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Auto-correct: friend, foe, or just funny?

Today, my helpful iPhone changed my intended sentence "I found my sweater at work" to "I found my sweater atheist." There's a deeper meaning here, but I can't quite put my finger on it. Thoughts?

(Of course, the iPhone is still better than my last phone, a Motorola Slivr, which provided predictive texting that was super-helpful -- except that it was in Swedish.)

Mila's Daydreams

Generally I the whole Anne-Geddes-posed-babies genre of art makes me wanna gag almost as much as the talking babies in advertisments. But these photos at Mila's Daydreams have an edgy fairytale quality that I like.

What I've been up to

For those who've been wondering what I've been so busy with the past several months, it's finally gone public. Details here: Fast Company article and here: Looxcie.com.

  

It's a wearable video camera that works with your smartphone. So far, only available for Android phones.

The Chip standard

Our neighbor Chip is very tall. Well over 6 feet. Isaac uses him as the standard by which all size is judged.

Thus (we are in Washington DC today touring the Smithsonians)...

An aircraft carrier is "bigger than Chip!"

Jupiter is "bigger than Chip!"

A dinosaur is "bigger than Chip!"