Near Stanford Memorial Church there is a standalone bathroom with classical appearance.
2021-09-19
2021-09-18
Sense of time during endeavors
I heard from this podcast about someone who became an elite ultra-runner after a brain surgery, as quoted from earlier article:
Her waning short term memory meant that she processed time and trail in a new way. With the ability to focus intensely on the pure task of putting one foot in front of the other over great distances, she soon established herself as one of the world’s most decorated ultra endurance runners in history.
Usually we need a sense of time/progress to manage a project, and this case provides a very interesting counter point: sometimes, not knowing the context might help us focus at the task.
2021-09-17
Daydream while driving on a highway
While driving on 101 south-bound at 2021-09-05 17:26:02 and listening to Shostakovich piano concerto 2 in the radio, I imagined being engulfed by sticky black liquid, and reproduced the visual effect afterwards via Adobe Ae.
2021-09-16
2021-09-14
Doodling during a meeting
Maybe I should have focused more on the meeting content than the speaker.
2021-09-12
Working around tires
I drew this from a synthesis of visual memory/impression/imagination a giant tire leaning on a wall and people working in a car service shop.
2021-09-11
2021-09-08
Claiming ignorance
A founder/CEO who claimed to have no knowledge of whether the technology of his/her company is actually working is either lying or grossly incompetent.
2021-09-07
Good results
I remember (20+ years ago while I was still in school) during a faculty seminar, Mark Horowitz couldn’t attend, and Bill Dally presented his research by skipping all results slides by simply saying “good results!” and called it a day.
As someone coming from the SIGGRAPH-side of research, I always wish that all CHI user study sections can contain just one sentence: happy users and good results! (instead of pages of descriptions and statistics which, honestly, I never read).
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