John Lam
South Wedge, Rochester NY 14620
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I like working on ideas i think can change the world. I help organizations adapt open source software and use social computing in collaborative work. |
| hometown | Saginaw MI; Freeland MI |
| relationship status | Single |
| activities | software development: use-case & requirements, specifications, project management & planning, object-oriented design, architecture & programming; writing, editing; photography; graphic design; grantseeking, development, inline skating, Nordic skiing, bicycling, hiking, backpacking, camping … |
| interests | social computing, social media, Semantic Web, Web 2.0, identity, linkmarking, calendaring, collaborative filtering, imaging, photography, traveling, Burning Man, sustainability, peasant food, farm markets, bazaars, sound gardens, loft conversions, tensegrity, urban design, architecture, Arcosanti, Pritzker Prize, Long Now, MacArthur fellowship, Ashoka.org, social capital, social enterprise, venture philanthropy, social media, media literacy, libraries, history, journalism, open source, open courseware, Creative Commons, social computing, programming, hacking, NextStep, Unix, boundary calculus, mathematics, finance, economics, physics, optics, acoustics, music, Deutsch, Cantonese, genius, innovation, iconoclasm, typography, art + design, doing things worth doing well, clarity of mind, awareness, life … |
| music | Yoyo Ma, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Philip Glass, Steve Reich, Maria Schneider, Bill Frisell, Theo Bleckmann, Miles Davis, Brian Eno, Aphex Twin, Moby, Henryk Górecki, Béla Bartók, Antonio Jobim, Tunde Jegede, Vince Guaraldi, Brian Wilson, Pink Floyd … |
| tv shows / movies | Yi Yi, Vanilla Sky, Koyaanisqatsi, Six Degrees of Separation, El Amor Brujo, Bagdad Cafe, Before the Rain, Cast Away, Horse Whisperer, Contact, Jackie Brown, Traffic, Eat Drink Man Woman, Benny & Joon, Toy Story 2, In the Mood for Love, Sixth Sense, Apocalypse Now, Alien, American Beauty, Todo Sobre Mi Madre, Bridges of Madison County, Chungking Express, Cinema Paradiso, Dr Zhivago, Eat Drink Man Woman, Emperor's Club, Fast Cheap & Out of Control, Finding Nemo, God Must Be Crazy, Good Will Hunting, Hamlet (2000), Human Stain, Joy Luck Club, Laurel Canyon, Manhattan, Paris Texas, Pay It Forward, Powaqqatsi, Road Home, Short Cuts, Smoke Signals, Hable con Ella, Thomas Crown Affair (1999), Three Colors: Red, Three Colors: White, Together (2002), Vertigo, MovieLens.org ... |
| books | Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, Revised Report on the Programming Language Scheme, Visual Display of Quantitative Information, Envisioning Information, Eudaemonic Pie, Predictors, You Can't Say You Can't Play, Ideas and Information, Feynman Lectures on Physics, Genius: the Life and Science of Richard Feynman, Tripmaster Monkey, Chautauqua Summer, Journey to Ixtlan, Mismeasure of Man, Wonderful Life, Liberalism versus Populism (Riker), Frugal Gourmet, EMDR: Principles, Protocols, and Prodecures, Alice in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass … |
John Lam RT @jeresig Run old Add-ons in Firefox 3.5: Open about:config. Right-click New Boolean 'extensions.checkCompatibility'. Set false. Restart. 2 days ago via Twitter
John Lam @LarisaBelliveau Though separate processes use more memory, the Chrome 3.0 Dev data looks anomalous. Firefox plans to separate procs too. Jun 23, 2009 via Twitter
John Lam updated his profile May 29, 2009
| New about me | I like working on ideas i think can change the world. I help... |