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The problem with challenge systems part two
Got this today when I responded to an email:
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G'Day from Down Under
36 hours.
That's how long it took to get to Hobart, Australia from Tampa, Florida. About 36 hours from door to door, which is a long damn time to be on planes and in airports.
It took even longer for my luggage , which apparently was suffering some aprehension about making the transcontinental flight to be with [...]
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Obama TV ad
Watched much of the Obama 30-minute "infomercial" last night. So many thoughts on that... would have made a great "media artifact" for one of my media studies classes back in college. I hope, for the campaign's sake, that the people in the production are exactly who they claimed to be and there are no discrepancies [...]
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Digging in
Back from the Google Summer of Code Mentor's Summit and getting ready to dig in for a month of no travel. The first day or so back from a trip are usually pretty unproductive -- catching up on email, going through mail that's piled up, laundry, etc., so I'm really psyched about having a stretch [...]
Getting set for day two at GSoC Mentor's Summit
Pardon the stream of consciousness. I'm still on East Coast time -- not much use in getting readjusted for a three-day stint in California -- so I've been awake since about 4 a.m. local time. (Nearly typed "lolcat time," which would be an interesting concept.)
Psyched for today's summit. Yesterday was amazingly useful, and has given [...]
Off to Mountain View
Going to Google's Mentor Summit this weekend, a get-together of mentors from the Google Summer of Code program. I'm attending as the openSUSE program rep -- I didn't mentor any students, but I was an overall program mentor. Looking forward to listening a lot this weekend and finding out what we can do better next [...]
From clutter to clean