:: jeff goddard, 2009 ::
Jeff Goddard found time to join us, and it turns out his career and mine have brought us closer together: we're both into Clojure. He's using the Reagent based approach to working with React, the Facebook-supported JavaScript library. My needs are more primitive so far as I'm doing curriculum writing in early STEM, looking at the concept of Vectors.
The discussion wandered all over, as is our wont. I wrote on the white board with a colored marker clearly labeled as "not suitable for white boards" and had to put some work into getting everything back to pristine, which I did. Lesson learned I hope.
Those other pens are for butcher paper presentations, not white board presentations. I had a new domain to share, sounding vaguely shadowy in a DC Comics kind of way (4Dsyndicate.net -- just a placeholder right now, complements Grunch.net and 4Dsolutions.net, used for curriculum writing and DHL shipments (just shipped an art book to Nepal)).
Having access to Safari Books On-line as a perk of my employment means I might find a lot more on React and Reagent if I go poking around. I'll plan on doing that soon, also wearing my IT Committee hat with NPYM (NGO community service role).
My schedule opened up during Wanderers owing to a rescheduling by the party interested in visiting Costco with me, a sometime Wanderer herself. We can do that another time.
We talked about Uber, with me reminiscing about our Clackamas County experiment, funded by cigarette tax money through TriMet, who's mandate was to get people from here to there regardless of by what means.
Transportation Reaching People (TRP) showed how a non-profit -- a GO in this case, not an NGO -- could participate in the same space as Uber, tapping mostly retired folks with their own cars and dispatching them to help various parties keep doctor appointments, go shopping etc.
I also mentioned Ron Braithwaite's presentation years ago, about "urberizing" eldercare with a system of passive sensors and human monitors, some of them clients of health care in other ways, perhaps wheelchair bound.
Doing this work in public-private space was Ron's vision for Canada at first, but whether that idea ever went anywhere I know not. My impression is we're still in the dark ages, Canada too.
My rant this morning was humans were very much an unfinished work, and were aliens to visit they'd likely say: "not fully matured yet, we'll check back in a couple millennia, good luck."
That attitude derives from my latent case of misanthropy I'm sure. Likely there's a pill for that in some catalog or other. Mostly I've got it under control and have a lot of empathy for people.
In fact later today I for some reason (no reason?) took time off from teaching Python to plunge into some Youtubes looking back on the Tsunami in Indonesia, Thailand and Sri Lanka.
I also studied the sinking and refloating of the Costa Concordia, before meeting Carol's flight from Boston (JetBlue).
The discussion wandered all over, as is our wont. I wrote on the white board with a colored marker clearly labeled as "not suitable for white boards" and had to put some work into getting everything back to pristine, which I did. Lesson learned I hope.
Those other pens are for butcher paper presentations, not white board presentations. I had a new domain to share, sounding vaguely shadowy in a DC Comics kind of way (4Dsyndicate.net -- just a placeholder right now, complements Grunch.net and 4Dsolutions.net, used for curriculum writing and DHL shipments (just shipped an art book to Nepal)).
Having access to Safari Books On-line as a perk of my employment means I might find a lot more on React and Reagent if I go poking around. I'll plan on doing that soon, also wearing my IT Committee hat with NPYM (NGO community service role).
My schedule opened up during Wanderers owing to a rescheduling by the party interested in visiting Costco with me, a sometime Wanderer herself. We can do that another time.
We talked about Uber, with me reminiscing about our Clackamas County experiment, funded by cigarette tax money through TriMet, who's mandate was to get people from here to there regardless of by what means.
Transportation Reaching People (TRP) showed how a non-profit -- a GO in this case, not an NGO -- could participate in the same space as Uber, tapping mostly retired folks with their own cars and dispatching them to help various parties keep doctor appointments, go shopping etc.
I also mentioned Ron Braithwaite's presentation years ago, about "urberizing" eldercare with a system of passive sensors and human monitors, some of them clients of health care in other ways, perhaps wheelchair bound.
Doing this work in public-private space was Ron's vision for Canada at first, but whether that idea ever went anywhere I know not. My impression is we're still in the dark ages, Canada too.
My rant this morning was humans were very much an unfinished work, and were aliens to visit they'd likely say: "not fully matured yet, we'll check back in a couple millennia, good luck."
That attitude derives from my latent case of misanthropy I'm sure. Likely there's a pill for that in some catalog or other. Mostly I've got it under control and have a lot of empathy for people.
In fact later today I for some reason (no reason?) took time off from teaching Python to plunge into some Youtubes looking back on the Tsunami in Indonesia, Thailand and Sri Lanka.
I also studied the sinking and refloating of the Costa Concordia, before meeting Carol's flight from Boston (JetBlue).
