Edwin Land Was Cheated Out Of His Company

I did finish reading the book several years ago.

Here’s the spoiler – he was a great, dedicated inventor, his company hit some rocky patches, and he lost control.

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Thing is, though, isn’t that capitalism in action?

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Edwin Land

This is a premature post because I’m still reading the book.

I think it was in Steve Jobs’ recent biography by Walter Isaacson that I learned Jobs admired Ed Land, the founder of Polaroid. That bumped up Jobs in my estimation, not that he or the living world is waiting for my approbation, but he received merits nonetheless.

When I was in college I got money from Ed Land through his Rowland Foundation to study something during the summer. It just had to be something related to research, and something I’d do on my own. Ed Land wanted to encourage college kids to drop out and start research-driven companies.

The summer after my freshmani year I studied holography, and tried to make some headway in computer-generated holography. A professor gave me some lab space and off I went. Nothing in particular came from that summer, but I did learn that I can do things by myself, and it launched me into a career of physics and optics.
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I never did know much about this guy Ed H. Land, except that he built a building at Harvard shaped a bit like a Land camera (incidentally, that’s why the camera is called a Land camera – it’s named after him – but in an ironic twist, he only got the name ‘Land’ when his grandparents immigrated to the US and the immigration officer mistakenly thought that was their name when they said they’d ‘Landed’). Under Land Polaroid didn’t just exist, it thrived as an engine of invention.

Then the innovation weasels came and stole everything.

More as I finish the book.

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What’s wrong with Windows 8?

There is some good  here. I like the more baked-in encryption, I like the quasi-embedded SkyDrive – which is much less expensive than other options. I like the desktop environment.

So, why did Microsoft shove full-screen apps down our throats? Don’t we all have > 27″ non-touch monitors these days? So what am I supposed to do with an e-mail app with 48 point fonts? And no ability to flag anything?

Who’s in charge here?
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I’m all in with Windows 8, and that’s my review of Windows 8.

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About that Earth you’re inheriting…

I agree, the meek shall inherit the earth, but only after the bold have stripped it of its natural resources, dissolved the ozone layer, and poisoned its soils. And the taxes will kill them.

I’m just not sure there will be any natural retribution. Left to their own devices, the rich will get richer, and the poor poorer. Extremes love extremes. In the best of all possible worlds, governments represent us, and act for us, but the time constant to remind our elected leaders who’s the boss is too long in the US.

Maybe the US needs a Canadian-styled revolution, to get rid of the bastards when then fail.
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As in Corporate America.

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Joe Jonah Euclid

Something reminded me of Joe Euclid today. Something reminded me of Joe Euclid years ago, and lots of times in between.

When I was a grad student, everybody knew him, but I’m not sure how many talked with him. He had bushy hair and a stack of papers he carried with him. He’d visit University events (University being Stanford, so there was lots of food). He’d visit them because nobody would ask him to leave, and there was always food.

I’m not sure when we started talking. Grad school took it out of me at times, and I had lots of extra-curricular activities to make it even blurrier. We got familiar in my second or third year. My advisor was bucking for a Nobel Prize, which he eventually got, but was a turn-off for a grad student trying to salvage his love of the physical world.

I’d run into Joe every couple of weeks. We’d talk.

After the First Bush vice-presidential debates, I ran into him at the Student Union. He’d been posting flyers on campus about a conspiracy somehow tied to his apartment and world events in the New York Times. He cornered me, and asked if I’d seen Quale debating Ferraro. I said I hadn’t, and he said I should have. Joe, the man with the stack of yellowing newspapers and unwashed hair and clothing, looked at me like I’d missed the Higgs Boson hosting the Oscars, and said, “You didn’t see Quale debate Ferraro? Seriously? Now that guy, he’s crazy!”

Then he got pensive.

“You know,” he said, “people like someone who’s nice. That’s why they like Quale. They like him because he’s nice. That’s my problem. I’m nice enough!”

Amen. The world needs more nice.

Several years later, I was barely holding it together in my 7th year in grad school. He  saw me boarding the Stanford Shuttle, the Margueritte, or something like that. I think I was returning from buying in discount underwear at Macy’s. I was getting by. He looked at me in shock, like he’d seen a crazy person board the bus.

“Are you STILL here!?” he asked.

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One last memory, and then I’m good.

Out of the blue, I ran into Joe Euclid in the outdoor break area of the physics department. He had his papers, and was writing a pronouncement on a blackboard on the wall. I couldn’t follow it, but didn’t think I was expected to. I was relaxed.

I put a bowl of instant  soup into the microwave, and started it going. Joe looked at me, and looked sad.

“You know,” Joe Euclid said, “you should really put a lid on it. Heat will escape, and it’ll take longer to reaching boiling temperature.”

He was right.

After I put the lid on my water, he continued.

“You know, most people only do important things about 0.1% of the time. At that rate, it’ll take thousands of people to do anything important. That’s why the world is so screwed up.”

He was right.

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Color of Money

I’ve been trying to redeem the Color app on the iPhone for 2 days. Nobody else is around, nobody cares, and Color keeps reminding me I’m alone. Color is a big turd with a lot of money pushing it down the chute. Face it, your baby’s ugly.

I understand that precedence and wealth don’t ensure taste, but couldn’t they at least bring critical thinking? If your baby’s ugly, love it, but don’t feed it to 4chan and hope for the best. What is the abstruse to a adored and acknowledged marriage? Promises, commitment, love? How about passion? Passion, however, cialis in http://respitecaresa.org/author/pgillispie/link cannot be one-sided. As some medications are not suitable for treating chronic prostatitis because the long-term use will cause further harm, great page pfizer viagra 100mg Diuretic and Anti-inflammatory Pill may be the cause. Erection disorder is commonly experienced sexual problems of male, which is now easy-to-treat with effective Kamagra. levitra 20mg Women with cheap online viagra and without ICDs had similar sexual function scores. Teach it well and watch it wander in the world. Protect it. Hide it.

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Farewell Symbian, we hardly Nokia!

I still have a Symbian phone, at least I think I do. It’s a back up, in case the end times aren’t in my favor. This grand temple of technology we’ve been creating, fueled by greed and benevolence, is coming to roost in the form of always-connected shiny stuff.

So, Microsoft’s strategy is to back up a big truck of Money and dump it on some Finnish lady’s lawn. OK, I get that.
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Tech Shop opens in San Francisco!

Yesterday I attended the opening of the Tech Shop in San Francisco, http://techshop.ws/tssf.html. I was impressed. The shop is located in downtown SF, slightly SOMA, about a block from my favorite straight bar (http://www.thechieftain.com/ – in truth, I just go there for a Guinness and Shepard’s Pie on occasion, but that counts), and also about a block from the Intercontinental Hotel, which is a weird place. Also a block from the San Francisco Center, which is a great mall, as malls go.

But back to my impressions. The facility is huge, and dedicated to making physical objects. They have presses, injectors, printers (2d and 3d), cutters, benders, blasters – the works. The staff seems knowledgeable and friendly.

What struck me was how close it was to downtown, and how palpable the enthusiasm of the crowd was. So much of what is produced now is software, it was inspiring to see people drawn the possibility of making something physical. Slow food, slow stuff. It made me happy to live in SF.
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It made me wish I had more time to sandblast and laser etch. I spend too much time writing Python code and working.

I may make more time to build.

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Forgetting Fritz Lang

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Who remembers tomorrow?

I’m scanning a lot of photos, looking back at a silver-based sequence of memories. OK, now I’m mostly done with the scanning, and I can’t quite recall where most of the photos were from. The Old World wasn’t very good a remembering.

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