Thyme and Slime
May. 2nd, 2006 05:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Great few days - as I keep saying, they always come in clumps. Lots of things I'd like to write about properly, but I know I never will. So I'll jot them down here, and if you're (un)lucky I might come back to some of them later...
Wild Thyme Cafe was excellent, mainly becuase it was full of people I haven't talked to nearly enough. Most of them don't have livejournals, so I can't point and giggle. The usual Cambridge small-worldness culminated in me being asked if I knew
mjg59's girlfriend. There was also the joy of seeing
lavendersparkle for the first time in 9 months or so; I just hope it wasn't too unpleasant being the civil servant in a roomful of anarchists ;)
Then I went off with
writinghawk and Francis and emerged four hours later with a lot to think about. In brief, so I don't forget:
Before that, Slimelight was also very good fun;
elixir_zero has already written about it. I'm getting to understand why some people don't like it: the druggies, the over-pushy people, the falling-apart building, the 6am exhaustion. But none of those are really downsides for me personally - ymmv.
Wild Thyme Cafe was excellent, mainly becuase it was full of people I haven't talked to nearly enough. Most of them don't have livejournals, so I can't point and giggle. The usual Cambridge small-worldness culminated in me being asked if I knew
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Then I went off with
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- Why so many geeks are big on civil liberties
- Faith schools + 'modular religion' --> state-funded Summerhill
- A bizarre horizontal tetris variant that I have no hope of ever describing
- Links between Intentional Communities and Social Software
- The Wireworld computer, a cellular automaton that must have taken a great deal of time for somebody to dream up. [Edit: As Gareth points out below, the people behind this were David Moore, Mark Owen, and friends]
- Collective fanboying of Chris Lightfoot, who is like Freakonomics only better, and should really be given a column somewhere
- Why web services are bad news for open-source software
Before that, Slimelight was also very good fun;
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Date: 2006-05-02 10:09 am (UTC)Did you get asked that by Francis? Daf told me that he'd met you so I squeeed over the small-world-syndrome too, as I always thought that you and he would get on quite well. :)
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Date: 2006-05-02 10:20 am (UTC)you do have a one-track mind, don't you :P
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Date: 2006-05-02 10:28 am (UTC)It took you this long to notice? :p
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Date: 2006-05-02 11:22 am (UTC)*giggle*
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Date: 2006-05-02 01:54 pm (UTC)Credit where it's due
Date: 2006-05-03 01:36 am (UTC)Re: Credit where it's due
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