Clowns In My Coffee

Quick! Name the necessary conditions for something to be a “toy.” What turns on your answer? Why, money of course.
This is rough terrain. On the one hand, I can see the argument that figurines are generally traded between adults for real adult money, and, if you assume the “toy” designation is [...]

Names are fun to think about. Coming up with a theory about what, if anything, a name means was a good inroad to the philosophy of language for me.
In the land of frameworks for describing resources, there’s some confusion about how to go about constructing names for those resources. The actual morphology of [...]

For me, anyhow.  Thanks to Fred Stutzman and the organizing committee!  Fred pointed out that the first BarCamp was organized in six days, which is pretty amazing.  While this one took two months, they did a great job with getting the venue and lining up sponsors, and the result of the constrained chaos that is [...]

Here at RedHat’s campus, wating for the, uhh, keynote to begin. I’m (obviously) connected, Tom’s Mac is having troubles. Take that, Cupertino!
Intros. BarCamps explained, the guiding principle is informality and fluidty (wandering around the sessions is encouraged, etc.)
“Keynote” is over, people who want to propose a session are gathering to make their pitches.
The [...]

So, BarCampRDU is almost upon us. I like the idea of a general-purpose nerdfest, but besides the fact that it’s in the area, there are some good sessions lined up (man, we have a lot of Atom fans in the RDU area), and, almost as important, good food. Hopefully Scott’s open source [...]

With our running, and confusion. However, I do see some confusion anyway.  So this is my blog.  I hope to make it more than vaguely professional, but no part of life aint’ nothing without no fun.