04 Oct 2014, 23:23 p.m.

Kronda Adair and Self-Determination

Ada Initiative's interview with Kronda Adair reminded me: I meet lots of people at conferences, and then have a hard time recollecting nearly all their names and faces, even if we've had long, interesting conversations. …

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30 Sep 2014, 8:32 a.m.

If I Did It

As we passed a closed-up storefront, Leonard informed me of the type of restaurant it's turning into, and I allowed as to how that was fine, but I'd rather one of the transforming storefronts in …

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28 Sep 2014, 21:52 p.m.

Travel Tips

A few things I do. Never put anything in a seat-back pocket unless you're willing to walk away from it. For me, this means magazines, snacks, and miscellaneous rubbish go in the seat-back pocket on …

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28 Sep 2014, 0:54 a.m.

Pretentious And/Or Portentous

Ramble ramble ramble, in rather an autumnal tradition. Leonard and I bought a new wall clock Saturday. The thing about living in a super walkable but not absolutely gentrified neighborhood (that is to say, our …

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27 Sep 2014, 19:19 p.m.

Five Things Make A Post

(The LiveJournal/Dreamwidth user community use this title & format a lot; am borrowing from them.) Freddie Mercury's video for "The Great Pretender" doesn't just use clips from previous Queen videos; it visually quotes them by …

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26 Sep 2014, 19:17 p.m.

The Continuing Adventures (Transitioning From Intern To Volunteer)

By now dozens of women have stepped into open source via Outreach Program for Women, a paid internship program administered by the GNOME Foundation. I recently asked several of them whether they had been able …

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25 Sep 2014, 11:09 a.m.

On Status

From Susan McCarthy, specifically from her great book Becoming a Tiger: How Baby Animals Learn to Live in the Wild. Animals learn about individuals through play. If little coyotes cheat, the other pups won't play …

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24 Sep 2014, 18:59 p.m.

Miscellaneous Links, Nothing To See Here

Things that have crossed my screen recently and I find worth sharing. Hum de dum. Mel Chua on a single microcosm of the experience of being deaf. Sarah Sharp, very sensibly, suggesting we speed up …

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17 Sep 2014, 11:02 a.m.

The Ada Initiative, Fanvids I Love, and How I Restarted Ken Liu's Career

It might be good for the world, though temporarily stressful for one's marriage, to edit an anthology together, as Leonard and I discovered when we created and published our speculative fiction anthology Thoughtcrime Experiments together …

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17 Sep 2014, 9:14 a.m.

On Troubleshooting

Nothing is built on stone; All is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone. -- Jorge Luis Borges Goddammit why won't this work OK, fine, screw the venv, I'll …

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