I’m sitting in a barren apartment, stealing wireless from one of my neighbors. The movers came by this morning, and put all of my stuff on a truck. I’m taking a break from cleaning up the place a bit, throwing away the piles of trash that were generated by the packing process, sweeping up, etc. […]
Category: journal
Social identity commentary
I’ve mostly spent today packing, but took a couple breaks to comment on one of Dave’s posts about social identity, which I’m linking to in the spirit of “owning my comments”, as Dave often does. Other posts I’ve done that are vaguely relevant: Thoughts on community and identity, as inspired by Orson Scott Card Identity […]
More logistics
I’m making progress. Really. Honest. Or at least I have to keep convincing myself of that. The property manager successfully rented out my place, a nice couple who signed a year lease. Not as much rent as I’d hoped for, but about what I expected. I confirmed the moving date of March 6th, a week […]
Persistence of Muscle Memory
I went skiing yesterday. It was awesome. Fresh snow, knee-deep powder in places, and no lift lines despite it being Saturday of a holiday weekend. The part which never fails to astonish me is that I can still ski. I hadn’t been skiing in probably close to three years. And skiing is not like any […]
Logisticizing
Man, I expected to be doing more posting with my time off, but I haven’t been inspired. Alas. Lots of logisticizing getting done instead. Taxes were done and mailed today. Two moving companies have come in to do estimates, and I’ll pick one by the end of the week (the scheduled move date is Monday, […]
Douglas Hofstadter at Stanford
Douglas Hofstadter, of Godel Escher Bach fame, gave a lecture at Stanford this evening. I happened to hear about it, and convinced DocBug to go with me (which worked out great when I didn’t allow enough time for traffic because he was able to save me a seat despite a standing-room-only crowd). Hofstadter’s a great […]
Social butterfly
It’s one of those perfect storm social weekends for me. I’m hanging out with an out-of-town friend tomorrow afternoon, and then I’m invited to three parties tomorrow evening, with three completely different social groups. And it got me thinking about my social network. I don’t tend to consider myself a very social person. I’m not […]
Moving to New York
That’s right. Crazy as it sounds, I’m going to move to New York. I’m still somewhat in disbelief myself. Here’s how it happened. Four or five years ago, I found this guy on the web who wrote about software development and software management and called himself Joel on Software. His ideas made a lot of […]
Meta-BrainJamming
As mentioned in a post last month (gosh, it’s been a while since I’ve been blogging), I co-led a session on “Meta-BrainJamming”, aka “Building a Better BrainJam”. It was interesting to me primarily because there is no “right” way to run one of these things; each of the choices is a design choice. One of […]
2005 Review
Inspired by the year-end reviews done by Jofish and Batman, I’m doing one myself, except, y’know, a month late. Rather than a best of, mine is going to be more a snapshot of my life with some best of mixed in. Organized vaguely into categories: Work I changed jobs in May, moving to Applied Strategies […]
