“Oh, this has been one of my better Decembers …and that included chopping off part of my finger.” was my summation of the holiday season to a friend of mine last night. Kinda sums up what I think about Christmases in general. I boycotted the whole thing this year; vastly improved my quality of life. Continue reading
If there’s one thing I’ve learned from hanging out with Protospace geeks it’s:
Two very cool and very geeky things have happened to me this week. One: a very benevolent soul has traded me an old acer laptop (this thing is vintage baby! – the wireless network card is externtal!) just choc-ful of open source software. I’m composing this piece on it right now, on OpenOffice of course! As an amusing aside, my laptop is resting on a copy of the Tao Te Chi and an old Make magazine from this summer – that pretty much sums up my brain and my life, eh?
The other humbling and utterly mind blowing encounter was also open source related. A bunch of protospacers got together for a hackathon to write a bunch of code and get the new website up and running (I think I slept through that…). The cool thing is, later somebody got me set up so I could log in and add some content. Well, I logged in and discovered …. Continue reading
Yeah, so… my efforts last week to plug back in took the last of the stuffing out of me. I’m now faced with the reality I have to let go of even the last few threads of things I was holding on to. Including this 100 day project.
I was pretty wrecked up about this until a friend said to me: Hey, I work in fundraising, we round up all the time. 92 days? Round up! Your done. I liked the sound of that Continue reading
So one of the most valuable things I’ve learned from hanging out with hackers so far (aside from: “Don’t put the lead in your mouth.“) is:
When you break something you get to put it back together in new ways.
I broke me – into a thousand sparkling pieces. I now get to put my life back together in cool new ways. That’s a pretty exciting prospect.
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