that it was on …
2019-06-06: Not liking those peach jerseys …. didn’t take long for the butt emoji joke to drop, either …
2019-06-05: I find it interesting how my blackberry bushes seem to have one berry ripening first per cluster
2019-06-05: Please stop posting on Medium. You’re putting your content behind a closed paywall. (And …
2019-06-03: Apple, “computers for everyone!”, finally releases a powerful desktop (first time in > 10 years). …
2019-06-02: I never would have imagined I’d utter the phrase “I think I still have time to put the …
2019-05-29: Left ngrok running at home, and really needed it while mobile … finally tipped me to go up a …
2019-05-29: I wonder if I’m the only person who’s completely dubious of all the claims I’m …
2019-05-27: It’s kinda fun having all 63000 of my digital photos in Apple Photos. Skimming by time, place and …
2019-05-27: Just bought tickets for my son, his friend and me to go to the @ATLReign #Homestand on July 6/7! 2 …
2019-05-24: Today I gave an entirely unsatisfactory answer to a couple of 14 years olds as to why the X/Y/Z …
2019-05-23: Day 5. We’re outside using iPad cameras to take pictures and mark them up to do a photo walkthrough …
2019-05-21: Day 3. 12 kids. A firewall. A work-in-progress complex 3D MR authoring tool wedged inside glitch. 3 …
2019-05-20: one of my favorite things about using Firefox is having Pocket suggestions in my “empty new tabs”. …
2019-05-18: I made the mistake of finally looking seriously at the browser userAgent string, and asked my …
2019-05-18: Started the weekend right with a double #PowerRed blood donation at the Red Cross. Now home to make …
2019-05-15: Through no choice of my own, I’m working with a React project. I want to build a non-optimized …
2019-05-15: The fuel for furious hacking, when you been up since 3am fixing someone else’s code
2019-05-14: Don’t be fooled by the “we care about privacy” smokescreen from Google and Facebook; they’re still …
2019-05-14: https://www.ajc.com/news/breaking-georgia-insurance-commissioner-indicted-fraud-case/wIXf1cBgke1qD95 …
2019-05-14: wonder if this is why my massive Photos collection has barely uploaded anything, after two days? (or …
2019-05-14: One of my “favorite things” at GT is the set of websites that you can only access from off campus …
2019-05-14: Got spam from @georgiatech Athletics; I admit I’m finding the subject line “Clean, …
2019-05-14: I made the decision on the weekend (for various reasons) to pull most of my photos into Apple …
2019-05-12: I’ve been working OT for the past few weeks, not really playing or watching Overwatch; just peeked …
2019-05-11: Looking for good people who have interesting things to say about AR/VR games and the web. “Asking …
2019-05-05: Upgraded son’s iPhone for his bday, his old SE has become my fav AR dev device. Weird. It’s more …
2019-05-05: See you in the Clyde Auditorium (remote, VR edition!) for the #CHI2019 opening keynote! It’ll …
2019-05-05: That moment when you realize you left a Hubs tab open in one of the CHI channels, because someone …
2019-05-05: We’re getting our Discord server set up with Hubs rooms for the 17 CHI livestreams, starting …
2019-04-29: A little home made lardons makes the Brussels sprouts taste better ….
2019-04-29: Call for Mozilla Research Grants for 2019H1 are open! Detailed topics we’re interested in, and …
2019-04-29: Is my GT school faculty email list trying to tell me something?
2019-04-29: (2/2) To support our social VR CHI video co-watching, I created a discord server, where we’ll …
2019-04-29: (½) HCI and academic friends … especially people NOT going to CHI! Some of us are …
2019-04-29: The Uberization of Academic Conferences … I honestly don’t know what to think about …
2019-04-28: After reading more about current/modern travel/street cameras, I have a better understanding of what …
2019-04-27: Teenage son sleepover party: 6 boys, 4 PCs (Fortnite, Overwatch) on desks, XBox One (assorted) and …
2019-04-25: Thinking of getting a compact, mirrorless, high quality camera. Something akin to the Leica D-LUX 7. …
2019-04-25: Hangouts and WebEx are finicky about finding my camera, so I plugged in a Cam Like 4K and my Nikon …
2019-04-25: Overwatch now has a custom workshop where you can script your own behaviors and characters. I …
2019-04-24: Was waiting for a call, accidentally answered a robocaller (yes, it’s at the point where I …
2019-04-22: Oh Boing Boing, you bring the world to our desktop in all it’s glory. …
2019-04-22: That was unexpected. Had left the grill cover off for a few weeks, a family “moved in”
2019-04-22: Hey video nerds. I’m enamored with the idea of using a high quality camera as my webcam, using an …
2019-04-22: I did a small fix to the WebXR Viewer, now mostly rewritten in Swift. Which I’ve never used. …
2019-04-19: Rare bit of Overwatch: 2 games, both super fun. Game 1, won a map, then someone left on our team. …
2019-04-19: When you write a bunch of code in Javascript, and the first 15 minutes of debugging is finding all …
2019-04-19: As I sit and read my email after the Tornado Watch was lifted for the past few hours, I find it …
2019-04-19: So if Google gets dinged for antitrust for it’s favoring of Chrome on Android, why …
2019-04-19: As I sit and read my email after the Tornado Watch was lifted for the past few hours, I find it …
2019-04-18: At today’s yearly checkup, was presented with explanation of some billing stuff (“if we …
2019-04-18: Need a tool that lets me export my FB data, and then import it into my personal Mastodon instance. …
2019-04-16: And there’s a bunch of expert witnesses who won’t be getting new Teslas apple.news Apple and …
2019-04-16: Crazy. Just found something (again, this is the second time) so much cheaper on Prime Now than …
2019-04-16: I have to admit, every time I get a popup to install an update to Java on my mac, I roll my eyes. …
2019-04-16: I missed this story when it broke, this is pretty “funny” … at least some folks at FB are …
2019-04-15: Wish I was more sophisticated with CSS. I’m using a version of the Nurui theme on my blog, want to …
2019-04-15: My home office Mac when I sat down this morning after being away for the weekend. unfortunate (for …
2019-04-15: Universities (Princeton in this case) finally banning professors from dating grad students. What …
2019-04-14: Had a great time watching Overwatch League games in LA with my son this weekend. Played a few games …
2019-04-13: Love the overwhelming visuals at the end of each map. Wonder what Johnny Carson thinks of what’s …
2019-04-13: Excellent. So tired of people reclining into my laptop on daytime domestic flights. Sleep at home. …
2019-04-13: Back at Blizzard Area, ready for day 2 of our @overwatchLeague trip
2019-04-13: Fun night at the Blizzard Arena watching Overwatch League. Shame Atlanta lost, but the other games …
2019-04-12: In the arena, getting ready to watch the Reign! #LetItReign
2019-04-12: Landed in LA …. Hey, ATT, you aren’t fooling me with your fake 5G shenanigans
2019-04-12: At the airport with my son, heading to LA to watch some Overwatch League games live! #nerdlife …
2019-04-10: That moment when you catch your toe on something while walking back to the home office with coffee, …
2019-04-10: Sometimes I think, perhaps I’m not a dog person? (often that thought occurs while one of dogs, …
2019-04-09: testing again just for the heck of it
2019-04-09: Testing some things. Wonder if this indents?
2019-04-09: Finally got fed up being suckered into clicking on another …
2019-04-08: My school at GT just sent out a survey to the faculty to gather information to update their website. …
2019-04-08: The “best” part of getting a dozen copies of the same phishing email is that it’s really …
2019-04-07: I now have 3 monitors and four computers on my downstairs gaming+VR setup. So many-much glowing …
2019-04-07: Audica >> Beat Saber
2019-04-04: Well that sucked. Crappy last maps, Atlanta totally crumbled.
2019-04-04: Caster needs to lose the bolo tie. This ain’t a rodeo
2019-04-04: Wow, Boston turned that around. On to map 5.
2019-04-04: I’m thinking perhaps #LetItRoll instead of #LetItReign? It’s a mauling … Boston is scrod
2019-04-04: Some solid play from ATL #LetItReign
2019-04-04: Nice first round for @KING_BABYBAY for the @ATLReign #LetItReign
2019-04-03: You know that you’re doing the work at home thing wrong when you find yourself thinking “now …
2019-04-02: Oh FFS, now we can even trust “premiere technical institutions” with top tier cybersecurity degrees …
2019-04-01: I hate latex, especially the default behavior that hyphenates like a toddler. Adding this lowered …
2019-03-30: Every N years I replace an appliance. Today, I spent my time buying and installing a new …
2019-03-29: Have to take an annual “Integrity and Compliance” (ethics) training course at GT. It …
2019-03-29: “It’s a tale of exceptional incompetence”. I’ll just leave this here, completely …
2019-03-28: I really do love coming to Japan. Just sayin.
2019-03-28: I’m really happy airlines are starting to offer these new “premium select” (as Delta calls them) …
2019-03-28: Boy, there sure are a lot of stereotypical “ugly Americans” on this flight (and I say that as an …
2019-03-28: Heading back home from VR2019 in Osaka, via Tokyo. Used a few spare hours to wander the shops in …
2019-03-25: Daily/nightly reminder: IEEE VR is streaming on twitch, so you can watch the streams remotely. …
2019-03-25: A panel I’m at is using slido for questions. I’m finding it hard not to treat it as a competition. …
2019-03-24: IEEE VR starting, first keynote in a few minutes. Instructions for setting up a Hubs room to watch …
2019-03-23: IEEE VR is live streaming it’s 4 tracks next week on twitch. If you aren’t here in Japan, I create 4 …
2019-03-22: Just gave a keynote at KELVAR (Workshop on K-12+ Embodied Learning through Virtual and Augmented …
2019-03-21: “Love” having a small camera on my inflight entertainment system (look closely). @delta isn’t alone …
2019-03-21: Off to Japan for IEEE VR
2019-03-19: Bought some Lucio-Ohs! Because, why not? My son is thrilled (especially because we never buy crappy …
2019-03-19: 7 or 8 years ago, I did a review on Trip Advisor. Regularly, since then, I get email from them …
2019-03-19: Project #stadia, eh? Seems like a great way for Google to capture even more information about you, …
2019-03-18: Played a game of Overwatch, on Numbani. Bastion on defense, Pharah on attack. Got 7 kills (gold), 3 …
2019-03-17: I’m looking forward to Oculus introducing their new displays at GDC so I can write “reviews” …
2019-03-16: I randomly referred to the awful posts on twitter as #birdpoop … I like it. This needs to get …
2019-03-16: Shame the Reign lost, but that was fun. Two teams that don’t just do GOATS. Good times!
2019-03-16: Twitter has been so much better since I switched to write-only mode.
2019-03-16: Atlanta Reign match finally about to start …. reverse sweep by Boston really slowed things …
2019-03-16: You know you aren’t a comic book nerd when you spend the first part of Captain Marvell thinking …
2019-03-16: One section of today’s grocery list
2019-03-16: Magnetic sensor inside the bean hopper of my espresso machine broke; so I taped a magnet to the …
2019-03-15: I quite literally can’t remember the last time I had so few Skymiles in my Delta account.
2019-03-14: Please stop saying “MirrorWorld” (singular). There will be “MirrorWorlds” (plural) of varying …
2019-03-13: It amazes me that people don’t know that using “website -> app” tools usually leaves …
2019-03-13: First Google bought Nest, and I had to eventually replace my Nests; glad I never succumbed to Eero, …
2019-03-13: What is it with Windows 10’s inability to remember where stuff is on my displays? I have a …
2019-03-13: The amusement of being on one video conference (at Job A), but watching a group text message where a …
2019-03-13: The only question is “Why only every 90 minutes?” …
2019-03-12: Smoker is cooling, five more pounds of lucious homemade bacon is in the fridge and freezer. Looking …
2019-03-11: For once I agree with the Orange Toddler apple.news Trump says he’s onboard with adopting daylight …
2019-03-11: I admit that I don’t understand how people can claim to care about ethics/privacy/etc in tech, …
2019-03-10: ok, that’s enough blog hacking today, done back through 2016. I’m still grooving on my …
2019-03-10: We have left our artificial holiday tree up this year, and are redecorating for different holidays. …
2019-03-09: Fire still going. What a beautiful night!
2019-03-09: It’s 65 degrees at 7:40pm in Atlanta tonight, time for the first front-yard fire of the spring …
2019-03-09: My first pancetta. Looks good, will be in the carbonara tonight. But, it’s a bit terrifying to have …
2019-03-06: Wanted to work in a coffee shop near where my daughter has an evening meeting (#OTPAtlanta, the …
2019-03-04: I love how my calendar shows that the time change (“spring ahead”) is going to happen at 2am …
2019-03-03: Lost every single #overwatch game this morning. But, I just put some banana bread in the oven. So …
2019-03-02: Played some more #overwatch today, what a random mess solo queuing is. I’m getting better at usually …
2019-03-02: Decided to play a bit of #overwatch after watching some … A decidedly different experience, …
2019-03-02: Running low on #bacon, got a slab of pork belly to put in some cure for the week. Will keep going …
2019-03-02: #LetItReign What a sweep!
2019-03-02: Seeing how the micro.blog app on iOS will be for all these posts 👍
2019-03-02: Have a new setup for posting on the interwebs. Persistent stuff to my blog, gets pulled to bmaci.me …
2019-03-02: Congrats #Atlanta #Reign, nicely done. #Paris #Eternal looked pretty outclassed
2019-03-02: Go #Atlanta #Rein …. Great domination of #Paris #Eternal over the first two maps