Checkin Cross Campus Old Pasadena

Checked into Cross Campus Old Pasadena
Innovate Pasadena Coffee Meetup with Drew Koven, Managing Dir. of LDR Ventures, an LA based Venture Capital group, talking about the path to profitability.

Adjoa apparently photobombed my attempt to photograph the Innovate Pasadena sign at the entrance. She did a great job turning Koven’s rather drab, self-promoting presentation into lyrical poetry though.

Indie, Open, Free: The Fraught Ideologies of Ed-Tech | Hybrid Pedagogy

Replied to Indie, Open, Free: The Fraught Ideologies of Ed-Tech by Kris Shaffer (Hybrid Pedagogy)
But the ability to work on indie projects is not available to all. The time and resources required to work indie are a sign of privilege, as is encouraging (and certainly expecting) all to work indie. As Anne Pasek writes, “all materials and practices … have a cost and thus a tollgate for participation.” (And there are many, often intersecting, forms of privilege that contribute to that “toll” ― race, gender, orientation, cultural background, economic background, able-bodiedness, etc.) So while indie work is great, and I’ve done a lot of it myself, we need to be careful about the ways in which we encourage and characterize indie work, noting in particular what it costs and who may be left behind or left out.
This is all important and certainly true.

However, as someone who knows he’s certainly privileged, I view my definition of indie as something that is also open for others to come behind me and use for free or have the ability to reuse and remix in a way that corporate interests or non-indie work wouldn’t. In a large sense, to me this means that while I may be privileged (whether that be socio-economically or even the time-encumbered), I’m helping to lower the cost and the burden for the less privileged who may come behind me to be able to do more, go further, or go faster.

In some sense too, as described, indie has such a nebulous definition. Often when I see it in a technology related space I really read it as “Open Sourced”.

📺 360° view from INSIDE the world’s largest Rubik’s Cube Puzzle by Tony Fisher | YouTube

Watched 360° view from INSIDE the world's largest Rubik's Cube Puzzle by Tony Fisher from YouTube

Still the official largest Rubik's Cube in the world. A unique view and another world's first.
Set playback quality to 4K if you have the bandwidth.
You can purchase the brilliant Samsung Gear 360 camera here - http://amzn.to/2l4S1RN and the largest mass produced Rubik's Cubes (18cm) here- http://tinyurl.com/giant333

After 20+ years with Sprint (or their predecessors), I’ve made the switch to Verizon this afternoon. Here’s hoping that I don’t have the same issues with knucklehead customer service to get simple things taken care of. I really wish any of the 3 people I spoke with would have gotten the simple request I was trying to make in 10 minutes (each).