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   DougMerritt (log😅 = 💧log😄) (dougmerritt@mathstodon.xyz)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jan-2025 10:41:08 JST DougMerritt (log😅 = 💧log😄)

   • Digital Mark λ 📚 🕹 💾 🥃
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   • screwlisp
   • Christine Lemmer-Webber

   @mdhughes @screwtape @me @sacha @cwebber
   Note the sartorial elegance in this 1980 photo of Steve Mann, "The Father of Wearable Computing":
   http://wearcam.org/steve5.jpg
   https://wearcam.org/
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Mann_(inventor)

   P.S. His related 2001 book "Intelligent Image Processing" was innovative; seminal; excellent.
   http://wearcam.org/textbook.htm

   He also wrote the 2001 "Cyborg: Digital Destiny and Human Possibility in the Age of the Wearable Computer" but I never read it.

   P.S. I'm puzzled why the above jpg isn't showing up inline without clicking it.

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     • Christine Lemmer-Webber

     @dougmerritt
     Onto the reading list
     @mdhughes
     #gargoyle is new to my lexicon
     Now, to actually read Snowcrash, even as I'm eagre to figure out what happened next in Murderbots, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, That Portuguese author, this grammar thing I'm utterly failing to write, ...
     @me @sacha @cwebber

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     @screwtape @mdhughes @me @sacha @cwebber
     Mind you, I liked Snowcrash a lot, but it is not a very serious book. It began life as a background theme for a video game, according to the author, and when that fell through, he fleshed it out as a whole book.

     It's therefore not too surprising that it has many silly aspects. But it's fun.

     His later books get much more serious.