Category Archives: moments

A Dream-Locked Vision

Posted on June 6, 2022 by dustinfreeman

A had a strange experience last night. Background: I had had some back pain and insomnia for a couple days. It seemed better yesterday morning, but got worse over the day. I met up with friends midday near Prospect Park … Continue reading →

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1px VR

Posted on April 19, 2022 by dustinfreeman

I have always had slightly dry eyes. This has made wearing contacts difficult. During the pandemic, I gradually became inexcusably annoyed at having to choose foggy glasses or blurry vision when wearing a mask in public. Independently, it occurred to … Continue reading →

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Species-Wide Imposter Syndrome

Posted on February 20, 2020 by dustinfreeman

Have you ever had that moment where you’re walking from one meeting to another and something clumsy happens – like you trip over a chair corner, you realize your shirt is undone, or you sneeze inelegantly. And then the entire … Continue reading →

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Downloading a TV episode I had already paid for, in a different country

Posted on September 20, 2017 by dustinfreeman

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“What’s the most insane technical thing you did that actually worked?”

Posted on March 5, 2017 by dustinfreeman

Or, How I Fixed A Real-Time Image Transmission Protocol For A Live Event By Making A Numbers Station The evening before the GDC round table panel on Location-Based Stories, I was with most of them in a pub. I ended … Continue reading →

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Observations from Spending a Day Mute

Posted on September 25, 2015 by dustinfreeman

I had dental surgery midday Wednesday. It’s totally minor; I now have a small plaster cast in my mouth and it was recommended I don’t talk until Friday to speed up healing. So I haven’t talked all Wednesday night (where … Continue reading →

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A First-Person Tour Inside SNOLAB, a Particle Observatory Two Kilometers Under the Earth

Posted on August 7, 2015 by dustinfreeman
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An Illustrating Example of Improv

Posted on February 19, 2015 by dustinfreeman

I’m finalizing my PhD Thesis on interaction design for improv. This is a slightly-embellished example of something that actually happened. Yes, a mouse ran across the stage in the middle of an improv set and the performers all reacted in … Continue reading →

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Piracy Attempted to Save Dubloons; Deemed Infeasible

Posted on December 1, 2014 by dustinfreeman

The housing market in San Francisco is 110% bananas. Here’s a map of the average 1 Bedroom price from February 2013. Here’s a more recent map that also covers outside the San Francisco peninsula. The gist is that $2800/month is … Continue reading →

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Games of Life

Posted on January 3, 2013 by dustinfreeman

I got my first smartphone, a Nexus S, back in early 2010 when I was living in Cambridge, UK. Impressed by the novelty of the beers there, I started snapping photos of taps and bottles: When I uploaded these to … Continue reading →

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