Which is awesome. But I can’t believe I forgot to mention TriTAG.
The 100 is a podcast about local culture, events and issues (roughly in that order), coming out
of Ideas Transform. I know Bevan from Kwartzlab and I’d met the
other hosts through CultureCamp (in person, anyway).
They asked me to come chat about transportation and urban design issues, since I’ve been writing about that a lot
on WWBA lately:
I think it’s a good chat, but I feel like I left a lot out. Ah well. Follow me on WWBA and maybe I’ll flesh out the
ideas a bit more. I am happy I got a plug in for Richard’s OpenStreetMap meetups.
The 100 is awesome. If
you’d like to subscribe to the podcast, Will Spaetzel’s
fantastic Castroller service has automatically
generated a podcast feed. I’m prodding Hilary and Bevan to get it into the
iTunes store, hopefully in the next week or two.
The newly-formed Kitchener-Waterloo chapter of Ubuntu Canada is having
its first Jam, to be held at Kwartzlab. We’re getting together to help make Ubuntu better: hang out, fix some bugs, test
the new release and work on
documentation. Txwikinger is going to show us how to do bug triage. I’m really
excited. It’s going to be awesome.
Want to come? Sign up here. Yeah, you’ll need a launchpad account, but
you need to create one to mess around with bugs anyway.
Well, at the very least, I’m indifferent towards the Olympics.
As far as I’m concerned, sports already gets a disproportionate amount of time and attention in our society. It’s not
important and, frankly, it’s actually pretty silly, if you stop to think about it. Yet it gets about a third of the
total news coverage time and takes up a good chunk of the public airwaves.
And that’s okay, I guess. It’s a free market and people have their preferences. But given the number of people already
paying attention, it doesn’t need me. My time is better spent elsewhere, I think. I have more important things to obsess
about. Things like programming paradigms and Doctor Who toys.
So I absent myself from the universal “experience” that is the Olympics, but I
get Sylvester McCoy with umbrella accessory in exchange. I think it’s
worth it.
I (try not to) harp on people who get excited about the Olympics. That’s just not cool. It doesn’t do either of us any
good for me to tell them the thing they’re so excited about is stupid. I get excited about stupid things too! And that’s
okay.
