rebel with rather too many causes
My birthday is Sunday, December 2nd. To celebrate, my friends in Zagreb have organized a party for me at the club and cafe Kset at 20:00. It should be low-key and lots of fun. Since I don’t actually know too many people here, other folks reading this should definitely feel free to drop by if they’d like to meet up.
Rumor has it that we’ll have another party at the Acetarium after I get back to Cambridge on the evening of Saturday, December 8th. Let us know if you want to drop by for that one.
I think that traveling extensively and working on my new blog Revealing Errors might make me an international errorist.
My new life of errorism is, in any case, developing nicely. If you haven’t yet, you should check the blog out.
Of all of the problematic qualities and implications of MySpace, I think I might find the fact that it leads to constructions like "His MySpace," "Their MySpace" or even "My MySpace" the most objectionable.
My parents, both physicians, have frequently talked about running a bed and breakfast when they retire. Perhaps on the off-season, they will be doctors without boarders.
Although I have no idea what necessitated the use of Ideal caution tape on the revolving door at the Hotel @ MIT, I’m quite sure it wasn’t.
The label on this office product is correct, but for the wrong reason.
Perhaps my favorite article in Wikipedia, the List of homophonous phrases, was deleted from Wikipedia in mid-August. Those arguing for deletion claimed that it was original research and were, I suppose, correct in that designation. But that doesn’t make me happy to see it go.
I asked an admin to move the list into a temporary home in my userspace until I can find a better home for it. Please help me find one and I’ll redirect.
It’s the latest in several unfortunate deletions I witnessed recently. I created a humorous "undeletionist" barnstar to give to an admin for undeleting some humorous project pages in Wikipedia (which have since been redeleted, but copied first). My barnstar was also deleted.
In retaliation for this all, and in good fun, I proposed the Association of Deletionist Wikipedians for deletion. The {{delete}} tag stuck around for a week until it was deleted under suspicion that it might be a joke. True enough. On the other hand, I have similar suspicions about the subject of the article.
A short program I wrote has searched the web and revealed many names for frailty:
It eliminated a few as well:
So, I finished graduate school at MIT.
I presented some of my thesis work at Wikimania and I’ll be posting information, code, and the thesis itself, in the next weeks as I find time.
I’ve decided to focus, at least in the immediate future, on several important projects. Here’s what I’m up to:
This is, of course, in addition to my work with FSF, Debian, and Ubuntu which I’ll be continuing. And talks. And writing. (Yikes!)
I’ll be keeping my office at MIT (yes, like RMS) for the time being and sticking around Cambridge at least until Mika finishes her degree at Harvard School of Public Health.
I’ll be in wrapping up projects modes for the next few weeks and months and will be posting about them here as I go.
When it comes to puns about digestion, Dafydd Harries and I make up for in quantity what we lack in quality.
Apologies to Daf if he is embarassed by my public acknowledgement of his contributions in this endeavor.
So, you might have heard about Blackle. It’s Google with a black background. Apparently, it’s a misguided attempt to save electricity.
A little searching around shows that there’s also a Greenle. And a Pinkle. All seem to be have been built independently. We need a Purple.
Update: Also, Bluegle and the the confusing similarly named, but fundementally different Graygle and Greygle.
Update: And Browngle.
I have an intense, unexplainable, uneasiness around lamp stores. Perhaps it’s even a fear.
Something about so many lamps, so close together. It seems unnatural. Very Wrong.
Due to the fact that my favorite Window manager is now licensed non-freely (and then some), I award Tuomo Valkonen the Jörg Schilling award for free software project management.
Tuomo can console himself with his award while I console myself with Tritium. With the new dock feature announced today, I think it just turned into something I can switch to.
Perhaps you want to both reflect on 9/11 and help demonstrate that limericks can be serious by writing some serious limericks about 9/11?
With the help of open clipart, I made my first webcomic!
On a related note, Mika and I will be holding something of a mead market this Saturday to celebrate moving into our new place and the grand opening of the Acetarium 2.0 (and its new Web 2.0 webpage). We’ll also be celebrating my finishing up my degree at MIT and the end of Mika’s first semester at HSPH. If you know us, are local to Boston/Camberville, and haven’t been invited yet, it’s probably an oversight. Contact me first and we’ll work it out.