I was playing around with a new website called Likaholix and was "liking" the stuff I like. I don't know what led me to Itzhak Perlman but I liked him, which led to me watching a bunch of Perlman videos on YouTube. He is and was so absolutely incredible it is hard to stop watching. Check out a couple of the clips I happened upon (including one of Itzhak when he was only 13 playing the Mendlesohn).
Just got back from TED 2009. New bigger venue. Lots of new faces. Same exciting content. While I suspect some of the old guard will end up departing in the next couple years, TED Long Beach seems like a very natural evolution of the event.
Spent the afternoon with Julian at Walnut Hill School.
Gotta appreciate tweets like this one from Tim O'Reilly:
timoreilly To all the people making Zeno jokes, I was referring to Zeno of Citium, founder of Stoicism, not Zeno of Elea, he of Zeno's paradox.
Ok. This is definitely not smart. But it does look cool when it works.
Actually, it isn't really space. This is a video of what happens when you pop a water balloon at zero gravity. It wasn't recorded in space. It was recorded on the Zero G plane (the "Vomit Commit"). And it is really cool.
