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August 22 | HCII semester kickoff party. |
August 12 | 1st year PhD space built-out extravaganza. |
August 8 | HCII curriculum workshop. |
August 4 | Middle Yough with A&A. |
August 3 | New headunit for Jeep is so much nicer. |
August 1 | Sudershan thesis defense. Congrats! |
July 25 | Drinks with Ari. |
July 13 | River camping trip. Clarion again due to low water. |
July 12 | Congrats to Robert! |
July 8 | Mahindra AI Startup Workshop Panel. |
July 6 | Head back to USA. Amy stays for conference. |
July 4 | Fly Kano to Abuja. Start exploring Abuja. |
July 3 | Explore Kano. Markets interesting. Emir of Kano dispute ongoing. |
July 2 | Spend morning at Nation Museum getting export permits. Fly to Kano. |
July 1 | Abeokuta. Olumo Rock. Most insane train station. Train to Lagos. |
June 30 | Explore Osogbo and surrounds. Erin Iesha Waterfall. |
June 29 | Morning on Igun Street; bronze casters. Drive to Osogbo. |
June 28 | Make it to Benin City. Hexagon hotel BBQ. |
June 27 | Explore Lagos for two days. |
June 25 | National Air and Space Museum near IAD. Depart for Nigeria. |
June 16 | Morning with Ada. Afternoon hiking With Karan. |
June 13 | New friends at Google. |
June 13 | Great seeing old friends at MSR at Meta. |
June 9 | Brunch with Anuraag. |
June 8 | Catch up with Alex K. in CA. |
May 19 | New IKs. Finally run Casselman. North Branch Potomac yesterday. |
May 14 | Connect up with Hesham and Nancy. |
May 12 | Visit B&A. Help fix up new house. |
May 11 | Mother of All Pottery Sales at Union Project. |
April 27 | Plant herb porch roof at cabin. |
April 21 | Pittsburgh Fringe Festival escape room. Weird and wonderful. |
April 20 | Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons. |
April 14 | Run Slipfest with Alex on Neshannock Creek. 3rd. |
April 13 | CMU Buggy. Vivian wins with CIA Team A. |
April 8 | Drive into Ohio. Total solar eclipse. Very cool. |
April 5 | Last drink with Sven before he head home. |
March 30 | Parkour with old people. Disaster. |
March 27 | UIST deadline. Awesome stuff. |
March 24 | Blackberry patch cleared and planted. |
March 8 | Converge with B&A in Kure to visit Harrisons. |
March 2 | Grandmother clock tune-up. Ready to chime! |
March 1 | Tamburitzans with Ogans. |
February 28 | First photo canvases arrive for HCII walls. |
February 25 | Relocate to Dubai for late flight out. Visit main sights. |
February 24 | Hit a few sights in Abu Dhabi. Dune bashing. |
February 21 | Head off to UAE for MBZUAI HCI+AI Quorum. |
February 16 | Go to court. Win. |
February 8 | CMU locksmiths open safe! Empty though. |
January 31 | Tour August Wilson African American Cultural Center for UIST 2024. |
January 21 | Kitchen demo begins. |
January 19 | HCII party in 407. D&A close on house. |
January 10 | HCII Faculty Retreat at Seven Springs. |
January 4 | Back in the Burgh! |
December 29 | Back in the US. Head to family in Richmond. |
December 28 | Āriapāla Mask Museum en route to Colombo. Hit sights, then fly out. |
December 27 | Beach and Galle. |
December 26 | Unawatuna for two nights. |
December 24 | AMBA tea estate, Udawalawe National Park, and chill in Tangalle. |
December 23 | Train to Ella. |
December 22 | Horton Plains National Park and Nuwara Eliya. |
December 21 | Dambulla, Matale, and Kandy. |
December 20 | Polonnaruwa and Polonnaruwa. |
December 19 | Anuradhapura and Mihintale. |
December 18 | Connect with Harrisons in Sri Lanka for Xmas escape. Sigirya first. |
December 15 | Side jaunt to Oman with Justine. Fjords around Khasab. |
December 10 | Off to UAE for MBZAUI workshop planning. |
November 23 | Thanksgiving at our house. Extended Ogan clan, plus PGH friends. |
October 29 | UIST in SF. |
October 18 | Hiking Acadia NP. Cadillac Mountain. Six Summits trail. |
October 15 | Visit Brewers in Maine. |
October 7 | Experiments in planking trees. |
October 1 | Visit Meadowcroft Rockshelter with Harrison. |
September 28 | Eddie Izzard. |
September 16 | One-day hot tub build. |
August 29 | New semester kicks off. Teaching relief over. Vimal joins lab! |
August 25 | Track night with spider. |
August 20 | Procure 390-gallon stock tank with David. Slow drive home. |
August 19 | Finally get Hoffman roof on. Now ready for winter. |
August 14 | Daehwa's paper accepted to ISS! Vivian's almost done for ToCHI. |
August 12 | Stoney whitewater + shooting with D&A. |
August 4 | Picturephone reassembed and returned to CMU collections. |
August 2 | Sell duckies. Time to upgrade. |
August 1 | Harvest mayapples. Delicious. |
July 21 | Hitchhike to run the Mongaup. Mongaup Mark. |
July 19 | Delaware river trip. Lackawaxen to Portland, PA over 7 days. |
July 15 | Run Stonycreek for the first time. Fun time. |
July 14 | Round out UIST 24 venue search with visit to Omni. |
July 12 | FIGLAB DIS social. |
July 4 | Faculty and friends come over for July 4 party. Fireworks. |
July 2 | Ogans arrive with Key West salvage for roof. |
June 30 | Elias/Qeexo pool party. |
June 28 | Karan defends his PhD Thesis! Congrats Dr. Ahuja! |
June 24 | Three papers conditionally accepted to UIST. |
June 23 | First time at Britts Donuts. |
June 22 | Oystering is surprisingly fun. |
June 19 | Kure Trip. Harrisons pretty much all settled in. |
June 16 | Swiftwater rescue training all weekend. |
June 7 | Last supper before Craig departs lab. Onward and upward! |
June 2 | Get back to US 4 days later than expected. |
May 31 | Depart Tirana. Waylaid in Vienna due to flight cancellations. |
May 17 | RIP Pip. |
May 14 | Start Bulgaria, N. Macedonia, Albania, Kosovo, Montenegro road trip. |
May 12 | Catch up to Amy in Portugal for sponsor event. |
May 10 | Road trip ends in Venice; head to Munich for LMU talk and Sven. |
April 30 | Converge with Ogans in Slovenia. |
April 27 | Berlin fun. |
April 22 | Depart for CHI in Hamburg. Awesome papers to present. |
April 15 | "Win" rafting category at SlipFest with D&A. |
April 11 | Catch up with Desney after way way way too long. Sud proposal. |
April 3 | MIT Tech Review article on Mites. |
March 18 | Trundle Manor. Erin shindig. |
March 16 | PhD Open House. |
March 12 | Drive north for Bill's bday. Explore The Villages. |
March 2 | Vacay in Key West. |
January 23 | Back into gear for some killer UIST submissions. |
January 18 | Begin long flight home from Brunei. |
January 17 | Three CHI papers conditionally accepted. Lots of work to do. |
January 12 | Four-day jaunt to Borneo for Miri, Mulu NP, Naih NP. |
January 10 | Hit Jakarta before pushing on to Brunei. |
January 6 | Get back to Ambon for flight to Yogyakarta. |
January 4 | TDK announces Qeexo acquisition at CES. |
January 3 | Bonus days on Bandas due to broken ferries. |
December 25 | Flight to Ambon, then prop plane to Banda Islands. |
December 11 | Off to Bali. Scooter, ferry and train our way to Surabaya. |
December 7 | In Singapore for start of big SE Asia loop. |
November 11 | Karan and Craig in full job search mode. |
November 1 | Nathan and Daehwa present their papers. Live demo! |
October 30 | Frame another wall. Depart for UIST in Bend, OR. |
October 26 | Amy back from 2.5 weeks of travel, mostly Ivory Coast. |
October 23 | Pizza party with D&L. |
October 23 | Arborist comes. Crazy woman emerges from forest. |
October 17 | Frame first wall of #2. |
October 12 | CONIX final review, back in-person. Tako Torta bar. |
October 10 | Russo returns to level land and retrieve big rocks. |
October 9 | Western PA Bird Fair. |
September 30 | Deliver closing keynote on impact in HCI. Dinner with Robert and Yang. |
September 28 | Pop up to Vancouver for MobileHCI. |
September 25 | Lab heads off to CA for sync up. |
September 24 | New River. Drop phone down latrine. |
September 23 | Upper Gauley. |
September 22 | ADECA departs for West Virginia. |
September 19 | Qeexo all hands dinner. Back to where it all began a decade ago! |
September 18 | Install footcups in CMU's bucket raft. |
August 29 | Daehwa joins FIGLAB! First day of classes (but not teaching). |
August 16 | Lots happening at Qeexo! |
August 14 | Sink installed. Running water! |
August 12 | Fab countertop for cabin. |
August 7 | Today Show segment airs. |
August 2 | NBC Nightly News story airs. Lester Holt says "wow". |
July 31 | DeVrio wedding! |
July 17 | Kick off 6-, make that 7-day Clarion Trip. |
July 13 | NBC filming. B&A visit PGH. |
July 4 | Finish ceiling trim. Roof party with friends. |
June 30 | Finish gutter and rain barrel. |
June 14 | Check out a bunch of equipment from CMU Explorers Club. |
June 7 | Fleet expands with arrival of two new duckies. |
May 21 | Cheat Canyon. Intense. |
May 20 | Cheat Narrows. Too easy. |
May 14 | Commencement. Yang and Gierad walk! Congrats Drs! |
May 5 | FIGLAB dinner, with colleagues old and new. |
April 29 | CHI 2022 kicks off in person. Reunited with J&E! |
April 15 | Finally warm enough to install roof. |
April 9 | Amy honored at Tartans on the Rise. Siewiorek retirement party. Carnival. |
March 19 | Toilet goes in. Siding starts. |
March 5 | Spring break in DR. |
February 27 | Fireplace stones go in. |
February 3 | First cone 10 class. |
January 23 | Interior walls and trim. |
January 8 | Insulation and front door. |
January 4 | Roof penetrations for chimney. |
January 2 | Windows start going in. |
December 25 | D&A Frame loft. |
December 15 | Miami & Keys for a few days. |
December 12 | Framing and sheathing done. Tyvek time! |
December 9 | First in-person departmental social event in years. |
December 5 | Roof rafters. |
November 27 | A&D frame a wall while we TG with Ogans. |
November 13 | Start framing walls. |
November 11 | Jim Morris farewell talk. |
November 10 | Karan presents his PhD Thesis proposal. |
November 3 | Place lumber order. |
November 1 | Last rafting trip of the season with Craig and Viv. |
October 31 | Start platform framing. |
October 30 | Massive roof sedum planting day. |
October 21 | University of Melbourne HCI Seminar. |
October 16 | Hoffman foundations. |
October 15 | Material drop at Hoffmann. |
October 12 | Future Mayor Ed Gainey visits lab for roundtable. BayCHI Talk. |
October 3 | Bring A&D out to cabin for first visit. |
September 26 | Demo complete for new roof staricase. Materials arrive tomorrow. |
September 12 | Visit Wheeling and Moundsville. |
September 9 | Big push for CHI. Pandemic sux. But students rock! |
September 6 | Vivian and James' FarOut paper accepted to SUI. |
September 1 | First day back in the Qeexo office. New offices too! |
August 31 | First day of Fall semester classes. Masked and in person. |
August 28 | Farewell to Cathy party. |
August 22 | Lower Yough with D&A, Erin and Amy in duckies. |
August 17 | Daehwa joins the lab. Welcome! |
August 16 | Make it to front page of Sunday PG with Karan. Above the fold! |
August 10 | Green roof tiles arrive. |
August 7 | Kayak camping down the Clarion for 5 days. |
August 4 | Roof repairs for rest of week. |
July 31 | Raft upper Yough. Don't think our tiny raft is up for it. |
July 28 | EyeMU paper accepted to ICMI 2021! Go Andy! |
July 27 | ARM Startup Day panel. Neema visits. |
July 24 | Start putting in steps from parking lot. |
July 11 | Western PA Bird Show has some very cute creatures! |
July 4 | Ogans visit with Emily. Eileen teaches Pip two new songs. |
July 3 | Pickup some weird stuff at Salvation before it closes. |
June 27 | Lab escape room and dinner social event. |
June 24 | Water meter swap. |
June 18 | Pickup zoning permit for Hoffman. |
June 17 | NSF Panel. Two Frays opens! Insurance adjuster visits. |
June 13 | Yang's Troast and crazy storm that rips roof off. |
June 11 | Checkout crazy radio station property with A&D. |
June 5 | Pip joins family. |
May 28 | Head to WV for New River Gorge and Gauley. |
May 27 | 24 hours of tourism in Charleston. |
May 23 | Head to Kure for R&R with Harrisons. Building planning. |
May 22 | REI returns. BBQ with David & Alex. |
May 13 | Bose Innovation Series talk. Zensors accepted to YC. |
May 10 | CHI begins. Lab presenting six papers. DHCS final bakeoff. |
May 8 | Mission spool-possible. Success. |
May 5 | Visit Audubon native plant nursery. |
May 4 | Get second jab. |
May 1 | First rafting trip of the summer at Slippy. |
April 27 | Lab frisbee golf social. |
April 25 | Polymath Park. Kayak North Yough from Whitsett to Smithton. |
April 24 | Girty's Woods trash collection. |
April 23 | Setup Etsy shop. |
April 22 | Earth Day volunteering at Girty's Woods. |
April 21 | Final approval and production begins at Broadly. |
April 20 | Give virtual talk at CMU Portugal. Checkout proof at Broadly. |
April 15 | Give talk at MSTC. Listen to Herron Hill Pumping Station lectures. |
April 8 | Get vaccinated. |
April 7 | All hands on deck for the UIST Deadline. |
April 5 | All the trees are blooming and its lovely. |
March 31 | ALT successfully purchases Girty's Woods. |
March 19 | Pickup bulk bird seed from StormWorks. |
March 10 | Lab picnic at Flagstaff. |
March 5 | Qeexo virtual team event. |
February 25 | Give IxDA Pittsburgh talk. |
February 24 | Pickup new ring for Amy. Call Sergei to get his help with Hoffman. |
February 20 | Art night with Bill and Mick. |
February 14 | Make first seriously nice loaf of bread. |
February 13 | Catch up with Gierad. Craig visits Pittsburgh. |
February 7 | Glue Erin's couch back together. |
February 5 | 50th Anniversary of Edgar Mitchell landing on the moon. |
January 16 | Start figuring out Gloomhaven. |
January 9 | Start clearing off Hoffman driveway. |
January 7 | Hoffman Closing. |
January 6 | WTF |
December 31 | Proper tires on the Jeep. |
December 25 | Harrisons in Pittsburgh for white Christmas. |
December 17 | Zensors moves into proper offices. |
December 16 | Setup our first Christmas tree in Pittsburgh. |
December 15 | Final day of the second weirdest semester. |
December 12 | Five papers conditionally accepted to CHI. |
December 3 | HCII virtual holiday party. |
November 25 | Big loop to visit family. |
November 12 | Begin quarantine in prep for family visit. |
November 3 | Election Day. Make offer on Hoffman. Complex closing begins. |
November 2 | Noreen successfully defends PhD! Congrats! |
October 31 | First visit to Hoffmann Hill. |
October 30 | Desk Reject brand is born. |
October 29 | Yang defends his PhD! Roof deck permits approved. |
October 23 | Return to the Yough. RV camping. |
October 21 | Plenary Speaker at (sadly virtual) TCL Technology Innovation Conference. |
October 20 | Virtual UIST kicks off. |
October 16 | Quest 2 arrives. Very impressed. |
October 10 | Raft the Yough. Pwned at Dimple Rock. |
October 8 | ARM TechCon "Machine Learning at the Edge" panelist. |
October 5 | Talk at U. Chicago distinguished speaker series. |
September 29 | Vivian joins FIG! Welcome! |
September 26 | Welding party in back yard. |
September 25 | Pandemic Legacy Season 2 arrives. |
September 22 | City attorneys working on case against Lamar. |
September 19 | Unpack new custom raft. Clearly a huge upgrade. |
September 17 | Massive CHI push is successful. Farewell for Sven :( |
August 31 | Demo complete at Erin's house. |
August 19 | Prepare to join CMU IRB. Gearing up for CHI crunch. |
August 17 | Nathan joins FIG as new Ph.D. student! |
August 14 | Meet with Nik to figure out in-class AV for Fall semester hybrid teaching. |
August 12 | Wish it could have been a week long. But fancy dinner was nice! |
August 10 | Begin three day kayak trip down Allegheny River. Excape games on river. |
August 8 | Emily wraps shooting on "My Story". |
August 6 | Garnetts visit. |
August 2 | Conemaugh river rafting with Barry. |
July 5 | Millvale to Downtown kayaking with Ogans. |
July 4 | Pittsburgh fireworks canceled, but Garfield didn't get the word. |
June 30 | 50th anniversary of video calling event with PGH Mayor and Alcoa Chairman. |
June 16 | Lab approved to carefully reopen and resume some research activities. |
June 11 | Pandemic Legacy Season 1 arrives. |
May 29 | With semester over, I finally get around to installing architectural lighting. |
May 19 | Roof camping begins as Pandemic worsens. Start playing Pandemic. |
May 7 | Weld Moroccan spikes and lanterns onto back fence. |
May 6 | UIST deadline under the weirdest circumstances. |
April 30 | Last day of (remote) class in a truly bizarre semester. |
April 18 | With excuse to get some fresh air, we visit first vacant land. |
April 12 | Start to unpack and get settled back in. |
April 11 | Make it back to US. Zero heath checks upon arrival blows mind. |
April 10 | Depart Rwanda a month ahead of schedule with great sadness. Hope to return. |
April 7 | Horribly ill with food poising? Rough 24 hours. But not COVID. |
April 5 | All packed up and waiting for final date of repatriation flight. |
April 2 | 2nd (and suggested final) embassy flight announced; reluctantly decide to go home. |
March 25 | US embassy announces repatriation flight, but we decide to stay. |
March 21 | Commission local artist to decorate Chukudu. |
March 20 | Rwanda closes borders and airspace, bracing for Pandemic. |
March 18 | After days of frantic rebooking, Erin flies to Canada before airspace closes. |
March 16 | Back in Kigali. Erin supposed to depart, but snafu with transiting through Europe. |
March 15 | Gisenyi and Lake Kivu. CMU Africa campus closed; classes now remote. |
March 14 | Stay on ridge between the twin lakes; surreal views. First Rwandan COVID-19 case. |
March 13 | Climb Bisoke. Very cool Afroalpine vegetation. |
March 12 | Head west. Buy chukudu en route. Creates a bit of scene though... |
March 11 | Scope our Kigali Convention Center for future conference possibilities. |
March 9 | Ten years in the making, I finally purchase a dugout canoe. Head back to Rwanda. |
March 8 | Arrive to Lake Bunyonyi a day late, but have time to unwind. |
March 7 | Salt mines. Serpentine belt disaster. Spend night in Ishaka. |
March 6 | Drive up to Uganda; Queen Elizabeth NP. Lots of animals; lions at 20' awesome. |
March 5 | Erin visits us in Rwanda. |
March 2 | Visit Livingstone–Stanley Monument. Fly back from Burundi. Airport shakedown. |
March 1 | Visit Royal Drummers in Gishora. Really amazing and the only people there. |
February 29 | Explore sights and sounds of Bujumbura. |
February 28 | Fly to Burundi. Cocktails by the beach. |
February 21 | Buy unbelievable number of Rwandan baskets for massive wall installation. |
February 20 | Pickup up CEPGL papers from Immigration Ministry. |
February 19 | CMU Africa alumni event. |
February 16 | Drive back to Kigali; Ogan's last night in Kigali. Roof cocktails. |
February 15 | Take in four of Africa's "Big 5" on epic tour of park. Ridge road amazing. |
February 14 | Two nights in and around Akagera NP. Elephants by boat first. |
February 13 | Visit market with Ogans; custom clothes. Pickup Land Cruiser for safari. |
February 12 | Take Ogans to Gatagara Pottery and King Palace Museum in Nyanza. |
February 9 | Start journey back to Rwanda for semester in CMU Africa. Dearborn lot sells. |
February 8 | Archery tag and then mostly kick back with Qeexo crew. |
February 7 | Team building exercises and fancy dinners. Great to see everyone. |
February 6 | Fly to Austin for Qeexo company retreat. |
January 22 | Fly back to US to wrap up outstanding business and continue research. |
January 21 | Pickup commissioned furniture and kitanga art. House looking better. |
January 17 | Weekend drive to Gatagara Pottery and King's Palace Museum in Nyanza. |
January 14 | Collect rental car and move into AirBnB. Start getting settled. |
January 13 | Semester kicks off at CMU Africa. |
January 12 | Start long journey from Merida to Kigali. |
January 11 | Uxmal with Harrisons. |
January 10 | Unbelievable wedding at Hacienda Sac Chich. Big congrats to B&A. |
January 9 | Barbershop and wedding reception. Amy's accidental crocodile swim. |
January 8 | Cuzamá Cenotes with gaggle. Parador X’Tohil cenotes too. |
January 7 | Drive to Villahermosa, stopping at Palenque en route. Fly to Merida. |
January 6 | Bonompac & Yaxchilan. Night crocodile tour. |
January 5 | Splish splash around Las Nubes. Drive to Lacanjá. Rejected from Los Domos. |
January 4 | Chinkultic. Laguna de Montebello. Erin departs. Stunning drive. |
January 3 | Comitan. Cascades el Chiflon. Lagos de Colón. |
January 2 | San Pedro and Zinacantán. Hermosillo Metalisteria bat lock. Amatenango. |
January 1 | Big walking tour of the city. |
December 31 | Chorreadero caving. San Cristóbal de las Casas for New Year's. |
December 30 | Boat up El Sumidero Canyon. Dinner in Tuxla. Pumpo! |
December 29 | Depart for Mexico, Tuxtla Gutiérrez. |
December 27 | Back at CMU to wrap projects. |
December 20 | Depart to see family for holidays. Sad to miss Qeexo curling. |
December 19 | First attempt at creating Picturephone internals. |
December 18 | Final dinner before travels with Bill and Mick. |
December 17 | All hands Qeexo Pittsburgh dinner with Sang. |
December 16 | Pickup motorcycle after puncture. |
December 13 | DHCS final bakeoff. Semester over. |
December 12 | Lube up Enigma machines. HCII Holiday Party. |
December 10 | Sync up with Brian. |
December 9 | Four papers accepted to CHI 2020! |
December 6 | Qeexo social at my place. Amy off to Rwanda. |
November 27 | In Richmond for Thanksgiving. |
November 23 | In NY for surprise. Kick back a bit. |
November 22 | Meetings in Philly. Dinner with Kaja and crew. |
November 20 | Guest lecture in Sensing and Sensors. |
October 28 | Ad hoc rafting adventure with Jason. |
October 26 | Halloween at LP's. |
October 25 | Anniversary wraps. Pitt homecoming fireworks. |
October 24 | HCII 25th anniversary celebration kicks off. Reception at Warhol. |
October 23 | Yang presents Sozu and ActiTouch. Head home. |
October 22 | Tour of NOLA's very cool IT command center. |
October 21 | Karan presents MeCap and LightAnchors. Demo reception. |
October 20 | Depart for UIST in New Orleans. |
October 16 | CONIX all hands annual review. |
October 10 | Present at ARM TechCon on future of smart devices and ML. |
October 8 | DHCS Bakeoff 1. Depart for ARM TechCon in CA. |
October 7 | Forensic disassembly of CMU's two enigma machines with lab. |
October 6 | Doors Open Pittsburgh super fun. Big thanks to all the volunteers. |
October 2 | Start prepping for UIST demos. LightAnchors release. |
September 30 | Hiking in lovely McConnells Mill State Park. |
September 29 | Decompress a bit at Buhl Mansion. |
September 25 | First physical investigation of CMU's AT&T Picturephones. |
September 20 | CHI deadline. Big Crunch, but it all comes together. |
September 15 | Dinner with Bill and Mick. Catch up on summer adventures. |
September 13 | Qeexo paintball outing. |
September 11 | ACM UbiComp kicks off. Karan and Gierad presenting three papers. |
September 10 | Back home. CHI crunch begins. |
September 6 | Give my parting Fellows talk; indebted to the Packard Foundation. |
September 4 | In Bay Area for business, Packard Fellows meeting. |
August 31 | Spider unexpectedly joins family. So sweet. |
August 29 | Booth arrives after long journey from China. Assembly a bit of a beast. |
August 28 | Celebratory send off at Hofbrauhaus for Tim with Qeexo PGH team. |
August 27 | Teach first class of the semester. |
August 23 | Amy finally home after a busy summer of research. |
August 21 | Scott and Patrick join crew in 407 Craig. |
August 20 | Two days of Ph.D. communication talks kick off. |
August 19 | New Ph.D. orientation kicks off. |
August 18 | Depart for home, via Zurich. All bags make it. |
August 17 | Terri flies home; helps take back some whopper checked bags. |
August 13 | Pull into museum under surprise refurbishment. Unload and unwind. |
August 12 | Set off, loaded with fossils, back to the National Museum in Dar. |
August 11 | Pack up camp and prep for departure. Now with dogs. |
August 5 | Morani return in tense standoff. All hands community pow wow. |
August 4 | Morani intrude at dinner. Unresolved issues. |
August 2 | One day field school with visiting students. Terri arrives. |
August 1 | Amy departs for her own field work. Wild ride out of camp. |
July 31 | Unusually heavy rain liquifies roads. |
July 18 | Deploy solar array. Internet looks like a no-go this season. |
July 17 | Pickup rest of team. Arrive at Laetoli and pitch camp. |
July 16 | Set off for field. Nyama choma at Picnic. Night in Arusha. |
July 15 | Pack Land Cruisers. Final prep. |
July 14 | Decompress on Bongoyo Island. Quick shopping expedition to Mwenge. |
July 12 | Sven debugging Trump tax and containerized shipping complexities. |
July 8 | Bag delayed, but all equipment eventually arrives safe. Field prep begins. |
July 6 | Depart for Dar es Salaam. |
July 4 | Kick back on roof for Garfield fireworks. |
July 2 | Qeexo PGH dinner with Sang. |
June 29 | Test solar array, GPS loggers and field equipment. |
June 27 | HCII Happy Hour. |
June 26 | Gierad defends Ph.D. thesis on Context-Driven Implicit Interactions. |
June 25 | Ian arrives in PGH for summer internship. |
June 22 | Four papers accepted to UIST. Meet Amy in Chicago for AIED. |
June 20 | UIST Program Committee meeting at Stanford. Booth for lab ordered. |
June 16 | Depart for business in California. |
June 12 | Link up with Ogans in Ocean City. |
June 7 | Faculty First Friday at our place. |
June 4 | ClassInsight California deployment progressing. Zensbbq at Chip's. |
May 28 | Relaxing and detoxifying walk along cliffs of Howth |
May 27 | Trinity College and Book of Kells. |
May 26 | Explore sights and sounds of Dublin. Guinness Brewery tour. |
May 25 | Teeling Distillery. Greyhound racing. Beheading. Copper Face Jacks. |
May 24 | Dublin Bohemians football game. |
May 23 | Depart for Dublin lads party. |
May 22 | First HOST meeting. Banjo night with Lilian and Dominik. |
May 21 | Yang presents his Ph.D. Proposal. Congrats and welcome party. |
May 20 | Sven arrives! Newest member of the FIGLAB! |
May 18 | Penn Ave cleanup. Roundtable with David Kelley. Hood Robert. |
May 13 | Noreen Ph.D. proposal. DHCS final bakeoff. Semester over. |
May 9 | Hire RV for weekend explorations with Jason, Eliane, Walker, and Amy. |
May 5 | Depart for ACM CHI in Scotland for week. |
April 12 | Plaque unveiling for CMU's first computer. Farewell to Jesse :( |
April 5 | UIST Deadline. Ben and Terri come to visit. First Friday. |
March 22 | Party with Walker until the wee hours. "Who's here for dodgeball?!" at Spirit. |
March 21 | Ph.D. open house. Meet with Andrew Meade McGee on computing history. |
March 16 | Back home. UIST projects coming together. |
March 15 | Explore Santo Domingo sights. Night on the town with Bachata dancing. |
March 14 | Off to Santo Domingo. Rio Damajagua waterfalls. La Cumbre amber mines. |
March 13 | Mostly chill. Beach combing. Playa Sousa for sunset. |
March 12 | Boat over to Los Haitises National Park. Continue to Cabarete. Nagua cheese! |
March 11 | Relocate to Tree House Village. Cascada Limón. Sunset on Playa El Valle. |
March 10 | Boat to Playa Fronton and Madama. Afternoon at Playa Rincon. |
March 9 | Loving the direct flight to Dominican Republic. Land and head for Las Galeras. |
February 20 | Alex and Bridget in da burgh. Drinks & dinner. New mattress arrived too! |
February 19 | Amy receives Moran Professorship. Dinner with Morans super fun. |
February 13 | Qeexo social outing. Wheel mill was seriously fun. |
January 23 | Sang in town for Qeexo Pittsburgh all hands. |
January 17 | Cathy joins the lab. |
January 13 | Amy returns from field work. Semester starts. Research gearing up. |
January 9 | Erin, now faculty at Pitt, to live with us for a few months. |
January 8 | Push on to Casablanca for plane back to US. Amy off to Ivory Coast. |
January 7 | Visit Chellah, Hassan Tower. Antiques store tempts final purchases. |
January 6 | Harrisons drop car while Amy and I stay in Rabat. Serious hammam treatment. |
January 5 | Stunning morning drive to Rabat; exploring main sights with Harrisons. |
January 4 | Chefchaouen super cute. Literally made for instagram. |
January 3 | Morning in Meknes, delicious pastries. Arrive in Chefchaouen. |
January 1 | Explore Fes for two days. Hammam. |
December 31 | Push north to Fes, stopping at Cedar Gouraud + monkeys. |
December 30 | Up for sunrise over dunes. Depart camp for mine tour and fossils. |
December 29 | To Khemliya, via Dades & Todra gorges. Camel to desert camp with Gnawa music. |
December 28 | Telouet, salt mine, Tizi N'Tichka, Aït Benhaddou, stay in Agoulzi. |
December 26 | Explore Marrakech's speciality souks, main sights. |
December 25 | Pickup car, depart Casablanca for Marrakech. |
December 24 | Depart for Morocco. |
December 23 | After much battling, and many trips to HD, Garnett sink is installed. |
December 20 | In Richmond for few days before holidays. |
December 11 | HCII faculty mini retreat at Indigo. Jason Hong endows two chairs! |
December 8 | Delicious dinner with Bill and Mick. VR fun. |
December 6 | Buy antique fire extinguisher for speakeasy. Zensors holiday party. |
December 5 | Air Force demos. HCII holiday party. |
November 29 | Wide ranging dinner conversations with Kori Inkpen. |
November 23 | Eileen's debut performance at Pittsburgh CLO. |
November 22 | In Pittsburgh for TG. First guests in speakeasy. |
November 17 | Three tons of gravel arrives for the lot. Heavier than it looks. |
November 15 | CHI reviews out; rebuttals begin. |
November 12 | Engadget team arrives to film for two days. |
November 9 | HCII Happy Hours returns! Mulled cider on the Gates terrace. |
November 6 | Midterm elections. |
November 5 | No dice with Hamilton tickets. Upgrade SodaStream to 20 lbs CO2 tank. |
November 3 | Pickup costumes. Halloween Party at LP’s. |
November 2 | First Friday walkabout with junior faculty. |
October 30 | TiE Pittsburgh Keynote at AlphaLab Gear. |
October 27 | Start building speakeasy bar with Tom. |
October 26 | Build wine rack. Downtown galleries and Knights of the Arcade. |
October 25 | Bartinale in town for long weekend of fun and fabrication. |
October 18 | Oculus Go arrives. Very impressed for price. |
October 15 | Lab presents two papers. Vibrosight picks up best paper nomination. |
October 14 | Depart for ACM UIST in Berlin. Impressed with Wow air. |
October 7 | Finish tin ceiling install. Trim next. |
October 6 | Words cannot express my disappointment. |
September 30 | Start speakeasy renovation begins. Buckets full of coal dust! |
September 29 | Sell old motorcycle. Bettye Lavette concert with Bill and Mick. |
September 26 | CONIX annual meeting. Unbelievable quantify of work going on. |
September 23 | Hit WW2 museum before heading back to Pittsburgh. Extremely impressive. |
September 21 | Wrap CHI and jet off to New Orleans for Qeexo US offices retreat. |
September 10 | CHI crunch is officially here. All hands on deck. |
September 5 | Off to Packard Fellows retreat and 30th anniversary in San Diego. Ear hell. |
September 6 | Team Z kickoff and dinner. |
August 31 | Noreen passes Oral Qualifier. Congrats! |
August 25 | Alloy at Carrie Blast Furnaces art opening. Bump into Niki and Carissa |
August 24 | Dinner at Fish nor Fowl. Impressed. |
August 20 | Farewell Robert dinner. Unforgettable seven year ride. |
August 19 | Drive home via Sandusky for Toft Dairy and lake views. |
August 18 | Explore Detroit with Jason & Eliane. Steve & Ashley wedding! |
August 17 | Drive to Detroit, via Youngstown for Brier Hill pizza and Handel’s ice cream. |
August 14 | Sell Saab. Old motorcycle next on list. |
August 12 | First assault on the lot. Maybe half way there? |
August 10 | Combined dinner with Mick and Bill. |
August 9 | Harrisons visit for long weekend. Much chatting and tea. |
July 30 | BBQ at Bigham’s for summer interns. |
July 26 | Finish writing Interactions magazine cover story. |
July 21 | Weld second new trellis with Amy. Climbing roses. |
July 20 | Explore new Tepper building. Save Albright Church canvasing. |
July 19 | Kayaking with Qeexoids plus dinner at Penn Brewery. Geoffrey send off. |
July 15 | We can’t resist the call of succulents any longer. Buying spree. |
July 13 | First official deployment of ClassInsight sensors. |
July 11 | Denise in town. Discuss HCI and paleontological field work possibilities. |
July 7 | Off to Ocean City to kick back with Ogan gang. |
June 28 | Sang in town. All hands Qeexo PGH dinner. |
June 23 | Yang back for one weekend to wrap Electrick boards. |
June 21 | Escape room with Qeexoids, followed by drinks at Strange Roots. |
June 16 | The Huntington is amazing. Succulent collection is world class. |
June 13 | Off to LA for long weekend. Balboa Island, UCI, LA, Malibu. |
June 9 | Weld new trellis with Amy. Onion dome is sweet! |
June 2 | Buy new motorcycle after 15 years on my trusty CM250C. Carissa’s Party. |
May 30 | Robert’s Ph.D. defense and toast. Congrats Dr. Xiao! |
May 29 | Julia and David in town for a few days. Catch up. |
May 26 | Pretty Up Penn Ave cleanup. Ioby exceeds $2500 goal. Hat's off to Nina! |
May 25 | Gierad proposes thesis work. Amazing work lined up for home stretch. |
May 24 | Summer research officially kicks off by welcoming amazing interns. |
May 18 | Depart for long weekend in Kure Beach. Chill with Harrisons. |
May 16 | Evi’s last day in the lab. Best of luck in your future endeavors! |
May 15 | IMWUT deadline. Then drinks, dinner and escaping with Elena. |
May 14 | Dinner with Kevin and Brian at Federal Galley. |
May 10 | AUTM panel. Tim and Colleen in town. |
May 9 | CONIX meet and greet at Pizza Taglio. |
May 8 | DHCS final bakeoff. NSF deadline. |
May 5 | Test drive a bunch of cars and motorcycles. Time for a transport upgrade. |
May 2 | Last day of class. Gearing up for summer. |
April 28 | Lazy breakfast, hiking, then spa day. |
April 27 | Via Ferrata is so much fun! Poutine then sugar shack. |
April 26 | Head north to Laurentian Mountains. Stay in tree houses. |
April 25 | Montreal bagel showdown: St-Viateur vs. Fairmount. No contest. |
April 22 | In Montreal for CHI. Use weekend to explore with old friends. |
April 18 | Banjo night with some junior faculty. |
April 14 | CMU China Summit Panel. Trees are all flowering and it makes me happy. |
April 10 | John Cage “prepared piano” music at CJ with Bill and Mick. |
April 6 | Archery outing with team Qeexo. |
April 5 | Soju opens! And it's delicious! |
April 4 | Push a bunch of excellent research to UIST 2018. |
March 27 | Anuraag and Gierad pitch at McGinnis Venture competition; 1st place. |
March 25 | First Zensors box is deployed on my roof for stress testing. |
March 24 | Start restoring 114 year old entrance tile. Gonna look amazing. |
March 23 | HCII Ph.D. open house at our place. |
March 19 | CBS crew in the lab filming projects and interviewing people. |
March 13 | In California for sponsor meetings. |
March 12 | In Atlanta for Cheng Zhang’s Ph.D. thesis defense. Congrats Dr! |
March 10 | Bill’s 70th! |
March 8 | Dosa extravaganza with Qeexoids at Udipi. |
March 4 | Art night with Lee. |
February 21 | Zensors box v1 is constructed. Getting real. |
February 18 | Visit CMNH, Bearded Lady Project, orchid show. |
February 17 | At Denise’s for Chinese New Year. |
February 15 | UbiComp deadline. Honored to be named a Sloan Fellow. |
February 8 | Lunch at Choolaah. Interesting concept. |
February 2 | Sending out loads of Mites to interested companies. |
January 31 | Competitive axe throwing with Qeexo crew. |
January 28 | Dinner with Bill, Mick, Anne and Brad. |
January 27 | In California for CONIX kickoff and Qualcomm talk. |
January 23 | Meet with Campus Design about Forbes Ave. Cools guys. |
January 20 | Paint closets, one of the last rooms left untouched. |
January 18 | Ethereal Ball HCII Happy Hour. |
January 11 | HCII Faculty Retreat at Bedford Springs. |
January 8 | RIP Disney Research Pittsburgh. Thanks for all the amazing memories and research. |
January 6 | CHI camera readies and lab upgrades. |
January 5 | Back in PGH to kickoff semester. |
January 1 | Head home to snowy NYC. Chill with Harrison’s before semester starts. |
December 31 | LxFactory. Museum do Azulejo. Amy departs. Aquarium. New Years! |
December 30 | Quinta da Regaleria, Pena Palace, delicious dinner. |
December 29 | Belem Tower, Pastel de data, many museums and ceramics by the kg. |
December 28 | South to the Algarve. Cape Saint-Vincent. Time Out Market. |
December 27 | Explore Évora. Megaliths. |
December 26 | Feira da Ladra. Sesimbra. Alfarim procession. Pavilhão Chinês. |
December 24 | Train to JFK, fly to Lisbon. |
December 22 | Fireplace is a masterpiece! |
December 20 | Finish laying down wood floor for Garnetts. |
December 18 | Drive from Mechanicsburg to Richmond. |
December 14 | Qeexo tour of Cinderlands Brewery, plus drinks and board games. |
December 12 | DHCS Final Bakeoff. Semester almost over. Zensors heating up. |
December 12 | DHCS Final Bakeoff. Semester almost over. Zensors heating up. |
December 9 | So proud to see two of my Ph.D. students go to first CHI PC. |
December 8 | Hillman Professorship for Ken! HCII Holiday Party! |
December 7 | Huge Qeexo milestone: 100 million devices with our ML engine. |
December 1 | Detour to Harrisons for weekend. Persian dinner. |
November 30 | With Amy in NYC for CMU 50th event. Awesome alumns. |
November 29 | Catch up with Lana over dinner! Intel Outstanding Researcher Award. |
November 22 | Etown for Thanksgiving. Buy my first suit! |
November 20 | Host BTI folks at FIGLAB. Imaginarium with Qeexoids. |
November 17 | Speak at Road to Global Entrepreneurship Summit. Movie props sale. |
November 16 | Qeexo conf rooms named: Splashy, Frolic and Nimbus. Dinner with Shiri. |
November 13 | Honored to receive A. Nico Habermann Chair in Computer Science. |
November 10 | In Phoenix for Ruth’s wedding party. Ian, Scott, Erin, and Ido! |
November 8 | On Pittsburgh 2025 Panel with Fitzgerald, Russo, Singh & Cestello. |
November 2 | Home upgraded with whole house humidifier. Dinner with Lee and Dara. |
October 27 | Julia visits! Celebratory Qeexo dinner. |
October 25 | Au revoir Quebec. Head home with new ideas. |
October 23 | ACM UIST 2017 kicks off! Program chair duties almost complete. |
October 22 | Build custom bar stools with Ogans. Depart for UIST in Quebec. |
October 20 | Visit Butler Technologies; friendly people and fascinating tech. |
October 18 | Campus walk with Andrew, dinner with Jared. |
October 17 | Engaging George Takei talk, but stump him on independence movements. |
October 12 | Catch up with Aubrey over coffee. Named as Hambermann Chair in CS. |
October 7 | Pick up stripped doors. Farewell dinner for Justine w/ Bill and Mick. |
October 6 | Host junior faculty for drinks and Penn Ave crawl. LP! |
October 5 | "Local on the Rocks" with Kevin and Brian. Boozy. |
September 30 | New granite for master bath arrives. Commence work on built-ins. |
September 28 | Have Qeexo crew over for sundowners. |
September 27 | Thrival AI panel pretty meh. |
September 26 | Dinner with Dara and Lee. |
September 19 | Survive CHI deadline. Post deadline celebration at Porch. |
September 18 | Rajen joins Qeexo family. ML engine now shipped on 80M devices. |
September 12 | Luau themed HCII Happy Hour pretty insane. Kayur in town. |
September 11 | Two new Ph.D. students join FIGLAB, Yasha and Karan! |
September 10 | Discuss research with my CS heroes Reddy, van Dam and Lazowska. |
September 9 | Fly home. Attempt to clear plate in prep for CHI madness. |
September 7 | Packard Fellows meeting for next three days. Inspiring group. |
September 6 | Productive day of packed meetings. Drive into Monterey late. |
September 5 | Busy day capped with Google IoT Tech Talk. Surprise dinner with Alex! |
September 4 | Off to Silicon Valley for week of meetings and events. |
August 31 | Sharif gives us tour of Safi Juice renovations. Dinner with Lee and Dara. |
August 28 | First day of classes. Kickoff collaborations with ASU. |
August 17 | Cheng Zhang thesis proposal talk. Congrats. |
August 16 | Drive and then fly back home from Grand Manan. |
August 14 | Gierad on NPR's All Things Considered. |
August 10 | Start lazy week of beach combing and chatting with Brewers. Bliss. |
August 9 | Fly to Maine, then drive to Grand Manan. |
August 7 | Amy in Philly for meetings. First time for me, so explore. Cheese Steak. |
August 6 | In Etown for family gathering and memories. |
August 2 | Head to Harrison homestead for few days R&R. |
July 26 | Riverhounds game with Qeexo crew (getting really big). |
July 25 | Brad and Ann over for sundowners. |
July 19 | Global Learning X-Prize celebratory dinner at Jack's. Congrats! |
July 17 | Dirty cops, toll roads, no gas money and other adventures on way to MEX. |
July 16 | Inlaid wood at Santa María del Río, Mines & cheese at Mineral de Pozos. Querétero hotel. |
July 15 | Explore San Luis Potosi. Hipster food and drafts. |
July 14 | Zacahuil for breakfast. Enjoy San Luis Potosi's museums and architecture. |
July 13 | 500M sinkhole repel. Sunset at Cave of Swallows. Wet pickup home. Aquismón. |
July 12 | Wander Xilitla. Rafting with Mundo. Learn about James. |
July 11 | Jalpan to Xilitla. Explore Edward James' Las Pozas. |
July 10 | Explore Sierra Gorda. Cueva del Diablo. Cecina is relish! Night ATV. |
July 9 | Drive from Mexico City to Jalpan, via Tequisquiapan and Bernal. |
July 8 | Escape to Mexico for vacation. Meet up with Amy and Erin. |
June 22 | UIST PC kicks off in Pittsburgh. |
June 10 | Brad's 60th Birthday bash at Carnegie Science Center. |
June 5 | Qeexo hackathon starts. |
May 28 | Brittany and Elijah's wedding in Charlottesville. |
May 25 | Visit Intel in Portland. Lots of good connections. |
May 23 | Start three day loop of West Coast; Bay Area first. |
May 19 | Harrisons visit for weekend. Gardening. |
May 15 | Final Bakeoff for DHCS. Start battling through post CHI emails. |
May 14 | Back home in PGH. |
May 13 | Mountain biking followed by Arches NP until sunset. |
May 12 | Repelling around Moab. Canyonlands NP for sunset. WSJ coverage. |
May 11 | Depart for Moab with Steve, Jason, Eliane and Amy. |
May 8 | Electrick video goes viral. |
May 7 | Depart for ACM CHI in Denver. |
April 13 | Lots of lab demos for inaugural HCII Demo Day. |
March 29 | Robert presents his thesis proposal. Passes. |
March 6 | Kickoff week-long Mites constellation data collection study. |
February 22 | First episode of Crash Course Computer Science airs! 40 to go! |
February 21 | Welcome Ravi and Will to the Qeexo ML team. |
February 16 | Qeexo + Wahila Creative mixer. Bowling with Jae and Jason. |
February 10 | Carnegie's Millions with Bernstein and junior faculty. |
February 1 | Scotch HCII Happy Hour was a hit. |
January 28 | Chinese New Year feast with Denise in Cleveland. |
January 27 | Drinks with new neighbors Brad and Ann. |
January 17 | First day of classes. |
January 8 | Back in da 'Burgh. Unpack and prep for start of year. |
January 4 | Back in US. First stop is Richmond to see family. E-Town tomorrow. |
January 3 | Final push to Balmaceda. "Gas Station" hunt. Fly home via Santiago and Dallas. |
January 2 | Marble Caves by boat and glacier views on foot. |
January 1 | Drive to Puerto Río Tranquilo. Unbelievable Lupins and scenery. |
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December 31 | Stunning drive to Coyhaique. |
December 30 | Plunge further south. Hikes along route. Stay in funky Puyuhuapi. |
December 29 | Drive and ferry south to Chaitén. Parque Pumalín hike. |
December 28 | Flight to Puerto Montt. Pickup SUV for Carretera Austral. Hornopirén NP. |
December 27 | Visit historical sites. Afternoon ferry to penguin-filled Magdalena Island. |
December 26 | Bus back to Punta Arenas. Explore town's sites and sounds. |
December 25 | Morning hike up above Glacier Grey. Ferry and car back to Peurto Natales. |
December 24 | Final push to Glacier Grey. New year eve's dinner celebration. |
December 23 | Stunning views of the Cuernos, avalanches on Glaciar Frances. |
December 22 | Beautiful day two. Weather clears. End in Albergue Los Cuernos. |
December 21 | First day of 'W' trek. Hike to Torres del Paine view. Torrential rain. |
December 20 | Bus to Puerto Natales. Prep for hike. |
December 19 | Arrive in Punta Arenas. Rendezvous with Harrisons. |
December 18 | Off to Chile for winter holiday. |
December 15 | Move into new Qeexo office! Epic upgrade. |
December 14 | Student eval meeting all day, followed by HCII Holiday Party. |
December 12 | DHCS final bakeoff. End of year camera ready push begins. |
December 10 | Explore Denver. Star Wars consume exhibit, Bar Faust, Hop Alley. |
December 8 | Last day of classes. Depart for CHI program committee meeting in Denver. |
December 7 | New Qeexo office build out almost complete. Painting starting soon. |
December 5 | SCS concentrations meeting. Refinance with FNB. |
November 30 | Qeexo escapes room in record time, followed by cricket-heavy dinner. |
November 23 | Aubrey stops by Qeexo. Volunteer packing Thanksgiving dinners. |
November 15 | Mmmm.. Hot mulled cider at HCII Happy Hour. |
November 11 | Erin loves escape rooms; second in 24 hours. |
November 10 | Hiroshi Ishii visits CMU. Brewpub neighborhood town hall meeting. |
November 9 | Erin Walker returns to the Burgh. |
November 8 | Robert presents DIRECT and CapCam research at ACM ISS. Trump. |
November 6 | Congrats to Kelly and Erik; best puzzle wedding ever. |
November 3 | Party at Essig's new project. Impressive renovation. |
November 1 | IRB full board meeting. Ian Cheng visits lab for demos. Bakeoff 2 in DHCS. |
October 29 | Parents in town. Food, long walks, pet expo, gardening, and so much chatting. |
October 27 | Big lab sync up. Start to coalesce research agenda. |
October 22 | Jim+Iris wedding at National Aviary. Congrats! Fun and lots of old friends. |
October 21 | Jason, Eliane and Stephen back in town. Feel's like old times! |
October 20 | Back in PGH. Jet lag is a monster. |
October 19 | Robert presents latest EIT research. ViBand also picks up Best Talk award. |
October 18 | Hats off to Gierad for live demo during ViBand talk. Best paper award! |
October 17 | Yang presents work on AuraSense. UIST Demo session big success. |
October 15 | Depart for ACM UIST 2016 in Tokyo! |
October 14 | R&P meeting. Celebrate with Ogan clan over dinner. |
October 12 | Decision made – Qeexo PGH moving to sweet new digs in East Liberty. |
October 7 | Drinks with Dow, Klemmer and junior faculty crew. |
October 6 | HCII Happy Hour on Gates Terrance. "Siewiorek Old Fashioned" very tasty. |
October 5 | Qeexo fun! Escape room, Voodoo Brewing, Cafe 33 and Hidden Harbor. |
October 3 | Welcome three new Qeexoids(?) to ML team: Mike, Dan and Geoffrey. |
September 28 | Jason in town for new Qeexo office blitz. Bicycle heaven & dinner. |
September 21 | Another frantic CHI deadline done. Hats off to Gierad, Yang and Robert. |
September 13 | Qeexo's fourth birthday. Amazing how far we've come! |
September 8 | HCII Happy Hour featuring a stiff "Lemon Drag & Drop". |
September 3 | Hang with Julia like old times. Cognac + Yuvraj = danger. |
September 2 | Have Qeexo crew over for drinks and first friday food trucks. |
September 1 | Dinner with Aubrey. Catch up on five years of missed chats. |
August 25 | Semester kicks off with HCII Hofbrauhaus reception. |
August 24 | Congrats to Robert on his two ISS paper acceptances. |
August 21 | First floor commercial space build-out complete. Came together real nice. |
August 19 | Begin long long journey home. Awesome craft loot makes it in one piece. |
August 17 | Unpack expedition gear in Dar es Salaam. Feasting, but mostly cleaning. |
August 16 | Medevac Richard. Everyone wishing him a speedy recovery. |
August 15 | Camp teardown, Endulen market day, last fossils of the season. |
August 12 | Sweet hyena cranium! |
August 8 | Arusha supply run. Amy returns! |
July 23 | Arusha supply run. Amy departs for her ed tech fieldwork in Mugeta. |
July 18 | Depart for field. Enforced email break begins! Sooo.. Ready.. |
July 12 | Depart for Tanzania, via Addis Abababa. |
July 7 | HCII Happy hour, this month with a "Text on the Beach". |
July 6 | Carrie Furnace tour and happy hour with Qeexo crew. |
July 5 | Jason in town. Best wishes to Nishant and Danny. |
June 26 | Super productive weekend of nothing but writing grants. |
June 23 | 3200 lbs of flooring delivered. Only one here to move it inside :( |
June 22 | Meet up with Ian, Beth and friends for drinks downtown. |
June 20 | After way way way too long, catch up with Gene and Karen. |
June 13 | Jae Shin visits Qeexo Pittsburgh. Dinner at Pusadees with whole gang. |
June 11 | Carrie Furnace tour with Ogans. Pipe organ paint and install. |
June 9 | First floor commercial space build out begins. |
June 6 | Josh starts at Qeexo. ML team firing on all cylinders. |
Jun 1 | First HCII Happy Hour is a success. Seize the Dey popular. |
May 27 | Ben and co. come to town. Fun weekend all over the city. |
May 22 | First fireplace in Butler fully rehabilitated, and it's a beaut. |
May 16 | Back in the burgh. Present to CMU trustees. Sang & Mike in town. |
May 13 | Escape to Big Sur to kick back with Amy, Stephen, Jason and Eliane. |
May 10 | Yang presents his work on SkinTrack. Video already at 250K views. |
May 9 | Robert presents his MSR internship research to packed house. |
May 8 | Off to CHI '16 in San Jose. Escape room with Julia and crew; missing clue! |
April 30 | Evelyn and Kevin Wedding. So sweet. |
April 14 | HCII Faculty Retreat in Cook Forest. We should do this every year! |
April 9 | Speak at OPT412 event. Dinner with Cheevers and Paul Graham. |
April 5 | Back in PGH. Dinner with Dan and Kate; tour their new North Side projects. |
April 4 | In D.C. for NSF CAREER Workshop. |
April 1 | In California for Ian and Beth's wedding; great to see so many old friends. |
March 28 | Masters of HCI Open House. Meet some amazing folks at the reception. |
March 18 | Ph.D. Open House kicks off. Stair steps refinishing begins. |
March 17 | Start investigating fireplace installation. |
March 12 | Pick up first batch of stripped mantles. Gonna be awesome! |
March 4 | Off to Yale for PRT. A most curious and motley crew. |
February 27 | Take four car-loads of mantles to Dip N Strip. |
February 25 | Dinner at Nak Won Garden with Leslie and Justine. |
February 13 | Crunch to get all graphics done for Qeexo booth at MWC. |
February 12 | Carnegie Museum of Art's FEAST series; Vietnamese and New Orleans fusion. |
February 10 | Qeexo team event. Escape Room, Voodoo Brewing, Dish, Acacia. Fun! |
February 6 | Finally get around to installing chandeliers upstairs. Order lights for first floor. |
January 25 | Qeexo family grows with addition of Leslie. |
January 24 | Begin trek home. Snow snarls travel. End up driving from JFK. |
January 16 | Depart for World Economic Forum in Davos. |
January 15 | Nail down semester projects. Meet Ivan Sutherland at CMU exhibit opening. |
January 8 | Return to the the burgh. Start prepping for semester and classes. |
January 5 | Depart for CES in Las Vegas. Clear skies in PGH, weather delays in Vegas?! |
January 4 | Unpack, prep for new year, freaky P.H. Butler human hair nets arrive. |
January 2 | Coffee plantation tour. Guatemala City museums and central plaza. Fly home. |
January 1 | Lazy walking tour of Antigua. Evening cocktails watching volcano erupt. |
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December 31 | Black salt from Sacapulas, Chichicastenango market, New Years in Antigua. |
December 30 | Visit Acul, amazing weaving, cheese farm and waterfalls. Boxboles for dinner. |
December 29 | Depart for Nebaj. Beautiful road to Laguna Magdalena. Afternoon in Chajul. |
December 28 | Spectacular hiking around Todo Santos. Weavers along route to San Martin. |
December 27 | North to Todo Santos. San Andrés Xecul & Momostenango market en route. |
December 26 | Car dying. Limp to Zunil, Fuentes Georginas Hot Springs. Swap to pickup. |
December 25 | Pick up rental car, west to Quetzaltenango, via Iximche, Godinez, Lake Atitlán. |
December 24 | Depart for Guatemala with Harrisons. Xmas fireworks insanity. |
December 19 | Kick back with Ogans in etown. Delicious food as usual. |
December 17 | Head to Richmond for holidays with Garnetts. |
December 16 | Black Friday meeting. Semester finally wrapped. |
December 14 | DHCS final bakeoff. Ridiculously huge trophy this year. |
December 12 | Dickens-Themed Ren Fair!? Burmese dinner with ol' Friendship House Crew. |
December 9 | Fly to California for meetings, CHI Program Committee, Jason & Eliane dinner. |
December 7 | Semester wrapping up fast. BOE visits CMU. |
December 6 | Prep final lectures, NSF reviewing, and hearty dinner with Bill and Mick. |
December 4 | Dow goodbye talk. First Friday on Penn. Free ceramics giveaway! |
December 3 | EM-Sense video passes 150K views. FingerAngle over 75K. |
November 30 | Qeexo dinner at Noodle Head to see off Danny. |
November 23 | First draft of WEF slides done. Last drinks with Dow? |
November 21 | In DC for JASON advisory board talk. |
November 17 | Off to California for Google+CMU IoT basecamp meeting. |
November 16 | Robert and Anhong present three papers at ITS. Yang's paper wins best note. |
November 13 | B-day drinks with Bob. Dinner with Stefanie Mueller and Chinmay. |
November 12 | Ishan gives talk on Gaze+Gesture at ICMI. Wins best student paper! |
November 11 | Gierad wins best talk for EM-Sense; presents work on 3D printed hair. |
November 9 | Gierad and Yang present their papers at UIST, both with on stage live demos. |
October 20 | James Pierce defends. Celebratory dinner with James, Eric and co. |
October 15 | JDI visits. Cool tech. Dinner with FIGLABers. |
October 14 | Wrangling with DPW pays off. Ramp looks good and we're ADA compliant. |
October 8 | Krzysztof visiting from Harvard. Penn Ave Phase 2 community meeting. |
October 5 | Danny arrives at Qeexo Pittsburgh. Time to bust out some math. |
October 3 | Groups visit from Midwest UX conference. FIGLAB demos galore. |
September 28 | Jim heads west to new Qeexo Mountain View office. |
September 25 | CHI deadline. Earlier submission time sux. Gallery crawl on Penn. |
September 21 | Garfield 2030 meeting and activities. |
September 19 | Happy owner of a Jeep Renegade. First new car I've owned. |
September 18 | Troast Dr. Wiese, who departs tomorrow :( |
September 10 | Packard talks are actually super fascinating! Learning much. |
September 9 | Depart for three-day Packard Fellows Meeting in Monterey, CA. |
September 2 | Mixtape opens :) Julia goodbye dinner :( |
September 1 | First day of classes. CHI paper stack building. Bantha opens at long last! |
August 29 | Mmmm... Tuck into a delicious brunch at Mankoff-Day residence. |
August 27 | HCII orientation, plus junior faculty drinks at Acacia. |
August 24 | PhD orientation kicks off. Robert, Gierad and Yang all back in town. |
August 21 | Robert, Yang and Anhong get three papers accepted to ITS. |
August 19 | Four-day Qeexo retreat. Amazing to see everyone together. |
August 18 | Congrats to Ishan on his ICMI paper. Bill and Mick for diner. |
August 9 | Manchester House & Garden Tour. Begin searching for new car. |
August 7 | HCII dreamcatcher seven-hour monster cut. Worth it though! |
August 2 | Delicious Indian brunch at Agarwal's house. |
August 1 | Cut sugar skull series; hand painting to follow. |
July 26 | CNC Mill some killer pantry doors. Save Albright Church block party. |
July 24 | The end of an era: Friendship House sells. |
July 21 | Thank you John A. for the excellent CNC training. Projects soon. |
July 13 | Close out URA Facade Grant. Thanks PGH! Looks great! |
July 11 | Start painting front doors. Pot new indoor plants. |
July 9 | Demo CapCam and TouchTools. Catch up with Fogarty, Ko, and Morrises. |
July 7 | Depart for Microsoft Research Faculty Summit. Glimpse the Holz. |
July 5 | In Richmond to see Cece and Emily. |
July 2 | ML "2.0" meeting. Emre departs for CA Qeexo office. |
June 26 | Qeexo goes to the ol' ball game. Pirates win! |
June 24 | Research sync up with Yang and Junhan. Roof chillin' with Walter. |
June 23 | Amazing new Qeexo hires (thanks Julia!). Next chapter starts now. |
June 21 | Depart for home. Amy off to Madrid for conference. |
June 20 | Trakai, Kaunas, Cold War Museum in underground ICBM base! Jūrmala dinner. |
June 19 | Explore city. Happens to be annual Vilnius Culture Night! |
June 18 | Drop Erin at Riga Airport. Hill of Crosses en route to Vilnius, Lithuania. |
June 17 | Bog shoeing and oh so many wild flowers. |
June 16 | Viljandi en route to Soomaa national park. Cutest cabin ever. Smoke sauna! |
June 15 | Explore Tallin's winding streets and delicious food. |
June 14 | Ferry back to mainland with very tired arms (35km!). On to Tallin, Estonia! |
June 12 | Red "cliffs", Pärnu, ferry to Vormsi. Begin two nights of sea kayak camping. |
June 11 | Meet up with Erin. Art nouveau buildings galore. |
June 10 | Start exploring Riga, Latvia. Ridiculously cheap dumplings. |
June 9 | Rendezvous with Amy at JFK. Depart for vacation in Baltics! |
June 8 | Accept offer on Friendship house. |
June 7 | Long stroll through Storm King. McDonald & Peacock Cider House opening. |
June 6 | Layover in NY for the weekend. Hang with mom. |
June 3 | In California for CMU and Qeexo meetings. |
June 2 | Put Friendship house on the market. "Steve" departs for Michigan. |
May 18 | Operation pushy pushy with Stephen and Amy. |
May 14 | HK Shella in town. Chat and drinks downtown. |
May 9 | Start prepping Friendship house for sale. |
May 4 | DHCS Final presentations. Great job guys! Semester almost over. |
May 1 | Parents in town for total garden makeover. Cars and cars full of plants. |
April 27 | Downtown with Sara and Laura for PERSAD art auction. |
April 24 | In Hong Kong with Amy for CMU alumni event. Humbled by the warm welcome. |
April 22 | CMU party is a blast. Hats off to Joonhwan and students for organizing. |
April 17 | Depart for CHI 2015 in Seoul, Korea. Students presenting three papers. |
April 13 | John Park and Sang in da 'burgh. |
April 11 | House wins Post-Gazette renovation contest. |
April 4 | Begin garden makeover. Step one: select building materials. PA Bluestone! |
March 27 | PhD open house kicks off. Sad farewell to Kevin! |
March 25 | Our "Giotto" IoT Expedition grant awarded by Google. |
March 24 | Scott and students honored with Allen Newell Research Excellence Award. |
March 21 | In Toronto to give talk and see Erin. |
March 6 | First Friday on Penn Ave. Spring Break offers a week reprieve. |
March 4 | Front facade demo begins. Trim and paint color selection soon. |
March 2 | Drop off bike at Slagheap, my new favorite cycle shop. |
February 26 | Catch up with Bilge. Lunch with Kevin and Brian. |
February 20 | Grants submitted. Global entry interview. Ikea run. |
February 16 | Great time meeting everyone at Bosch R&D Pittsburgh. |
February 13 | Evening drone build. It flies! Next up: Oculus + stereo camera HD rig. |
February 5 | UIST paper line up cementing. Inaugural pre-tenure faculty happy hour. |
February 2 | Apple visits, FIGLAB demos galore. |
January 22 | Ishan wraps up pico-internship. Lab dinner at Udipi. |
January 20 | Matcon comes to inspect vaults. Penn Ave reconstruction continues. |
January 18 | Off to San Diego on Qeexo business. |
January 12 | First class of the semester. DHCS better than ever. |
January 10 | After layover in Incheon and lunch with Bill, we're finally back at home. |
January 9 | Visit Sung Sot Cave. After lunch, begin long journey home. |
January 8 | Depart for Halong Bay. Kayaking in and around impressive karst islands. |
January 7 | Longer trek to Ta van, Giang Ta chai and Ban ho. Overnight train to Hanoi. |
January 6 | Colorful Coc Ly Market, check in to Sapa hotel, walk to nearby towns. |
January 5 | Explore Hanoi. Depart for Sapa on Night sleeper train. |
January 4 | Head to Huế. Marble mountain & caves. Imperial City. Flight to Hanoi. |
January 3 | Ferry over to Cẩm Kim island; bike around. Also Thanh Ha. |
January 2 | Lazy day to recover. Explore disneyland-esque cityscape. |
January 1 | Fly to Đà Nẵng, car to Hội An. Rent mopeds and head out to Mỹ Sơn ruins. |
2014 | |
December 31 | Đà Lạt by motorcycle. Linh Phuoc Pagoda. On Gizmodo's "top UX ideas" list. |
December 30 | Up early for six hours of primate tracking. Gibbon singing! |
December 29 | Arrive in Cát Tiên National Park. Primate rehabilitation center. Bike ride. |
December 28 | Cái Răng floating market. War Remnants museum back in Saigon. |
December 27 | My Tho, Vĩnh Tràng Temple, An Khanh, end in Cần Thơ. |
December 26 | Cu Chi tunnels, Reunification Palace, Emperor Jade Pagoda, city center. |
December 25 | Wrap up work and head back to Saigon to meet up with Harrisons. |
December 21 | Relocate to Châu Đốc for change of scenery; Bang Lang Storks. |
December 20 | Take morning break and visit Phong Điền floating market. |
December 16 | Depart for warmer weather in Vietnam. Settle down in Cần Thơ to work. |
December 15 | CHI notifications released. Three papers accepted. |
December 11 | Depart for CHI program committee meeting in Korea. |
November 27 | First Thanksgiving at the new house. Ogans and Harrisons over. |
November 20 | New York Times covers work in "In a Small Space, a Big Issue." |
November 19 | Dinner with Win at NOLA. |
November 17 | Yahoo and Qualcomm meetings. Thank you for supporting my lab. |
November 14 | HCII 20th anniversary celebrations kick off. Run electronics workshop. |
November 11 | Akif in town. Qeexo goes to Interstellar. |
November 2 | Amy returns from Chilean field work. |
October 28 | Jon Froehlich visits. Catch up over dinner downtown. |
October 21 | In California for Gigaom conference talk, Yahoo visit. |
October 18 | Robert gets capcam project rolling. Start new sculpture project. |
October 17 | Julia's Troast. "Life of Julia" board game. |
October 15 | Humbled to be a 2014 Packard Fellow. |
October 8 | Anthony presents Air+Touch work. Relocate to north shore for brief vacation. |
October 7 | Gierad gives talk on "Skin Buttons" research. UIST Luau! |
October 5 | Begin the long journey to ACM UIST 2014. |
October 3 | Yahoo InMind retreat. Angry Dans Banana Smash on Penn. Korean BBQ. |
September 30 | Robert cuts 4x8' Pittsburgh map. SCS Dean Dinner. |
September 29 | Return to US alone; Amy in Chile for field work. |
September 27 | Wedding: bands, puppets, tequila donkey, taco cart, fireworks and friends. |
September 26 | Buy lovely ceramics and 200 lbs. of tile in Dolores Hidalgo. |
September 25 | Base in Guanajuato; so lovely! |
September 24 | Submit NSF grant. Depart for Davidoff wedding. Robert prez at MobileHCI. |
September 22 | CHI deadline crush. |
September 19 | Steel City Tattoo Convention with Susan. Interviews. |
September 15 | Consumer Industry Transformations panel. |
September 12 | Back to Beijing for dinner with Mr. Zhao at Diaoyutai Guest House. |
September 11 | Consumer Industry Transformations panel. |
September 10 | "Betazone" session with Sri. Paul Jacobs. China PM plenary. |
September 9 | Bullet train to Tianjin. WEF Young Scientists kick off dinner. |
September 6 | Depart for World Economic Forum in China. |
August 26 | Hats off to Sunyoung and Stacey on their successful Ph.D. defenses. |
August 23 | Ogans in town. Prepare for CHI craziness. |
August 21 | First Ph.D. Communication Talks as faculty. Hofbrauhaus welcome dinner. |
August 19 | Students swarming back onto campus. "Qeexoids" bowling. |
August 18 | New HCI Ph.D. cohort arrives. Have Kevin and Brian over. |
August 16 | Super tasty dinner at Bill and Mick's. House tours. |
August 12 | Ishan's last day. Farewell! CHI heat ratcheting up. |
August 10 | Finally get internet at Butler house. Speedy. Meet Ishan's bro. |
August 7 | China Visa, Dave helps with stats, and MHCI graduation party. |
August 2 | Inaugural METALS students sendoff brunch. Fix up Friendship rear. |
August 1 | Give out free art for First Friday. Bump into Dan, Kate, Iris, Jen, and Erin. |
July 28 | Jury duty all day. Watch how the sausage is made and get paid $10.36! |
July 25 | Bayer Webinar. Front door finished. Intern + Qeexo party at new house. |
July 23 | Coal mine tour, scrapyard, mini golf, and dosas. |
July 22 | Ben, Shane and Ashlan converge on the 'burgh. Pirates game. |
July 18 | Visit crazy house on Bigelow. |
July 17 | Mom in town. Zoning hearing downtown. Welcome new Qeexoans. |
July 13 | In Seattle for Microsoft Faculty Summit. Old friends and new faces. |
July 11 | BoD meeting, Pebble crew, catch up with Christian. |
July 9 | Off to California for business meetings; sync up with Qeexo crew. |
July 5 | Start vestibule renovation with Ogans and Jason. Wrap other projects. |
July 4 | Ogans visiting. Celebrate on Butler roof; 360 degrees of Fireworks. |
July 2 | Visit Bayer USA and explore collaborations. Stock up on metal. |
June 26 | Back home. Time to finish moving in. Boxes boxes boxes! |
June 24 | Give talk about location comfort for on body projected interfaces. |
June 21 | Onward to Vancouver for ACM DIS 2014. Oddly jet lagged. |
June 20 | North shore sights redux. Snorkel with shark and sea turtles. |
June 19 | Start eating Monstera deliciosa fruit. Weird, yet wonderful. |
June 18 | Farmers market. Soursop and Pomelos, mmm.. |
June 16 | Monk Seal! Robert and Anthony's papers accepted to MobileHCI 2014. |
June 12 | Secret tunnels hike. Back at sunset, muddy and beat. |
June 9 | Connect up with Amy, Ruth and Erin at ITS in Hawaii. Depart for Kauai. |
June 5 | Drift through Bottom Dollar opening. Better than Aldi, worse than G'eagle. |
June 3 | Final inspection passes after eight months of construction by Essig crew. |
June 1 | Sang in town for Qeexo sync up. Evening furniture run with U-Haul van. |
May 31 | Move many many boxes to new house. End day with Eddie Izzard show. |
May 30 | James Pierce thesis proposal presentation. Catch up (briefly) at Brillo. |
May 29 | Qeexo Series A announced. Setup demos downtown for TMAC 2014. |
May 27 | Celebratory dinner with Justine and Leslie at Jozsa Corner. Crazy storm. |
May 25 | Powder coat railroad spikes for knobs; Robert CNC millin' at TechShop. |
May 23 | Friendship house crew drinks 20 year old Iron City. Not terrible. |
May 20 | Ishan kicks off summer internship. Ideas galore. |
May 17 | Grades submitted; semester officially over. HCII BBQ for graduates. |
May 13 | NSF/CCC visioning workshop. Think about grand challenges. |
May 12 | Great fun watching DHCS final pitches and demos. Drive to D.C. |
May 3 | Drive home. Stop in Buffalo for wings and Erie for ice cream. |
April 30 | Robert presents TouchTools research. CMU alumni dinner. |
April 29 | Live TouchTools demo. Drinks with Norman and Card at CMU party. |
April 28 | Gierad presents smartwatch work, followed by live demos at interactivity. |
April 25 | Hang with Harrisons before departing for ACM CHI. |
April 24 | NYU Alumni Award with Robinson, Ma and Windsor. Humbled. |
April 22 | Last lecture for DHCS. Last push for team final projects. |
April 16 | UIST papers due. Start work on CHI interactivity demos. |
April 3 | DHCS tiny text entry bakeoff. Max: 21 WPM on 1.25" touchscreen. |
April 2 | Go downtown for behind the scenes tour at Cher concert. |
March 31 | Lunch with Ren Ng. Grad appreciation TG. |
March 19 | Prospective HCII student visits kick off. Pick up FIG shirts. |
March 14 | Dinner and much chatting with Dan and Kate. |
March 7 | Walk Penn Ave for first unblurred event in a long time. |
February 26 | IEEE Spectrum visitors. Start testing house paint colors. |
February 25 | DHCS Pointing Bakeoff! Clicking galore. |
February 17 | In Munich to deliver opening keynote at TEI. Catch up with Eric. |
February 14 | Drywalling begins after electrical delay. Onwards! |
February 12 | Yahoo InMind announcement. Sang in town. |
February 7 | Group lunch with InterACT folks. Interesting research abounds. |
February 1 | Chill with KD and Zico. Grit and Grace, then Butcher and the Rye. |
January 31 | Hang TVs; lab almost fully up and running. Shop online by summer? |
January 29 | 1000 dowels sculpture starts. Growing quickly; will be huge. |
January 20 | Ben visits en route to St. Louis. Catch up. |
January 17 | Spray insulation starts at Butler Building; tile work progressing rapidly. |
January 10 | Move into new lab space, setup furniture. FIGLAB is born. |
January 8 | Sang and Jason visit for all hands Qeexo 2014 kick-off. |
January 7 | Teach first class as Professor. Ivan send-off party. |
2013 | |
December 27 | Lazy post-Christmas on the Jersey Shore with the Harrisons. |
December 24 | Head to Ogans for holidays, reconnect with Amy en route from India. |
December 19 | Windows arrive and start going in. Awesomeness. |
December 18 | Queenie flips the switch! Officially a "doctor". Dinner with Queenie. |
December 17 | 1600 pounds of tile arrives for bathrooms. |
December 16 | Kitchen cabinets arrive. Duolingo wins iPhone app of the year - go David! |
December 15 | Start prepping next semester class. Bighamfest 2013. |
December 11 | First "black friday" evaluation meeting as faculty. |
December 8 | Weld first section of three rivers railing for two story area. |
December 7 | Metal supermarket rocks. Print final dissertation copies. |
December 5 | Wood floors, soaking tub and appliances arrive at the new house. |
December 2 | In NYC for NYU alumni award film short. Mamoun's Falafel for old times. |
November 30 | Ogans visit Harrison homestead. Board games and way too many drinks. |
November 27 | Head east for Thanksgiving with Ogans. |
November 18 | Another awesome dinner with the Morrises. |
November 15 | Meet Eric Schmidt; show demos. Dinner at CMU president's house. |
November 12 | Amy returns from two months of travel. |
November 9 | Metal patinas + clear gloss powder coats = awesome effect. |
November 3 | Table frame fully welded. Start controlled rusting in backyard. |
October 29 | Business meetings all day; wrap with pitch at Sierra CIO summit. |
October 27 | Best burrito in recent memory at San Jose flea market. |
October 24 | Present “rich-touch” vision at Interactive Technology Summit. |
October 22 | In San Diego for Qualcomm keynote. Interesting talks. |
October 18 | Building permit approved. Tip of the hat to Jeremy, Dan and Sergei. |
October 13 | Head back to Pitts'burra'. |
October 9 | UIST conference starts. Robert presents Lumitrack. |
October 8 | Burrell Collection. Carnegie birthplace in Dunfermline. Drop off van. |
October 6 | Arrive in Glasgow. Give talk at university tomorrow. |
October 3 | Isle of Mull for three nights. Tobermory, Iona and Staffa. |
September 29 | Applecross Peninsula. Isle of Skye for four nights. Lots of hiking. |
September 28 | Drafted to give water to runners in Loch Ness Marathon. |
September 27 | Distillery tour, Inverness, then south along Loch Ness. |
September 26 | Pickup "spaceship" campervan. First stop: Cairngorms. |
September 24 | Head north to Edinburgh for two days; Sight see. |
September 22 | Stay with Tom and Kel in Newcastle. Visit Culture Lab. |
September 21 | Meet up with Amy in London. Explore. |
September 20 | Depart for UK. TEI reviews en route. |
September 18 | CHI deadline. A great year of research wrapped up. |
September 17 | Meet with Sergei and Dan to kick off renovation planning. |
September 13 | Qeexo celebrates first birthday. We've come a long way! |
September 11 | Finally close on house after two banks and five months. |
September 1 | Begin back porch renovations. CHI list growing. |
August 31 | Smartwatch hacking with Gierad and Robert. MHCI+PhD party. |
August 29 | Julia proposes thesis - congrats! Dinner with Andy. |
August 26 | Begin new faculty orientation. Taihei joins Qeexo! |
August 24 | Paragliding, Enrico's, set up Amy's office, and dinner with Ogans. |
August 20 | Defend dissertation work, troast, and celebrate! |
August 16 | Harrisons visit for week; sights and sounds of the city. |
August 5 | Erin Walker visits for week. Pace of CHI work picks up. |
August 4 | Long road back to PGH; break journey with coal mine tour. |
August 3 | In Binghamton for Dan and Sarah's wedding. |
August 2 | Garfield Night Market briefly, then hit the road NE. |
July 28 | Full draft of dissertation complete; sent to committee. |
July 24 | Wells Fargo pulls out, Dollar steps in. |
July 21 | Off to Park City, Utah for MMA Summit talk. |
July 13 | Busy wrapping up dissertation. Dive bar tour and Mr. Roboto. |
July 7 | Get data plan. Enter the modern world. |
July 5 | Head to Deep Creek for weekend. Good food and friends, plus boats! |
June 30 | Anniversary downtown. Walk all the way home. |
June 29 | Powder coating class at TechShop. |
June 24 | Butler house process tumultuous. Mom departs. |
June 20 | NBC visits. Mom in town for weekend of artistic endeavors. |
June 19 | From Portland to Cali for meetings. |
June 13 | Head west for Jason and Elaine's wedding. |
June 9 | Setup Qeexo R&D offices. Awesome space. Art coming. |
June 3 | Off to California for series of business meetings. |
June 2 | Bobby returns from China! Qeexo crew reunited. |
June 1 | The one and Oney returns! |
May 29 | UIST Program Committee meeting kicks off in Pittsburgh. |
May 24 | Owned motorcycle for 10 years! Rusty, but still running strong. |
May 17 | UIST reviews back, new Qeexo offices and HCII BBQ. |
May 11 | Lovely and lively dinner with the Morrises. |
May 6 | Filming for Discovery Channel series at lab and home. |
May 1 | Stephen presents Zoomboard. Offer accepted on new house. |
April 30 | Robert presents WorldKit. Catch up with old friends. |
April 24 | Depart for ACM CHI 2013. Arrive early to unwind and enjoy Paris. |
April 20 | Start prepping WorldKit demos and house hunting. |
April 15 | Decision made: Amy and I are thrilled to be joining the faculty at CMU. |
April 14 | Long walks, deep discussions, and extensive pros/cons lists. |
April 10 | Back in Seattle for return visit. iSchool folks warm and wondrous. |
April 7 | Night out in the 'burgh: Book of Mormon & Cambod-Ican Kitchen. |
April 5 | UIST projects submitted. Strongest year of DevLab submissions imho. |
April 3 | Back in NYC for return visit. Amazing potential. |
April 2 | Lumitrack CNC experiment wrapped. Karl rocks. |
March 24 | Toffee paper wrapped up for UIST. Aiming for three more. |
March 18 | Visit MIT Media Lab. Amazing people and research. |
March 13 | Columbia faculty candidate visit. Talk well received; enthusiastic bunch. |
March 11 | Interview at NYU. Great vibes and old friends. |
March 10 | Catch up with the Harrisons. Sync up with Amy in the city. |
March 9 | Fly to New York City. Dinner with Hesh and Hala. |
March 7 | Two days of great interaction during U.W. visit. Seattle very nice. |
March 5 | After several false starts, Robert gets Lumitrack 6DOF tracking working! |
March 2 | Stephen's sendoff. Party all night; end up at Club Pittsburgh. |
February 28 | Toffee data analysis complete and demo footage wrapped. |
February 25 | Filming in the DevLab for WQED story. TouchTools demo working. |
February 20 | Kick off 2.25-day interview at CMU. |
February 16 | Second valentines with Amy: ballet and dinner. |
February 14 | Two-day interview at MIT. Valentines dinner with faculty :) |
February 10 | Overnight in Cleveland to celebrate Chinese New Year with Denise. |
February 8 | Au Revoir Olivier party. Ivan DJ-ing is always awesome. |
February 6 | Head south for two days at Stanford. Dinner with Elyse. |
February 4 | Kick off two-day interview at UC Berkeley. Catch up with Eric. |
January 29 | First talk of the interview season at ASU. Catch up with Erin and Ruth. |
January 23 | Sang in town for all hands Qeexo meeting. HCII art show. |
January 22 | LG visit. Begin wrapping up Toffee project with MLSP students. |
January 19 | Work on house; paint three stories of central staircase. |
January 16 | Start organizing UIST PC. Hotel and restaurants first. |
January 14 | Spring semester kicks off. Last at CMU? Faculty job search begins. |
January 11 | Smithsonian: “Six Innovators to Watch in 2013” |
January 9 | Two days in Las Vegas for CES. Too.. Many.. People.. |
January 7 | Christmas day in Ethiopia. Stroll the streets of Addis. Fly home at 10pm. |
January 6 | Long haul down to Addis Ababa. Visit national museum. |
January 5 | All-day boat excursion to Lake Tana monasteries; Nile outlet and hippos. |
January 4 | Royal enclosure. Depart for Bahir Dar. Visit Awra Amba and Blue Nile Falls. |
January 3 | Spend morning in Semien mountains. Gelada baboons! Afternoon in Gondar. |
January 2 | Visit Finian. Crazy roads. Get stranded in Debark with flat tire and broken jack. |
January 1 | Explore Axum's sights. Obelisk impressive; more so after visiting quarry. |
2012 | |
December 31 | Drive to Axum. Wukro church, Teka-Tesfay cluster, and Adigrat market. |
December 30 | Head north via Sekota to Makele. Brutal roads, but stunning landscape. |
December 29 | Wander Lalibela's many rock hewn churches and monasteries. |
December 28 | Visit Hayk lake and market, shopping in Weldiya, push on to Lalibela. |
December 27 | Connect up with Harrison crew in Addis Ababa. Night in Kombolcha. |
December 26 | Depart for Ethiopia. Fourth continent in three weeks. |
December 21 | Make it to Ogans for holidays. Stretch, eat, drink, and be merry. |
December 17 | In Korea for string of meetings. Soak up Seoul. |
December 12 | Keynote address at Touch Gesture Motion Conference. Head home to PGH. |
December 11 | Visit UT Austin, give talk. Coffee with Di Fiore. |
December 6 | Depart for Paris. CHI program committee meeting for a few days. |
December 4 | Last faculty job application submitted. Whew! Back to research. |
November 29 | U. Wisconsin-Madison talk and meetings. Catch up with Bilge. |
November 26 | Prototyping User Interfaces guest lecture. |
November 22 | NY for Thanksgiving. Visit Andrew Carnegie's grave. |
November 19 | Bounce ultrasonic idea off Raj. Funky vein. iOS FingerSense Dev. |
November 17 | Fly home to Pittsburgh. Tackle CHI rebuttals. |
November 16 | Amy gives talk at MIT HCI Seminar Series. Backbar with Steve. |
November 15 | String of meetings with awesome people. Give talk at MIT. |
November 14 | Red eye in and out of Bay Area. All day meetings. |
November 13 | Meetings at NYU, guest lecture Computers and Society, NY Tech Meetup. |
November 10 | Fly to New York. Hang with Harrisons; Captain Lawrence. |
November 9 | Build new Touché doorknob demo. Hook Ivan up. |
October 28 | Sang visits. Prepare for Qeexo demos. |
October 25 | EmTech conference, TR35 award ceremony. Dinner with Meng. |
October 16 | Lunch with Peter Norvig and Jeff Walz. |
October 10 | Present research on Acoustic Barcodes and Capacitive Fingerprinting |
October 8 | Demo Capacitive Fingerprinting for UIST attendees and press. |
October 7 | Depart for Boston, UIST 2012. Dinner at Stampfers. |
October 4 | "Understanding Understanding" conference and Project Olympus talks. |
October 3 | GE Technovation. Intel Digital Nibbles Podcast. Dinner with Red Whittaker. |
September 28 | STREB Forces. Dinner with Robert. |
September 23 | Weld 'Pachycereus Paparazzei' sculpture with Amy. |
September 21 | Jersey Boys downtown. Ben leaves for work in Peru. |
September 19 | Papers off to CHI. Big turnout at Sharp Edge. |
September 15 | Wrap interviews for on-body interfaces paper. Weekend of writing. |
September 10 | Sit down with Chuck Geschke, Adobe Co-founder. |
September 8 | Brunch with U.W. crew. Meet Mune at Disney for UIST demo prep. |
August 28 | Sang and Minsoo in town for all-hands Qeexo meeting. |
August 25 | Back home! Ramp up for exciting semester! Let the job hunt begin. |
August 24 | Heading home with Cairo layover. Whirlwind tour of Pyramids and 'spinxy'. |
August 23 | Catch flight back to Dar. Last minute shopping and goodbyes. |
August 22 | Lazy day starting with long beach walk and ending with ocean dip. |
August 21 | Depart for Matemwe; spice tour en route. TR35 announced. |
August 20 | Explore Stone Town. Shopping, spices, and dinner at Sambusa. |
August 19 | Swim with wild dolphins, Jozani forest, Eid celebrations in Stone Town. |
August 17 | Relocate to Kizimkazi for super chill three days. |
August 16 | Snorkel, eat and kick back on lovely Chumbe Island. |
August 15 | Depart for "real" honeymoon on Zanzibar. |
August 13 | Back in Dar. Unpacking and recouping. |
August 12 | Pack up camp and begin journey south. Overnight in Same town. |
August 9 | Hominin finds! |
August 7 | Giardia + malaria double whammy. Spend night in Endulen hospital. |
August 6 | Day trip to Lemagrut and Olduvai Gorge. |
August 2 | Endulen market day. |
July 20 | Setup camp. Hit Locality 4 as warm up - a taste of the next 4 weeks. |
July 18 | Head north. Two nights in Arusha for prep and permits. |
July 14 | Load up at Mwenge carvers' market. Buy oversized breasted chair. |
July 9 | Land in Dar es Salaam, our home for 10 days. |
July 8 | Layover in Cairo for day. Meet Yahia. Museums and duty free. |
July 7 | Depart for honeymoon. Tanzania here we come, via Cairo! |
June 30 | Get married! Wedding is a blast. |
June 27 | Depart for West Chester with Erin and Stephen. Ogans first stop. |
June 26 | Surprise party for Eliane. |
June 20 | Get wedding attire for Stephen; Dosas at Udipi. |
June 14 | Meet Bosch team. On-body interfaces study kicks off on mturk. |
June 13 | Dinner with Julia and David. |
June 12 | Dave and Vivian stay with us during house hunt. |
June 11 | Dan and Sarah visit; kick back. |
June 7 | Off to UIST program committee meeting in Redmond. |
June 6 | Pick up self uniting marriage license. |
May 31 | BBQ by CMU fence. |
May 17 | Kitchen finally functional again! |
May 13 | Pack up camp; off to Vegas for one night. |
May 12 | Sleep in. Hike and rappel Keyhole. |
May 11 | Up early, grab equipment, hike Subway. |
May 10 | Present touchscreen shear paper. Jet to Zion National Park. |
May 9 | Iconic light behaviors and Phone as Pixel papers presented. |
May 7 | Touché presentation. Video goes viral. |
May 5 | Fly to Austin, Geordie Live Party, hang with Bartindale. |
April 29 | Weld elephant with Amy. |
April 28 | Thai feast with Amporn and David. |
April 24 | Qualcomm QinF presentation. Drinks and brainstorm with Robert. |
April 23 | UCSD CSE Colloquium talk. Red-eye to NJ. |
April 21 | Brunch in San Francisco with ol' HCII crew. |
April 20 | Speak at Stanford HCI seminar series. |
April 19 | Catch up with Johnny. Give Google Tech Talk. |
April 17 | All kitchen cabinets installed. |
April 13 | UIST deadline; first Friendship paper. |
April 6 | Slinging.org forum celebrates 10 years online. Will pass 200K posts by year end. |
March 30 | Lunch with Bryan at Google PGH. |
March 29 | Ian going away party :( |
March 22 | Open House kicks off. Reception at Friendship house. |
March 19 | Delicious Soba dinner courtesy of Justine. |
March 14 | Elijah's birthday - steaks and theatre. |
March 6 | Microsoft TechFest kicks off; demo OmniTouch to public. |
March 2 | Renovation continues: order kitchen cabinetry. |
February 29 | Give talk at NASA. Uhura has competing talk. Very interesting facilities tour. |
February 26 | Wedding planning. Venue, food, Airbender props, etc. |
February 24 | Leave for DC, Amy at NSF, hang with Parag. |
February 22 | CBC interview about on-body computing and natural interaction. |
February 20 | Present Armura work at TEI; wins best student paper. |
February 18 | Kitchen renovation continues: Drywalling galore. |
February 15 | Motorcycle tuned-up. |
February 14 | AIP crew films TapSense, interview. |
February 11 | Lunch with Brad Burnham. Begin kitchen renovation. |
February 9 | Coffee with Allen Hahn. DynaTAC 8000M arrives; mobile collection expands. |
February 8 | Pure java implementation of ARTags works surprisingly well. |
February 6 | Propose dissertation research. Now ABD. |
January 23 | Supercharge OmniTouch with Benko for live TechFest demos. |
January 21 | Finalize and send off proposal document to committee. |
January 17 | Nasty flu takes me down for a week. Blah. |
January 16 | Dinner with Mune before he departs. |
January 6 | Brunch with Brewers. Fly home to Pittsburgh. Gear up for semester. |
January 5 | Back to San Pedro Sula. Quick shopping. Fly to NYC. |
January 4 | Drive to Garifuna villages along coast. Explore lagoon, botanical gardens. |
January 3 | Depart Roatan for Tela. |
January 2 | West to Sandy Bay; more snorkeling. |
January 1 | Head to East End for sand and snorkeling. |
2011 | |
December 30 | Ruta Lenca. Opal mines in Erandique. Brutal roads. Yojoa Lake. |
December 29 | Hike Montaña de Celauqe national park. |
December 28 | Plunge south from San Pedro Sula to Copan Ruins, then onto Gracias. |
December 27 | Breakfast and Highline. Meet Harrisons; depart for Honduras. |
December 26 | New York Botanical Gardens, Nutcracker, NYC. |
December 21 | To Ogan's for Christmas. Unwind a bit. |
December 19 | Meeting with Phipps Conservatory. Forbes 30 under 30 in science. |
December 16 | Prototyping class final presentations. Hacking with Mune. |
December 9 | Back home, for now... |
December 7 | Depart for CHI program committee meeting in Boston. |
December 6 | Touché person identification works! Moira's defense party. |
December 2 | HCII holiday party. Brendan officially unveils multitocuh wall. |
December 1 | GSA beer tasting at Phipps. Motorcycle turns 30! |
November 28 | Guest lecture to PUI/SSUI class. Second Phone as Pixels test; ~90 devices. |
November 23 | To the Ogans for Thanksgiving and proposal writing. |
November 20 | Back to the 'burgh. |
November 19 | Quick stop to catch up with parents. |
November 18 | Meetings all day, roam city until 3am. PocketTouch on Giz, Engadget. |
November 17 | Fly to NYC for XRDS meeting at ACM HQ. Decide the future! |
November 16 | First large scale Phones as Pixels test. Flawless. |
November 13 | Celebrate Stephen's birthday paintballing. |
November 8 | Turn in cognitively informed interfaces book chapter. |
November 3 | ABC news interview airs. OmniTouch passes 1 million views on YouTube. |
October 31 | Armura paper accepted to TEI. |
October 28 | Motorcycle passes 10,000 mile mark. Halloween parties. |
October 21 | Interior design and art galore. Walker pad makeover! |
October 20 | Fly to Phoenix to see Erin. TapSense in Wall Street Journal, New Scientist. |
October 19 | Three talks in one day. TapSense hits blogosphere. |
October 18 | Saponas presents PocketTouch. |
October 17 | UIST student contest demo day! OmniTouch goes viral. |
October 16 | Depart for UIST in Santa Barbara. |
October 15 | Operation "missing finger" with Stephen, Christian and Robert. |
October 13 | Christian visits for 4 days. Action packed; 20% accuracy. |
October 8 | PhD+MHCI party @ Friendship House. |
October 5 | Meet with Stelarc. |
September 30 | Happoning.com is born. |
September 23 | Another CHI, a little bit grayer. |
September 20 | Film demos with Mune 'til sunset. |
September 19 | Granddad and co. departs. |
September 17 | Stephen returns! Yey! Momix at Byham. |
September 16 | Cambridge Footlights at CMU. |
September 15 | Granddad and co. come to PGH for long weekend. |
September 12 | Capture better "phone as a pixel" demo video. |
September 9 | Attempt mass "phone as a pixel" demo at TG. Further tweaking required. |
September 8 | Kick off research project with Brendan. |
September 6 | Alcatel-Lucent visit. Tasting menu at Toast. Yumm. |
August 29 | Give first lecture for PUI Prototyping. Photo wall is installed in HCII foyer. |
August 27 | Faculty-themed cocktails party. Celebrate the return of Jason! |
August 24 | Wrap up photo wall. Work late, then dinner at Justine's. |
August 24 | Build+Design event for PhD orientation. |
August 20 | Dan Fitz visits for weekend. |
August 19 | Lunch with John Stasko. Repay owed lunch :) |
August 12 | Wedding venue explorations. Visit Ogans and Galers. |
August 8 | Ben leaves and Ruth defends. Start gearing up for big CHI push. |
August 5 | Finally get a PA license. Junkyard run. BBQ. |
August 4 | Ben visits for long weekend, sees house for first time. Sandcastle. | | |
July 30 | Magnus Rex filming. Tumblers, guns and explosions! |
July 28 | LG presentation. QoLT keynote. Munehiko and Ivan impedance sensor project. |
July 22 | Magnus Rex costume fitting. Ogans visit for weekend. |
July 16 | Sarah Reeder visits for weekend. |
July 13 | Scramble to get winter XRDS issue figured out. |
July 12 | Heinz presentation on attention/social tracking work. |
July 4 | Quick peek at old gold mines, then back to Auckland for flight home. |
July 3 | Cathedral Cove, dig hole at Hot Water Beach, Whitiange spa, trailer in Thames. |
July 2 | Coromandel Peninsula, Driving Creek Railway, Kauri trees, stay at Hahei Beach. |
June 30 | Talk at NextSpace about research and viz projects. |
June 29 | Amy's Conference starts, chris works. Talk and lunch at U. Auckland. |
June 28 | 7-hour splish-splash up cave. Mind blowing glow worms. |
June 27 | Sheep sheering. Waitomo via Napier. Glow worm night walk. |
June 26 | Haurata farm house. Endless emerald-green hills and sheep. Catch up on work. |
June 25 | Edwardian spa tour, more kiwis. Drive along Bay of Plenty. |
June 24 | Waiotapu thermal area, Huka Falls, dip in Kerosene Creek, Maori dinner, Kiwis! |
June 23 | Meet up with gang. South to Rotorua. Ogo. |
June 22 | Sunrise Kayaking. Crazy antiques guy. Back to Queenstown, then Auckland. |
June 21 | Drive to Milford Sound. Part of Routeburn Track. Overnight cruise. Beautiful. |
June 20 | Puddle jump to Queenstown. South to Te Anau. Kepler Track mini hike. |
June 19 | Land in Auckland late. JetStar wrangling. |
June 17 | Fly to New Zealand |
May 30 | BBQ at our place. Stephen departs soon. |
May 26 | Home again. Junk room renovations for next week.. |
May 25 | Visit Galers. |
May 23 | Babysitting Emily. Williamsburg. |
May 22 | Ocean City, Lucy, Mac & Manco's. |
May 21 | Attend wedding in Atlantic City. |
May 20 | Almost lose a wheel en route to Galers. Change of plan. |
May 13 | Home again. Back with Amy. Ogans in town. |
May 11 | Present Kineticons research at CHI Conference. |
May 8 | Fly to Seattle for CHI. Jason fleeced. |
May 6 | Jill Duffy in da 'burgh. |
May 3 | Fly home. |
May 2 | Shopping, Bosnian pyramids, Croatian police, back to Budapest. |
May 1 | Explore curiously charming Sarajevo - warm and war torn. |
April 30 | Into Bosnia & Herzegovina. Mostar, Drežnica Valley, Sarajevo. |
April 29 | Properly explore Dubrovnik. |
April 28 | Scenic coastal road to impressive Dubrovnik. |
April 27 | The sights and sounds of Split. |
April 26 | Push south to Split; Šibenik for lunch detour. |
April 25 | Cave raft into Krizna jama. Into Croatia: friendly Rovinj. |
April 24 | Continue NW loop: Vintgar Gorge, Vršič pass, blue rivers, Škocjan Caves (crazy). |
April 23 | Puppet show. Start NW loop: Škofja Loka, Kranj, Bled til sunset. |
April 22 | Coal mine in Velenje, then onto Ljubljana. Explore charming capital. |
April 21 | Family friends, more info in Nova Mesto. Otočec castle. Partisanos concert. |
April 20 | Book it to Metlika, Slovenia. Amy's long lost relatives. Farm stay. |
April 19 | Explore Zagreb. |
April 18 | Ridiculous crepes & bath caves. Lake Balaton en route to Croatia. |
April 17 | Breakfast, then onto Aggtalek Caves. Night in Eger. |
April 16 | Explore city; railway museum. |
April 15 | Land in Budapest. |
April 14 | Wrap up UIST papers. Pack for Balkans. |
April 10 | Drafted for HCI water polo team. |
April 8 | Depart MSR. Thanks Benko and Andy! |
February 13 | Ski Stevens Pass. |
February 10 | Amy in Seattle for weekend. First leaded glass class. |
February 3 | Dr. Ogan. Celebrations. |
January 28 | Fly Home for Amy Defense. |
January 17 | First day back at MSR. *stretches fingers* |
January 16 | Chris returns to the Emerald City. |
January 14 | Art+design+archi+HCII Winter Shakeoff party. |
January 10 | Return to the 'burgh. Prepare for three months at MSR. |
January 9 | Hesh and Hala's reception. |
January 6 | Crank it back to Managua for flight home. Last minute shopping. |
January 5 | Jump and swim down the Somoto Canyon. |
January 4 | Plunge into the northern highlands, via León, to Esteli. |
January 3 | Kick back at Bahia Majagual. Watch starlit sea turtles dig, lay eggs. |
January 2 | North to Playa el Coco. Ride waves all day. |
January 1 | On to San Juan del Sur. Playa Maderas for waves and pacific sunset. |
2010 | |
December 31 | Motorcycle to San Ramón waterfalls. Crash and burn (bike and skin respectively). |
December 30 | Ferry to Ometepe Island. |
December 29 | Zipline 2km through canopy. Pottery in San Juan del Oriente. |
December 28 | Explore mansions, hospitals, bell towers, Las Isletas. Amy departs. |
December 27 | Laguna Apoyo, markets, Volcan Masaya, and caves with bats. |
December 26 | South to Managua to hook up with Harrisons. On to Granada. |
December 24 | León for Christmas festivities. Go clubbing?! |
December 21 | Nicaragua. Northward to Las Peñitas. Chill+work on the beach. |
December 19 | Base at Sámara beach to work. Last days in Costa Rica. |
December 18 | Explore Terciopelo cave. Subterranean proposal to Amy. |
December 17 | Go canyoning, rappelling. Then book it to Barra Honda. |
December 16 | Hike to curious Rio Celeste. |
December 15 | Depart San Jose; kick back in Arenal. |
December 14 | Make it to Costa Rica. With Amy :) |
December 13 | Ice-induced travel chaos in Atlanta. Hang with Lana. |
December 12 | Sell car. Goodbye red dragon... |
December 10 | CHI program committee meeting. |
December 4 | Send last sling from Slinging.org. Seven years of slingcraft. |
November 30 | ShareLight demos. Works, impresses. |
November 28 | Etown Thanksgiving. |
November 21 | Trans-Siberian Orchestra concert. Curious. |
November 18 | Korth visits CMU. |
November 12 | Paint door facade. Painted lady emerges. |
November 11 | CHI metas due, business club prez, dodgeball. |
October 30 | Rust belt morning, Warhol evening. |
October 29 | Pitt Homecoming, Jane, halloween begins. |
October 22 | HCI house party! |
October 20 | To the theatre; 39 steps. |
October 17 | French door molding completed. Many high fives. |
October 15 | Dan, Amy, and tall ladders. Paint house exterior. |
October 9 | Parents in town. |
October 5 | Catch up with Korth. SV party. |
October 4 | UIST kicks off. TeslaTouch demos rock. |
September 30 | Fly to NYC. Family before UIST. |
September 27 | Start to hang crown molding. Livin' it up like it's 1904. |
September 24 | CHI Deadline. Another year, a little bit grayer. |
September 19 | Friendship House Tour. Lots of ideas. |
September 18 | Film on-body computing demos with Shilpa. |
September 13 | Amy Departs. |
September 10 | Gearing up for CHI. Kineticon set complete. TipTap mobile. |
August 28 | Bleep Cabinet and j-dub b-day. |
August 23 | Start classes; welding! |
August 19 | Motocross training. Crazy. Burning. |
August 16 | New PhD's arrive; karaoke night. |
August 15 | Secret City round two. Catch up with gang for PGH hike. |
August 14 | BBQ at Ivan's house. |
August 7 | Stock up on paint. Upstairs bathroom almost renovated. |
August 5 | Tour Allegheny County Jail. |
August 1 | TEI deadline. |
July 24 | Finish restoration on Edmond House. Whew. |
July 18 | IEEE MultiMedia article on quality computing out. |
July 16 | Dragon Boat drummer. |
July 2 | Pink toilet sells, shipping adventure begins. |
June 25 | Gut powder room, begin renewal. |
June 23 | Pittsburgh Earthquake! |
June 22 | IEEE Computer article on appropriated interactive surfaces is out. |
June 7 | Kayak Russian River. |
June 1 | Flying trapeze. |
May 30 | Visiting LA. ACM XRDS launches; mailing to thousands. |
May 24 | Working in NYC. |
May 23 | Train to Harrisburg. Chicken Tandoori! |
May 21 | ATVing with Amy through mines and meadows. |
May 20 | Dinner with Ph.D. cohort. Restart force field haptics project. |
May 19 | Science with Olivier! |
May 14 | UIST reviews polished off. Allegheny Observatory tour. |
May 8 | Motorcycle gets fixed, tuned up. |
May 4 | Flying with ZQ. Capture aerial footage. |
April 28 | TechNewsDaily interview. Golan's class open house. |
April 27 | Meet with Rick McCullough. Tokyo TV interview. |
April 24 | Start IEEE articles. Dirty Ball. |
April 23 | Computer World interview. |
April 22 | Lecture for DHCS |
April 21 | Wall Street Journal Digits interview. |
April 18 | Secret City. Finish garden makeover. |
April 17 | CMU buggy & carnival; theatre. Start on garden. |
April 16 | Fly home. Parents arrive for weekend. |
April 14 | Four papers at CHI today. Karaoke. |
April 13 | Interviews with CNN, Reuters, KDKA. |
April 12 | Present Skinput. Live demo. Audience uses. Mono. |
April 11 | Depart for Atlanta; CHI 2010. |
April 7 | BBQ with friends and neighbors. Enjoy spring weather. |
April 3 | E-town for O-family events. |
April 2 | UIST Deadline. *wipes sweat from brow* |
March 26 | Skinput on BBC News front page for two days; most read story. |
March 26 | Open house reception at Friendship House. |
March 25 | HCII prospective Ph.D. students arrive. Festivities begin. |
March 19 | Decide to redo porch over weekend with Jason, John & Julia. |
March 14 | Gear up for UIST 2010 deadline. Demos and experiments. |
March 11 | Home sweet home. 860 emails! Skinput press. |
March 10 | Bus back to Guatemala City. Market Rampage. Return to PGH. |
March 9 | Swim cave by candle light. Limestone pools. Cobán. Jose "tour". |
March 8 | Volcán Pacaya. S'mores over lava! Bus to Semuc Champey. |
March 7 | Chicken bus; Chichicastenango market. Antigua Easter procession. |
March 6 | Jungle Sunrise. Explore ruins. St. Elena. South to Antigua! |
March 5 | Wander Flores. Miguel. Tikal: Sunset, night "tour", hammocks. |
March 4 | To Guatemala! Guat. City. Haggle Flores flight. Skinput on NPR. |
March 3 | Back in Pittsburgh for 20 hours. Work like mad. |
March 2 | TechFest 2010. Skinput rockin'. Redeye flight home. |
March 1 | Microsoft Research Ph.D. Fellowship award ceremony. |
February 28 | Depart for Seattle, Microsoft Research. |
February 26 | Disney Research electrostatic touch table slated for UIST. |
February 23 | Acrylic ceiling tiles arrive, DevLab looking pretty sweet! |
February 22 | Wrestling. |
February 19 | Weekend of house painting! Whew! |
February 16 | Hack together multitouch table with Olivier. |
February 15 | Back to Las Vegas for flight home. Hoover dam. |
February 14 | Round trip to Colorado river. Hike out. Night on the South Rim. |
February 13 | Descend into canyon for night. Plateau point for sunset. |
February 12 | Off to Grand Canyon for long weekend. Crank it to Williams, AZ. |
February 6 | Dig tent out, dig car out, dig neighbors out, warm shower. |
February 5 | Snowmageddon hits for a week. Camp in Frick Park. |
February 2 | Awarded Microsoft Research Ph.D. Fellowship! |
January 28 | Peg cap. |
January 28 | DorkBot Pittsburgh talk on data tapestries. |
January 26 | Give talk on Whack Gestures. Meet Meng for dinner. |
January 24 | Off to TEI, Boston. |
January 22 | Friendship house party. |
January 21 | Improv night. Lost wallet adventure. |
January 16 | Saturday. |
January 13 | Learn to unicycle. Reasonable. |
January 12 | West coast swing. |
January 11 | Back in the 'burgh. Six month countdown starts... |
January 9 | Drive to kingston, explore briefly. Port Royal. Ship wreck. Flight home. |
January 8 | Relax. Lovers Leap. Little Ochie for dinner. |
January 7 | YS Falls. Black River. Boat to Pelican Bar for sunset. |
January 6 | Accompong Maroon Festival. |
January 5 | Hit road again. Montego Bay briefly, through Cockpit country, Treasure Beach for a few days. |
January 4 | Depart. Visit Ochio Rios, Firefly estate. Stay in Falmouth. Phosphorescent lagoon at night. |
January 3 | Heavy rains. Rio Grande rafting in afternoon. |
January 2 | Along the north coast to Boston Bay. Jerk! Beautiful Reach Falls. |
January 1 | Off to Jamaica with family. Navigate car through Blue Mtns. Port Antonio by nightfall. |
2009 | |
December 29 | CHI camera ready scramble. |
December 27 | Drive to Etown; meet Amy. |
December 26 | Coffee with Paul Westcott, another old friend. |
December 24 | Meet up with Amy Kakkanatt. Long time no see! |
December 22 | Semester over. Fly to NY to unwind with family. |
December 17 | Brainstorm with Rob and Michael on Fall 2010 XRDS issue. |
December 13 | Hack together electrical fiduciary prototype with ZQ. |
December 12 | Five papers accepted to CHI. Wild. |
December 11 | HCII holiday party. |
December 8 | After essentially three weeks on the go, return home. |
December 6 | Fly to Seattle for MSR Fellowship interviews. |
December 5 | Hang out with Lana and Eugene. |
December 2 | Fly to Atlanta for CHI Program Committee meeting. |
November 30 | Unload truck all day. House looks rocking'. |
November 29 | Drive truck of furniture back to the 'burgh. Emily co-pilot. |
November 21 | Visit family, chill at home, much deserved break. |
November 20 | Hash out new vision for Crossroads; to relaunch as XRDS. |
November 19 | Fly to ACM HQ with Tom for Crossroads editors meeting. |
November 16 | Meet with Bayer Material Science. Interesting stuff! |
November 12 | Intel Labs Pittsburgh open house. |
November 10 | Tom Bartindale arrives for week. Fun and research ensues. |
November 8 | Go flying with ZQ! Burgh, CMU flyover. Awesome. |
November 6 | Attend first Disney Research Pittsburgh meeting. |
October 31 | Evaline. |
October 25 | Rob and Holly visit. Pumpkin carving! |
October 14 | Roommate Joseph departs the burgh. |
October 10 | Inhabited Web wins Best UI. Tvitter wins second best overall hack. |
October 9 | Meet Jill Duffy. Discuss future of ACM Crossroads. |
October 8 | Fly to NYC for Yahoo OpenHack Day. |
October 6 | Give Abracadabra talk. Announce SIC winners! |
October 5 | Student Innovation contest. Popular, cool ideas. |
October 4 | UIST kicks off in Victoria, BC. PSK contest. |
October 1 | Depart Germany for San Francisco. See Elyse. |
September 30 | VisComTec panel on interaction. Dusseldorf. |
September 28 | Begin CHI AC duties. |
September 27 | Depart for England. See Jane. |
September 24 | G20 arrives in Pittsburgh. |
September 19 | Precariously lower washer/dryer into basement. |
September 17 | CHI Deadline. Five papers submitted. |
September 15 | NSF SEVC deadline. |
September 9 | Elyse departs for Stanford. |
September 4 | Carrie Steel Mill exploration. |
September 3 | IKEA run for new Impact Lab. |
September 2 | Stacking fiducials paper accepted to ITS/Tabletop. |
August 23 | Begin week of unpacking new house. |
August 22 | Depart MSR, pacific northwest. |
August 15 | UIST SIC registration closes. Popular. |
August 14 | Shooting video for bio-acoustic demos. |
August 13 | Named as Editor-in-Chief of ACM Crossroads. |
August 10 | Two notes off to TEI 2010. |
August 7 | SIGGRAPH wraps up. Whew! |
August 2 | Beignets with Rob. Explore city. |
August 1 | Land in New Orleans for SIGGRAPH 2009. |
July 31 | Initial results crunched and look great. |
July 27 | Week of user studies begins. |
July 19 | Continue up coast, BBQ lunch, views, good times. |
July 18 | Sandboarding, coast drive, BBQ, camp in town park. |
July 17 | Depart for Portland. Explore. Eat. |
July 9 | Final hardware built for MSR project. |
July 1 | Family visits for a week. Seattle, Victoria, Vancouver, and more. |
June 26 | VIBE poker night at Greg's. |
June 22 | House closing. Done. Whew. Wee! |
June 9 | Abracadabra input technique accepted to UIST. |
June 6 | Digit interview. |
May 30 | Depart for Seattle, Microsoft Research. |
May 28 | Sony Ericsson presentation. |
May 27 | Last minute house items. Fly to NC. |
May 21 | Return home to catch up with family, recoup. |
May 20 | Find Renters for old apartment. |
May 12 | Wired interview. |
May 9 | Mom arrives for weekend. Scope out house; relax. |
May 7 | Star Trek movie. |
May 6 | Popular Mechanics interview. |
April 29 | Walk-through with inspector. Knowledge doubles. |
April 27 | Offer accepted! Own a house?! |
April 25 | Pwned on Graham. Set sights on Friendship Ave. |
April 24 | Last round of houses. Put offer on Graham St. |
April 23 | Houses round two with Esther. Stephen joins in. |
April 22 | First look at homes to buy, with Jason. |
April 17 | Buggy, Mobot races. Awesomeness. |
April 16 | Dinner with Steve Cousins. |
April 10 | Explore Boston with Elyse. |
April 9 | Present work on textural interfaces. |
April 7 | Aubrey presents work on visual reaction time. |
April 6 | Present work on deformable multitouch displays. |
April 5 | CHI kicks off. |
March 31 | Three papers off to UIST. |
March 26 | Battlestar Galactica finale at Stephen's. |
March 20 | New MacBook arrives. |
March 19 | HCII PhD open house. |
March 7 | Super Hero party. GI Joe. |
February 28 | Dan Fitz visits. |
February 26 | CBS story on HCII. |
February 20 | London Cuckolds show. |
February 16 | CMU homepage story. |
February 5 | Guest lecture HCI for non-majors class. |
February 4 | Invited to present at SIGGRAPH emerging tech demos. |
January 20 | Obama inauguration. |
January 18 | Ben Visits. Go Steelers! |
January 16 | Red Dragon registered for another two years. Wee! |
January 15 | Accept summer internship at Microsoft Research. |
January 12 | CHI camera ready deadline. Mad scramble! |
January 11 | Day in Entebbe. Swim. Botanical gardens. Begin journey home. |
January 10 | Return to Kampala. Eat. Shop. Soak up last rays of African sun. |
January 9 | Whitewater raft the Nile. |
January 8 | Hike to Sipi Falls. Drive south to Jinja. |
January 7 | Back to Uganda. Car overheats. Limp into Sipi. |
January 6 | Lake Nakuru National Park. Rhinos. Illness! Dig car out. |
January 5 | Hit the road for Nakuru. Menengai Crater. |
January 4 | Kakamega Forest. Primates. |
January 3 | Hunt for Meswa Bridge. |
January 2 | Push into Western Kenya. Kisumu. |
January 1 | No luck getting across the Rwanda border. Full speed back to Kampala. |
2008 | |
December 31 | Market by boat. Paddle around in dugout canoe. Kick back. Swim. |
December 30 | Hiking in Bwindi N.P. Push on to beautiful Lake Bunyonyi. |
December 29 | Hit up Ishasha in morning, Bwindi in evening. |
December 28 | Day in Queen Elizabeth N.P. Lions! Jaguar! |
December 27 | Semliki N.P. Kasese. See Batwa (pigmy) people. Afternoon in Q.E.N.P. |
December 26 | Chimpanzee tracking in Kibale National Forest. |
December 25 | Spend Christmas hiking the Rwenzori Mountains. |
December 24 | En route to Fort Portal. Rough road takes all day. |
December 22 | Nile River. Wildlife. Shores of Lake Albert. Forest fires. |
December 21 | Wrap up all remaining CHI edits. Depart for Murchison Falls N.P. |
December 19 | Mom and Ben arrive. |
December 16 | Scott presents 3D video conf. paper at IEEE ISM. |
December 12 | Spend week working on CHI papers, hanging out with dad. |
December 11 | Three CHI papers accepted. Depart for Uganda. |
December 8 | Interviewed on WORD-FM 101.5 |
December 1 | Return to the 'burgh. |
November 23 | Back to NY for Thanksgiving break with family. |
November 22 | Deliver keynote. Explore Munster. Drink with Karl, Else and co. |
November 20 | Depart PIT for Munster, Germany. |
November 15 | CHI rebuttals submitted. |
November 10 | CHI reviews released. |
November 6 | TEI '09 program committee invite. Ph.D. dinner at Aubrey's. Fajitas! |
November 5 | Dinner with Elyse. Fetched water. |
November 2 | Churrasco dinner with Brian. |
October 31 | Halloween with Joseph and Sarah. |
October 30 | Meet with Curt Stone. |
October 24 | Give iEPG talk at UXTV. Meet up with Julia & Judy in SF! |
October 22 | Present Placement-Aware Mobile Computing at UIST. |
October 21 | Present Scratch Input at UIST. |
October 17 | Joseph is new housemate. Whack Gestures to Pervasive '09. |
October 15 | Get yellow fever vaccination. |
October 13 | Bible viz to appear in 12/8 issue of SZ-Wissen. |
October 10 | Yahoo Hack competition. Inhabited Web nets 1st place, 5K. |
October 8 | Ultrasonic doppler round two. |
October 4 | Pittsburgh 250 fireworks extravaganza. |
October 1 | Present research at Intel Research Seattle open house. |
September 26 | Bible cross references visualization in Science. |
September 25 | Bible viz runner-up in NSF's SEVC. MSNBC, National Geographic. |
September 23 | First workout with Polo. |
September 19 | Four papers submitted to CHI '09. Internet Maps in Freitag. |
September 17 | Article on viz projects to appear in Oct. issue of Popular Mechanics Russia. |
September 15 | Internet Maps to appear in October issue of Physics World. |
September 13 | OpenMosaic launches. |
September 8 | Jump Mobile phone arrives. |
September 5 | Demo pneumatic tactile displays to GM. |
September 5 | Viz projects on MTV Engine Room website. |
August 27 | Internet Maps to appear in DAG. |
August 26 | Long summer comes to a close. Classes start. Feel energized. |
August 23 | Foam party. |
August 20 | 3D video conferencing paper accepted to IEEE ISM. |
August 20 | iEPG paper accepted to UXTV '08. |
August 17 | First projection tests for pneumatically driven tactile displays. |
August 14 | Rob Schatz visits. Baseball, concert and fireworks. |
August 13 | Motherboard Walls featured on Gizmodo, hack-a-day, others. |
August 11 | Nominated for SXSW panel. |
August 10 | Mix of long pools and riffles. Bald eagles. Pull out near Tionesta. |
August 9 | Had rainy night. Cook breakfast on raft. Appreciate nice weather. |
August 8 | On road early. Push off from Warren. Lightening terrifies crew. |
August 7 | Load raft on top of car, gear in back. Prepare mentally. |
August 6 | Get food for raft trip. Last items. |
August 5 | Bible visualizations on Reddit, others. |
August 3 | Internet map visualization used in Popular Mechanics. |
August 2 | Second raft float test successful. Ready to go. |
August 1 | Bible visualization to appear in Science as part of NSF SEVC. |
July 29 | Helping Hesham with iPhone app. |
July 28 | CollaboraTV UXTV paper accepted. Raft complete. |
July 27 | Pelmini party. |
July 26 | Pittsburgh water balloon fight. Raft float test. |
July 25 | Get barrels. Begin building raft. |
July 22 | Meet Julia, third rafter. Ben visits for a week. |
July 18 | After 6 years on Hesh's server, chrisharrison.net moves to pay hosting. |
July 17 | Early morning departure home. Bye Caucasus. |
July 16 | Taxi to Tatev. Swim in springs. Back to Yerevan; Khor Virap en route. |
July 15 | Southwards to Goris. |
July 14 | Explore Yerevan & Echmiadzin. Golden Apricot Film Festival. |
July 13 | See UNESCO monasteries, Push down to Dijian. |
July 12 | Davit Gareja. Cross into Armenia. Stay in Alaverdi, Debed Canyon. |
July 11 | Depart for Mtskheta. Gori in afternoon. Stalin museum. |
July 10 | Go for afternoon hike in mountains. |
July 9 | Arrive in beautiful Kasbegi. |
July 8 | Cross into Georgia. Telavi for the night. Alaverdi Cathedral. |
July 7 | See Seki, Kis, market, Khan palace. |
July 6 | Depart from Quba. Explore Baku. $5 overnight train to Seki. |
July 5 | Hike to Laza. Abandoned by guide. Hitchhike to Quba. |
July 4 | Xinaliq via Quba. Hassled by corrupt police. |
July 3 | Charter taxi to Qobustan petroglyphs, mud volcanoes. Run out of gas. |
July 2 | Explore Tbilisi. Depart for Baku, Azerbaijan, via overnight train. |
July 1 | Catch bus to Tbilisi, Georgia. Meet up with Stacey. |
June 30 | Land in Yerevan, Armenia. 23 hours of travel; stretch legs. |
June 29 | Modifying Internet Maps for use in Popular Mechanics article. |
June 27 | Speak with Modern Marvels producer about projectile weapon accuracy. |
June 23 | Scratch Input and Placement Detection papers accepted to UIST. |
June 21 | Rachael Carson Trail Challenge; keel over at mile 32 (of 34). |
June 17 | Pick up wigs for Turadg raft figure head. |
June 15 | Get permit for raft. HCII BBQ. |
June 11 | Researching raft river route. |
June 6 | Wireless access restored after 45-day suspension for traffic abuse. |
June 3 | Submit UIST rebuttals. Digg Rings on Infosthetics, other blogs. |
June 2 | Multitouch table finally built and working. |
May 31 | Submit to NSF Visualization Challenge. |
May 30 | Submit IRB forms for eight projects. |
May 29 | Aperture Magazine issue with Internet Map hits the presses. |
May 28 | UIST paper reviews. |
May 27 | ZQ sends first subliminal dialog test code. |
May 25 | Digg Rings visualization posted. |
May 24 | Word Association visualization posted. |
May 22 | O Boticário perfumes with Internet Map box art arrive. |
May 20 | Church Brew Works HCII dinner. |
May 17 | Help Stacey move to PGH. Motorcycle at last! |
May 16 | AT&T Labs files three more patents. |
May 14 | Book tickets to Uganda. |
May 13 | Metropolis Magazine call. ADAA Semifinalist. |
May 12 | Fly home. |
May 10 | Party at Chris and Clint's pad. |
May 9 | Acrylic restock. Trigrams viz on Google System, other sites. |
May 8 | Gadgets final, ultrasonic doppler demoed. |
May 6 | Texture Interfaces project kicks off. |
May 2 | Order SD1000 camera. |
April 30 | Trigram and Word Spectrum Visualizations finished. |
April 28 | Internet Maps run in Die Zeit. |
April 27 | Amazon book map visualization finally posted. |
April 26 | Prepare visas for Armenia and Azerbaijan. |
April 25 | Tele-present at "W(e are) here" exhibit party. |
April 25 | Get hold of Google n-gram data. Begin new viz project. |
April 24 | Begin researching subliminal effects. Project with ZQ. |
April 23 | Submit work for Die Gestalten's DATAFLOW. |
April 22 | Get ultrasonic doppler working. Magnetic fur materials. |
April 21 | Submit Pediluma to ISWC. |
April 18 | CollaboraTV paper submitted to CSCW. Assembling CV. |
April 17 | Final visualizations sent off to Migropolis editors. |
April 14 | Family Departs. Film parody orientation video with Brian. |
April 13 | Pamela's, Pirates game, National Aviary, PHIPPS, & CMU. |
April 12 | Ben, squash, family arrives, drinks and food. |
April 11 | Fly home. Finish Color Flower viz. Meet Ben in the 'Burgh. |
April 8 | Present Lean and Zoom at CHI '08. |
April 6 | Bologna with Aubrey. Dinner in tiny Italian town. |
April 5 | Tromp around Rome. Colosseum, Pantheon, Vatican and more. |
April 3 | Create Lost parody graphics. Depart for CHI. Color Flower viz. |
April 2 | Five papers submitted to UIST, one to UbiComp. |
April 2 | Production of homme/femme perfume begins. |
March 28 | Obama rally. Open House. |
March 26 | 3D Video Conferencing & Scratch Input submitted to UIST. |
March 25 | Run final participant for Scratch Input. Results strong. |
March 22 | Weekend of paper writing. Eight due in next two weeks. |
March 20 | Book tickets for Caucasus adventure this summer. |
March 17 | Wearable computing reaction time study kicks off. |
March 11 | Internet Maps to appear in Die Zeit. |
March 8 | XRD analysis complete on Oyukkiran Tepesi rocks. |
March 5 | OSNews runs story on progress bar research. |
March 4 | Helping with the History Channel's "Ancient Discoveries." |
March 2 | Progress bar research discussed on Coding Horror blog. |
March 1 | Internet Maps displayed in this month's GIS Magazine. |
February 28 | Order PCBs for wearable computing reaction time study. |
February 27 | National Post article on visualizations hits the press. |
February 25 | Tweak final progress bar study parameters with Zhiquan. |
February 24 | 3D video conference demo coded up. |
February 23 | Run sling workshops at CMU. Multispectral sensor built. |
February 21 | Visualizations to appear at Detroit's Museum of New Art. |
February 17 | Finish reorganizing and refreshing site. |
February 15 | New computer. Visualizing the Bible on Nack's Adobe Blog. |
February 14 | Sixth AT&T patent off to USPTO. |
February 14 | First round of Open Source Art interviews. Advisory Board. |
February 11 | Order screen materials for multitouch surface. |
February 10 | Visualizations to be included in Twin Cities exhibit. |
February 7 | Get 3D head tracking working with generic laptop webcam. |
February 6 | Man vs. Wild parody released. |
February 3 | First stab at scratch input graffiti alphabet. Not bad. |
January 26 | Begin clustering 700k Amazon books. |
January 25 | Internet map to appear in Aperture Magazine. |
January 25 | Story on visualizations to appear in (Canadian) National Post. |
January 24 | Bible visualizations to be featured in De:bug magazine. |
January 24 | Mo' board wall done. BibleViz project on BoingBoing, others. |
January 23 | Probabilistic Input and Scratch Write projects begin. |
January 21 | Invited to write chapter for book on Social Interactive TV. |
January 20 | Film Man vs. Wild parody. Brian cooks for new PhD's dinner. |
January 19 | Go skiing. |
January 17 | Mother of motherboard wall construction begins. |
January 16 | Visualizing the Bible project posted. |
January 13 | Head back to Pittsburgh for start of semester. |
January 12 | House parody debut party. Catch up with old friends. |
January 5 | Film House MD parody. |
January 3 | Slinging.org overhaul. Now using CMS. |
January 1 | Celebrate in deserted Mexico City Airport. Fly home. |
2007 | |
December 31 | Explore Campeche. Fly from Mérida to Mexico City. |
December 30 | Drive to Campeche. Uxmal and Kabah en route. |
December 29 | Wake to new flat tire. Visit Cuzama cenotes. Lose glasses. |
December 28 | Drive to Mérida. Explore Valladolid and Chichen Itza. |
December 27 | Puerto Moreles. Clusterball Mentioned on O'Reilly Radar. |
December 26 | Visit Tulum and Coba. Suffer two flat tires. |
December 25 | Unwind on the beaches of Isla Mujeres. Car used as taxi. |
December 24 | Arrive Cancún. Unpack and relax. |
December 23 | Depart NYC for Mexico. Delayed. Spend night in Mexico City. |
December 20 | Two papers submitted to Graphics Interface 2008. |
December 16 | Semester concludes. Drive home for break. |
December 10 | Lean and Zoom accepted to CHI 2008. |
December 10 | Pediluma accepted to CHI workshop on ambient persuasion. |
December 7 | HCII holiday party. |
December 5 | Aphrodisias documentary airs on the History Channel. |
December 5 | O Boticário to use Internet maps for perfume packaging... |
November 30 | Internet map to be included in bioinformatics textbook. |
November 29 | Part two of Progressive Image Loading study begins. |
November 28 | Royal Society Viz data to be included in Atlas of Science. |
November 27 | Internet map to be shown during Sao Paulo Fashion Week. |
November 27 | Pediluma appears to significantly increase physical activity! |
November 20 | Home for Thanksgiving. |
November 19 | Scott approves mother of motherboards wall. |
November 17 | Two-week-long Pediluma study concludes. |
November 16 | Internet map to be included in NSF report. Meet Zhiquan. |
November 13 | Helping to develop concept for web-themed NYC exhibit. |
November 12 | CHI reviews. First CMU patent disclosure. |
November 11 | Solder up 11 Pedilumas for Monday deployment. |
November 9 | Internet map to be included in book on digital explosion. |
November 8 | Quality of Life Technology Summit; poster session. |
November 7 | Pediluma platform now using PICAXE chips. |
November 6 | Working with Christoph Römhild on Bible visualizations. |
November 5 | Two-week-long Pediluma study kicks off. |
November 3 | Motherboard project for lab space. |
November 2 | NSF GRFP wrapped up and submitted. Whew. |
November 1 | Pediluma group project submitted to CHI workshop. |
October 27 | Party two; stick figures robust, but power hungry. |
October 26 | Stick figures assembled. Costume party numero uno. |
October 23 | Car fixed. Visit Freeride - Get new bicycle. |
October 21 | Shadyside scavenger hunt. 24 parody released. |
October 20 | Construction Junction and tissue paper hunt. Lamp done. |
October 19 | Motherboards en route. Gallery crawl. Stick figure idea. |
October 18 | Pediluma: tricks and swaps lead to 65% power reduction. |
October 15 | Open Source Art investigation kicks off. |
October 12 | Bicycle stolen. |
October 11 | Interesting Internet Map modifications trickling in. |
October 10 | Head back to Pittsburgh. Thoroughly exhausted. |
October 9 | Give progress bars talk - well received. |
October 8 | UIST Conference begins. |
October 7 | Internet Map project in Digg top 10. Fly to Newport, RI. |
October 6 | Volunteers helping to mirror terabytes of outgoing data |
October 5 | Internet Map, aka "The Chris Harrison Project" slashdotted. |
October 3 | Fencing Duel with Walker. Totally pwned. |
September 30 | ChrisHarrison.net sports new look. Chandelier picked up. |
September 28 | Pediluma prototype. SSA food, Luau, Phipps with Aubrey. |
September 27 | National Geographic Channel documentary in contact. |
September 26 | Pediluma presentation with Aubrey and Brian. |
September 25 | Family trip to Merida, Mexico booked. |
September 24 | Double scheduled meeting time with Scott. |
September 23 | New PhD's dinner party. Pediluma born. |
September 22 | Overhaul of website design begun. |
September 21 | 25th anniversary of emoticon at CMU. Book UIST trip. |
September 19 | Three CHI submissions. Randy Pausch's last lecture. |
September 16 | AJA Abstract on Extramural Land Division at Aphrodisias. |
September 12 | HCI P&T proposal: Energy-savvy GUIs. |
September 10 | Whack gestures study off to a bang; CHI project #3. |
September 8 | Content-aware bilinear interlacing image loading done. |
September 6 | Scott Hudson is my PhD advisor. |
September 4 | ClusterBall on display at Texas State University. |
September 3 | Royal Society Viz to appear in Places & Spaces exhibit. |
September 2 | First look at data from progressive image loading study. |
September 1 | Back at home for a week. |
August 31 | History Channel's Mummy Forensics producer in contact. |
August 27 | Lab ambient display project begins. |
August 22 | ClusterBall at University of Auckland, NZ. |
August 20 | Human-centric image transmission project kicks off. |
August 17 | CollaboraTV gearing up for CHI submission. |
August 14 | Get bed. Lean and Zoom targeted for CHI. |
August 12 | Move to Pittsburgh. |
August 11 | Paintball with Hesh, Olfat, Maha, Rob and Mum. |
August 4 | Internet Map to appear in New Internationalist's Diary '09. |
August 7 | Win UIST Cover Contest. |
August 4 | Finish Wikipedia popular pages visualization. Blue Marble. |
August 2 | Begin scraping all Wikipedia content for page links. |
July 31 | Submit camera ready UIST paper. Code up Lean & Zoom. |
July 28 | Filming day two; Bauer fighting on top of moving car. |
July 27 | Start filming 24 parody; Bauer attacks enemy stronghold. |
July 26 | Internet connectivity map viz completed. |
July 23 | 3,941 people visit Slinging.org today. Highest ever. |
July 23 | Seven patents submitted for AT&T Labs review. |
July 21 | Scope out a dozen houses in Pittsburgh. Clint to be roomy. |
July 18 | Lunch with Brewer, chat with Korth, dinner with Benson. |
July 12 | Progress Bar paper officially accepted to UIST 2007. |
July 11 | Gear up for move to CMU, Pittsburgh. |
July 9 | Fly home. Seven weeks of travel concludes. |
July 8 | Depart Jordan. Day in Istanbul: City walls, Pigeon Market. |
July 7 | Visit Jerash - well preserved Greco-Roman city. |
July 6 | Hit four desert castles. Return to Amman. |
July 5 | Dead Sea and the surprisingly awesome Wadi Mujib. |
July 4 | Hitchhike to Ma'an. Karak's crusader castle and Madaba. |
July 3 | Wadi Rum. Neo-Bedouin tour around desert; sleep outside. |
July 2 | Eleven hours exploring Petra. Coolest site ever. |
July 1 | Zip around Amman, burn rubber south to Petra. |
June 30 | Fly to Amman, Jordan. |
June 29 | Final day at Aphrodisias. Bus to Izmir, then fly to Istanbul. |
June 23 | Scramble around big cave in our valley. |
June 15 | Explore Antalya and Termessos. |
June 14 | Visit Aspendos and Perge. See Fire of Anatolia. |
June 13 | Two-day break. Drive to Side. |
June 10 | Bushwhack in search of new aqueduct portions. |
June 9 | Descend aqueduct shaft - not much to see. |
June 8 | Build 20ft rope ladder for aqueduct shaft decent. |
June 7 | Aphrodisias Party. No guns, just dancing. |
June 6 | Turkish wedding - guns and dancing galore. |
June 4 | Visit Sardis. Tires blowout on way home. |
June 2 | Start investigating large aqueduct system. |
May 27 | Bus it to Aphrodisias. Research begins! |
May 26 | Depart Amsterdam, arrive Turkey. Night in Izmir. |
May 24 | EuroITV 2007 Conference begins. |
May 23 | Social Interactive TV workshop. |
May 22 | Depart for EuroITV, Turkey and Jordan. |
May 14 | Finish UIST cover contest entries. |
May 13 | Dan back from school, graduated, and preparing for IBM. |
May 12 | Dinner with Flip. IMAX with Hesh and gang. |
May 9 | Heavily optimized C layout code 30 times faster than JVM! |
May 7 | Turkish research permit approved and returned. |
May 6 | New York City Five Boro Bike Tour; 42 miles. |
May 5 | Multiple submissions to NSF SEVC. |
May 4 | Book Amsterdam hostel. |
April 30 | Book summer flights; Istanbul via Amsterdam. |
April 29 | ClusterBall v2 - multiple rings. |
April 27 | Successfully layout graph of internet backbone. |
April 24 | Visit Google. Bump into David Blackman, EB. |
April 20 | Investigating lattice-based spatial clustering algorithm. |
April 19 | ClusterBall included in Visual Complexity gallery. |
April 18 | ClusterBall project completed. |
April 14 | Finalize global internet trends analysis. |
April 11 | Move out of NYC apartment. Last official day at AT&T Labs. |
April 6 | Coding CollaboraTV 2.0 hardcore. |
April 5 | Decline remaining schools, accept CMU grad school offer. |
April 3 | Sweet new EPG navigation and visualization completed. |
April 2 | Get three years worth of Alexa.com's global 500 traffic data. |
April 1 | First round of mocks for Genie (hibiscus tea beverage) |
March 30 | Three Tech Notes submitted to UIST. |
March 30 | Royal Society contacts me regarding visualization project. |
March 29 | Stacey finishes Kronosphere demo video. |
March 28 | Bob Bell helps with statistics for progress bar paper. |
March 23 | Royal Society Viz. included in PingMag Magazine. |
March 22 | Visit CMU. Flight canceled. LGA to Newark extravaganza. |
March 17 | First draft of Kronosphere and EPG papers for UIST. |
March 14 | Prepare test application for non-linear progress bar study. |
March 13 | Visit Georgia Tech. |
March 9 | Visit Stanford. |
March 5 | EuroITV WIP paper accepted. |
March 3 | charrison.net reaches 1/40th of 1% of internet population! |
March 3 | CityTacks limited release. |
March 2 | SearchClock visualization slashdotted! |
March 1 | EuroITV workshop paper accepted. |
February 28 | Visit MIT Media Lab. Stay with Meng. |
February 26 | AT&T Labs preparing virtual audience patents. |
February 24 | Participate in NYC pillow fight. |
February 23 | CollaboraTV v2 started. New interest patents set to file. |
February 22 | Initial results from color perception study. |
February 18 | New slinging.org moderators. Alias spoof released. |
February 17 | Hesh, Maha, and Yo Mama's House. |
February 16 | Color perception study begins. |
February 15 | EuroITV WIP paper submitted. |
February 10 | CityTacks New York City Beta. |
February 7 | EuroITV workshop proposal submitted. |
February 3 | Filming Alias spoof round two. |
February 2 | Start writing CollaboraTV paper. |
February 1 | Royal Society visualization featured on infosthetics.com. |
January 31 | Jimbo Wales talk about democratizing search. |
January 27 | Start filming Alias spoof. |
January 24 | The Turnarounds perform. |
January 23 | Start reviewing study data. Numerous interesting trends. |
January 22 | Last day of trials. 35 participants in total. |
January 19 | Car fixed up, inspection passed. |
January 18 | Sweeping updates to Slinging.org. |
January 15 | All usability study spots taken - word of mouth. |
January 12 | First day of back-to-back usability trials; 5 people a day. |
January 5 | First day back at AT&T Labs. |
January 4 | Jeff drives up my "new" (his old) VW Golf. |
January 1 | Return Home. Unpack and unwind. Hello 2007. |
2006 | |
December 31 | Full day in Santiago. Celebrate New Year in airport. |
December 30 | Explore Chillán's Saturday market. Eat a Longaniza. |
December 29 | From Temuco to Chillán. Visit famous murals. |
December 28 | Temuco's bustling market. Soak up culture. Bar hop. |
December 27 | White water rafting. |
December 26 | Eat, wander, fix glasses, and head northward to Pucon. |
December 25 | Explore Castro and Achao. Quiet. Head to Puerto Varas. |
December 24 | Fly to Puerto Montt, bus/ferry to Castro, Chiloé. |
December 23 | Explore Punta Arenas. Curious cemetery. |
December 22 | Finish spectacular 50-mile 'W' trek. |
December 18 | First day of trek through Torres del Paine National Park. |
December 17 | Fly to Punta Arenas, bus to Puerto Natales. Prepare... |
December 16 | Explore Santiago. Devour tastiest chicken ever. |
December 15 | Depart for Santiago, Chile. |
December 13 | First CollaboraTV usability trials. |
December 10 | Christmas dinner party. |
December 9 | Hesh's Wii Party. Submit grad school applications. |
December 1 | Royal Society Archive visualization. |
November 30 | CollaboraTV presented at AT&T Labs. |
November 29 | Slinging.org stats: 850+ daily visitors (30k hits). |
November 28 | CollaboraTV features locked for usability study. |
November 27 | Upgrade Slinging.org forum software. |
November 26 | Catch up with Cyriak. |
November 23 | Go home for Thanksgiving. |
November 22 | Commit to 2007 Aphrodisias, Turkey, field season. |
November 20 | Visit Georgia Tech. |
November 17 | Book tickets to Chile. Patagonia here I come. |
November 16 | Submit four automobile interface patents disclosures. |
November 15 | AT&T Labs decides to file both advertising patents. |
November 13 | Non-linear progress bars and driver fatigue detection. |
November 10 | Three new content/popularity/ratings visualizations. |
November 9 | Order sweet new mountain bike. Thanks Brian and Larry! |
November 8 | Polishing CollaboraTV interface for usability study. |
November 5 | OpenMosaic v1 complete. Testing among friends. |
November 2 | Visit Dan Fitz at Geneseo. |
November 1 | Depart the 'Burgh for Erie, PA. Dead car sells on eBay. |
October 31 | Visit CMU HCII. Explore Pittsburgh. Halloween. |
October 30 | Visit University of Maryland HCIL. |
October 22 | Incorrectly installed timing belt causes car engine to blow. |
October 20 | First visualization of 68,000 wikipedia links. |
October 19 | Start crunching numbers for netflix recommendation contest. |
October 18 | Virtual audience feature added to CollaboraTV. |
October 17 | Pick top six graduate schools. |
October 13 | Car broken into, bike stolen. |
October 11 | Go to replace tire, mechanics drive SUV into my car. |
October 10 | Replace flat tire on highway 78 shoulder. |
October 10 | Submit two advertising related patent disclosures. |
October 4 | Stacey hosts Lost season 3 premier meetup. |
October 1 | Chain Stretcher mountain bike race. |
September 22 | Ultra NY concert in Central Park: Moby, Digweed. |
September 20 | First visualizations of Wikipedia using my package. |
September 19 | Build spring-based visualization package. |
September 16 | First visualizations of Wikipedia using graphviz. |
September 12 | Westchester Ghetto music video released. |
August 28 | First day at AT&T Labs. |
August 20 | Depart Russia. Head home. Three months of traveling over. |
August 18 | Visit museums and churches. Fly back to St. Petersburg. |
August 17 | Arrive Moscow morning. Red Square, Kremlin and more. |
August 16 | Stroll along Nevsky, enjoy jazz club, night train to Moscow. |
August 15 | Return from Lake Chudskoye. |
August 14 | Mushroom picking in northern taiga, night fishing. |
August 11 | Traditional Russian banya; birch branches included. |
August 9 | Travel by car to Raskopel cabin, on shore of Lake Chudskoye. |
August 8 | Explore St. Petersburg on foot. |
August 7 | Visit isolated Valaam Monastery. |
August 6 | Treated to over-night boat excursion up Neva River. |
August 5 | St. Isaac's Cathedral, Yusupov Royal Palace. |
August 4 | Boat to Petergof. |
August 3 | Depart Istanbul for St. Petersburg. |
August 1 | Plane to Istanbul via Athens. Hit Grand Bazaar for gifts. |
July 29 | Return to Larnaka. |
July 28 | Cross UN buffer zone into Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. |
July 27 | Visit Kourion. Bus to Nicosia, the last divided capital in the world. |
July 26 | Quick jaunt to Troodos Mountains for glimpse of Mt. Olympus. |
July 25 | Pack away tent and head to Lemesos. |
July 23 | Ride rented moped all over Akamas Peninsula. |
July 21 | Buy camping gear in Paphos, depart for Polis. Begin camping. |
July 20 | Bus to Paphos en route to Polis. Hotels scarce again. |
July 19 | Agia Napa; not impressed and hotels scarce. |
July 17 | Night in Larnaka. Cook our own meal for the first time in months. |
July 17 | Situation unpredictable, decide to leave. Bus to Tele Aviv airport. |
July 16 | A numbing day at the holocaust museum. |
July 15 | Explore old city, walk the Via Dolorosa. |
July 14 | Northward, past Dead Sea, through West Bank to Jerusalem. |
July 14 | Hezbollah hits Haifa. Israel pounds Beirut. War intensifying. |
July 13 | Hike down Mt. Sinai. Catch bus to Israeli border. Eilat. |
July 12 | Bus to Mt. Sinai. Hike up at night for sunrise. |
July 11 | Camel trek to Blue Hole. Snorkel, Bedouin lunch. |
July 11 | Sling paper published in the Bulletin of Primitive Technology. |
July 10 | Take bus to Dahab. |
July 9 | Snorkel reefs at Ras Mohammad National Park. |
July 8 | Cross Red Sea by ferry to Sinai Peninsula. |
July 7 | Bus to Hurghada. |
July 6 | Whirlwind tour of six Luxor sites. Unbelievable! |
July 5 | Valley of the Kings, Temple of Hatshepsut, felluca up Nile. |
July 4 | Arrive Luxor. Visit central Luxor Temple, Mummy Museum. |
July 3 | Visit Old Cairo. Catch overnight train to Luxor. |
July 2 | Explore the citadel and huge City Stars mall. |
July 1 | Saqqara, Pyramids at Giza, Memphis. |
June 30 | Egyptian Museum. Wander the alleys of Khan-al-kalili. |
June 29 | Land in Cairo, meet Hesham. |
June 28 | Depart Aphrodisias. One night in Istanbul. |
June 27 | Hard work to wrap up work. Constant brownouts hamper work. |
June 26 | Visit Pamukkale, Heraopolis, hot spring. |
June 18 | Find enormous aqueduct tunnel and bridge. |
June 10 | Sick. Recuperate in Karaçasu hospital. |
June 8 | Both IBM patents filed with USPTO. |
June 5 | First visit to Karaçasu market day. |
May 22 | Hike to top of Mt. Babada, a 35Km trek. |
May 20 | Scramble around large necropolis. Crawl down cave spring |
May 17 | GRE Scores are in. Very pleased. |
May 17 | First day in Aphrodisias. |
May 15 | Explore Ancient Efesus. Quick stop at Virgin Mary's house. |
May 14 | Depart for Selçuk. See the Basilica of St. John. |
May 13 | Blue Mosque, Aya Sophia, Spice Market. Leave for Izmir. |
May 12 | Topkapi Palace, Grand Bazaar. |
May 11 | Arrive Istanbul. |
May 9 | Give compilers demo lecture. |
May 8 | Blob code finished. Physical controls built and tested. |
April 26 | Prepare slashdot logos for competition. |
April 7 | Search-by-sketch version one complete. |
April 6 | NewsGlobe version 1.0 complete. Record Westchester rap. |
April 5 | Meet Peter Bergen, who met Osama bin Laden. |
April 4 | My picture appears on gamasutra.com |
April 4 | Two new patents in the work via IBM Research! Sweet! |
April 4 | Integrate Timeline with Jeff's text analytics package. |
April 3 | Visit Harrison family's new house. |
April 2 | Take GRE CS. Head home to help family pack truck. |
March 27 | Plan summer itinerary. Ramesh Raskar lecture. |
March 26 | Return to New York. Catch up on work! |
March 24 | Bahamas. Storm causes early departure. |
March 22 | Explore charming San Juan, Puerto Rico. |
March 21 | Relax on St. Maarten's Orient Beach. |
March 20 | Hike Tortola and chill on beach. Virgin Gorda is spectacular! |
March 19 | Arrive in St. Thomas. Snorkel - reef, fish, shipwreck. |
March 16 | Depart New York. Cruise to Caribbean. |
March 15 | Assisted mouse demo reaready for testers & data collection. |
March 4 to 5 | 24-hour cell-phone game programming competition. |
March 3 | Ben visits for the weekend. |
February 27 | Ted Selker Lecture. |
February 25 | Film "Wrench" - Saw parody. |
February 23 | Timeline version one complete. Radiometer arrives. |
February 18 | Escape for ski weekend in Catskills with Dan Fitz. |
February 13 | Find nice 3-arc second (90m interval) elevation models. |
February 5 | Blueman group. Very cool. |
February 3 | Find 30-arc second elevation models for Turkey. |
February 2 | The Daily Show with Jon Stewart taping. Thanks Brewers! |
February 1 | Henry the Chinchilla joins the family. |
January 29 | Visit Chinese New Year celebrations in Chinatown. |
January 23 | US Patent and Trademark Office replies to pat. application. |
January 20 | Setup Slinging.org wiki. |
January 14 | Overnight train back to Venice. Fly home. |
January 6 to 13 | Meet Stacey's family. Ski the Swiss Alps! |
January 5 | Depart by train to Gstaad, Switzerland. |
January 4 | Full day in Venice. Lunch in front of San Marco Cathedral. |
January 3 | Wake up in Siena. More kebabs. Return to Venice. |
January 2 | Tour Orvieto's caves and cathedral. Eat wild boar & kebab. |
January 1 | 2006! Northward! Hill town of Orvieto; Jazz festival. |
2005 | |
December 31 | Tour Pompeii. Return to Priano for New Year's bash. |
December 30 | Mt Vesuvius. Further south to Priano, Amalfi Coast; Bingo. |
December 29 | Get lost in Naples traffic. Decide to stay the night. |
December 28 | Hike Abruzzo Nat. Park. Second night in Pescasseroli. |
December 27 | Explore Porto Santo Stefano. Get lost in Rome Traffic. |
December 26 | Day in Pisa. Lunch by leaning tower. Head south. |
December 25 | Happy X-mas. Land in Venice. Pickup car. Drive to Pisa. |
December 24 | Depart for Italy. |
December 22 | Complete compiler in two-day coding marathon. |
December 20 | Finish VirtuaRacer. Multimedia presentation day. |
December 17 | Meet Ms. Tschang from NetHope. Go to Guggenheim. |
December 16 | Scrap "Big Projection" idea. VirtuaRacer instead. |
December 14 | Attend VSO presentation in NYC. |
December 9 | Newssohot T-shirts arrive. |
December 7 | Distributed computing ants competition. |
December 6 | Final version of distributed computing ants code. |
December 3 | Gilbert & Sullivan's "The Yeomen of the Guard" Opera. |
December 2 | Google final round interviews. Fajitas Party! |
December 1 | Buy my first independent christmas tree. |
November 29 | Richard Stallman talk at Cooper Union. |
November 24 | Thanksgiving with Stacey's family. |
November 20 | ACM Regional ICPC. Top NYU Team; 13th overall. |
November 16 | Visit Google's NYC Office. Slam dunk tech interview. |
November 11 | Go to ABC HQ, meet with head of ABC News. |
November 7 | Come up with O(n) collision-resolution ethernet algorithm. |
October 31 | Dress up for Halloween. Carve Pumpkin. |
October 27 | Meet Professor Childress to discuss sling projectiles. |
October 25 | Slinging.org t-shirts arrive. |
October 23 | Paintball. Head home. |
October 21 | Amish Country. Hershey Park in the Dark. |
October 20 | Credit card used fraudulently. Depart for weekend in PA. |
October 15 | Surprise party for parents! Three months in the planning. |
October 13 | MTV News. Ask Bill Gates a question! |
October 11 | New York City Technologists meetup. |
October 9 | In-the-city BBQ canceled. |
October 6 | First Shasha lunch at Apple restaurant. |
October 5 | Idea session with Shasha. |
October 2 | Across the Narrows Concert. Beck, Belle and Sebastian. |
September 30 | Start salsa classes. |
September 23 | Housewarming party! |
September 23 | Join Aphrodisias archaeological project. |
September 15 | Fly to Rochester, MN. Meet Hypervisor, BlueGene teams. |
September 6 | Classes start; three days a week. |
September 5 | Move in with Stacey. |
September 3 | Fly home to New York. |
September 2 | Fly back to London. Roll of tape confiscated! |
September 1 | Relax in Malaga. Go shopping. |
August 31 | Last day in Morocco. Ferry to Spain, and bus to Malaga. |
August 30 | Decide to skip Fes, push on back to Tangier. |
August 29 | Day on the beach to recoup. More medicine for Stacey. |
August 28 | Load up on medicine. Depart for Casablanca by train. |
August 27 | Dinner in Djemma el Fna. |
August 27 | Drive to Ourzazate, Aït Benhaddou, High Atlas Mountains. |
August 26 | Book tour. Get guide around medina. Stacey sick. |
August 25 | Very cool medina and Kasbah! Overnight train to Marrakech. |
August 24 | Bus to Algeciras. Ferry to Tangier, Morocco. |
August 23 | Fly to Paris, then Malaga, Spain. |
August 22 | Fly to LA, then London. Meet Stacey in UK. |
August 19 | Final day of EB. Submit 9th and final patent disclosure. |
August 14 | Return to San Jose. Final week at Almaden... |
August 13 | Meng stays the weekend. Tour NYC. |
August 11 | Extreme Blue Expo. Enki rocks! Talk of spin-off? |
August 9 | Go to Westford to meet Lotus Execs. Drive to New York. |
August 8 | Visit CUE group at IBM Cambridge. Attend Intern Seminar. |
August 6 & 7 | Explore Boston. Sleep at Meng's frat house. |
August 5 | Fly to Boston. |
July 31 | Return to San Jose. |
July 30 | Visit Stacey in NY. Kayak on Hudson. |
July 27 | Almaden fun day. Google open house; Orkut, Serge. |
July 25 | Submit fifth patent idea to IBM for review. |
July 23 | EB Paintball excursion. 4:1 kill ratio. |
July 21 | Demo Enki to Lotus Execs. Thumbs up. |
July 13 | Submit third patent idea to IBM for review. |
July 11 | Symposium at Almaden. Mingle with the big wigs. |
July 10 | Stacey departs. |
July 9 | Hike among the redwoods. Dinner on beach. Propose? |
July 8 | Head north to Redwood forests. Dinner by river. Camp. |
July 7 | Meet Congressman Smith (R-TX). Visit Don Eigler's lab. |
July 5 | Cruise up scenic route 1. Go back to work. |
July 4 | Pedal to the metal through desert. Fireworks over Pacific. |
July 3 | Drive to Grand Canyon and camp the night. Spicy chicken. |
July 2 | Fly to Las Vegas. Visit Hoover Dam, Lake Mead; Go gambling! |
July 1 | Stacey arrives in sunny California. |
June 29 | Submit finalized sling paper. |
June 18 | Hike Half Dome, Yosemite. Elv 8,836 ft. |
June 10 | Happy Birthday Stacey! |
June 4 | Snoop around Google headquarters. |
June 3 | Extreme week at Extreme Blue ends. |
May 31 | First Day of work at IBM. |
May 28 | Leave for San Jose. |
May 27 | Plan end of summer trip; Spain and Morocco with Stacey. |
May 24 | Frantically catch up on work. |
May 23 | Fly home! Scabies! |
May 22 | Catch 10am bus back to Quito. Visit Mitad del Mundo. |
May 21 | Whitewater rafting. Swing jump off a bridge. Intense foosball. |
May 20 | Repel down waterfalls. ATV down route of waterfalls. |
May 19 | Bus to Guamote for market. Bus to Baños in afternoon. |
May 18 | Sit on roof of train up the Devil's Nose, and onto Riobamba. |
May 17 | Day trip to Cajas National Park. Bus to Alusi at night. |
May 16 | Fly to Cuenca. Catch 9am bus to Ingapica, Incan ruins. |
May 15 | Day trip to Cotopaxi. Climb to glacier tip. Elevation 15,748 ft. |
May 14 | Visit Otavalo for renowned Saturday market. Mugged at night. |
May 13 | Explore Quito. Pants get shredded by pickpockets on trolly. |
May 12 | Depart Newark for Bogota, then on to Quito, Ecuador. |
May 11 | Mountain bike with Stacey, meet Dan for ice cream. |
May 10 | National Museum of TZ website done, minus collections. |
May 9 | Find "poster" at 3am, Chinatown. Meet robot. Aegir demo day. |
May 5 | Fencing team dinner. |
May 4 | Ceramics final project done; all but glaze. |
May 3 | Deans awards ceremony; CS Department award. |
May 2 | Aegir demo day; client segfaults-a-plenty. |
May 1 | Server having stability issues, but nicely scales to 200 clients. |
April 30 | Scout whitewater rafting trip. |
April 27 | Scholar-athlete awards. |
April 21 | Deans leadership roundtable. Meet Gene for dinner. |
April 20 | Kristina breakup. Sling paper half done. |
April 19 | Crank away on Aegir client code with Gabe; Good progress. |
April 19 | Help author Shannon Hale with sling-related text in her book. |
April 18 | Book Los Angeles to London to New York flight. |
April 17 | Book Ecuador flight. Riots start in Ecuador. |
April 15 | Notify MCI of IBM internship. |
April 10 | Slinging.org surpasses 100k visitors since April 04 |
April 9 | OTAS project dies, or so it seems. |
April 7 | Depart Shanghai. Looking forward to fresh air. |
April 6 | 29th Annual ICPC competition. |
April 5 | Buy lots of "antiques" in market. |
April 2 | Aborted 1st landing. Explore Shanghai. |
April 1 | Leave for ACM ICPC World Finals, Shanghai. |
March 31 | Aegir Server v0.5 complete. Chat, movement, and more. |
March 31 | Morgan Stanley quiz night. |
March 29 | Accept IBM Extreme Blue internship offer. |
March 28 | Google technical interview very cool; solve all problems. |
March 26 | Dinner with Amy K. |
March 26 | Second Slinging.org chat session. |
March 23 | Aegir Server v0.1 goes live on i5; scalability looking good. |
March 22 | Internship offers rolling in... |
March 20 | Final TZ museum design done; templates in progress. |
March 17 | Finally better! First real meal in 6 days! Lost about 8 lbs. |
March 15 | Visit intelligent doctor. Diagnosis: Quinsy |
March 12 | Visit Kristina's house in Massachusetts |
March 11 | Week of *$%!& throat begins |
March 10 | First complete outline for sling/medieval I.S. developed. |
March 9 | Morgan Stanley and Accenture tech assessments go well. |
March 8 | Morgan Stanley dinner at Otto Enoteca. |
March 3 | IBM technical interview goes well, despite high fever. |
February 26 | Ski Belleayre Mountain with dorm. Roommates B-day. |
February 23 | Talk with Jane by phone. Catch up. |
February 16 | Slinging.org hosts first chat; 7 people. |
February 4 | Leave for weekend-long fencing trip, Boston. |
February 3 | Morgan Stanley dinner at Park Avalon. |
January 23 | Happy birthday Kristina! |
January 29 | iMac arrives smashed. Wrangle with FedEx begins. |
January 28 | Slinging.org hosting upgraded to 15Gb a month. |
January 27 | Slinging.org chewing through 400 megs a day. |
January 26 | CS Games and NYU "Games" |
January 25 | Slinging.org transferred to new server. Revisions go live. |
January 22 | Blizzard suspends account without reason. Draws wrath. |
January 21 | iMac SE sells for $450. |
January 20 | Hesh's DSL saturated. Buy proper hosting for Slinging.org. |
January 20 | Enter the ranks of cell phone users. |
January 11 | Join Open Tsunami Alert System programming effort. |
January 8 | Arrive home. Ben Eagle Scout Ceremony. |
January 6 | Snorkel Molokini. |
January 4 | 10.2 mile journey back with pack and 3/4 liter of water. |
January 3 | Hike across crater bottom. Sand Storms. Camp inside. |
January 2 | Camp on slopes of Haleakala Crater. 100 mph winds. |
2004 | |
December 31 | Celebrate 2005 New Year in Hana, Maui. Hungry. |
December 30 | Return from P.R. and leave for Hawaii with Hesh. |
December 28 | Visit El Yunque rainforest, National Park. |
December 24 | Leave for Puerto Rico. |
December 21 | Visit Guggenheim Aztec exhibit. Semester over. |
December 9 | Win DURF Grant to fund National Museum of TZ site. |
December 2 | Go to the MET. |
November 25 | A day off finally!! Work all day to catch up. |
November 24 | Unix Tools spring 05 grader. |
November 23 | New iBook arrives, very sweet. |
November 21 | Start interactive graphics final project. |
November 20 | Buy new iBook for $994! |
November 20 | Powerbook sells on eBay for $961! |
November 19 | MECCA mux diversity app polished to perfection. |
November 17 | Buried in more work than I can handle. |
November 16 | GNYR ICPC, 12th out of 66 teams, grad & undergrad. |
November 5 | Slinging.org's 10,000th forum post. |
November 3 | SBC SDL fade graphics tester complete. |
November 2 | First time voting. Another 4 years of Bush… |
October 29 | First day of real programming at MCI. |
October 22 | Ambient Information SBC project started. |
October 8 | Swap computers; G5 unleashed! |
October 6 | Orion Lander completed for Interactive Graphics class. |
October 4 | Dinner with Kerry; met on Amsterdam to NY flight. |
October 3 | Mountain bike race: 33rd out of 61 "beginners". |
September 28 | Undergraduate grant submitted. |
September 23 | Squash club starts regular meetings. |
September 16 | Heading up the ACM competition with Chris Q. |
September 14 | Jane and I go our separate ways. |
September 13 | Project Goliath preface finally complete. |
September 12 | "Week of Neglect" ends, or so I think... |
September 10 | First day at MCI WorldCom. |
September 9 | Slinging.org: 2.6 million hits, 55k visitors. |
September 7 | Back to school. Grader and eTutor for Comp. Archi. |
September 1 | Trek 6500 en route. IROutlook domains registered. |
August 29 | Kes, a Jack Russell Terrier puppy, joins the family. |
August 28 | Visit Jane. Discuss IROutlook, develop idea. |
August 26 | Working on 6 simultaneous websites. Feel the pressure. |
August 24 | Home. |
August 23 | Quickly revisit Niagara. Off to Pennsylvania. |
August 22 | Finish Toronto, scoot down to Buffalo and Niagara Falls. |
August 21 | Depart Ottawa; explore Toronto. |
August 20 | Finish Montreal. Stop by Trois Riviere en route to Ottawa. |
August 19 | Finish Quebec, then off to Montreal. |
August 18 | Visit Montpelier, Sherbrook, Québec City. |
August 17 | Depart on Canadian Road Trip. First stop Montpelier, VT. |
August 16 | Jane arrives. |
August 11 | Slinging.org receives 306 visitors today. Highest yet. |
August 10 | Battery Park to Bear Mountain Bridge by bike; 56 miles. |
August 2 | Project Goliath. Slinging.org gears up for ambition project. |
July 31 | Slinging.org forum thriving. July: 7k visitors, 48k total. |
July 28 | Return home. Sad to be back. |
July 24 | Return to Dar. Miss the field already. |
July 23 | Invited to morani to elder Maasai party. |
July 11 | Arusha trip. Drop people off, restock on supplies. |
June 23 | Vehicles packed; Depart for Laetoli. |
June 19 | Start developing Tanzania National Museum's website. |
June 12 | Depart for Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. |
June 7 | Bike performs admirably on trails. |
June 3 | My eBay Trek 6000 bike arrives; assembled and ridden. |
June 2 | Visit MCI, very impressed, strong part-time job possibility. |
May 31 | Slinging.org: 5100 posts, 37k visitors, 1.7 mil hits. |
May 20 | Assisting with second Discovery Channel show. |
May 17 | Grades are in: A, A, A, A- |
May 13 | John gone; Chris mans the store and runs the show. |
May 5 | Semester over, gearing up for Africa. |
May 1 | Simsalabim hotline server gone for good. Long live Ergo! |
April 24 | iMac sold on eBay. |
April 19 | Tivo arrives, life changes... |
April 18 | Happy Birthday Jane. |
April 6 | Getting squashed at squash, but having a ball. |
April 2 | Osiris massively multiplayer RPG development begins. |
March 24 | Slinging.org surpasses 3500 posts, ~28k visitors, 1mil+ hits. |
March 23 | It's official, I'm taking up squash; equipment en route. |
March 11 to 21 | Trip to the motherland, "time of my life" with Jane. |
March 4 to 7 | CS Games, overall 8th out of 26. |
February 19 | Motorbike dead again; new spark plugs do the trick. |
February 11 | Bought ticket to England for spring break. |
January 18 | Discovery Channel/BBC documentary on slings airs. |
January 17 | Gearing up for CS Games. |
January 14 | Return home. |
January 11 | Depart for Orlando, FL; Fun with Hesh, Oliver, and Rob. |
January 7 | Full patent filed with the USPTO. |
January 6 | Jane leaves. Find out grades: A, A, A, B. |
January 1 | Welcome 2004! |
2003 | |
December 31 | New years in/near Times Square. |
December 26 | Selected as next semester's eTutor for Unix Tools. |
December 22 | Jane comes for winter break. |
December 19 | Finals over; survived fall semester. |
December 9 | BA Honors project completed. |
November 22 | Motorbike hasn't started in 2 weeks, Carducci fixes. |
November 9 | ACM Prog Competition, "Best Fresh/Sophomore Team" |
November 8 | Motorbike parking signage in place, bought permit. |
November 7 | Slinging.org passes 10k visitor mark, 364,863 hits. |
November 1 | PIC development stalls, hardware troubles. |
October 28 | Aurora project revived with Hesh developing Java client. |
October 22 | Motherboard wall art complete. |
October 18 | Local paper, front page story about motorcycle parking. |
October 9 | Village Board passes motorbike parking resolution. |
October 7 | Slinging.org receives 153 visitors today. |
September 29 | Present to town board about motorbike parking. |
September 19 | PIC microprocessor development begins. |
September 14 | Slinging.org t-shirts suggested. |
September 12 | Motherboard wall piece started. |
September 10 | Slinging.org's 4000th visitor. |
September 5 | Meet with Grimm, start ind. study with him. |
September 2 | Aurora project stalls again. |
August 31 | Site redesigned. |
August 30 | Slinging.org's 3000th visitor. |
August 24 | Horizon Designs site retired, H2 goes up. |
August 21 | Slinging.org forum passes 200-posts mark. |
August 18 | Aurora MMORPG graphics code feature-complete. |
August 17 | Menken project done. |
August 15 | Aurora MMORPG project resumes with Ethan's help. |
August 13 | Sculptor Walt Horton contacts me regarding slings. |
August 12 | Slinging.org receives 85 visitors today. |
August 11 | Slinging.org's 2000th visitor (since June 1st). |
August 11 & 12 | Travel with Hesham to MIT CS conference. |
August 2 | Slinging.org forum goes live. |
August 1 | Win Sony SL10 Clie handheld for Jane. |
August 1 | Resume day job. |
July 26 | Jane Leaves :( |
July | Tour NYC, travel to Canada, much fun. |
June 28 | Jane arrives; month in US. :) |
June 27 | Laptop sells on eBay for $490. |
June 14 | Finally get to ride my new motorcycle. |
June 9 | CM website wraps up as Menken's project begins. |
June 2 | Slinging.org receives 46 unique visitors today, highest yet. |
May 28 | Grades for spring 2003 semester very sweet! |
May 19 | BBC contacts me regarding sling documentary. |
May 18 | Summer school session begins. |
May 12 | University finishes. |
April 19 | Slinging.org generates first email question. |
April 18 | Happy Birthday Jane! |
April 14 | Slinging community pledges support. |
March 20 | Slinging.org goes live, little content. |
March 19 | Aurora MMOPRG graphics and server code progressing well. |
March 16 | 2003 CS Games Montréal, 1st place! |
March 14 | Spring break, depart for Montréal. |
March 6 | Universe MMORPG started. |
February 21 | Intercollegiate sports honor roll. |
February 2 | Augmented reality proposal complete. |
February 1 | Chris Harrison from UK visits! |
February 1 | Remember Columbia and her crew. |
January 31 | Team Captain for CS Games, Montreal. |
January 30 | Finches given away |
January 21 | Back to college. |
January 21 | Patent pending. |
January 3 | Finches leave nest. |
January 1 | Welcome 2003! |
2002 | |
December 26 | In newspaper for "Coolest hobby of the year" (Trebuchet). |
December 19 | Finch eggs hatch! |
December 17 | Started winter break job. |
December 16 | All finals finished. |
December 12 | Trebuchet finds home at high school. |
December 11 | Semester over. |
December 5 | Pet finch lays 4th and final egg. |
December 2 | Pet finch lays an egg! |
November 3 | ACM Programming Competition. |
October 27 | "Fire!" completed. |
October 19 | "Fire!" programming started. |
October 17 | LCARS-like graphics for LIC finished. |
October 11 | Trebuchet in the newspaper. |
October 5 | LIC software being developed. |
September 27 | Patent process started. |
September 20 | New 8 in 1 Hauberk started. |
September 4 | Start university. |
August 11 | L-Day, trebuchet v2.0 done. |
August 4 | Trebuchet version 2 started. |
July 31 | Trebuchet completed. |
July 26 | Trebuchet Project started. |
July 24 | AP Grades are in... 5, 5, 5! |
July 23 | Return from England trip. |
June 26 | Begin trip to England. |
June 25 | Graduate High School. |
June 6 | 1st place Tingley Scholarship. |
May 18 | 4th place engineering at ISEF. |
May 13 | Off to ISEF. |
May 13 | Get US Citizenship. |
April 11 | Chainmail suit completed. |
April 9 | 1st place NYSSEF, advance to international. |
April 4 to 5 | 3rd place state level JSHS. |
March 16 | 1st place WESEF, advance to state level. |
February 24 | Halberk almost done, need stand. |
February 9 | 3rd place in JSHS, advance to state level. |
January 21 | Meteor Run and Sprite Class done. |
January 18 | Hauberk over 4500 rings! |
January 13 | Chainmail hauberk fits me! |
January 5 | Meteor Run project starts. |
January 2 | Chainmail shirt expansion starts. |
January 1 | Welcome 2002! |
2001 | |
December 23 | Chainmail shirt small, but done. |
November 21 | I'm making chainmail! |
November 19 | Intel paper completed and sent. |
October 26 | Ameba game finished. |
September 29 | "Chris Harrison Day" in my town. |
September 29 | Recognized as "Outstanding Citizen" by NY State Assembly. |
September 29 | Eagle Scout ceremony. "Chris Harrison Day" in the county. |
September 11 | Oh my god! Watch events unfold live on BBC. |
September 5 | School begins. |
September 4 | LIC version 2 construction complete. |
Late July | "Laptop-in-Car" project started. |
June 27 | Started work at Curtis. |
June 26 | Sandak engine complete. |
June 21 | Sandak programming 80% done. |
June 20 | School year ends. |
June 13 | Sandak RPG started. |
June 7 | BaLiS OpenGL final build. |
June 5 | BaLiS CMU final build. |
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