Paris s’éveille, originally uploaded by gadl.

My daughter has been living in Paris since September and when I saw this image I somehow felt as though the distance between us had collapsed. This picture is actually made up of 16 pictures in an “equirectangular panorama” and then sterographically projected. Wild! Space and time encapsulated.

I transferred my animated avatar directly from meez.com but the animation is not working.  She or me is really saying tsk tsk instead of SHUSH SHUSH

19 more to go–

I will say that the most “challenging” aspect thus far is the completion of the “Learning Contract” which is part of thing #2–Lifelong Learners tutorial–I can say that of the seven and a half habits of lifelong learners the most difficult is

Habit #1 Visualize the end

Why  is that? well i have a hard time actually visualizing the steps it takes to get somewhere and I also am not always clear about what the end will look like so perhaps I will start with the steps first since those have been provided in part by the design of the challenge.

1. login daily to the challenge blog for updates
2. consult my webthings guru (one of the webthings committee members) for technical questions
3. don’t fall behind and post regularly
4. talk with my immediate colleagues