I had a great time at Hound Ears 2009 as part of the Triple Crown climbing competition. Before I went to the comp, some people told me about the Heretic boulder problem (a super classic V3), and after hearing about it, all I knew was that if I could scend only one problem, it had [...]

A couple semesters ago, I took a skill acquisition class and one of the major assignments was to select and learn a new skill. While we we learning our new skill, we were reading literature on the various theories on how people learn skills from novice up to the expert level. The combination of application [...]

BooneOakley’s actual website is a youtube video. It’s quite a clever use of youtube if you think about it – very little in-house server load (domain name simply forwards to the youtube vide), and huge opportunities for exposure. The site has already been viewed almost 500,000 times and it’s got a five star rating from [...]

I recently watched a TED talk by Golan Levin on how he combines engineering and art to create really innovative interactive experiences. One example of his work take’s a brilliant recital of Kurt Schwitters’s Ursonate by Jaap Blonk and translates the words into on-screen text in real time. It’s immensely fun to watch a grown [...]

I love watching the TED videos. It’s basically a collection of talks from the world’s top minds where they share very inspirational and interesting ideas and discoveries.