June 2008 archive


    
29 June 2008

Outside South Station

Finally! Let's start looking at some pictures from my trip to Boston. I'm not much of a city-dweller, but I enjoy visiting cities and wandering around like a tourist with my camera. This was taken outside of South Station, where the Silver Line meets up with the Red Line.
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by Scott Carpenter on 29 June 2008 at 6:00 am
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28 June 2008

I'm Losing It

Where it equals weight. I'm losing some weight and it feels great. More on that below, but first:
Hi, readers! How have you been? You may have noticed I haven't been especially communicative lately. There's a lot I might write about free software and culture, but for some reason I hesitate. Maybe I don't feel confident [...]

by Scott Carpenter on 28 June 2008 at 3:51 pm
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21 June 2008

Randy Pausch on the World Book Encyclopedia and Wikipedia

Some or many of you have probably heard about Randy's Pauch's "Last Lecture." Randy is a professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University who was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. He gave a stirring and inspirational talk on September 18, 2007, titled "Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams." I was emailed a link to [...]

by Scott Carpenter on 21 June 2008 at 11:49 am
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1 June 2008

Now Playing: Big Buck Bunny

It's here! Big Buck Bunny is a free short movie created by the Peach open movie project. The animated movie is freely licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license, which means, according to their "about" page: "you can freely reuse and distribute this content, also commercially, for as long you provide a proper [...]

by Scott Carpenter on 1 June 2008 at 8:47 pm
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