meme bis
I got gregorama to review my interests list and pick out the seven most interesting ones (to him). Here are the explanations-of-sorts:
boop… is something I picked up from denkizero, I guess mostly a greeting/handshake thing sort of like coucou, which I also find fun.fnordit's a marker of the conspiracygenerative designI worked on a project dubbed Generative Design for several years in university - it was about shape grammars, symmetry and cataloguing traditional pattern. I think it's sort of dormant now, but it was good fun and was the backbone of my M.Sc. thesis.sibbolethsA shibboleth is a code-word which is unpronounceable or unknown to the out-group: "sibboleth" is how the out-group pronounces it. I got the out-group note here (in the footnotes), and have been sort of piqued by political shibboleths, left and right, of late.useful triviaBetter than useless trivia! I'm pretty full of the useless stuff, and sometimes it does turn out to be useful, or at least pertinent.whimsyI like running with the joke (and remaining smiling).verbosityI read a fair number of blogs, and some of my good friends are academics.
boop… is something I picked up from denkizero, I guess mostly a greeting/handshake thing sort of like coucou, which I also find fun.fnordit's a marker of the conspiracygenerative designI worked on a project dubbed Generative Design for several years in university - it was about shape grammars, symmetry and cataloguing traditional pattern. I think it's sort of dormant now, but it was good fun and was the backbone of my M.Sc. thesis.sibbolethsA shibboleth is a code-word which is unpronounceable or unknown to the out-group: "sibboleth" is how the out-group pronounces it. I got the out-group note here (in the footnotes), and have been sort of piqued by political shibboleths, left and right, of late.useful triviaBetter than useless trivia! I'm pretty full of the useless stuff, and sometimes it does turn out to be useful, or at least pertinent.whimsyI like running with the joke (and remaining smiling).verbosityI read a fair number of blogs, and some of my good friends are academics.