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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 [livejournal.com profile] mjg59's girlfriend. There was also the joy of seeing [livejournal.com profile] 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 [livejournal.com profile] writinghawk and Francis and emerged four hours later with a lot to think about. In brief, so I don't forget:

  • 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; [livejournal.com profile] 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.

Date: 2006-05-02 10:09 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fiona-kitty.livejournal.com
The usual Cambridge small-worldness culminated in me being asked if I knew [livejournal.com profile] mjg59's girlfriend.

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. :)

Date: 2006-05-02 10:13 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] oedipamaas49.livejournal.com
yes, I did. I didn't actually get to talk much to Daf; I'll have to rely on you to lure us into the same room some day, so we can get to know each other properly.

Date: 2006-05-02 10:16 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fiona-kitty.livejournal.com
That shouldn't sound as HOT AND RIGHT as it does. :)

Date: 2006-05-02 10:20 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] oedipamaas49.livejournal.com
*snorts*

you do have a one-track mind, don't you :P

Date: 2006-05-02 10:28 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fiona-kitty.livejournal.com
you do have a one-track mind, don't you :P

It took you this long to notice? :p

Date: 2006-05-02 10:23 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] oedipamaas49.livejournal.com
oh, and while you're around: any idea who is DJing WUS tonight, and whether there are likely to be people there? All I've heard is that Lauren has one set, but that leaves three....

Date: 2006-05-02 10:32 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] oedipamaas49.livejournal.com
d'oh, ignore. found it on the rocksoc website. Turns out there is life beyond livejournal; who knew?

Date: 2006-05-02 10:51 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] oedipamaas49.livejournal.com
This makes it substantially more likely that I will. No promises, though, and I almost certainly won't be there for the whole time.

Date: 2006-05-02 11:22 am (UTC)
deborah_c: (GaFilk 2006)
From: [personal profile] deborah_c
asked if I knew mjg59's girlfriend

*giggle*

Date: 2006-05-02 01:54 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] elixir-zero.livejournal.com
I'm so glad we stayed until the end. Yes very tired, but felt so good at the same time!

Credit where it's due

Date: 2006-05-03 01:36 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gareth-rees.livejournal.com
For "somebody", read "Mark Owen and David Moore, with help from others (http://www.quinapalus.com/wi-index.html)".

Re: Credit where it's due

Date: 2006-05-03 03:04 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] oedipamaas49.livejournal.com
Yes indeed, thanks for pointing that out. And hello!

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