Day 99

100 Days of Glass

Officially, it's over.  This is my hundredth day of blogging about my experiences with Glass.  Instead of spending it with Glass on my head all day, it ended up an almost Glass-less day:  a few mundane household chores this morning, lunch with Mom at Annie's Soup Kitchen (where they often ask about Glass), cooking up Chicken Dijonne in the crock pot, prepping for Thursday's mock arms control inspection, and finishing the day with Game of Thrones. 

Day 98

A "Normal" Saturday

Slept in, then had a shot of coffee and managed the daily cat pilling without losing too much blood.  The turtles were out, so they got strawberries for breakfast.  Then Kent came over to discuss various handyman projects around the house. 

The first grilled hotdogs of the season came off the propane for lunch.  Spent a bit of time moving the Gardenias out of the house and Plectanthrus out of the greenhouse and under the junipers.  Then the Pool Whisperer (Cal) came over to open the pool. 

Day 94

A Gathering of Glass
I'm still amazed that out of 50 people at this little INMM Info Analysis  conference, 3 of us have Glass.  Tamara didn't bring hers.  Claire has a sky blue pair.  Mine are taupe.

Of course, Claire and I had a hero shot taken together in front of the conference room.  And we took #throughglass reciprocal portraits.

The problem Claire is having is that Glass has no way to connect to WPA2 without Bluetooth because you can't enter the network password. 

Day 86

Cinco de Mayo
A travel day, but first office e-mail to deal with in the morning before an easy flight ABQ-OAK.  Once here, I donned Glass for the cab ride and a quick walk around the UC Berkeley campus with Schlepp.  I found the conference venue--it looks very nice.

I particularly liked the way Glass suggested two different navigation options without my having to ask.  The number of suggested places of interest and photographic sites was quite remarkable.  Researching restaurants near the hotel was a breeze.  Good use case, Glass for travellers.

Still haven't found a way to link to my Glass photos from the Blogspot mobile app, so there may be some really poorly illustrated posts until I get home.  For now, all I can see is a Bold, Italic, and hyperlink control.

I did get a couple nice vignettes, which allow the traveller to tell their story in a very interesting way.  Expect updates when I figure this out.  It does look like there are add photo controls from the top-level post page.  Still no way to embed them in the correct location in the text.  Update:  Had numerous failures all evening trying to use the Add picture function.  In the end it may be a problem with the Add location feature.  Removing my location allowed me to publish this post.

Tomorrow I'll be wrapped up with the societal verification/crowdsourcing treaty compliance conference.  I look forward to sharing my thoughts and experiences with Glass as they apply to this domain.

Day 81

Dust, Haze, Cinders

A cold front from eastern NM pushed an enormous air mass full of dust raised by the weekend winds into the ABQ area overnight.  The Sandia Mountains were barely visible and air quality alerts were issued. 

After lunch with my old college buddy McGoey, I paused for a couple photos on the way back to the office.  I took several and deleted all but one.  Now, while looking for the image to include it in this post, the pic appears to be gone.  Curious. 

Day 79

The Wind

With winds topping 35 mph and often higher, I pretty much stayed inside and left Glass to its own devices, so to speak.  I worked on the Mobile of OSI paper, including the inserting of a photograph of OPCW chemical weapons specialists in Syria wearing GoPros.  The bunker photos were downloaded and burned to disk. 

All in all, a very un-Glass day.  In reviewing the contents of the last few days, I still notice that videos don't always have screen-grabs for icons.  That does make it very difficult to know which video you are manipulating. 

I did manage a couple shots of the tulips in the vase on the dining room table.  A pair of them together made a nice vignette. 

With the winds forecast to die down tomorrow, perhaps I'll get some outside photos.  Wednesday, my usual bike riding day, will be cut short by a meeting with my financial adviser.  Expect garage sale imagery this weekend and then Berkeley Monday through Thursday next. 

Day 76

Bunkers Revisited

Sorry, you'll have to wait for official review and approval.  Here's the external view.

Day 68

Issues with KitKat

Three times in the last two days I've had Glass lock up with a black screen after taking 2 pictures in succession with the manual shutter button.  The problem requires that I manually turn off and then restart Glass.  Hmm?  Not good. 

Also, this evening during a friend's birthday celebration (see below), Glass overheated with perhaps only 20 minutes of use.  That was after 5 photos and 6 video snippets, none longer than 10 seconds. 

Mobile for Nuclear Nonproliferation

I'm finishing up the study on mobile ICT devices for arms control verification and treaty compliance.  Many different angles to the problem, but none of them insurmountable.  Also getting ready to put the final touches on my paper for the INMM conference in Portland in 3 weeks.  That will be my first foray onto a public stage with Glass.  Stay tuna'ed.

At work today I did manage a couple photos #throughglass.  One was of our display area downstairs; the other of the Spanish Broom in the parking lot.

The Birthday Bash

On a much lighter note, I had Glass on when Ric and Marlene came over tonight for some serious sushi.  Aided by my friend Kent, we were able to take out a prodigious amount of nigiri.