By Kbilly | Published: November 30, 2010
Have you ever looked back at your day in the office and noticed you accomplished nothing substantial despite running around all day, attending meetings, answering phone calls and generally staying busy? If your office experience was anything like mine, that was the norm rather than the exception. Frequent meetings about nothing. Constant interruptions by managers [...]
By Kbilly | Published: November 29, 2010
Artist and filmmaker Lee Boot, a good friend and former colleague of mine at UMBC’s Imaging Research Center, is one of those idealist types who wants to save the world through art. It’s a radical idea, but you have to admit our conventional approaches to problem solving — such as politics, medicine, technology and consumerism [...]
By Kbilly | Published: November 28, 2010
My latest Blog post: Terry Gross Cares More About Old Dogs Than Old People http://changingaging.org/?p=4233 # RT @newser Facebook, iTunes Ruining Web … Says Web's Creator http://bit.ly/f1ZJk5 #
By Kbilly | Published: November 21, 2010
I subscribed to AltRiderLLC's channel on YouTube. http://www.youtube.com/user/AltRiderLLC?feature=autoshare # Surprise, surprise, research indicates older drivers safer than ever. http://j.mp/dj3iZ3 # Massive "boom" just shook my house in NE Baltimore. Everyone on my block is outside. No idea what happened. #baltiboom # My latest blog post: Declinist View Of Older Drivers Doesn’t Pan Out http://bit.ly/bGIAgk # [...]
By Kbilly | Published: November 20, 2010
Last week I blogged about taking away the car keys and argued that younger drivers are incredibly more dangerous than older drivers. The issue came up because the N.T.S.B. sponsored a forum last week on “Safety, Mobility and Aging Drivers. The logic behind the forum is that as our population of older adults increases, so to [...]
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By Kbilly | Published: November 7, 2010
I uploaded a YouTube video — Getting To Know the Model: A Talk With Dr. Bill Thomas Pa… http://youtu.be/WDR1XhdvGc8?a # Hmmmm RT @follow_alexis: RT @cascio: There's no such thing as a disabled person, only poorly designed technology. –Hugh Herr #tedmed # I just uploaded "Dr. Bill Thomas: Nursing Home Abolition" on Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/16475118 #