The Digital Household

By Lorette E. P. A. Cheswickcheswick.com908.766.3831

Hemo the Magnificent

A Bell Labs film directed by Frank Capra

http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/ches/

Front of house door bell -

construction/deconstruction of electronics

Problem as process-

reinforce electronics and problem solving in all areas of our lives

Ants and mice

Sharing Our Field of Dreams

Evolution of Computers in the Cheswick house

We started out with terminals connected to mainframes

The first PC we bought was an AT. We got it about 1 week before my dad got his.

B.C. brought home his first work station about 7 years ago.

Cheswick PC Evolution

The Mac was a Christmas present 4 years ago.

We thought we had to have familiarity with both sides of the PC world. Then we got Myst for the external CD-Rom and we’ve never looked back.

How we use our computers:

Quicken, Quick Books, electronic banking v phone

banking, Test software, video research, writing books anywhere,

Do you ask for directions?

Who me? I’m never lost.

Last week’s information

IBM Voice Type http://www.sostech

.com/quiz1.html

Storm on Sun creates solar flare

http://www.nasa.gov/

Last week II.

Pronation leading to tendon insufficiancy

CPR/First Aide sources on the Net

http://www.sostech.com/quiz1.html

How we manage our computers

Storage room

Neat hardware

Radio mice Radio keyboards PCMCIA cards and slots laser pointers radio ethernet PDA’s and their evolution Modems Cisco bridge

PDA’s and their evolution

Eo was a fun toy, but the screen was hard to read

It was heavy Software compatibility was

so-so HP 200LX is still going Flash cards are great and the

PC slots allow a number of peripherals in a portable or PDA

Digital Cameras

Have a similar evolution to the PDA’s

Software and resolution have improved immensely

Print quality is still tricky. Batteries are a recycling

issue Great to use

The Strap is Not an Option

Art and Philosophy

Would you glue a camera base to your dash board?

San Diego

Can you see the janitors, airplanes, trains, a 360 degree change in the wind direction?

Alternatives to t. v. and a clean house: Stop Action Animation

Gorgo Eats Miami

http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/ches/mpg/gorgo.mpg

T.V. is a vegetative sport. Multiplayer, interactive games are not

http://ram.ramlink.net/~jackzero/zero.html

Miss Manners on the Net

Marcus Ranum

http://www.clark.net/pub/mjr

Norman Wilson

Windows 95 bugs

http://dec.dorm.umd.edu/index.htm

Berford

http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/ches/

The new nations are ISPs

Non linear games, books and searching will change the way we see the world

See Connections

Domains are important heirlooms.

New Acquisitions and Goals-

http://www.software.ibm.com/is/voicetype/SGB7224F.html

Chroma-key Wall and software

Digital Encyclopedias

Encarta still looks like a short attention span work.

Search tools on Encarta and other digital encyclopedias are not rigorous

Encyclopedia Britannica has lots of words so you still have to read widely to get information.

800-372-8264

$125.00 for CDRom version of Encyclopedia Britannica

Full Screen Video

http://www.uc.edu/~ACOMBTY/geologylist.html

Time lapse of Water at Disney World and Light Studies at Cathedrals.

Further Security studies in real life.

Thanks