Its a magical process. and check out those purple potatos and pink stripey beets.
I like to add watercress to my bowl of hot soup, it just cooks instantly and loses its overt bitterness, and its sooo good for you.
Friday, December 22, 2006
SOUP
Its a magical process. and check out those purple potatos and pink stripey beets.
I like to add watercress to my bowl of hot soup, it just cooks instantly and loses its overt bitterness, and its sooo good for you.
Heart Goat!
YA its been forever since i been a bloggin. bad blogger!!!! badbbad. this goat got my engines running agin tho. soooooooooo cute!!! and check it out, click on the link (the title, duh) and see its a story from Tazewell county!!! My last name. its a sign.
Thursday, October 05, 2006
DATABASE!
Check it out, my new image database!!! YAY.
just click on the title up top and it will take you to the link...
San Diego!
Piilani and I at the last Thread show in Sept!!!
at the cactus garden at Balboa park
these people kissed forever
oh how i love rose names
Matisyahu channeled in some great energy i am telling you...can you see it!!
if you click on the title up top theres even more pictures!!
at the cactus garden at Balboa park
these people kissed forever
oh how i love rose names
Matisyahu channeled in some great energy i am telling you...can you see it!!
if you click on the title up top theres even more pictures!!
mega bucks!!!
i took the mega bucks pic on the way to the last cannibal flower show i sold at..over a month ago...
YUMMMMMM
I've been eating like a QUEEN.
YAY California. heres a "tart" i made
Thank you thank you farmers. here is another tasty creation.
OH GOD TAMALE I LOVE YOU WITH ALL MY HEART
ahhh satisfaction.
YAY California. heres a "tart" i made
Thank you thank you farmers. here is another tasty creation.
OH GOD TAMALE I LOVE YOU WITH ALL MY HEART
ahhh satisfaction.
Friday, August 18, 2006
Wednesday, August 16, 2006
Grace and Corny's
the bathroom wallpaper...i wish i had pics of the rest of the house- it is the sweetest time capsule
Corny's carved animals!!!!
i wish you could hear him talk about how the fox is chasing the bird...
Corny's carved animals!!!!
i wish you could hear him talk about how the fox is chasing the bird...
honest abe
Patrick did this piece and i ate a muffin. he ended up selling this abe that night at the Project show...a good time..
the upstate new york luau wedding!
what can i say
its grandpa Don!
grandpa Corny!
the fabulous grandma Grace and Patrick the good grandson
sweetness
its grandpa Don!
grandpa Corny!
the fabulous grandma Grace and Patrick the good grandson
sweetness
NYC last month!!
my my how time flies
BEEEFF
Beau rico suaaveeee
happy family!
!!!!great combo
beau rooftop magic
BEEEFF
Beau rico suaaveeee
happy family!
!!!!great combo
beau rooftop magic
Saturday, July 29, 2006
oh beach!!
how i love thee.
favorite pastime!
my sweet room. bliss sleeping to the sound of the waves ....
pretty Page
well said
favorite pastime!
my sweet room. bliss sleeping to the sound of the waves ....
pretty Page
well said
Thursday, July 27, 2006
Surfing the Web with nothing but brainwaves
HOLY MOLY
this article from CNNmoney online -click above for link
Kiss your keyboard goodbye: Soon we'll jack our brains directly into the Net - and that's just the beginning.
By Chris Taylor, Business 2.0 Magazine senior editor
July 24 2006: 11:33 AM EDT
SAN FRANCISCO (Business 2.0 Magazine) - -- Two years ago, a quadriplegic man started playing video games using his brain as a controller. That may just sound like fun and games for the unfortunate, but really, it spells the beginning of a radical change in how we interact with computers - and business will never be the same.
Someday, keyboards and computer mice will be remembered only as medieval-style torture devices for the wrists. All work - emails, spreadsheets, and Google searches - will be performed by mind control.
If you think that's mind-blowing, try to wrap your head around the sensational research that's been done on the brain of one Matthew Nagle by scientists at Brown University and three other institutions, in collaboration with Foxborough, Mass.-based company Cyberkinetics Neurotechnology Systems. The research was published for the first time last week in the British science journal Nature.
Nagle, a 26-year-old quadriplegic, was hooked up to a computer via an implant smaller than an aspirin that sits on top of his brain and reads electrical patterns. Using that technology, he learned how to move a cursor around a screen, play simple games, control a robotic arm, and even - couch potatoes, prepare to gasp in awe - turn his brain into a TV remote control. All while chatting amiably with the researchers. He even learned how to perform these tasks in less time than the average PC owner spends installing Microsoft (Charts) Windows.
Decoding the brain
Nagle was able to accomplish all this because the brain has been greatly demystified in laboratories over the last decade or so. Researchers unlocked the brain patterns for thoughts that represent letters of the alphabet as early as 1999.
Now, Cyberkinetics and a host of other companies are working on turning those discoveries into real products. Neurodevices - medical devices that compensate for damage to the brain, nerves, and spinal column - are a $3.4 billion business that grew 21 percent last year, according to NeuroInsights, a research and advisory company. There are currently some 300 companies working in the field.
But Cyberkinetics is trying to do more than just repair neural damage: It's working on an implantable chip that Nagle and patients in two other cities are using to control electronic devices with their minds. (Check out this demonstration video).
Already, the Brown researchers say, this kind of technology can enable a hooked-up human to write at 15 words a minute - half as fast as the average person writes by hand. Remember, though, that silicon-based technology typically doubles in capacity every two years.
So if improved hardware is all it takes to speed up the device, Cyberkinetics' chip could be able to process thoughts as fast as speech - 110 to 170 words per minute - by 2012. Imagine issuing commands to a computer as quickly as you could talk.
But who would want to get a brain implant if they haven't been struck by a drastic case of paralysis? Leaving aside the fact that there is a lucrative market for providing such profoundly life-enhancing products for millions of paralyzed patients, it may soon not even be necessary to stick a chip inside your skull to take advantage of this technology.
What a tale your thoughts could tell
Brain-reading technology is improving rapidly. Last year, Sony (Charts) took out a patent on a game system that beams data directly into the mind without implants. It uses a pulsed ultrasonic signal that induces sensory experiences such as smells, sounds and images.
And Niels Birbaumer, a neuroscientist at the University of Tuebingen in Germany, has developed a device that enables disabled people to communicate by reading their brain waves through the skin, also without implants.
Stu Wolf, one of the top scientists at Darpa, the Pentagon's scientific research agency which gave birth to the Internet, seriously believes we'll all be wearing computers in headbands within 20 years.
By that time, we'll have super fast, super tiny computers that make today's machines look like typewriters. The desktop will be dead, says Wolf, and the headband will dominate.
"We already know we can trigger neurons mechanically," he says. "You can interact directly with the brain without implanted electrodes. Then the next step is being able to think something and have it happen: Flying a plane, driving a car, operating household machinery."
Controlling devices with the mind is just the beginning. Next, Wolf believes, is what he calls "network-enabled telepathy" - instant thought transfer. In other words, your thoughts will flow from your brain over the network right into someone else's brain. If you think instant messaging is addictive, just wait for instant thinking.
The only issue, Wolf says, is making sure it's consensual; that's a problem likely to tax the minds of security experts.
But just think of the advantages. In the office of the future, the conference call, too, will be remembered as a medieval form of torture.
this article from CNNmoney online -click above for link
Kiss your keyboard goodbye: Soon we'll jack our brains directly into the Net - and that's just the beginning.
By Chris Taylor, Business 2.0 Magazine senior editor
July 24 2006: 11:33 AM EDT
SAN FRANCISCO (Business 2.0 Magazine) - -- Two years ago, a quadriplegic man started playing video games using his brain as a controller. That may just sound like fun and games for the unfortunate, but really, it spells the beginning of a radical change in how we interact with computers - and business will never be the same.
Someday, keyboards and computer mice will be remembered only as medieval-style torture devices for the wrists. All work - emails, spreadsheets, and Google searches - will be performed by mind control.
If you think that's mind-blowing, try to wrap your head around the sensational research that's been done on the brain of one Matthew Nagle by scientists at Brown University and three other institutions, in collaboration with Foxborough, Mass.-based company Cyberkinetics Neurotechnology Systems. The research was published for the first time last week in the British science journal Nature.
Nagle, a 26-year-old quadriplegic, was hooked up to a computer via an implant smaller than an aspirin that sits on top of his brain and reads electrical patterns. Using that technology, he learned how to move a cursor around a screen, play simple games, control a robotic arm, and even - couch potatoes, prepare to gasp in awe - turn his brain into a TV remote control. All while chatting amiably with the researchers. He even learned how to perform these tasks in less time than the average PC owner spends installing Microsoft (Charts) Windows.
Decoding the brain
Nagle was able to accomplish all this because the brain has been greatly demystified in laboratories over the last decade or so. Researchers unlocked the brain patterns for thoughts that represent letters of the alphabet as early as 1999.
Now, Cyberkinetics and a host of other companies are working on turning those discoveries into real products. Neurodevices - medical devices that compensate for damage to the brain, nerves, and spinal column - are a $3.4 billion business that grew 21 percent last year, according to NeuroInsights, a research and advisory company. There are currently some 300 companies working in the field.
But Cyberkinetics is trying to do more than just repair neural damage: It's working on an implantable chip that Nagle and patients in two other cities are using to control electronic devices with their minds. (Check out this demonstration video).
Already, the Brown researchers say, this kind of technology can enable a hooked-up human to write at 15 words a minute - half as fast as the average person writes by hand. Remember, though, that silicon-based technology typically doubles in capacity every two years.
So if improved hardware is all it takes to speed up the device, Cyberkinetics' chip could be able to process thoughts as fast as speech - 110 to 170 words per minute - by 2012. Imagine issuing commands to a computer as quickly as you could talk.
But who would want to get a brain implant if they haven't been struck by a drastic case of paralysis? Leaving aside the fact that there is a lucrative market for providing such profoundly life-enhancing products for millions of paralyzed patients, it may soon not even be necessary to stick a chip inside your skull to take advantage of this technology.
What a tale your thoughts could tell
Brain-reading technology is improving rapidly. Last year, Sony (Charts) took out a patent on a game system that beams data directly into the mind without implants. It uses a pulsed ultrasonic signal that induces sensory experiences such as smells, sounds and images.
And Niels Birbaumer, a neuroscientist at the University of Tuebingen in Germany, has developed a device that enables disabled people to communicate by reading their brain waves through the skin, also without implants.
Stu Wolf, one of the top scientists at Darpa, the Pentagon's scientific research agency which gave birth to the Internet, seriously believes we'll all be wearing computers in headbands within 20 years.
By that time, we'll have super fast, super tiny computers that make today's machines look like typewriters. The desktop will be dead, says Wolf, and the headband will dominate.
"We already know we can trigger neurons mechanically," he says. "You can interact directly with the brain without implanted electrodes. Then the next step is being able to think something and have it happen: Flying a plane, driving a car, operating household machinery."
Controlling devices with the mind is just the beginning. Next, Wolf believes, is what he calls "network-enabled telepathy" - instant thought transfer. In other words, your thoughts will flow from your brain over the network right into someone else's brain. If you think instant messaging is addictive, just wait for instant thinking.
The only issue, Wolf says, is making sure it's consensual; that's a problem likely to tax the minds of security experts.
But just think of the advantages. In the office of the future, the conference call, too, will be remembered as a medieval form of torture.
Tuesday, July 18, 2006
Jockeys Ridge
so these dunes are like crazy big. the biggest on the east coast. it was here that the wright brothers first flew!!! it was right down the street from our cottage and so beautiful with views to the ocean and bay on either side.
family beach vacation
i spent all last week with the extended family on the Outer Banks of NC in the sweetest beachfront cottage. this place was so old and charming- dated back to the civil war when it was built as a 2 room fishing shack...which is now the kitchen...
brother Taylor,cousin Henry, and brother Rio at dinner (Sean in the backround!), looking thrilled.
sweet Nanny and cousin Page and Dad
cousins Amanda and Page
this is waht my Grandfather does when i he wants me to quit being a shutterbug- gives me the best faces!! which only encourages my pursuits.
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