I spent the weekend dress as Jennifer Walters, or She-Hulk, at this weekend’s Awesome Con in Washington D.C. It was fun in the joyous ways all theater is fun–I had make-up, I sewed my costume, I had lines and did research and played with a cast of thousands. But this weekend was also my first time cosplaying […]
Continue reading →Thanks to my existing clock of cleaning my house frantically before my friend comes over for our weekly sewing/fangirling session, my house doesn’t currently need much spring cleaning #humblebrag. But my online spaces have gotten a bit musty since the snow started falling, and since I had the day off for DC Emancipation Day, I […]
Continue reading →A friend and I have a party game: take the countries that contribute troops to UN peacekeeping forces and argue about which Marvel superhero characters they are. This probably speaks more to the kinds of parties we throw, but below are some of the most consistent results: USA: Iron Man Canada: Captain America Russia: Black […]
Continue reading →I’m taking a break from my vacation in the stunning mountains of Montana to talk to a class at Carnegie Mellon being taught by my awesome major advisor, Jay Aronson. I’ll be updating this post with references to the links I bring up in the conversation, so class participants and refer back to it. Any […]
Continue reading →I’m writing this from my apartment with Matthew in Seattle before we head to Whitefish, Montana for a week. I’ve always lived in cities, from San Jose and Pittsburgh to Doha and D.C., but my favorite vacations involve: Tall mountains, Wild water, Quiet. Summer weeks in Pinecrest, CA or Loon Lake, WA always fill me […]
Continue reading →I’ve been reading Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore for a work book club. It’s the first novel I’ve read in a while that showed people like me. It’s based at a bookstore in San Francisco and involves programmers, VCs, graphic designers, website managers, and the future of human immortality. A few weeks before starting Mr. Penumbra’s I was thinking […]
Continue reading →One of the core questions I need to answer before I build my Source app is whether tracing source-countries rather than supply chains is an accurate way to guess where a given object came from. This is a novel approach. Most of the other folks working on global supply chains focus on corporate transparency (see […]
Continue reading →I let everyone know that I’m building my first app, called Source, in the next few months, to help surface existing global relationships. I mentioned that the idea came from a technical aside in paper I wrote for Dr Jay Aronson’s Global Justice class at Carnegie Mellon in Fall 2009. Below is the first iteration […]
Continue reading →There’s an idea I’ve been chewing on since early college, that I first mulled in a paper I wrote for Dr Jay Aronson’s Global Justice class in Fall 2009: An smartphone app that helps people connect to the people who make the things they own. A few weeks ago, as part of a poster proposal for […]
Continue reading →I went to my 5th trapeze class tonight: I’ve had good, productive classes and less productive classes. I’ve learned some tricks fast, and others are coming slower. Like anytime I’m learning a new skill, I have to find the right emotional mix to do my best work. I thought it would be faking confidence, the […]
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