Interrelativity

Interrelativity: musings about interrelatedness

  • Cancer Counterinsurgency Update

    Thanks to all who have expressed their concern and support as Amy progresses through her cancer treatment.  For the benefit of those who are interested in following her progress, but who may be, er, somewhat less interested in other topics I post about, I decided to add a new category: Cancer Counterinsurgency (and added a…

  • Will Pat Robertson be kept out of the UK?

    Pat Robertson recently made some remarks condoning the assassination of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez: "If he thinks we’re trying to assassinate him, I think we really ought to go ahead and do it … We have the ability to take him out, and I think the time has come that we exercise that ability." If…

  • Roadcasting: All the Road’s a Stage

    Roadcasting is a prototype (really, a meme) in which people can share music in and through wirelessly networked car audio systems.  The concept was articulated by a team of graduate students at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. There are some graphical and textual descriptions available at the Roadcasting web site, and a…

  • Rules of the Roadgames

    I was driving Evan and Jake in to their basketball camp several mornings this past week, and they played some interesting games during the rides.  What struck me most about these games was the elasticity of the rules, and the fact that negotiating the rules consumed at least as much time as playing the games…

  • Anal Cancer: A Real Pain in the Butt

    I decided to use a subtitle with a bit of humor, as laughter will be increasingly important over the next few months. On May 18, Amy had surgery to repair a rectocele, which also involved draining a fistula.  A routine biopsy revealed an unexpected and unwelcome result: carcinoma in situ, or "non-invasive" anal cancer.  We…

  • Failure, Persistence and Heroism

    NPR’s Morning Edition aired a segment this morning called "The Aftermath of Movie Flops", introduced by Steve Inskeep as "a chronicle of failure, [part of] a series on flops, about what happens when the next big thing isn’t." Kim Masters interviewed a number of movie people, who had some gems to share: Laura Zisken (producer…

  • More Community Displays in Cafes

    Shortly after my last post about the community display at Common Grounds Coffee Company in Woodinville, I visited C. C. Espresso in Duvall and discovered another collection of community displays (photos of members of a community — in this case, customers — on a posterboard). An interesting variation is their "Customer of the Month" display…

  • Community Displays at Common Grounds Coffee Company

    There’s a great little drive-up espresso stand that recently opened down the road with a friendly and outgoing proprietor (Stephanie) and tasty organic espresso (Kalani).  Another feature I like about the place are the low-tech community displays — photos of customers snapped by Stephanie that she’s mounted on cardboard and placed in the windows of…

  • Cybershaming and cybercompassion

    Don Park reports on a woman whose dog defecated on a train in Korea and refused to clean up the mess.  It began in a subway train with a girl whose dog made a mess on the train floor. When nearby elders told her to clean up the mess, she basically told them to f[***]…

  • Wirelessness and Shamelessness

    I met Rick at The Lyon’s Den coffee shoppe this morning to talk more about my business plan(s).  In addition to enjoying our conversation (he offered lots of great suggestions), the cozy atmosphere of the place and my first taste of Keemun tea, I was struck by a sign I saw posted on a meeting…