Media Appearance

The Boston Globe ran a story about the grant I am working on this summer and fall.

Hmmm - part of that 200,000 dollars is putting food on my table. Guess I better get started on that search-and-rescue robot.

SALT photos

You can pictures of me and the all the other presenters at this year's SALT here.

Nationalized healthcare = terrorist threat (reasoning courtesy of Fox News)

long time no post

I've gone almost a month without posting. For those still checking, I'll put up some pictures of my recent trip to Austin.

On the road:




















Waiting for the Oasis to open



View from the Oasis



Lion dancing




















Now I'm staying at Stanford for the LSA Summer Institute. The campus is beautiful.















I rented a bicycle yesterday to ride around campus and to go to downtown Palo Alto. There is a theater in town (the Stanford Theater) that seems to exclusively play old movies (pre-1960s). There is a Fred Astaire festival coming up. But I'll be missing classics like The Mummy and Creature from the Black Lagoon. Darn.

Fry and Laurie on language

(This video appeared recently on Language Log)

Classic Games

My chance to be the first in the (immediate) family to be published is dashed. The professor of classic games beat me.

But - we'll soon get a chance soon to test whether the game guru's encyclopedic knowledge is built on a secure foundation of practical skill, or whether he is just an `armchair academic' of video games.

The challenger arrives in Texas in less than a week. Mwahaha.

Battle of Midway propaganda video

I came across this video by chance today. It's a propaganda film directed for the Navy by John Ford documenting the Battle of Midway, including actual footage of the battle.