Media – Microship
Tech-Nomading from Shore to Ship – Make: Magazine
This is one of my all-time favorite bits of media coverage, and not just because I love Make: magazine (both print and blog). The author of this piece, Howard Wen, really nailed the essence of my technomadic projects… including the wince-inducing irony of their tendency to explode fractally into a level of complexity greater than…
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On the road and always on – Sunday Times Doors magazine
One of the phenomena that figured prominently in my ongoing media coverage was the very simple fact that I was in the same business. It was not uncommon to go into an interview with a reporter smirking at the bearded eccentric on a bicycle, then watch the dawning realization as we conversed: “Damn… this guy…
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An Interview With A Mac Using, Pioneering, Technomad
by Eolake Stobblehouse The Mac Observer Apr 19th, 2001 This is a nice interview piece from the Microship lab, with a Mac focus – the full text is here. It includes quite a bit of detail about the project… Eolake was a great interviewer and we had an excellent and thoughtful conversation.
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A Modern Odyssey – Sports Illustrated
This is quite out of context with my normal media appearances over the years; I have never thought of myself as an athlete (and certainly not the kind who would be featured in Sports Illustrated). This was part of a series produced by Rubbermaid: “Surviving the Unbelievable.” A bit of a stretch, but sure… why…
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World’s First Microship Sails into Saratoga Passage – Stanwood/Camano News
This was my small-town local paper for the 13 years I lived on Camano Island… a time that was actually a decade longer than intended (life has a way of doing that to you, especially when projects become too complex). At the time of this story, we had only been on the island for a…
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High Tech de Tocqueville – Expedition News
This is a fascinating publication, put out by Jeff Blumenfeld for decades now, bringing together expeditions and sponsors. He did a few pieces about the Microship project during its heyday, and is still at it as I post this in 2014… with extensive archives of issue highlights going all the way back to 1995. My…
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The Traveling Technophile – Home Office Computing
This is a follow-up to a piece by Daniel P. Dern in the same magazine, 6 years earlier… now discussing my transition to water with the Microship project. In real life, I had just set up a lab on Camano Island, Washington, and assumed that we would be setting out on the new expedition within…
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Technomads – Stanwood Camano News
In early 1998, I bought a house with six wooded acres on Camano Island, Washington… ready to have my own workspace after many years moving in and out of borrowed labs (Apple, UCSD, Sun Microsystems, Borland International, friend’s houses…). Almost immediately, my partner and I began putting up a 3000 square foot pole building in…
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Technomad Dream
This article was written a few months after the move from the Silicon Valley lab sponsored by Apple. In March of 1998 Lisa and I had landed in the house on Camano Island, and immediately put up a 3,000 square-foot pole building in the 6-acre forest (with a contractor erecting the physical structure). It was…
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Home Is Where You Hang Your “Autonomous Mobile Information and Communication Platform” – Outpost
This delightful Canadian travel and adventure magazine always had interesting destination pieces, and I was hoping to write for them from the seat of the Microship during the “Clueless and Lark” expedition. I’m happy to see that they are still around. This article catches the beginning of the transition from Silicon Valley to the Camano…
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