An Uber Pool Ride as a Comedy of Errors
Uber pool is a service that allows you to share a ride with other people. It is convenient because it reduces the amount of cars on the streets, saves gas, and ...
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Networked Systems, AI, and the Unexpected
Self-driving cars are around the corner. Literally. Last month during a visit to Pittsburgh, PA, we had the opportunity to see an Uber robotic car cruising the ...
Indie Game Community Gatherings and the Renaissance of Multiplayer Videogames
Humanoid worm-monsters that change size while wrestling for the possession of a ball in a sort of Greco-Roman arena; angry jelly babies with puffy buddies that ...
Fire on the Blue Genie Danger Derby Track
The third Blue Genie annual Danger Derby was fantabulous. Eighty pinewood cars with no-rules customized designs competed for the precious derby trophy and survi...
Music and Humor : The Cartoon Music Aesthetic of Carl Stalling
Although the power of music to elicit emotions has been widely recognized, the capacity of music to produce laugher has been relatively unexplored. First of all...
Hearing a Needle in a Haystack: Playful Disorientation and Laughter in Tati’s Play Time (1967).
Directed and written by Jacques Tati, and produced by Jolly Film and Specta Films, Play Time was released in France in 1967 after three long years of expensive ...
A Man as a Caricature: Cheech Marin
Today i went to a special event organized by the center for mexican american studies that featured the film screening of Born in East L.A and a talk with direct...