Already at the intersection of 14 and 395, heading up to Lee Vining. It’ll be a short day!
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Happy Father’s Day
Happy Father’s Day to all.
Day 14: Representations of the Human
René Magritte, The Treachery of Images, 1929 For my last day in LA, we headed over to LACMA for a walk through the modern art collection, as well as a peek in at the Ed Ruscha retrospective and the Simone Leigh show. Walks through galleries are often arbitrary—no theme connecting the standings works and the …
The Gear
This guy always travels with me and keeps watch. He’s been up and down America and across the Globe. I haven’t been ambushed yet! Packing up. I endeavor to pack light, but damn, it adds up. No rainsuit. A few pairs of undies and socks. An extra pair of jeans, three t-shirts, a swim suit, …
Day 13: relaxin’ back in la
Early flight from San Jose back to Burbank, and then an excellent lunch at Lunasia Dim Sum in Pasadena, and a long relaxing afternoon. Hanging out back in La Crescenta. Very little to report of note, except I am excited for the last day in LA, and then to hit the road.
Meanwhile, back in Colorado, someone has to watch over the homestead
Little Man keeps a sharp eye out for prairie dogs coming under the fence
Day 12: done with conferencing for a bit
The Coursera Future of Higher Education Summit was excellent. Everyone involved should take a bow. These things rarely have a single thesis, but in this case the three main keynotes—my own on the history of disruption, Jeff Maggioncalda’s on AI in the workforce and at Coursera, and Vic Strecher’s on GenZ and the power of …
Day 12: pooped after two conferences
Day 11: Death and the Printers
“Death and the Printers”from Le Danse Macabre (Matthias Huss: Lyons, 1499) The first-ever image of the printing press appears, strangely, as a story of Death. Printing was developed across the 1450s in a halting progress of experimentation. Johannes Gutenberg had taken a number of loans for various financial schemes. Printing paid off, but not quickly …
Day 10: a short hello from san jose
Today we headed up to San Jose for the Coursera event. Flying out of Burbank always makes me feel like a movie star because it involves a walk on the tarmac in the sun. Richelle came along to look at some documents at Stanford. I ’m looking forward to the talk tomorrow. I’ve given versions …
Onwards! 