Days 3 & 4: I Castelli Romani I left Rome very early on day 3 to escape the heat. It was already creep[ing upwards to 80 degrees and I could not bear the thought of dragging two heavy bags and my back up down and up and back down and up three flights of stairs:…
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Day Two: Next!
Roma, 9 lujlio 2021 The morning started with the colosseum, a special tour that would take us to the floor of the colosseum. I walked from the house to the colosseum and it was a wonderful pleasant walk and saw many familiar landmarks and sundry roman ruins along the way. The weather was cool and…
Day one: Roma–La Dolce Vita
Roma, 8 lujlio 2021 It is nothing short of miracle I am here to write this entry today, more on that later. 24 hours ago I was in San Francisco. For 240 hours I was obsessing about the ever changing requirements to enter Italy as an American citizen. Proof of vaccination was unclear. Types and…
Messages from Italy Prologue
Hello Everyone, I am planning a trip to Italy as the first part in a series of voyages that will help me determine where I would like to live when I retire. My first trip is departing Wednesday 7 July 2021. The COVID crisis is either over or at a suitable lull that it permits…
The UX Designer’s Charlatan Test
A First Step towards UX Sanity Checking ABSTRACT This paper proposes an introspective test to see whether the reader of this paper is a charlatan UX practitioner. If so, it points ways the reader can professionalize their practice. For the non-UX professional this questionnaire can act as an interview script to ascertain how professional a…
Know before you go: a first time kink primer
Whether just wanting to spice up your sex life or thinking of going into a kink lifestyle, starting the right way will have a big impact on your attitudes towards kink. In short here are 12 things to know before you go into the world of kink for the first few times. 1. A little…
Volume II of Goldberg Variations released!
I finally was able to release Volume II of The Goldberg Variations, The Redemption of the Damned. It is available now in paperback or ebook from Amazon, and from your local bookstore in a couple of weeks. The delays were beyond our control and the book had to outlive the ArnoLand Press which succumbed to…
LGBTQ and Christian Fundamentalists? One SDA man’s story of self-acceptence
There are many Christian Fundamenetalists who also happen to be homosexual, if not a member of the LGBTQ community. My late partner, Dr. Morris Taylor knows first hand the pain and suffering these people go through. He was a leader in the Seventh Day Adventist community. Below is the text of an address Dr. Taylor gave…
White Nausea
Related links: Jeffrey Robinson on White Supremacy White Fragility page Jeffrey Ostler, Surviving Genocide New York Review of Books Review of Ostler’s Surviving Genocide Washington Post’s review of White Fragility State of Indiana’s website info on Native Americans Native Languages site info on Indiana In the well-meaning and surprisingly banal book, White Fragility by Robin…
Taking the Fast RIDE: Designing While Being Agile
A new year and a new post in my less than active blog, here is an article that originally appeared in interactions magazine. While many design methods are practiced “in the wild,” the most prevalent one appears to be “Design first and ask questions later”—also known as “Throw it over the wall and see if…