Re: [FRIAM] clueless technology question

2015-01-10 Thread Owen Densmore
Why not use your phone and get an app that will make your music available? It would use wifi by default, not cellular data. Basically, bluetooth is designed for something in close approximation (within a car, wireless computer peripherals, remotes, headsets (headphones+mic) for your phone and so

Re: [FRIAM] clueless technology question

2015-01-10 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
“Why not use your phone and get an app that will make your music available.” http://gizmodo.com/apple-watch-will-play-music-on-bluetooth-headphones-no-1634369364 FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at

Re: [FRIAM] clueless technology question

2015-01-10 Thread Nick Thompson
Marcus, Telephone? You mean that black thing that hangs on the wall? With the round thing on the face of it that goes click-click-click when you turn it? Can it DO that? N Nicholas S. Thompson Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology Clark University

Re: [FRIAM] clueless technology question

2015-01-10 Thread Steve Smith
On 1/10/15 5:54 PM, Nick Thompson wrote: Marcus,   Telephone?  You mean that black thing that hangs on the wall?  With the round thing on the face of it that goes click-click-click

Re: [FRIAM] clueless technology question

2015-01-10 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
I’m not sure this is Bluetooth compatible, but perhaps you could make a backpack out of it. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-western-electric-telephone-wall-hung-wood-hand-crank-volume-control-329w-/121538621404?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0

Re: [FRIAM] Help!

2015-01-10 Thread Joseph Spinden
Borges had an illustrious career making up literary references. Perhaps you should consider writing short stories... :-) I believe it is Daniel Kahneman (among others) who talks about our propensity to fill in the blanks or complete the picture. Joe On 1/9/15 11:23 PM, Nick Thompson wrote:

Re: [FRIAM] Help!

2015-01-10 Thread Nick Thompson
That’s it. Thanks, Merle. I just blocked on the title and I didn’t have enough of it right for Google or Amazon to find it. Nick Nicholas S. Thompson Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology Clark University http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/

Re: [FRIAM] clueless technology question

2015-01-10 Thread Nick Thompson
Thanks, guys. Your patience astounds me. And now, let me ask the list a still less interesting, more luddite technology question: Where can an exiled Bostonian go to watch a Patriots game in Santa Fe? We actually don’t own a TV. N Nicholas S. Thompson Emeritus Professor of Psychology

Re: [FRIAM] Help!

2015-01-10 Thread Merle Lefkoff
Hi Nick, What immediately came to mind was the primate research crowd. i snuck into SFI when De Waal gave some workshops there a few years ago, but he doesn't have a book with that title. However, Chris Boehm, who I also met somewhere along the way, does have a book titled Hierarchy in the

Re: [FRIAM] clueless technology question

2015-01-10 Thread Owen Densmore
On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 7:56 PM, Nick Thompson nickthomp...@earthlink.net wrote: Thanks, guys. Your patience astounds me. And now, let me ask the list a still less interesting, more luddite technology question: Where can an exiled Bostonian go to watch a Patriots game in Santa Fe? We