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design team
Monday, April 12, 2010
Friday, April 09, 2010
Thursday, April 08, 2010
Rescue Me Phone iPhone app
http://www.rescuemephone.com/
My youngest brother graduates this May from Stevens.
He is on the design team for this project, so check it out.
from the front page of the website
here is a brief description:
"What is RescueMe Phone?
In recent earthquakes, those trapped underground could signal only their presence to rescuers by striking a stone, shouting, or blowing a whistle. From these percussive signals, rescuers know that someone is still alive, but not who is trapped, where they are, or what their status is. The RescueMe Phone application digitally encodes the information rescuers need into the timing between the victim’s percussive signals. Rather than just signaling their presence, the trapped person can send their location or cell phone number. Once their location is known, the rescuers can begin digging. Their cell phone number tells rescuers who is trapped. At the disaster site, rescuers use specialized radio equipment to make a cell phone call to the victim."
Ever been in a subway or a tunnel and lose cell service?
Ok, so then how does THIS work to make the underground connection?
http://www.rescuemephone.com/aboutfaq.php
My youngest brother graduates this May from Stevens.
He is on the design team for this project, so check it out.
from the front page of the website
here is a brief description:
"What is RescueMe Phone?
In recent earthquakes, those trapped underground could signal only their presence to rescuers by striking a stone, shouting, or blowing a whistle. From these percussive signals, rescuers know that someone is still alive, but not who is trapped, where they are, or what their status is. The RescueMe Phone application digitally encodes the information rescuers need into the timing between the victim’s percussive signals. Rather than just signaling their presence, the trapped person can send their location or cell phone number. Once their location is known, the rescuers can begin digging. Their cell phone number tells rescuers who is trapped. At the disaster site, rescuers use specialized radio equipment to make a cell phone call to the victim."
Ever been in a subway or a tunnel and lose cell service?
Ok, so then how does THIS work to make the underground connection?
http://www.rescuemephone.com/aboutfaq.php
Sunday, April 04, 2010
Friday, April 02, 2010
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Living
I lost a friend yesterday. Spent the better part of 6 hours talking to people about it; fielding questions to which I did not know the answer.
My friend lost his life being a funhog; enjoying life; exploring the outdoors; living life in the fullest way that he knew how.
My own personal experience of this life is similar. I like to get outdoors. I like to be in the mountains, on the rivers, in the woods, where the world is shaped in non-Euclidean forms and the creatures are not overly self-relfective (they just do).
My recent posts here would suggest that is the only way to "truely" live. That is not the full truth of what I believe. It is just my own experience. I only offer this alternative, non-conventional life, as a way to express my feeling that the majority of people are not really living while they are here. They live for an after life. They live for heaven. They live for riches in the future. They live for the day when it will all change.
To paraphrase someone who I cannot remember right now.....
life is what you are living, right now, while you are waiting for "life" to happen.
Enjoy it while you can, and be a grateful/graceful person while you are here.
That is the impression I got, when I spoke with Jim; that he was living that way.
Nobody is perfect.
Nobody can be perfect.
But, in Jim, the intent to enjoy his surroundings, be enthusiastic and talk to most people, make friends, and love where he was at the moment came through more often than not. I can only hope to get close to that and enjoy this life as much as I can, no matter what my "smelling the roses" is.
My friend lost his life being a funhog; enjoying life; exploring the outdoors; living life in the fullest way that he knew how.
My own personal experience of this life is similar. I like to get outdoors. I like to be in the mountains, on the rivers, in the woods, where the world is shaped in non-Euclidean forms and the creatures are not overly self-relfective (they just do).
My recent posts here would suggest that is the only way to "truely" live. That is not the full truth of what I believe. It is just my own experience. I only offer this alternative, non-conventional life, as a way to express my feeling that the majority of people are not really living while they are here. They live for an after life. They live for heaven. They live for riches in the future. They live for the day when it will all change.
To paraphrase someone who I cannot remember right now.....
life is what you are living, right now, while you are waiting for "life" to happen.
Enjoy it while you can, and be a grateful/graceful person while you are here.
That is the impression I got, when I spoke with Jim; that he was living that way.
Nobody is perfect.
Nobody can be perfect.
But, in Jim, the intent to enjoy his surroundings, be enthusiastic and talk to most people, make friends, and love where he was at the moment came through more often than not. I can only hope to get close to that and enjoy this life as much as I can, no matter what my "smelling the roses" is.
Tuesday, March 09, 2010
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
How many artists actually live an aesthetic life?
beyond just thinking about aesthetics in an abstract, apart-from-self, different-than-daily-phenomenon type of way?
http://www.c-s-p.org/Flyers/9781904303992-sample.pdf
I know some who wrestle directly with this question and arrive at a conclusion that makes them put down their paints, abandon the studio for some kind of other living, but they still have an art school mentality and a drive to create a performance; something fake and outside their lives. They changed the medium, but not their attitude.
http://www.personal.kent.edu/~jwattles/TBG.htm
I am certainly not pushing for the abandonment of any particular medium.
What I am wondering, however, is if more aspects of life can be lived artistically, aesthetically, differently, with a fuller meaning.
(and if those parts can be accepted AS art themselves, even if they cannot be dissected and studied as art normally is, or even documented)
http://www.c-s-p.org/Flyers/9781904303992-sample.pdf
I know some who wrestle directly with this question and arrive at a conclusion that makes them put down their paints, abandon the studio for some kind of other living, but they still have an art school mentality and a drive to create a performance; something fake and outside their lives. They changed the medium, but not their attitude.
http://www.personal.kent.edu/~jwattles/TBG.htm
I am certainly not pushing for the abandonment of any particular medium.
What I am wondering, however, is if more aspects of life can be lived artistically, aesthetically, differently, with a fuller meaning.
(and if those parts can be accepted AS art themselves, even if they cannot be dissected and studied as art normally is, or even documented)
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Monday, February 01, 2010
panoramic view from top of Mt. Greylock
click on image to see it larger
after a 2+ hour hike on mixed ice and snow up the Thunderbolt Ski Trail we arrived at the summit to change into snowboarding gear. Although there was better snow the week before, the view was nice. The lighthouse on top of the mountain is a memorial to war veterans. It's also a unique design for a lighthouse.
after a 2+ hour hike on mixed ice and snow up the Thunderbolt Ski Trail we arrived at the summit to change into snowboarding gear. Although there was better snow the week before, the view was nice. The lighthouse on top of the mountain is a memorial to war veterans. It's also a unique design for a lighthouse.
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