http://www.nonlocality.com Currently in Wordpress Upgrade Mode Thu, 19 Jan 2012 13:54:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Zero degrees fahrenheit in Minneapolis. "I can't believe you like walking in this weather," she said. "I've always liked walking when it's cold." "Be careful." "I will. Besides, it's cold enough that if something happens, I'll freeze, and then they'll just be able to thaw me out when it's convenient." "Oh, great, now I have to ... http://www.nonlocality.com/it/2012/01/19/a-bit-brisk/ What a year. The start of 2011 feels like it was ages ago. I spent time in five countries, finished my MBA, completed some huge projects at work, and watched Mathias bloom into a different level of preschooler. 2012 stands before me as a relatively blank slate, ... http://www.nonlocality.com/it/2012/01/01/so-this-is-the-new-year/ "Let's say you were given a year to kill Hewlett-Packard." — This pretty much sums up everything wrong with HP. The McDonald’s analogy is perfect. http://www.nonlocality.com/it/2011/08/30/items-noted-elsewhere-h-ps-one-year-plan/ So, we’ve had more than a week to play around with our HP Touchpads now, and the end result is I’m even angrier than I was before about HP destroying Palm. The Touchpad, while by no means perfect, is still a really cool little device. It does most ... http://www.nonlocality.com/it/2011/08/30/life-with-the-touchpad/ It’s been a crazy and somewhat depressing week for fans of the former Palm and WebOS. I was going to give my thoughts as to the real reasons WebOS is being killed, but Gruber pretty much covered that. A related PreCentral thread summed it up even more succinctly: If ... http://www.nonlocality.com/it/2011/08/23/goodbye-palm/ It's not the heat, it's the humidity. Tuesday evening in southwestern New Jersey. In some ways this ends the vacation that wasn't. From a technical standpoint, yes, we did visit Washington, Baltimore and Philadelphia, but to say we actually got to experience and enjoy the cities involves a bit ... http://www.nonlocality.com/it/2011/07/27/travelog-the-vacation-that-wasnt/ Well, we’re in DC. The original plan was for us to arrive here on Amtrak yesterday afternoon, but the fatal flaw with that plan was having “plan” and “Amtrak” in the same sentence. The Empire Builder rolled into Chicago over three hours late, meaning our connecting train, the ... http://www.nonlocality.com/it/2011/07/22/travelog-the-road-to-d-c/ I'd been hoping to get a few more posts in since returning from Europe, but life has been pretty stacked up.  There are a few papers that are suddenly going to be due in the next week or so, too, so posting here is a break more than anything. Mathias had ... http://www.nonlocality.com/it/2011/07/05/summer/ Well, I guess one more entry from Copenhagen.  I'm in my usual breakfast spot, only this time, for the first time in over a week, I'm not surrounded by classmates.  About half the class is in transit at this moment.  Me, I have a later departure today, so I'm leaving ... http://www.nonlocality.com/it/2011/06/19/departure/ Saturday morning, the start of my last full day in Copenhagen.  I'm in the breakfast area of the Savoy Hotel--or, as I've been describing it, Lake and Cedar with fewer dead people--and am only a few hours away from my last MBA class. My initial reaction to Copenhagen was anything but ... http://www.nonlocality.com/it/2011/06/18/570/