Author Archives: epictetus

Along with Gene Koo, I was interviewed on The World Today  this morning about the Cyberone class I took that met in Second Life.  Here’s the audio: The World Today

It’s the All Girl Summer Fun Band

Number Theory and Analysis: A Intro to Logic: A Engineering 123: Digital Circuit Design:  A

This performance is absolutely haunting — when she kicks on the distortion it’s like a heart attack. I missed her when she was playing a bunch of MA schools recently, I would love to see her some time.

These are the search rankings for greatestate.com, my wife’s real estate website, on google, for various terms: weston real estate – #22 weston land — #30 (Community profiles page) weston ma #53 weston ma real estate – #62 weston – … Continue reading →

     I’ve been doing a lot of research on the practice of computing the digits of Pi.  The first question is, “Why?”.  In the great majority of real-world applications, an approximation of few digits (i.e. 3.14) is close enough — … Continue reading →

I figured I would upload a bunch of cellphone pictures and comment on them. Here is our table.. you can see various dumplings and mystery items in front of us. Here is a view across the restaurant, the part in … Continue reading →

Things to Learn and Where to Learn Them: English and vocabulary: Television, books Math:  Counting, blocks, games Music: Piano Alphabet song Lullabies Christmas carols Kids’ songs Toys: Blanket Teddy bears Ripcord cars Paper airplanes Balsa wood airplanes Handkercheif parachutes Maple … Continue reading →

Just got my fall term grades: Analog Circuit Design: A Cyberlaw:  A Comp Sci (C programming in Unix):  A Hopefully I can rock the spring term the same way I did the fall, I’m taking Intro to Logic, Digital Circuit … Continue reading →

It was after sunset, and all light had been extinguised in the clearing, circled by small tents and cabins. Moments before, it had been bustling with activity, but now it was strangely silent and empty, with a few other scattered … Continue reading →

Download the mp3 of my podcast — this is an empathic argument for open access in education, inspired by eminem’s final battle in “8 mile” where he wins by making the other guy’s argument for him.  No apologies to Weird … Continue reading →

Sorry, here are some random HREFs. Great estate.com is Diana Chaplin (my wife)’s great Weston, MA real estate site. The Room To Dream Foundation is a nonprofit foundation that does bedroom makeovers for sick kids.

Because of my Cyberone class I’ve been thinking a lot about virtual worlds and the ethics and control systems inside those worlds.  I am wondering, what would it take to create a totalitarian, oppressive government inside Second Life?  Could one … Continue reading →

I thought I’d upload this essay I did for a summer expository writing class.  I took the class with my stepson Avery, it was a lot of fun. The essay is about how free software saved my life, and the … Continue reading →

Hola amigos, it’s been a while since I rapped at ya.  I’ve been really busy with school and work and marriage and step-fatherhood and all the other stuff I do to keep busy. Just last week my company started running … Continue reading →

I saw this link to an LA Times story.  Stephen Heller, a word processor who stole copies of internal Diebold documents revealing that they had violated California state law and sold uncertified voting machines, is now facing felony charges for … Continue reading →

While I certainly understand where all of the protestors are coming from with the current anti-google movement, I’d like to put forth a conflicting opinion. I, for one, actually buy the excuse that it is worth participating in some censorship … Continue reading →

Here’s a link you probably won’t see anywhere else, an article from China Daily (the state-run periodical, the voice of the Chinese Communist Party in English essentially) mentioning John Howkins’ talk at a chinese business summit.  He talks about how … Continue reading →