I killed a deer on the way down. Never done that before. It was foggy, nothing I could really do about it. But it provoked an inetersting round of thought. I didn't stop. At fist it was just schock and the cars behond me that kept me driving, but quickly the rationalization engine kicked in: it was dark, there was a narrow shoulder, nowhere to safely pull off; the deer was most certainly going to die if not already dead, and there was not way for me to help that along. I've heard tell of friends pulling off to drag a wounded doe off the road and slit its throat to speed it's passing and clear the highway, but I was without a knife and there were four vehicles right behind me, and I would have had to drive ahead several miles to fined a good place to turn around and go back... I didn't see any realitic options.

So I arrived in time to catch the tail end of dinner in Weshaven, a good time for sure. Costume photos. Dance party. Beautiful people. I like the whole scene. Kelly's the master instigator, channeling the spirit of michael jackson and bringing it all together...

Everything swirls for a while in that great bohemian way, and by and by Mark and I end up talking it out around the fire. Recent history, current situations, future plans. We talk about serious possibilities; making biodiesel, making our own moonshine (Sustainable Booze), making our own piece of life that works.

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Now leaving Drumm's in SF, my old neighborhood, the Bay Area scene. We had a little party, though i was on the phone helping Alonovo get off the ground for the first couple hours. It was a good time though; lots of comic moments and me being extra loud for people. I slept in the basement and now I'm good to go; hit the coffeeshop and then the road for Vegas.

I killed a deer on the way down. Never done that before. It was foggy, nothing I could really do about it. But it provoked an inetersting round of thought. I didn't stop. At fist it was just schock and the cars behond me that kept me driving, but quickly the rationalization engine kicked in: it was dark, there was a narrow shoulder, nowhere to safely pull off; the deer was most certainly going to die if not already dead, and there was not way for me to help that along. I've heard tell of friends pulling off to drag a wounded doe off the road and slit its throat to speed it's passing and clear the highway, but I was without a knife and there were four vehicles right behind me, and I would have had to drive ahead several miles to fined a good place to turn around and go back... I didn't see any realitic options.

So I arrived in time to catch the tail end of dinner in Weshaven, a good time for sure. Costume photos. Dance party. Beautiful people. I like the whole scene. Kelly's the master instigator, channeling the spirit of michael jackson and bringing it all together...

Everything swirls for a while in that great bohemian way, and by and by Mark and I end up talking it out around the fire. Recent history, current situations, future plans. We talk about serious possibilities; making biodiesel, making our own moonshine (Sustainable Booze), making our own piece of life that works.

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Now leaving Drumm's in SF, my old neighborhood, the Bay Area scene. We had a little party, though i was on the phone helping Alonovo get off the ground for the first couple hours. It was a good time though; lots of comic moments and me being extra loud for people. I slept in the basement and now I'm good to go; hit the coffeeshop and then the road for Vegas.

I'm about out. The travel plan is thus:

• Tonight: Westhaven w/Mark
• Friday: San Francisco; get-together at Drummy's at 10pm
• Saturday/Sunday: Vegas summit for Trellon
• Monday: Round about Denver, prolly Motel seis
• Tusday: Iowa Farmhouse
• Wednesday: Chi-town, Dave and Jessica
• Thursday: NYC -- probably very late

This is a savage and greuling marathon schedule, with multiple 700-mile legs. However, with the exception of the final push to NYC, the long legs include vast stretches of mostly empty country where high speed driving is the rule. I figure if I can average 75 on those stretches, 10-hours of driving isn't out of this world. I can break it up with catnaps or whatever too.

I picked up a 400W DC inverter from GI Joes that will run off the cigarette lighter. This is a better deal than all those specialized converters: it'll run anything I have a power plug for and it's got clips to hook direct to a battery, so it can be used for all sorts of other things too. This'll keep my laptop and cellphone alive while I drive, so I'll be rocking out to tunes, audiobooks and podcasts.

I'll post when I can, but no promises there. See you New Yorkers soon though, and all you in-between peeps sooner.

Slashdot | Campaign Financing Cyber Loophole

Read the summary and then the discussion and marvel at the ability of a highly intelligent community to remain politically marginalized through procedural ignorance.

Not that I blame them.

There's a level of basic education about how our election process works that's pretty fundimental to understanding politics today. This is never something that was covered in a civics class (if those are still taught anywhere anymore) but it's just as vital if you want to be a meaningful participant.

Slashdot | Campaign Financing Cyber Loophole

Read the summary and then the discussion and marvel at the ability of a highly intelligent community to remain politically marginalized through procedural ignorance.

Not that I blame them.

There's a level of basic education about how our election process works that's pretty fundimental to understanding politics today. This is never something that was covered in a civics class (if those are still taught anywhere anymore) but it's just as vital if you want to be a meaningful participant.

Markos, always on the edge.

FWIW, I'm planning to do the same for most of my projects ongoing. While taxonomy (top-down categorization through hierarchy) is still really useful for putting some structure around your data, in terms of allowing people to find relevant content quickly and/or to effectively contextualize information, folksonomy (bottom up categorization through tagging) offers a great deal more performance.

I'm going to be driving across the country in a few days. It should take a week. What should I be listening to? I'm particularly interested in getting some good audiobooks and/or podcasts.

Anyone actually listening to any of this crap? Tips?

Anyone who's nerdy and wants to get work, learn Drupal real quick. Everyone I know (including me) needs more help to handle the workload that's out there. Seriously. There are plenty of organizations who'll pay you to work on open-source software because all they care about are results, not owning a piece of code.

Spent last night playing videogames (X-men Saga, Gamecube) with Cian and Abe and Jesse with Cian's special lady Ashley spectating, complaining that it was too easy for us, that she wanted to see us die. Good times. I haven't done anything like that in a while. Cian and Ashley have a really good thing going.

Now I'm up in Portland, getting music from Tommy for the drive east. In a minute we'll go see Todd Snider and then party for John Henry's birthday. I'm looking forward to it.

Spent last night playing videogames (X-men Saga, Gamecube) with Cian and Abe and Jesse with Cian's special lady Ashley spectating, complaining that it was too easy for us, that she wanted to see us die. Good times. I haven't done anything like that in a while. Cian and Ashley have a really good thing going.

Now I'm up in Portland, getting music from Tommy for the drive east. In a minute we'll go see Todd Snider and then party for John Henry's birthday. I'm looking forward to it.