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the.inevitable.org/anism the.inevitable.org/anism the internet is the developing nervous system of the human organism on earth! subscribe rss feed-posts rss feed-comments my sites 80211.net - wireless technologies humanxtensions - outsourcing solutions tablet pc thoughts - tablet pc / mobile blog blogroll jordan gunderson ray kurzweil phil windley miguel de icaza chris knudsen samuel o. lemon jr. scott hawker phil burns andrea logsdon bob kaylor craig burton search archives: november 2007 october 2007 september 2007 august 2007 july 2007 june 2007 may 2007 april 2007 march 2007 february 2007 january 2007 december 2006 meta: register login rss comments rss valid xhtml one laptop per child … give one get one … scott c. lemon | inevitabilities | monday, november 12th, 2007 well … i had to do it. for multiple reasons. first, i really want to see what one of these machines looks like. second, i’ll be able to watch my son play with it, and see just how usable the software is. lastly … and somewhat the deal closer … when i bought one, some child somewhere else on the planet will get a new laptop. the one laptop per child project has finally reached fruition … and for the next 14 days they are offering a give one get one offer … if you pay $399 you can give a olpc to a child somewhere, and also get one for yourself. oh yeah … and $200 of that is a tax deductible donation. the olpc is a linux machine with some pre-packaged software for kids. from their website: a real world laptop for real world change. the xo laptop. many years and an infinite amount of sweat equity went into the creation of the xo laptop. designed collaboratively by experts from academia and industry, the xo is the product of the very best thinking about technology and learning. it was designed with the real world in mind, considering everything from extreme environmental conditions such as high heat and humidity, to technological issues such as local-language support. as a result, the xo laptop is extremely durable, brilliantly functional, energy-efficient, responsive, and fun. come take a look. i’m a little bummed that some of the features appear to be most useful when a bunch of kids have these in the same area … but we’ll see how it goes. social and sharing the xo laptop was designed to provide the most engaging wireless network possible. the children can connect, chat, share information on the web, gather by videoconference, make music together, edit texts, read e-books, and enjoy the use of collaborative games online. i’m excited to see exactly what change this device causes around the world … we are living in interesting times … technorati tags: laptop.org, laptopgiving, mit, negroponte, olpc, one laptop per child comments (0) guy kawasaki in utah … scott c. lemon | inevitabilities | tuesday, november 6th, 2007 i came down to the salt lake valley last week to listen to guy kawasaki and what he had to say. as usual, he started off with his background at apple, with the macintosh, and railing on windows, bill gates, and windows users. it’s funny … but to me this really dates him … but of course appeals to the “religious” technical folks. the title slide of his presentation was “the art of innovation” … and he indicated that what he is sharing is not necessarily what he did, but what he learned. he went through his top 10, actually 11, key points to innovation. i have to admit that i really like his suggestions overall … and he presents them well. 1. make meaning - it’s not about making money! money is a natural consequence of making meaning. make things better, or remove bad things. this is something that i learned a long time back about “commitment” … what are you really committed to? the example that i heard is that football is not about the score on the scoreboard … it’s about getting the ball across the goal line. if you think it’s about the score, then the best way to get points on the board would be to run up to the box where the scoreboard is controlled and flip the switches! most people get very confused about doing things for money … but instead consider that money is a measurement of whether you are doing other things right. 2. make mantra - this is beyond a mission statement. short. to the point. what is your company or product about. why does it exist? what is the purpose? wendy’s - “healthy fast food” nike - “authentic athletic performance” fedex - “peace of mind” ebay - “democratize commerce” 3. jump to the next curve - it’s not about being 5%, 10%, or 15% better … it’s about a leap forward. it’s not about being slightly better. i like this one a lot … it’s all about thinking beyond everyone else. not taking an existing idea and working to improve it … but making that leap to something completely new! 4. roll the dicee - deep: fanning, dram (reef) - sandals with bottle openers, or bottles! - complete functionality intelligence: bf-104 flashlight (panasonic) - support for various types of batteries complete: ls (lexus) - it’s more than just the product … it’s service and support elegant: nano (apple) - great ui, easy to use emotive: harley davidson - cause emotion these are the key components that guy talked about for success of your company or product. 5. don’t worry, be crappy - it does not have to be perfect when you ship! evolve it! but get it out there for people to use. this is another point that i fully believe it … it is a cornerstone of agile development methodologies. get your idea out there quickly and get it into use! get the feedback and iterate. many people often spend too much time working to perfect something … and end up with something that is only perfect for them! 6. polarize people - you do not have to appeal to everyone. this is not bad … feel free to create in a way that some people love, and some people hate. this is much better than people don’t care what you have created! 7. let a hundred flowers blossom - let it go how it goes. if people who are not your target market are buying your product … let them! they are now your target market! do not believe that you know exactly who and how things are going to go. 8. churn, baby, churn - evolve. listen. alter. customize. enhance. 9. niche thyself - ability to provide unique product or service vs. value to customer. guy presented a quadrant chart that show these two values on each axis. the point is that the best place to be is where you have a unique product that provides the most value to the customer. not unique, little value to customer = dotcom not unique, value to customer = price competition unique, little value to customer = stupid unique, value to customer = sweet spot! 10. follow the 10/20/30 rule - the powerpoint rule. life is a pitch. be prepared to pitch. 10 slides - the optimal number of slides in any pitch. 20 minutes - the amount of time to present your slides. 30 point font - the best size to use for the audience. 11. don’t let the bozos grind you down - no matter what, do not let the people who doubt and question stop you from believing in your vision! there are at least two types of bozos … the loser bozos, and the winner bozos. loser bozos are the obvious people who just do not get it … they themselves are not necessarily accomplished … and they want to tell you why your idea will not work. the most dangerous bozos are the ‘winner bozos’. the people who look accomplished … have money … maybe even had one or more successes themselves. in most cases … they are lucky. so even they are not the ones to listen to. pursue your dream! he ended offering a copy of the presentation (contact mary-louise@garage.com), giving a plug for truemors.com (”npr for your eyes”), and acknowledging his photos come from istockphoto.com. he then went to q&a … i had to leave before the q&a took off … but was glad that i went. it’s always nice to hear a refresher from someone like guy … he’s a good speaker … fun to hear him. technorati tags: apple, gates, guy, innovation, ipod, istockphoto, kawasaki, macintosh, microsoft, nano, truemors, windows comments (0) apple, leopard, and the hacker community … scott c. lemon | inevitabilities | sunday, october 28th, 2007 there is an interesting dynamic that appears to be growing in the computer industry … and in society in general.  i’m not quite sure how i feel about it, and don’t want to be judgmental about it.  it’s not a matter of right or wrong, good or bad, but does seem to bring into question respect for intellectual property and the law. today i read this article, hack attack : install leopard on your pc in 3 easy steps! which describes how to install the new apple operating system - leopard - on a pc.  this would be all fine and dandy if apple was selling leopard for this purpose … but they are not.  instead, it appears that once again some people have taken it upon themselves to reverse engineer the software, and create some patches, to allow it to be installed on non-apple hardware. don’t get me wrong … i’m all for the challenge and proving ones skills, but there is something that just doesn’t sit ok with me about this.  also, anyone that knows me understands that i am not a huge apple fan, and have long questioned their proprietary lock-in hardware and world … but i fully respect their legal rights to what they have created.  even the author of the article states “if you noticed i haven’t posted the links to the torrent that contains the dvd image and the zip. well i haven’t posted them because i am sure the lawyers over at apple are going to sue the hell out of me.“  a full acknowledgment about the questionable nature of what is being done. over the last decade i have really had to do some soul searching about the issues of stealing music over the internet … stealing videos … stealing software … and now stealing operating systems.  in the end, i just can not justify it.  i don’t do it, and do not believe it represents honesty and integrity when you steal.  period. what is sad to me is that somewhere within our society there seems to be a growing acceptance of stealing and theft of property and services.  people who want to argue and justify their stealing of mp3s over the internet … stealing of movies … stealing of applications … and now others that want to distribute stolen copies of operating systems.  in some ways i just wish those who do choose to steal all of this content simply admitted that they are thieves … that they choose to steal from others and that they can create reasons and justifications that make it ok for them. i’m not close to perfect … i also break the law.  i often exceed the speed limit when i am driving.  i don’t make excuses and try to justify my actions … i choose to speed at times.  oh … and if i get caught?  the police officer is not an @$$hole for pulling me over … he’s doing his job, and i am being given the consequences of my actions.  i am the one that caused and created the ticket. for all of the people out there that choose to steal … why not come clean and at least own that you are a thief, and accept the punishment if it ever comes your way.  oh, and also … make sure to teach your children about this also.  i worry about the nation of thieves that we are creating … all with nice clean excuses and justifications.  at some point i believe that the example we are setting is going to come back and bite us.  it seems we are raising our children and younger generations with a distorted perspective of respect for intellectual property rights, when they are quickly moving into a world where we - as a country - are leaning harder and harder on revenues from intellectual property. less than 24 hours after the release of a new product representing the work of hundreds - if not thousands - of apple employees … it’s already being given away across the internet.  it will be interesting to watch this trend … and see where it goes. technorati tags: apple, culture, hacking, leopard, millennials, society, theft comments (0) numbers on trucks … scott c. lemon | inevitabilities | thursday, october 25th, 2007 for quite a while now while driving, i’ve seen the square “hazard” signs on various tanker trucks and semis. these signs almost always have some number within them, and of course i realize that the numbers have to align with the load/freight that they are carrying. in my driving boredom i began to wonder about what these numbers represent … time for google. as i began to search i found a vendor who sells the dot placards and then a reference to hazardous materials numbering. well, this second site had an interesting set of pages that allow you to browse through the various numbers and identify the materials. at the bottom of one of them was the quote: data source for our online 2004 erg this information was compiled from the 2004 emergency response guidebook (2004 erg) which is produced by the u.s. department of transportation. bingo! so the next search for ‘emergency response guidebook’ took me to the us office of hazardous materials safety. and yes … they have a guide book and more! the emergency response guidebook page has a whole slew of formats that you can download the lists of materials … and complete details about their numbering system. they have .pdf versions, and even pda and pc software versions of their guides. when i didn’t see a palm version i did a little more searching and found the wiser site. wiser is the wireless information system for first responders, and it has a wide range of tools for looking up the materials, and also looking for how to deal with them. wiser has a palm version of software i’m going to check out. after finding what i was looking for, i was amazed at the numbering system, and the details explained in their guidebook … it’s interesting to see the amount of detail that can be extracted by just looking at the patterns of the numbers. (check out the page numbered 20 in the pdf …) well … my driving boredom got me to spend an hour or so to learn something new … and maybe this is a new travel game in the car for vacation trips! “ok kids … lets see who can find the most variety of hazardous materials between here and st. louis!” or “alright, on this part of our trip we want to find the truck carrying the most highly flammable liquid that reacts dangerously with water, emitting flammable gas!” uh, that last one would be labeled “x323″, not to be confused with “339″ which would be a “highly flammable liquid which can spontaneously lead to violent reaction” … see page 21 in your pdf. technorati tags: emergency response guide, hazardous materials, hazmat, usdot, wiser comments (0) scratch … scott c. lemon | inevitabilities | thursday, october 25th, 2007 this last week i spent some time checking up on some projects that i have been following over the last number of years. while looking at some projects that i was aware of, i came across one that i had not seen - scratch. i have to admit that after playing with scratch for a few days, and showing it to my son, nephew, and niece, i am thoroughly impressed. scratch is a project being worked on at mit, with some affiliation with ucla, and sponsored by a wide range of backers … and it is an impressive development tool … for kids! their own website describes it as: scratch is a new programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art — and share your creations on the web. scratch is designed to help young people (ages 8 and up) develop 21st century learning skills. as they create scratch projects, young people learn important mathematical and computational ideas, while also gaining a deeper understanding of the process of design. coupled with the scratch language and environment, there is also a “social” site where scratch users can upload programs and sample code, and download these same programs to then learn from them, modify them, and re-upload them.  i sat down and wrote my spirosprite program in maybe 10-15 minutes … and uploaded it to my scratch account. the environment and language is influenced by the logo and smalltalk languages, and presents a very simple, yet powerful way to learn login, event-driven programming, and create fun software.  from what i understand it is written in squeak … which seems to be continuing to slowly gain momentum. for anyone that wants to explore the concepts of programming, with or without their kids, i’d suggest downloading a copy of scratch and beginning to experiment.  it’s really an impressive project! technorati tags: education, kids, logo, programming, scratch, smalltalk, spirosprite, squeak comments (0) betting on the weather … scott c. lemon | inevitabilities | wednesday, october 17th, 2007 a friend of mine sent me a link to weatherbill today. this is pretty wild. you can actually take out “contracts” to hedge against the weather. almost like “weather-insurance” … the site is pretty good … there is a tutorial/learning page, and then the actual quotes page. hmmm … i can buy a contract for $854 for next saturday if it rains more than 1″ of rain they’ll pay out $10,000!! they have a lot of examples of using this for golf courses or any range of businesses or events. picnic insurance! it seems that maybe someone will think about how to game this for some real income … technorati tags: betting, contracts, insurance, weather, weatherbill comments (0) september … cruise & conferences … carribean, new york, chicago … scott c. lemon | inevitabilities | tuesday, october 16th, 2007 wow … september came and went. there was just too much going on. i got back from my caribbean cruise - puerto rico, aruba, curacao, st. maarten, and st. thomas - and it was already the 10th of september! the cruise was nice, however there was too much to do when i got back. i immediately got back into coding mode - i’m working on three different start-up ideas right now - and several contract development projects. we completed our first cut at the adobe developer desktop - an air application - that we built for adobe. the intention is to create an extensible application in air that adobe developers can use to track outstanding bugs and issues, report bugs to adobe, and access other information quickly. it’s been fun, and we’re continuing to extend this application. i also took off on the road for three conferences that were very interesting. the first two were in new york - the millennials conference, and then the tweens conference. the millennials are people born from 1982 to 2000, and the tweens are a subset of this group that were born from 1995 to 2000. both conferences were impressive, and if you want to hear about some of the topics discussed we talked about it on one of our latest itconversations podcasts - technology travels. the core thing that i realized is that our youngest generations growing up in america are becoming fully integrated into the internet. to them … the internet just *is*. it has always been here for them … they are using it daily … it is an extension of who they are … their community already includes “close friends” that they have never met in person. it is extending their world. i then went on to adobe max 2007 in chicago. i had gone last year, and so this was my second year seeing what adobe is up to … and to me it is very impressive. adobe announced and demonstrated a string of new products and projects … on top of the new flex and air development foundation that has been growing. there were too many things to think about … but adobe seems to have a lot of momentum, and is pushing hard to become a cross-platform solution for developers, corporations, and end-users. some of the cool things that the showed and talked about: riaforge.org - open source projects built on adobe technologies osflash.org - more open source flash red5 - the open source flash server spaz.air - a cross-platform twitter client written for air agile agenda - an air agile project management tool digimix - an amazing audio mixing application written for air (demo) buzzword - a truly impressive web-based word processor … adobe bought these guys! mtv adobe air challenge - developer contest … and more.  i’ll post more in a future post … one other thing that was really fun about new york and chicago … mass transit.  in new york i stayed with a friend who doesn’t even own a car anymore.  it was actually fun to ride the trains and the metro … back and forth without ever having to sit in traffic.  chicago was the same … i took the train from the airport to my hotel downtown.  adobe ran buses from the hotels to the convention center.  it was nice to not rent a car … technorati tags: adobe, air, caribbean, chicago, cruise, flex, millennials, newyork, tweens comments (0) on line … from puerto rico! scott c. lemon | inevitabilities | saturday, september 1st, 2007 we got into puerto rico last night … on our way to our southern caribbean cruise.  my girlfriend andrea and i, along with a group of friends, are finally on our way.  i had blogged about the cruise quite a while back, and got a good response … there are 11 other friends that joined us, about half of them flying in with us yesterday. the flight from salt lake city to atlanta was nice … but they didn’t use the aircraft with the  onboard trivial pursuit … bummer.  the flight from atlanta to san juan was nice … we were upgraded to first class, and it was uneventful until the aborted landing in san juan.  it ended up that the plane in front of us was too slow to get off the runway.  oh well … no biggy. we took a cab into old san juan, and it is very cool … the entire area is built on the foundations of the old fort here.   we checked into our *very* nice hotel … the el convento … which is a remodeled convent.  we had a great outdoor dinner at the tapas restaurant that is in the hotel - el picoteo.  the food was wonderful and we had chicken, lobster, squid, beef, and some of their paella.  too good.  afterwards we took a walk through town as the nightlife began to pick up.  it was fun to see the various bars and clubs in the narrow streets, and the young people hanging out … and even some late night skateboarders that were very talented. today we are heading to go and see arecibo … i’ll see if i can post some pictures later tonight.  of course we are also closely tracking the various tropical storms … felix, the latest tropical storm … but it is going to nicely move out of our way before the cruise leaves tomorrow night.  more later … technorati tags: caribbean, cruise, el convento, el picoteo, felix, puerto rico, san juan, tropical storm comments (1) where do we go when we die? (internet version) scott c. lemon | inevitabilities | monday, august 20th, 2007 over the last month i’ve been thinking about more implications of the rapid evolution of internet adoption. the last decade of evolution has completely altered our lifestyles and behaviors, and is massively shifting the reality that younger generations live in. the “on-line” aspects of life have gone far beyond the “couch potato” aspects introduced by television. with television, you might have begun to sit in front of your tv at night, and actually begin to schedule your life around television programming, but with the internet many of us are beginning to create an on-line identity by  craating … pushing large amounts of content into the net! this migration is further accelerated by the adoption of all sorts of digital technologies - cameras, video, audio, web sites, blogging, social networks, virtual worlds - and the internet facilitates us pouring more and more of who we are into bits! in the “old days” (a decade or so ago) people would create using atoms … learning the various skills to manipulate materials in the physical world, or using simple devices that would create physical world results. cameras actually produced negatives which were printed to pictures on paper. letters were written on paper, using pens and pencils … or typewriters. invitations to events came in the mail, and were printed - sometimes in relief - on paper or cardboard. movies were taken and developed, and stored on reels. our lives and memories were tactile, and existed in physical space.  people would then accumulate all of this in their closets, drawers, and basements. when people died, these boxes would be dealt with by the families, descendants, or friends. many times these boxes of atomic materials (memorabilia?) would be passed down for generations. last month, my friend james pointed out this post on lifehacker titled handle your online life after death. this really stimulated my thoughts about the series of events that would follow the death of the average internet user. there are a lot of interesting scenarios, however it seems that very few people are thinking about the implications of living in a pure digital world … where you are no longer accumulating physical world memorabilia, and the “bits” disappear when the bills are no longer paid, and the accounts are deleted.  there are probably a number of valuable tactics that could be used to ensure that your identity outlives your biological self.  there are lots of issues if you don’t.  you might be found in some future time, by “digital archaeologists”, or “internet archaeologists”.  depending on what you do, there is a good chance that your descendants might never get that basement full of memories, or the boxes of memorabilia.  some of my thoughts: if you are posting all of your information to a site that is using your own domain name, then who is going to pay the bills when you die?  if they aren’t paid, then the domain expires and is up for grabs.  all of your google-juice goes away … all of the links in search engines are broken.  who has the account details to manage your domain if they wanted to? since non-geeks tend to use the “hosted” solutions, they might be in better shape!  having a blogspot /blogger blog might just promise that you will live within google for google-eternity.  likewise with live.com, or many of the other web 2.0 sites that are out there.  of course, as the likehacker article mentions … who has your account details to be able to post obituaries, etc. on your sites? oh by the way … where are you hosting your domain and sites?  on your own machines?  at some hosting provider?  well … who is going to pay the bills?  who will continue to manage the machines? when thinking of my own private domains, i’ve realized that i ought to look for ways to include other family members in activities on those domains.  if my son begins to use this domain, then it’ll be handed down to him when i die.  wild to think about passing along the family name … evolving into passing along the family domain name! even if you have been saving all of your photos, documents, e-mails, etc. on your home pc or laptop, and even if doing backups … does anyone else in your family know the organization of your hard disk?  what folders have you saved things in?  do you think they will dig through your hard disk when you die and locate all of the fun memories on your pc? you might want to trust the waybackmachine at archive.org to preserve you, however you have to remember that few if any of your google links, etc. will link to that site. it seems to me that there is eventually going to be quite a large market that emerges in this space.  “digital insurance” might emerge to protect your domain names, and to provide long term services beyond just basci “backup”.  it will not just be the businesses that provide some sort of “digital insurance”, but also a large amount of education of the masses to understand the implications of living in a digital world.  there might be a lot of people who just don’t care.  i do believe that the younger generations - the “millennials” - that are already learning the importance of their on-line identities and profiles, will be the ones who begin to recognize the needs of preserving your digital assets. the article is the internet the new heaven? on salon.com also has some interesting thoughts about your “life after death” in relation to the internet. they point out the book the pearly gates of cyberspace … which touches on some very interesting points related to all of this. there are a lot of people that believe in a “spirit” that we leave behind when we die.  or that lives beyond us.  while searching google for others thoughts on spirit, machines, and the internet i came across the the spirit in the machine … an interesting article with a unique perspective. where do we go when we die?  without a little preparation, a lot of what we have created in our lives might just vanish … far faster that many of the old atomic ways of preserving our contributions to society.  at the same time that technology is increasing our reach, it is making us more vulnerable to disappearing and being forgotten. technorati tags: backup, death, domains, heaven, hell, hosting, internet, lifehacker, machines, memeorabilia, memories, spirit, uploading comments (1) key bank building implosion - done! scott c. lemon | inevitabilities | saturday, august 18th, 2007 well … that really was pretty cool. now you see it, now you don’t. at ~6:40am the key bank building went down. with the news helicopters circling overhead, the crowd atop the american towers building woke up as a line of charges began to fire up the left side of the building. there was almost a strange pause, and then the charges continued to fire … now seeming to go in inside the building. by that time, the left side of the building had already began to drop and as charges continued the entire building slowly collapsed sideways, with the left side leading the way. immediately, a large dust cloud began to rise, and as the crowd let out a cheer the entire area became enveloped in a huge ball of dust. it was amazing to see the dust cloud rise and completely obscure the marriott hotel, and then move over the salt palace and continue to blow west, and north west. it took a good 10+ minutes for the dust to clear, and what was left was a pile of rubble. within 30 minutes, the rooftop was pretty much cleared and everyone was on their way. it was interesting to see the large amounts of dust that were left spread across the buildings and streets in the area.  in front of the salt palace on the street you could see a line that almost looked like snow … near white/tan dust and then the black asphalt another block down.  i’m sure the clean-up will take a while. there was a pretty good group of us up there, dave biesinger of dna films joined us and filmed the implosion in high-speed/slow motion, phil burns and his wife joined us, and several other friends. so we have a variety of pictures and video to sort through and post. i’ll do one last follow-up post when i get my videos up on youtube. and so the re-construction of downtown salt lake city continues … technorati tags: demolition, implosion, key bank, salt lake city, utah comments (3) nice … 3d ‘in air’ image projector! scott c. lemon | inevitabilities | friday, august 17th, 2007 every now and then i find one of these very cool articles that details a breakthrough in technology that really impresses me. imagine if you had a way to project 3d models or images out in space that appeared to just hang there? they might rotate, or people could walk around them to examine them from all directions? if you think about the images of star wars, r2d2 is projecting the 3d image of princess leia into space for the rest of the characters to look and listen. but how do you get the image to “hang in space”? well, a group of researchers at japan’s national institute of advanced industrial science and technology (aist) have developed a projector that is showing signs of being capable of all of this … and maybe more! check out this post titled aist develops 3d image projector … it shows some of the early images, and talks about how the device works. the newly developed device, however, creates “real” 3d images by using laser light, which is focused through a lens at points in space above the device, to create plasma emissions from the nitrogen and oxygen in the air at the point of focus. because plasma emission continues for a short period of time, the device is able to create 3d images by moving the point of focus. at the demonstration, bursts of laser light were emitted 100 times per second to form shapes in the air up to 50 cm above the device. heat from the laser caused the air to expand, producing a crackling sound that resembled a series of tiny explosions. now this is just amazing to me. they are able to focus a laser at some point in space, and excite the molecules enough to create plasma emissions. imagine when they are able to improve upon this technology, and create nice compact projectors. the issues that i can see right now are colors, and the sound. will they be able to create different color of the dots? and what can they do about the sounds? maybe timing the lasers in a way that causes the sounds to cancel each other out? as for colors … who knows. with something like this, the star wars chess game becomes possible … i’m curious how many years until we see something like this hit the market for the average consumer? i have to admit that i wouldn’t have even thought about something like this being created. it makes sense how it works … but some amazing minds are at work. we are living in interesting times … and the singularity is coming. technorati tags: 3d displays, 3d projectors, projector, singularity, star wars comments (0) what going down? the coming implosion … scott c. lemon | inevitabilities | friday, august 17th, 2007 as an update to my previous post, the key bank building at 50 south main in salt lake city will be coming down tomorrow morning.  the announced time of implosion will be 6:30am, and the city is closing off a 9 square block area around the building when it occurs. i’m committed to being there to see it, and have arranged for some rooftop access to witness the implosion.  this first picture is the view that i’ll have.  you can see the key bank building is the large white building in the center of the photo.  as a side note, i’m floored that folks are booked in rooms in the marriott hotel … that thing is so close to the implosion … that would be a wild view! we have a small group that we’ll be able to get in, and of course we’re having a small breakfast party.  i’m not able to have anyone else join us … we’ve got a full group.  i’m contacting the last few people to verify they are coming … if you want to be on a waiting list, feel free to post a comment.  i already know that there are going to be some decent crowds downtown. i’m going to take my camera, and video camera with me.  i’ll make sure to crank out a quick youtube video to post after the event.  i’m curious exactly what it will look like.  with my 3x zoom on my camera, the building will look something like this photo.  i’ve got a few friends joining us with other hd video cameras, and even one high-speed digital camera to record it for slow motion! one warning to people coming down … although they anticipate the dust cloud to be low to the ground and localized to the implosion, you have to imagine that there will be considerable nasty stuff in the dust cloud!  today when i looked at the building i noticed that all of the windows are still in there, and i heard that there is still remaining insulation.  i’m thinking that breathing pulverized glass and insulation is not going to be good for anyone! i’m thinking that one way or another it’ll be a fun experience … something new to watch!  i’ll be snapping pictures and maybe blog using my broadband card! technorati tags: demolition, implosion, key bank building, salt lake city comments (4) | next page » powered by wordpress | theme by roy tanck | © copyright 2007 scott c. lemon |

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