Travis Vocino Experiments in Art, Science & Technology.

The secret of happiness, that is. Is in Iceland, that is.

Most of my friends know by now that I need to move to Iceland and build a huge compound and escape from peak oil and/or a nuclear holocaust whilst working at CCP Games and playing EVE Online.
The good news is now, according to the [...]

I love hotelling — that is to say, staying in hotels.
“Hotelling”, by definition, is actually a method of supporting unassigned seating in an office environment — sometimes confused with “hot desking”, which is another method of supporting unassigned seating. Hotelling (or hoteling) is reservation based unassigned seating, whereas, hot desking is reservationless unassigned seating.
But I [...]

Topsy Taylor uses her stone bungalow at a former fishing club on Gooseberry Island, RI as a place to entertain and take naps.
Personally, I’d immediate run some fiber to it and use it as the ultimate serene web design getaway.Can you imagine sitting there hacking away on a 30′ Apple display, playing with your [...]

Hah, who wouldn’t want a travel site for the nostalgic and historic minded?

I can only take so much history in my travel, although it would be pretty interesting to visit some old west town and pretend to be a gunslinger old school American sand pirate. Am I right? If they gave you a [...]

Want to “walk” through a real Viking village? The sequences from the NOVA film “The Vikings” offer a fascinating and unprecedented look at Birka, a medieval Viking village that archeologists recently excavated near modern-day Stockholm. The video clips come from footage that Swedish filmmakers Mikael Agaton and Lars Rengfelt shot of a 1:30 scale model [...]

I have a fear of the country. Prior to this trip to Wisconsin my exposure to rural areas has been limited. I did visit a small town in Western Pennsylvania called Portersville once.
This time, it was Burlington, although we did spend a lot of time downtown in Milwaukee (stayed at the Pfister on [...]

I’ve returned from a Houston, Texas business trip. Actually got back yesterday but I was dead tired and had to go to the Lounge on Clematis Street. They’ve redesigned in the reopening. I miss the intimate dj booth type setup.
But I digress. Although I didn’t really get to see much of [...]