Tech Week

No, I'm not in a show, but this is the week when I am wired, hooked in, connected, linked whatever. I have had a couple of webinars with headset and chat windows and power point. No videos thank heavens. And then I was a guinea pig for a usability study at MIT. That was both kind of interesting and incredibly weird. You sit in front of a keyboard and screen and an VERY serious MIT person gives you a set of tasks and you're supposed to think out loud by talking through what you're doing and how you make decisions. Because it's all at the speed of the internet it seemed more like one of those old American Express commercials where the guy talks a mile a minute about efficiency or shipping or something. And since I speak in non sequiters on a regular basis - clarity of thought may not have been my most apparent trait while performing the given tasks. But I had fun and I got an insider look at geek central, MIT. They are all about 10 and smart, smart, smart.

This picture comes from nineteenth century tech. I took a few shots of the interior of the tower at Mount Auburn last week and I love seeing how carefully the stones were shaped, placed and fitted to make this structure. Tech or craft? You decide.