Habitat for humanity is fantastic.
I volunteered with them for the first time this morning. A lot of factors make it an easy choice for me: I have some construction experience, I love the outdoors, and the culture of building runs pretty deep in my family.
When I got there, a lot of people were standing [...]
Archive for August, 2004
Plugging in
28Aug04Feeling pretty good. Had a nice ride home with Josh today from the informatics picnic. It was a quiet, mildly surreal kind of drive. The world is twice-dampened: first by the partial deafness party-yelling leaves you with, and second by the cocoon effect of a new car.
It’s funny, I had a conversation [...]
I just hacked my wiki to be a little smarter with urls. Not only is it case insensitive, if you go to, say, http://snowedin.net/ideas/semantic you get pleasantly redirected to http://snowedin.net/ideas/Foundations of human-computer semantic transfer.
Also, I wanted to mention that I am locking a lot of my ideas lately, partially because they are the Property [...]
Got To Admit
24Aug04Today I was more excited about program I’m enrolled in than I have been so far. Two factors caused that: first, we heard introductions from some of the new faculty in HCI, and second, I met with Yvonne and Kay and talked a little about their Pervasive Compuing course I am Ta’ing and what [...]
Blogs are wierd. People you don’t know read them. People you compete with for slots in graduate school read them. People who sign your pay checks read them. Friends you wish you could see more often read them, and friends you’ve hardly met read them.
And I know all of this, and [...]
Innerlogue
22Aug04Does our inner monologue really change that much as we grow older, or do we just get better and better at hiding it from people? Perhaps the need to share stupid ideas just slowly dies.
I think most people will agree that everyone has stupid thoughts. What sets stupid people apart is that they [...]
Retro stylin’
22Aug04It might look like there is a problem with my web page, but it’s not a problem at all. I am working on reverting it to a sweet retro style. And when I say retro, I don’t mean tailfins and poodleskirts, I mean #333 background, giant black Times New Roman headings, animated horizontal [...]
Bedding racket
22Aug04I’d like to complain for a minute about this thing called “Bed in a Bag”. First off, let me point out that there’s no goddamn bed in that bag. That’s obvious by looking at it, but I just wanted to point out how overt the falseness of advertising actually is.
More relevantly, I’d like [...]
wireless
21Aug04I am writing this from the freaking Verizon store in Bloomington, on a freaking cell phone! How cool is that? Roommate Josh is transacting at the moment, so I am playing with phones.
I did the Habitat for Humanity tour today, which was good. They seem to do a lot for the community. Am volunteering [...]
