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Video: A Laptop Like You
This is a video I made for Jonathan Coulton‘s song ‘A Laptop Like You‘. It stars my trusty PowerBook G4, which I bought in early 2005, just before moving from New Zealand to Geneva. I recently replaced...
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Video: Apple Tablet Unboxing
I bought an iPad to make this video, so I hope you like it. Welcome to the future, folks! I got my first taste of the future in 1998, when I bought a secondhand Newton MessagePad 110 (introduced in...
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Stochastic induction of epizeuxis is my bird feeder made out of a coconut
The following video is not an example of creative output on my part, for by giving Secretary of Geek Affairs Wil Wheaton the CERN T-shirt featured, I simply did what clearly needed to be done. I am...
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Apple Watch vs. Macintosh Classic boot time
I somehow ended up buying an Apple Watch the other day, though I’d intended to wait a while first. I have a pretty neat Casio digital watch already, of course, but I’d never had a wearable computer....
View ArticleGloPoWriMo 2019
Last November, instead of NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) I created NanoRhymo, where I wrote a tiny poem every day inspired by a random rhyme from my rhyming dictionary, rhyme.science. April...
View ArticleThat time Steve Wozniak bought me a laptop
People seem to enjoy hearing this story, and Woz’s 70th birthday seems like a good occasion to tell it to more people. I in a lot of details of varying relevance (and was looking down at notes on my...
View ArticleThat time Steve Wozniak taught me to Segway and then played Tetris and pranks...
A few weeks ago I posted a video of myself talking about the time Steve Wozniak gave me a laptop, and I said: A few years later, I met Woz, had pizza and learnt to Segway with him, and watched him...
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