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collaborative budgeting via the net?
Along the lines of this post, I think it would be neat to have a site where people could vote on what they want a budget to look like. The current year's budget would be a starting point, perhaps with automatic adjustments across the board to compensate for projected inflation. Users would have various options in terms of where to start; they could ( Read more... ) -
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Today would be such a great day for a swim!
Of course, that could be said for almost any day in June, July, August, or September in this city.
But, alas, I'm not swimming--going swimming would take too much time, since I'm maybe a 20-minute walk from the nearest place I know of to swim, and I'm trying to fix bugs.
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cooperating, etc
McAllen and I went to Sasona yesterday to talk with Hannah about our next steps. She was looking at property and found a church in Hyde Park which looked promising / worth looking at. I wonder why our realter didn't find it / point it out to us. I can't get too hopeful about it yet, since we haven't even looked at it, but it's good to be in the ( Read more... ) -
educational games (Freeciv)?
I really want to look at Freeciv. Perhaps I will next week when I take some vacation time. I really think that there should be a game that has the player make decisions about the usage of various technology/resources and models possible effects. Ie, if a type of transportation requires a nonrenewable resource and decisions are made that cause a ( Read more... ) -
It all just feels like a paradox...
So I'm here, sitting outside, and being here just feels right, like wearing clothes that fit rather than clothes that don't, except in so far as it doesn't, since my family is far away, it would feel very wrong not to visit them, and it feels wrong to burn fossil fuels and contribute to global warming in order to visit them. I'm not sure it really ( Read more... ) -
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I'm coming to the conclusion that it is often the case that people will advocate for something or other because it seems to make sense, and indeed it would make sense in a perfect world, or at least in a world where some resource or other is in ample supply, yet it may not make sense in the world we have at the present time.
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randomness from my trip
We ate dinner last night at a vegetarian restaurant (which was kinda nice for me and Joanie). It had a menu translated into ENglish (which is kind of unusual here). I ordered something that was described on the English menu as "dumplings with tofu, vegetables, and seaweed" or something similar. It was called an empenada on the SPanish menu. And ( Read more... ) -
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It's January, and it's 69 degrees out. I've got all of the windows open, letting the fresh air in.
I love Austin.
I love my life.
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about customizing applications for accessibility
So, a few years ago, Nautilus was modified so that pressing right arrow at the end of a row of files would move the cursor to the next row. The person who added this feature recalled it being decided that this would be confusing for visually impaired users, so the change was made, but Nautilus would check whether accessibility was turned on and not ( Read more... )