2006 July

City Level Models

Eddie A. Tejeda published this entry on Monday 31 July, 2006 at 10:01 am. It's been filed in the Ideas + Technology category. {6 Comments}

A technology called Photosynth, developed by Microsoft Research in collaboration with University of Washington, has the potential to change the way we look at maps.

Photosynth takes a large collection of photos of a place or object, analyzes them for similarities, and displays them in a reconstructed 3-Dimensional space.

This is quite possibly one of the most [...]

Preserving Life. Preserving Humans.

Eddie A. Tejeda published this entry on Tuesday 25 July, 2006 at 6:01 pm. It's been filed in the Education + Ideas + Science category. {10 Comments}

I read The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology by Ray Kurzweil a few months ago, and I found it to be thought provoking book and highly recommend it (I did find Kurzweil’s fascination with living forever somewhat bizarre). One of the most interesting topics I was exposed to was on the movement [...]

Quoted in The Chronicle of Higher Education

Eddie A. Tejeda published this entry on Monday 24 July, 2006 at 9:21 am. It's been filed in the Education + Technology category. {Share Your Thoughts}

Jeff Young, from the The Chronicle of Higher Education, wrote a piece titled Book 2.0: Scholars turn monographs into digital conversations, where he discusses a bit about the work going on at the Institute of Future of the Book . Sadly, it’s a paid service, and the article is not public, but a quote from [...]

Skydiving Details

Eddie A. Tejeda published this entry on Monday 17 July, 2006 at 10:08 am. It's been filed in the Ideas category. {4 Comments}

I jumped out of a plane two days ago and now I am finally coming to terms with what’s happened to me. I think i’ve had an adrenaline rush that began to wear off only yesterday.
The most nerve racking part of this adventure was the drive the to skydiving ranch, where we nervously joked [...]

Skydiving

Eddie A. Tejeda published this entry on Saturday 15 July, 2006 at 1:25 pm. It's been filed in the Ideas category. {4 Comments}

I jumped from an airplane this morning…… and I survived.
This picture is of my sister, who jumped right before me.

I could not afford the extra $80 for mid-air pictures (after already spending $185), but here a few more of my sister.

Bill Moyers Interviews Mary Gordon

Eddie A. Tejeda published this entry on Friday 14 July, 2006 at 9:51 am. It's been filed in the Education + Ideas category. {1 Comment}

On a very interesting series on PBS, Bill Moyers interviews Mary Gordon.

Author Mary Gordon is widely regarded as one of the leading chroniclers of contemporary Catholic life in America. Her literary oeuvre - novels, short stories, essays, and personal memoirs - paints a rich picture of the complexities of faith, morals, politics, and religious and [...]

Firework Factory Explosion

Eddie A. Tejeda published this entry on Wednesday 05 July, 2006 at 11:20 am. It's been filed in the History category. {1 Comment}

A friend sent me a video of a firework factory blowing up. It was interesting at first, but then it appears that the camera is killed by a near by explosion. I then read a bit about the explosion and found out that it was a horrible disaster in the Netherlands where hundreds of people [...]