Place

The one place that left an everlasting impression upon me was created by me, built by me, used by me, and finally destroyed by me. The locale of which I write is the once existing treehouse in my backyard. When I was eleven, I thought I could build my own fortress. I figured out the amount of supplies and location of the treehouse that my friends and I would need. Well, I was completely wrong about the tools and wood, and about the place for it because it turned out the original tree we began to build in was infested with termites. ...

December 27, 2010

Beowulf - The Musical

Feb 1993 It was the Anglo-Saxon time. A time when men were men and women were men. It was a time of mystery and of little records so we can make up a story and no one can tell the difference if its real or not. Here is such a tale. After Beowulf slayed the Grendel's mother, he rested for a while at his summer vacation home at the Stonehenge Summer Condos. Unknown to him at the time, the Grendel's evil father had gone to the Mountain ...

December 27, 2010

Highschool Writing

I found a floppy disk with all of my Methacton High school English/Physics/History papers. I'm going to start posting them here.

December 27, 2010

Converting a web-based app from Flex (AS3) to HTML 5

Working with my intergenerational design team at the HCIL, I designed and developed an distributed co-design tool affectionately known as DisCo (article). DisCo supports Layered Elaboration (article) which is a way groups can asychronously design iteratively while leaving previous versions intact. I developed the first three prototypes of DisCo in AS3 and and compiled with the open-source Flex compiler mxmlc. Because I was so familiar with ActionScript, I only coded the original prototypes using pure AS and did not use any of the MXML that Flex is known for which turned out to be a good thing. ...

December 16, 2010

new tool

This is a new tool.

December 14, 2010

New Twitter Test

I’ve been trying to consolidate my twitter and my blog so neither one is neglected. Hopefully this worked. I would like to keep my dissertation progress updated here.

December 12, 2010

Third iphone post

Yeh!

December 12, 2010

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December 12, 2010

Second test

This is my second iPhone post.

December 12, 2010

Test from iPhone

I’m writing this from my iPhone.

December 11, 2010