Day 102

Stop me before I Blog again

OK, I really should be taking a break from this 100 days of Glass thing, but it's a habit now.  In Glass news, the device discharged its battery while sitting in its case all morning.  The CPU segment of the device was oddly warm.

Meanwhile, the company-owned Glass is safely locked inside a colleague's lateral file cabinet.  The key is coming home with another colleague who was supposed to reach ABQ late this afternoon.  Instead, she is safely in Denver with cancelled flights due to severe weather.  Might have to do tomorrow's mock inspection with just an iPhone.

Late in the afternoon I received an e-mail from one of the participants at last week's INMM conference on Information Analysis in Portland.  He thanked me again for the opportunity to try on Glass.  I sent him some of the pics that I had taken through Glass, for example, here he is with Dr. Sullivan of the University of Illinois (the other speaker who was also a Glass Explorer). 

Day Whatever

T minus One for Field Exercise with Glass

Things are ready to go for our mock arms control inspection with Glass on Thursday.  Briefing materials are ready; the bunker has been prepped; website setup; online databases loaded.  Only one problem:  our Lab-owned set of Glass is locked up in a lateral file while my colleague is attending meetings at Argonne National Lab.  On top of that, the Lab-owned iPhone it's going to be tethered to is still with the Mobile staff here.  It's my first iPhone, so extra steps need to be taken to initialize it. 

Day 100

The Odometer Rolls Over

There it is, the big "100" in the title.  Although I'm three months behind on my Plone Metrics posts, I managed this effort with only a couple days that slipped over the midnight mark by a few hours. 

Now that I'm back from Berkeley and Portland, I'm concentrating on getting ready for our field exercise comparing mobile ICT with manual methods for arms control inspections.  With Syrian chemical weapons attacks still in the news and negotiations with Iran hitting a snag, it's clear that arms control and nuclear nonproliferation are still critically important issues.  The question is where does Glass fit and how can it help? 

On "All Tech Considered" tonight they discussed how the Internet and activist blogging is affecting the behavior of states and nations.  With Glass you don't have to hold up a cellphone camera or even have a GoPro's black box on your helmet in order to capture a moment.  While Glass is still clunky and geeky, in a crowd it can be difficult to spot (at least the black and beige styles).  I can see where Glass could really enable accurate and timely recording of events... in Afghanistan, in the Ukraine, in November.

In five more years, the functionality of Glass will fit within standard frames.  In ten more years, wearable systems will be more like embeddable systems with digital contact lenses and implants.  The great wave is here. 

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 97

Fryday

After an uneventful day back at the office (first time since May 2nd), I had time to do some turtle herding in the backyard.  Found #10 and Trudy in the Iris bed.  Naughty, naughty.  Distracted them from their illicit affair with a couple raw shrimp, which they eagerly devoured.

Meanwhile, here's a collection of photos of the Dragon Boats that ply the Willamette River.  Taken Wednesday after lunch, by evening dozens and dozens of crews were rowing them up and down the river.

Day 96

Back to Blogger Desktop

Whew!  Finally back to a Blogger interface that will accept embedded photographs.  Time to bring this blog up to date with imagery. 

Had a great time in Portland at INMM:  made contact with one of my sponsors at the State Dept., met lots of new people, saw my first SafeCast radiation monitor in the wild,

gave a well-received presentation, and had a Glass trifecta.  Here's my colleague, Mike McDaniel, giving his presentation on the first day.

That evening there was a mixer and Glass made for great cocktail conversation, whether at the pasta bar, 

or just around the table.  

Here's Dr. Clair Sullivan, the other person who brought their Glass to the meeting.  

And here she is in action on the final day for the final presentation before the closing plenary panel discussion.  

Tamara Patton also has a pair and was present, but she left them in New York.  :-/  Either way that made for 3 people who had Glass in an obscure group of about 50 nonproliferation specialists.  Amazing.