Regarding news of the day, I'm happy to have joined Truckers without Borders on Facebook and am seeing lots of interesting posts. I'm looking forward to a meetup with my "truckology" mentor in about a week. By then I'll have started teaching a next class.
The Portland-Shiraz sister cities discussion has to do with more than just high tech and roses (also high tech) in my book, in that I'm eager to compare notes on pure geometry. Mathematicians like to play sometimes. We already have a large body of mathematical art collected.
The business was notified by the IRS that my documents have been received. They're still mulling stuff over. I'll be sending in some self-withheld self-employment taxes soon. I need to keep enough to pay the local property tax, which is pretty steep in Asylum District. I'm a homeowner there.
I'm still thinking about OSCON and what I learned. Open Source is at the heart of a lot of the economy, doing closed source things. That's not a new paradigm. Everyone has screwdrivers and drills, but what they do with them may be shrouded in secrecy. That being said, unless you show people what you're doing, they'll happily learn from someone else. Invest in future friends.
Speaking of future friends, I understand that focusing on election outcomes can be a waste of time, when the politicians in question are pretty much stuck at the Common Core level. Qualifications for political jobs are minimal, as we've seen. DC is pretty vain, thinking social engineering has to be focused on them. Just saying.
That being said, I'm following the local campaigns and do plan to exercise my voting rights. In my region of Cascadia, we vote by mail.
The Portland-Shiraz sister cities discussion has to do with more than just high tech and roses (also high tech) in my book, in that I'm eager to compare notes on pure geometry. Mathematicians like to play sometimes. We already have a large body of mathematical art collected.
The business was notified by the IRS that my documents have been received. They're still mulling stuff over. I'll be sending in some self-withheld self-employment taxes soon. I need to keep enough to pay the local property tax, which is pretty steep in Asylum District. I'm a homeowner there.
I'm still thinking about OSCON and what I learned. Open Source is at the heart of a lot of the economy, doing closed source things. That's not a new paradigm. Everyone has screwdrivers and drills, but what they do with them may be shrouded in secrecy. That being said, unless you show people what you're doing, they'll happily learn from someone else. Invest in future friends.
Speaking of future friends, I understand that focusing on election outcomes can be a waste of time, when the politicians in question are pretty much stuck at the Common Core level. Qualifications for political jobs are minimal, as we've seen. DC is pretty vain, thinking social engineering has to be focused on them. Just saying.
That being said, I'm following the local campaigns and do plan to exercise my voting rights. In my region of Cascadia, we vote by mail.
