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I am roiling in anticipation of the weekend… Science Foo Camp at Google and then a trip with NASA to see the space shuttle launch.

Dopamine peaks in advance of the reward.

Esther has the coolest jacket. We were at the Boxbe board meeting… which by the way, offers an email service that might be interesting for flickr folk. If you find flickr mail to be a bit of a hassle and would rather use your regular email account, you can get a free Boxbe public email address and list it on your profile page. Mine is SteveJ@Boxbe.com. I list it on my blog and social network profile pages without fear of spam bots (Boxbe shields my real email address), and only messages from real people get forwarded to my work email account. (Full disclosure: we are investors =)

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PhOtOnQuAnTiQuE says:

Have an EXELANT WeekEnd Steve. Hope you ll be able to follow PHOENIX takeOff : ) : I had some fun today making this pictures about it

If you want to sponsor and embark my "Yoghurt spacecraft" in your next "RocketDay" you are welcome lol : P

LiveTakeOff to follow on NASATV Here !

...When machines...dream AND explore new horizons..before us !
Posted 28 months ago. ( permalink )

Todd Huffman says:

I read a neat little story about Esther's Flight School 101. Cute name, good project.
www.space.com/businesstechnology/070705_priva tespacefligh...
Posted 28 months ago. ( permalink )

PhOtOnQuAnTiQuE says:

Burt Rutan gave a talk at TED : Entrepreneurs are the future of space flight , that may interest you Todd (and everyone else)
Posted 28 months ago. ( permalink )

The Rocketeer says:

Hi, Esthr! It's good to see your smile...
Posted 28 months ago. ( permalink )

Todd Huffman says:

Thanks for the Boxbe link. I am constantly surprised that spam hasn't been solved yet! I still get spam in my gmail account... is this the problem Google can't solve?

Here is my spam solution, which is fairly effective.
I have a catch-all on my a domain I control, www.vim-vigor.net
Each website I give a unique e mail address, say, flickr [at] vim-vigor.net
When I start getting spam to that address, I dev/null it.

Sometimes I track down who leaked e mail address, because the spam tells me who I originally gave the address to, and thus who violated my trust. Then I send nasty e mails to the webmasters, owners and any employee I can find at the company. Sometimes I get a good response, one website changed their e mail privacy rules -- they had them plain text on the website which is usually not necessary.

In one instance I got an e mail from the president of the company, who seemed outraged and unaware that his company was giving out e mail addresses to spammers. I sent him a portfolio of spam from the address I trusted to his company, some forty obvious pieces of spam, and he claimed to have taken corrective action.

Hopefully Boxbe works and everyone starts using it, because then spammers will have all their earnings potential yanked.

Which raises a question, why are you investing in a company whose goal is to eliminate themselves? Hopefully they aren't toooooo good too fast... (Though I'd bet you are safe from that eventuality, unfortunately)
Posted 28 months ago. ( permalink )

Jonathan Pfeiffer says:

Sounds like enormous fun, Mr. Jurvetson!
Posted 28 months ago. ( permalink )

The Rocketeer says:

I thought I left long comments sometimes... Gee, Todd...

;-D
Posted 28 months ago. ( permalink )

Todd Huffman says:

@Rocketeer - psshhhh, you ain't see nothing yet! put a post up about brains! i dare ya!
Posted 28 months ago. ( permalink )

!MimosaMicheMichelle! says:

Have great fun! Bring cameras.
Posted 28 months ago. ( permalink )

nhr says:

Steve wrote:
> Dopamine peaks in advance of the reward.

Excellent. Now that you've had your dopamine fix, toss a coin, and if it's heads, proceed with your planned schedule, and if it's tails, book a last-minute trip to do something exciting, like whitewater rafting, or a linefishing session trying to catch a marlin or a big barracuda.
Unforeseeable schedule changes are a way to game your biological system, and get more dopamine and adrenaline than you normally would within the alloted timeframe
Posted 28 months ago. ( permalink )

Randy Stewart says:

@Todd Huffman sounds like you do a lot of work for spam protection. You could use our existing products (email forwarding address and Gmail protection) in lieu of your multiple email address solution.

Additionally, we'll (Boxbe) will be launching a service for people with domains in beta soon.

Contact me via randy@boxbe.com.

[Disclosure: I work for Boxbe :-) ]
Posted 28 months ago. ( permalink )

Todd Huffman says:

I am def interested in that domain beta, I'll keep my eyes open for it.

There are additional benefits to my elaborate scheme besides spam-hunting. For instance I use it as a search/sort tool, I can move around and prioritize incoming e mails using the method.

But yes, too much work just to avoid seeing scams. E mail is broken.
Posted 28 months ago. ( permalink )

ttnk says:

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Women in Technology, and we'd love to have your photo added to the group.
Posted 22 months ago. ( permalink )

iwalcott says:

Hope you don't mind, I used this picture to illustrate a blog post about Esther, spam and Boxbe, put the image credit in the alt tag for the photo, and linked back to this page.

Here's the post if you're curious: conversationhub.com/2008/05/20/stop-spamming- esther-7-tips/
Posted 18 months ago. ( permalink )

!MimosaMicheMichelle! says:

A few days ago, there was a locally-made documentary My Messy Life (by Josh Freed, a Montréal columnist and producer) about how messy and seemingly disorganized people are possibly more creative and productive than orderly and organized ones. Esther Dyson was featured. I saw her in her office and heard her talking. It makes the photos you show become real. Esther, you looked very nice on television! (I hope you show this to her).

Here are a few articles 1 2 3 4 5
Posted 18 months ago. ( permalink )

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