We were out at the Seattle Pride Parade today and found an unexpected group marching along: the Seattle Atheists, accompanied by representatives of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster in full pirate regalia, and the Monster Himself! Here’s proof of His Presence:
The Monster deigned to walk towards me and to touch me with His Noodly Appendage. I instantly became a Pastafarian, and haven’t recovered from the mystic experience. Teach the controversy!
Categories: Off Topic
If we’ve met in person in the last few weeks you probably knew this already, but I just moved to Seattle for the summer to work on an internship at Microsoft Research. It’s a great opportunity — I’ll be working with Gina Venolia at the Human Interactions in Programming group, which consistently produces some of the best work in the area of coordination in software teams. I’ve discussed some of this work before in this blog; I’m excited to try and do some of it myself.
In any case, yesterday was my first day at the Microsoft Campus. It’s mostly been orientation so far, but I’ve already got a project sketched out, and I’ll be filling in the details in the days to come. Stay tuned if you’re interested, and if you’re also in the Seattle area let me know!
Categories: Academia · Software development
I’ve been playing with Library Thing lately, and I’m loving it. It’s a flexible, non-intrusive, well done book cataloging and reviewing website. The service is both free (up to 200 books) and ad-free. One of my favourite features is exploring the libraries of people that have some overlap with mine, and discovering new, interesting books that way.
Over the course of a few days, I ended up adding all of the books in our Toronto apartment. The list is here, if you’re interested; I wish WordPress had a widget to link it to my blog. I’ll eventually get to tagging them all. And if you have an account there, I’d love to know where to find you.
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10 years ago today my mother died unexpectedly and prematurely. She was wise, happy, and selfless. I still miss her deeply.
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Catenary
