[FRIAM] <chatter> USC Interactive Media and ITC </chatter>

[steve smith]

OK you chatterboxes... quiet down back there in the down-plume shadow of 
the famous outpost of the evil empire(s)! 

Oh wait, I'm just down the street from Bechtel headquarters and Stephen 
Bechtel's penthouse suite...  oh wait... who are those acne-scarred apes 
in rumpled suits with bulges under their arpmits?...    I think 
someone(s) is about to get hurt here...  I'll write up the damage report 
later.  (anybody want to buy a couple of slightly used Glocks?)

BTW, Doug can attest... just give me a goofy psuedonym and a blogger 
account and I go positively apeshit.  No libations required (nor excluded!)

<chatter>
    The real fun is at USC next week... on my own nickel.   I'm meeting 
with Scott Fisher & Crue ( http://interactive.usc.edu/members/sfisher/) 
at the interactive media     division of the school of cinema and 
television and hopefully Paul Debevec's lab ( http://www.debevec.org/ ).

    I'm also meeting with Immersion ( 
http://www.immersion.com/3d/products/cyber_grasp.php ) on Monday to get 
fitted out for some Edward Scissorhands play.  I         tried these on 
7 years ago in Houston, but it took this long to find an appropriate 
application (virtual glovebox).  
</chatter>

- Sieve

David Breecker wrote:
> Oh lord, I've seen Steve become a cheerful chatterbox with an 
> afternoon in Santa Fe.  Although libations at the Cowgirl certainly help.
> db
>
>     ----- Original Message -----
>     *From:* Douglas Roberts <mailto:doug at parrot-farm.net>
>     *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
>     <mailto:friam at redfish.com>
>     *Sent:* Wednesday, June 13, 2007 5:27 AM
>     *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] iPhone at WWDC07.moscone.SF
>     <mailto:iPhone at WWDC07.moscone.SF> (no Apple Proprietary content,I
>     promise!)
>
>     It's interesting to observe how when one of the LANL staff members
>     escapes the present evil, oppressive, water table-polluting,
>     Plutonium-manufacturing funding-threatened corporate environment
>     of Los Alamos for a week of techie fun in the Real World, they
>     open up, becoming positive cheerful little chatterboxes!
>