The Month - October 2011
This is quite a month. First a trip to the Poconos with some old friends, and then a meeting to talk about the future of Carto with Stamen and Google
in San Francisco and then Mountain View.
Then I have the treat of being a keynote speaker at WhereCamp Boston alongside Jeff Warren. It’ll be the first time I talk outside of a narrow, technical topic in quite a while. (my presentations are listed in about) So I’m hoping to have some fun with it - to refine big, the hacky presentation software I wrote for/at my presentation at FOSS4G, and to talk about something a little crazier.
Photos by Stephen Shore, in Uncommon Places, a thoroughly fantastic book from my sister . I’ve been using some of the photos as references for terribly amateurish watercolors.
- And, of course, some obscure technology: the world’s best introduction to sed by Peteris Krumins is eye-opening.
- And some obscure math: I had too much fun reading An Adventure in the Nth Dimension, an article about n-dimensional spheres and cubes and their bizarre relationships of volume.
- On Saman’s recommendation, I read Extra Lives on video gaming and also happened to find Destroy all Monsters from Believer magazine. I haven’t played a computer game in years and have never played D&D (despite naming a library after it), but I’m starting to feel like I should: there’s definitely something there.
AJ Ashton, Gregor MacLennan, myself; photo on left by Dane Springmeyer
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In other news, Teen Mom was selected to play the DCWeek opening party - so we’re playing the 9:30 club on November 4th! Get tickets! It’ll be quite a time.
And, sneaking up on me, November is the month for hometaping 3, so I’m going to be recording an album, start to finish. Hopefully I’ll be able to make it complete - crazy to think that 2010’s album is a year old now - but it’s time!