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I came across an interesting “installation” today at MIT. I think someone I follow tweeted it. It was interesting to me how it categorized my presence. The big bars were “online” “management” and “education”. “sports” is bigger than it has any right to be. It was interesting to see some of the things it grabbed. References to me from former professors, test emails to lists I set up while at IATH, my “temporary” home page.

Some work on a “Showstopper” bug that I picked up on Friday. Laundry Computer Gaming (SupCom: Forged Alliance) Random Web Surfing [[ * Some work on a “Showstopper” bug that I picked up on Friday. Laundry Computer Gaming (SupCom: Forged Alliance) Random Web Surfing (stuff on sale), trekbikes(ogling bicycles I can’t afford)] “accidental” upgrade of WordPress Various “Watch Now” on NetFlix: A couple Episodes of Neverwhere An episode of MythBusters THX-1138 Yup.

This quote came through email recently in the office: “You know what it’s like. You’re chatting to your robot friend whilst skydiving from a floating marshmallow castle when you realise you’re late for work.” The broader email was about the launch of Vodafone in Second Life. 🙂

OK, /this/ is the kind of thing I expected to stumble across at SIGGRAPH and didn’t. But WOAH, this is cool: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/129

This link made the rounds at work today. I shared it with bk and Carolyn, my only (semi-)regular non-Linden workday correspondents, and Carolyn suggested I blog it. I won’t steal the thunder from the article to recreate it here, but it’s a short read and reasonably insightful if perhaps a little over-broad. It’s about the “tact filter” and its orientation between nerds and “normal” people. [[In an age where people have ‘(re)claimed’ geekness to the point where ‘athletics geek’ is no longer a completely laughable oxymoron, is there such a thing as a ‘normal’ person?

People have complained (or admired) Apple computer for its effective product launches and getting a great deal of excitement about upcoming or just released products. This has not escaped the watchful eye of the onion. Probably a quarter of the people in my office already have the iPhone. And yet truth is at least as strange as fiction as I saw this teaser at the top of another commuter’s paper today: “Apple ready to announce what’s next.

Well, as you can see from the sidebar change, I added “Now Reading” rather than writing my own. That’s OK. I’ll find something else to geek out on soon enough. I’m wondering if I should generalize it to “Now Consuming” and add DVD’s we’re watching and games I’m playing.

OK, I just learned that there’s now a facebook application called “the love machine” which is quite similar to the one we use at work — except that it’s out there for everyone to use! Curiously, it was created by Ooga Labs who have our CEO as an advisor (on their board?). As our CTO has said, (paraphrasing) “Now that facebook has announced their API/platform, never build another in-house social networking app”.

I’m not exactly sure why my wife wanted me to take this quiz, much less post it. But she wanted both, so here it is. I’d say that about the only thing interesting about it is that I grew up in the south, and both of my parents have stronger southern accents than I do. My mom is from the midwest though, and Durham is a rather cultured city at least compared to stereotypes of the south 🙂

A friend of mine from work, Yoz, keeps introducing me (sometimes, indirectly) to addictive little shockwave games. Here’s another one of them: Desktop Tower Defense. The main problem is that it can take a good deal of time to get through. But like all good games, the time goes really quickly, at least subjectively!