A.C. Flory's Blog, page 144
June 6, 2015
Why is my WordPress Reader full of blogs I don’t follow?
I’ve just done a quick check of my Reader and there are hardly any posts on it from blogs I follow. Why? Are my friends not posting? Is WordPress filling in empty space with randoms? I don’t understand the rationale behind this distortion of my Reader, but if I wanted to read a post about […]
June 4, 2015
Are you just tapping your pocket, or are you happy to see me?
Google and Levi Strauss are partnering up to produce a fabric that will bring wearable computing [?] out of the realm of sci-fi and into the realm of everyday life. http://rgscomputing.com/2015/06/04/in... This sounds like a great idea, but I do wonder how it will change our behaviour. Will we walk down the street tapping different […]
June 3, 2015
Microsoft’s Hololens – is it the precursor of the ‘chrono’?
The idea of holograms has been around for a very long time, but the only common usage I am aware of is in those images that display a sort of 3D view when you move the image one way or the other. But that, like exoskeletons, is all about to change. “One of the biggest […]
June 1, 2015
Open letter to author Ursula K. LeGuin
Most modern readers only know Ursula K. LeGuin for her Earthsea trilogy, but some of us were touched, and forever changed, by her science fiction novel, The Left Hand of Darkness. It was, and is, one of the best examples of ‘social science fiction’ ever written. It also happens to be a literary work that […]
May 30, 2015
Ella Fitzgerald – Summertime
Sunday morning, a second cup of coffee …and this : Thank you, Pinky. :)Filed under: Music Tagged: Ella-Fitzgerald, jazz, Porgy-and-Bess, Summertime, video-clip-live
May 25, 2015
Playing with the Youtube video editor
WARNING! The following video clip is rough. The text looks awful and the transitions are crap. But the music is great! And it’s free so this is a tool I am determined to master. What we have here is my first, not so successful attempt to use the Youtube video editor. Like I said, not […]
May 23, 2015
Food service Daleks?
Okay, as a future geek and sci-fi-phile, how could I resist this? I notice thought that a human is sweeping the floor. Hmmm…..Filed under: Sci-fi Tagged: China, dalek-waiters, food-service, robots, science-fiction, video-clip
The Irish Referendum and Panti
There are a lot of Irish people in Australia. They are part of our heritage, and today I salute them and their forebears. The Yes, Equality campaign has been truly spectacular, especially considering that Ireland is a largely Catholic country. However it was the speech given by Panti, a famous Irish Drag Queen that put […]
May 20, 2015
Faces
When I was eight, I’d race home from school so I could watch a Japanese TV show called The Samurai. It was about a noble Samurai called Shintaro and his lovable but slightly daft side-kick/friend the good ninja.That’s them on the left. Needless to say, I loved them both, and I loved the beauty of […]
May 16, 2015
Future tech – the ‘Dragonfly’
I discovered the concept of quadcopters this morning via a blog post on my reader. That led me to the video clip below: From there I looked at a couple of other video clips on Youtube until I was lucky enough to stumble on this one: The geek in me is thrilled by both the […]
