Volity Demo?

I've been considering having a Volity Demo at my house sometime, complete with PowerPoint (actually Keynote) slideshow, to Increase Awareness among my many local hacker/gamer friends. I have gotten the impression that many of my friends actually are interested in Volity, but have only the vaguest idea of what it is and how it works, since me pointing at essays I wrote and encouraging people to figure it out for themselves isn't an effective way to inspire folks.

Would any of y'all be interested in attending something like this? It'd happen sometime this fall, probably. (Ideally I'd be able to get my hands on a laptop projector somehow...)

The amazing adventures of JMAC

I have hired help to clean my apartment. On the helper's second visit, she got to walk in on a sleeping jmac, since I overslept by, um, three hours. She courteously offered to try again next week and I mumbled assent, trying to sound amused and embarrassed, though I was in that waking-up pre-emotional system-check state. (There's a great description of this, and how some people cope with it, in Cory Doctorow's Eastern Standard Tribe. I'll leave you to it.)

(The thing about me oversleeping -- which I do nearly every morning, for at least an hour or two (you'd think that this would redefine my frame of reference and I'd start calling the times when I get up early as "undersleeping" but whatev, I enjoy lying to myself I guess) -- is that it means I sleep through the radio, which is always tuned to NPR, and so the morning's bad news of bombs, beheadings, kidnappings and other gruesome world events filters in through my sleep. I don't remember any of it, but later in the day, as I browse news on the Web, I repeatedly dimly recall hearing about all the top stories, that morning, unconscious. I cannot know what cumulative effect this may be having upon my psyche.)

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Yesterday three people at work called me jmac, whereas I don't think anyone here has before. In all three cases i didn't really notice it until the conversation was half done, when it struck me as strange how much they were enjoying saying "jmac", over and over, trying different inflections, giggling. But hey, that's what it's there for.

Anyway, this is a feature. I have been hoping that I'd earn that name here, especially since another Jason has showed up, and I keep having my attention interrupted by people going Jason Jason Jason and not referring to me at all. That the phenomenon may be catalyzing all at once, for reasons I can't guess, is pleasing and amusing, to me.

The google image search for 'jmac' no longer has pictures of the JMAC-5000 or whatever it is at the first thing, but at least it's still on the first page.

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OK, I just looked again at the new google image search results.

Your mission, my minions, is to prevent this boy from ever becoming too famous, so I don't have to change my nickname.

Go!

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As the universe inexorably slides into systemwide entropy, eventually, everything will reappear as a techno remix.

(source material, in case you missed this meme during its first go-round)

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I like how Kerry is invoking OBL a lot in his speeches now... just daring the GWBians to respond in kind. They won't; they can't. They wish the topic would just go away. They really wish they hadn't spent so much time talking about OBL right after 9/11, had started beating the Saddam drum that much sooner. It would have made things so much simpler today.

In case anyone is still worried about it, this is rather proof-positive, to me, that nobody's gonna pull the dude out of their hat in October.