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Fringery, Aug 20
Didn't get back to Edinburgh until late afternoon today. And lots of shows take Mondays off, and suddenly a number of the things I had noted to try and see are selling out...
So first I tried showing up to the last showing of Ceasarean section at the last minute, but they were in fact really sold out. Then I tried showing up at this absurdist ( Read more... ) -
Fringery, Aug 14-17
Tatyana: Eugene Onegin told through contemporary dance. Part of the more arty/middlebrow Edinburgh International Festival (the one the Fringe was originally a fringe of, before it became a colossus bestriding its one-time host). I've no idea how this compares to other works of its ilk, but I really enjoyed it (and certainly the dancers were ( Read more... ) -
Profoundly dissomething
Sunday night, I'm driving back to Edinburgh from Aberdeen alone. It's a pretty straightforward drive -- motorway and dual carriageway most of the way. (Translation for Americans: "motorway" is British for "freeway", and "dual carriageway" is British for "freeway that has bus stops".) Still, the last time I did this I got profoundly lost in the last ( Read more... ) -
JSTOR Clicker
[UPDATE: Actually, the thing linked below was working earlier but officially doesn't quite exist yet so they pulled it down for now. Future not really clearCertain varieties of modern video games have a problem -- they need to waste your time. Giving people interesting things to do is expensive -- think how long it takes to write a book versus how ( Read more... ) -
Huh.
Filed my final PhD paperwork yesterday.
Aside from a 9-month interregnum in 2004 while applying for grad schools, today is the first day in the last 24 years that I am not a student.
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"citizenship"
So, the author Elizabeth Moon wrote this blog post which has garnered a predictable and wholly justified resp onseI really don't have anything to say that can compare to the reactions in those links, nor do I have nearly the historical acumen of some of the other people commenting on her post. (But since she's deleted all the comments, you'll have ( Read more... ) -
first-round prop 8 ruling
Judge White's Findings of Fact, pages 61-62, finds that "California, like every other state, has never required that individuals entering into a marriage be willing or able to procreate." In support of this point, he cites: Lawrence v Texas, 539 US 558, 604-05 (2003) (Scalia, J, dissenting) ("If moral disapprobation of homosexual conduct is 'no ( Read more... ) -
Sitting in the airport...
So I land in Newark at about 4, staying in the Bowery, and the conference doesn't start until tomorrow. What would *you* do with a free evening in New York? -
What didn't he see?
So probably some of you already know a depressing fact about free software: its developers are about 98.5% male. That's not hyperbole, it's a real statistic; female participation ratios are about 10-30 times worse than for even closely related fields like professional programming or academic computer science. It's a wonderful, wonderful community ( Read more... )