Author Archives: Matt

In 2002 I started contributing to Open Source software, and life has just gotten better from there. Co-founder of WordPress, founder Automattic.

Tim Kring – Heroes

December 4, 2007 – 1:20 am

Creator of Heroes. How it got started, the internet fanbase, and where it’s going. Global consciousness, and how I as someone with a hit TV show can hopefully raise that consciousness. When I was young I was a total geek, but anyone can stumble into greatness. This is a hugely powerful message for people, it’s […]

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Nicholas Negroponte – One Laptop per Child

December 4, 2007 – 1:10 am

He told his father he wanted to be a sculptor Paris. His father told him that for every year he went to MIT he would pay for a matching year in Paris when he finished. It was very clever. He was planning to study architecture, because it was art and mathematics put together. His headmaster […]

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Timothy Childs – TCHO

December 4, 2007 – 1:04 am

He’s talking about the process of making a chocolate company. Used to be a space geek, then a confectioner. Chocolate is one of the most complex things he’s seen. How do you choose a chocolate? How do you choose by percentage and origin is clunky. They wanted to create a simplified model of the chocolate […]

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Ian Dunbar – Dogs

December 4, 2007 – 12:58 am

Dogs have interest. They try to harness the distractions that dogs naturally have. You can’t compete with the dog’s natural views, “rear end vs owner.” You train a dog by making up rules, human rules, we don’t take the dog’s rules into account. We keep these rules a secret from the dog. Then we punish […]

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Caleb Chung – Pleo

December 4, 2007 – 12:49 am

Giving Toys is his company. Used to work at Mattel. He did a lot of toys, most did not go, 1 out of 20 or 30 would go live. Showing a lot of funny demos of various toys that didn’t go, like the flame-throwing tail. Did the McDonald’s cooking toys, which did about 50mm. Eventually […]

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Pablos Holman – Bump Key Demo

December 4, 2007 – 12:39 am

During his presentation Pablos demonstrated a bump key, which is a trick to bump a specially crafted key in most locks and it will open it. One of my trading cards was actually getting one from him, and when I tracked him down he gave me a short demo for the camera:

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Monday Night Dinner

December 3, 2007 – 11:11 pm

The dinner tonight was really great. I tried to write down the restruants that were present, here they are: Gelata, a southern Thai restrauant. Burmese cooking of Golden Triangle. Cambodian dishes from Sophie’s in Long Beach. Soul food called Larkin’s. Harold and Bell’s part of large Creole community in LA.

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Ken Knowlton – Mosaics

December 3, 2007 – 7:34 pm

He was initially fascinated with technology as a result of the 1939 World’s Fair in New York. He started in a one-room school, then a 80 person-class high school, cornell, then MIT where he was introduced to computers. He authored the first computer programming language for raster movies. “Seen as the founder of computer film […]

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Brewster Kahle on How to Help

December 3, 2007 – 7:09 pm

I asked Brewster Kahle how people could help out the fine work he spoke about earlier.

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Angelin Chang

December 3, 2007 – 6:03 pm

A classical pianist and music professor. LA is a special place to my family, because my older brother, Angelo, was born here. Next in line, Angelin, Angelina, and Angel. Anybody know what a “hoosier” is? It originated when there was a knock on the door and people in Indiana would say “who’s there? (hoos-ierrrr?)” She’s […]

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