The show was much smaller this year, and they had a painful process for purchasing plants. Probably just as well I spent half as much as I usually do. But it was well worth the trip into the city and I’m glad I went. The batteries died in the camera, so just cell phone photos.
Saturday, April 27, 2013 Gates open at 7:30 a.m.; tour begins at 8 a.m. The Houston Zoo is home to over 6,000 animals, but did you know that it also has a vast variety of plants? The Zoo has many exotic, tropical, and native plants, trees, and flowers …
Every other year the River Oaks Garden Club of Houston puts on a Major Flower Show at the Houston Museum of Fine Arts More photos from the 2013 show
Every other year the River Oaks Garden Club of Houston puts on a Major Flower Show at the Houston Museum of Fine Arts More photos
I’d seen the Japanese hanging plants potted in moss around the internet and have had them on my wish list for a few months. I decided to try first with orchids, they are potted only in moss, and I have more orchids than places to put them. I unpotted the vanilla orchid, and packed the [...]
My sessions todaya are all about where the virtual world meets the real world. I’m looking forward to them. Scary how easy it is now to id you from a photo, gather public information, then statistically infer other information about you The economics of privacy recent research Enchanted Objects Enchanting objects: Omniscience Telepathy Protection Immortality [...]
Tele-pathy Wolfram, A New Kind of Science, Wolfram Alpha Wolfram Language is to become available for using Wolfram through the cloud or iOS later this year. Wolfram is setting up a data science class, math classes to follow. A robot in your pocket and the SRI talks on AI said the same thing Cheap sensors [...]
The trade show opened. Most was the same as last year, social media networks, new blogging software, cloud storage, various enticements to let companies collect data about you. Great ways to catch geeks attention at a trade show: put out a free box of cables or spin a disco ball. :p Links to dig into [...]
No photos today, it was back to back sessions all day First up was green tech about clean technology is failing to capture the public’s imagination. The talk was meh, but the company sounds interesting Green Tech. The speaker did make an interesting comment about memes: they must have a pattern you can join in [...]