As Leonard suggests, celebrate by reading Jeff Soesbe's near-future scifi story, "The Very Difficult Diwali of Sub-Inspector Gurushankar Rajaram." I'm surprised at how much it meant to me, emotionally, that President Obama personally celebrated Diwali …
It's a cross-blog event! Leonard took Will to museums on Thursday and yesterday I took him & his friend Martin to the New York City Transit Museum and Roosevelt Island. At the Transit Museum, they …
Four of my coworkers gave up a night when they could have been eating or hacking and came to an open mic night to watch me perform. I knew a goodly proportion of the other …
I'm planning on doing an open mic comedy show tomorrow night. sumanah: I'm thinking scrum humor sumanah: comparing the 3 questions of scrum to the 4 questions of passover sumanah: it'll be a riot sumanah: …
I learned recently: Empathy is an IRC client but does not (yet?) support slash-commands. Gobby is a really cool tool to let multiple people read, write, and chat about a document collaboratively from different computers. …
I'm visiting Boston Saturday the 10th till late Monday the 12th (to see colleagues in town to talk about the GNOME Linux desktop), then in Montreal till Thursday the 15th.
Lots of people have never heard of my company or its projects -- even fairly plugged-in geeks often say "who?" or say "Oh yeah, the Subversion people." (No, that's Collabnet, where Leonard used to work.) …
For about the next 2 hours, if you hit the Colbert Nation website, you can stream the entire new album by The Mountain Goats. (Might be US-only.) I'm listening now. No doubt I'll buy it. …
Tricked (graphic novel) by Alex Robinson and Whip It (film) are more gripping & fun than they have any right to be.
My colleague Thomas Thurman wrote a light fantasy story called Not Ordinarily Borrowable. It's 106 pages, available as a print-on-demand book via CreateSpace (like Thoughtcrime Experiments), and delightful. You can read the first chapter online …
