The future never ceases to evade me
Some random thoughts (ADD-parade):
goddess worship
thanks Sarah, kriskrug and ccote. (This is not a photoshop job. She was actually wearing this shirt.)
google identity
Scott, mom tells me that you are now the #1 google-hit for “meves.” Congrats. Having been displaced I feel a little disoriented, but I suppose that is my fault for carelessly leaving my sense of identity with a search engine ;)
body twitch
I said it here, now: One day in the next 5 years there will be a (successful?) chain of facilities that function as a mix between a video-arcade and fitness club. It will start with a gym installing “Dance Dance Revolution” arcade-game (or, less likely, an arcade installing showers) and/or some other such similar “physical” videogames, (like that boxing one, which seems to tire people out) … and then there will be a bigger market for such games and game companies will start to offer a wider variety of such games.
Research and engineering are of course underway for these games already. And I imagine that we could all come up with some remarkable physical videogames of our own. (I want one that teaches me how to dance to the “My Milkshake” song)
It might be difficult to make this lucrative in a gym-setting, because initial cost and the maintainence for a arcade DDR system is probably more than for an elliptical machine or treadmill (or is it?) and arcades and fitness centers differ in their respective pricing models. Also a challenge will be marketing it to the right demographic. There currently isn’t much crossover between the arcade-game market and the fitness-club set.
progress vertigo
Excerpt from David Heinemeier Hansson from the Rails book (pp.215 hardcopy): When discussing using SQL vs. ORM (e.g. DAO, e.g. ActiveRecord) David argues convincingly that there is a time and a place for both ORM and SQL. He says that you should “start out using the object-oriented interface for productivity and pleasure, and then dip beneath the surface for a close-to-the-metal experience when you need it to.” He is in fact referring to SQL as “close-to-the-metal”, which gave me a yet another little wave of progress-vertigo.
(All this time I felt guilty for not being too strong on hardware / networking (to say nothing of compiled languges or that .. what’s it called? assemblism code?), but now I feel more well-rounded for knowing something “low-level” like SQL. The future never ceases to evade me.)
In contrast,strongbad seems to have a handle on things with his succinct definition of technology
time management
Went to the dentist today (my actual teeth pictured). More on this later.