Let us talk of happier things.
My first-ever Android app is about ready for an initial release.It got here via a fairly brutal paring back of expectations, but has the minimum expected functionality - take pictures with real camera;...
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Ah, New York. I was warned that it could require some adjustment to deal with... well, weather, but to go in a week from running air-conditioning to crawling, shivering, out of my loft bed twice last...
View ArticleSto lat, sto lat... now what?
You may wonder sometimes what turning 100 feels like. I'm curious as well, and watching my grandmother do it yesterday wasn't perfectly enlightening. But many of us are likely to find out, assuming...
View ArticleA brief travelogue
(Possible subtitles: "Travel: how not to do it,""Traveling with Mikolaj: why you don't want to," or "Mobile phone batteries: fuck them; fuck them up the arse.")The visit to Australia was physically...
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23andMeAndYou
I've been intrigued by 23andMe's service since inception, and signed up for it as soon as... well, as soon as they offered a sufficiently large discount, to be honest.I was skeptical that it would...
View ArticleThe expat doomsday clock
I'm starting to get drawn into the national sport of armchair political kibbitzing, or at least the bits of it that aren't in turn being drawn into a morass of treason-baiting.O'course, being the...
View ArticleGate rape
Are they still pretending that the techno-scanner and rub-down are for random selectees? 'coz I'm at 2 of 2 for the day, and likewise 2 of 2 for Dulles overall, and I find the seed of skepticism...
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Manhattan, check; Berlin, check; next?
I'm aboard the wrong German ICE train, somewhere near the German-Swiss border, running at least three hours behind schedule, and with mysterious announcements in poorly translated English foreboding...
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Exhausted catch-up
I seem to have about a three week limit on how long I can travel before getting exhausted. I just about got back to New York in time, foiled only by the planned trip to Puerto Rico with work folks for...
View ArticleSo orange it hurts
I spent three days at a somewhat mysterious work retreat last week. The retreat itself wasn't so mysterious - a "leadership" course based to some extent on the True Colours personality typing system -...
View ArticleGenspace, genspace, uuuuuber alles!
I can't quite remember where I first read about Genspace, New York City's take on a bio-hackerspace, but it captured my imagination immediately.It was mostly a confluence of events that caused this -...
View ArticleThree stolen weeks
I've been meaning to write this up for a while, but have been hampered by spotty-to-non-existent internet access in Bali, and a lack of interest in fixing it. The story begins about two weeks ago, with...
View ArticleMilestones unremarked
There were a number of notable dates in the last few weeks that I missed for being distracted. My fourth anniversary of arriving in the US vanished due to an accounting trick over the International...
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Blogging: so easy to neglect.
I got older last week. This has an upside: official exit from the Jesus Year. It was a fairly challenging one, at least in the first half. The second half was marked, instead, by the first hints of an...
View ArticleGenspace redux
I signed up for the other Genspace course, and had the second (of three) classes today. Just like the prior course, I'm going to miss the last class due to travel, but I'm at this point thoroughly sold...
View ArticleMisfiring on all cylinders!
Recording not so much for posterity, but because I'm about to go out drinking, in Iceland, and there's no guarantee of remembering anything in a few hours.Everybody knows that DNA is constructed of...
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It just wouldn't be a weekend in Iceland without being inconvenienced by a volcano. Luckily it has only delayed my departure by a few hours; I was a whole five hours outside the flight cancellation...
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This weekend isn't getting any cheaper
One day and half-way through the first Quantified Self conference, my mind is afire with thoughts of EEG machines.After yet another delayed and circuitous flight that arrived over an hour late, and a...
View ArticleDear diary
I should post some followups to the general randomness that has pervaded my journal in recent months.In reverse chronological order:I have a Zeo, it's collecting my sleep data, but it hasn't been...
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Pride impressions
This was about my fourth or fifth pride march, I think, but my first in New York (itself the third city I've done this in).The parade itself was no great shakes to be in - the route wasn't completely...
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