Topics I keep meaning to talk about

recently posted a two paragraph criticism of current intellectual property law. This is just another poking reminder, because I’ve been meaning to organize my thoughts on the subject ever since posted his entry on the subject, what, a month, two months ago? My shallow insight into the final fantasy xi economy (and it is kinda like a giant microeconomy lab, giving insights on the nature of entrepreneurship in a limited kind of way), added something to the ideas spinning around, so I decided to do more “research” first. =) Heh.

And I owe AlexQ a post on the subject of how our cities could be better designed. Plus minutes for the technical advisory panel meeting and a rough draft of a paper on a subject that I haven’t researched terribly well for that conference that we’ll be setting up in late october. Oy.

So remind me, people. Let me know that you care. =)

Weekend in review

I don’t even remember what happened to friday evening. I probably chatted online, and killed things. I’m pretty sure that was when I got Mesharr to level 14. An entertaining waste of time.

Saturday morning, I went walking with the veggies. I actually ran for part of it. Running with a backpack, especially a poorly zipped one, bad idea. My portable cd player fell out, cover fell off, and cd rolled into the road. I promptly sat down & re-assembled it. The cd wasn’t even scratched. Go me. One of the veggies is another fruit, turns out he knows . Heh. Small world.

Checked out a lower duplex, with a small third bedroom. Like, I’d need a lofted bed degree of small. I may go for a lofted bed anyway. I’d also called in on a couple of for-rent signs I’d seen on the way to the first place we checked out. Set up an appointment for that afternoon to check out another lower level 3 BR duplex. This left us with a few hours to kill, so we scoped out the neighborhood, checked in with a corporate client leasing service, grabbed indian buffet lunch, browsed a comic book store, saw The Hunting of the President. It was pretty good, a summer of documentaries indeed. It outlined the coordinated maneuverings/conspiracy to impeach Clinton. I gave up on keeping track of the name drops in the first 5 minutes, but I feel better informed as to what happened, if not who did what. Worth watching, to my mind.

Afterwards, we checked out Phoenix Games, and Dreamhaven comics/used sci-fi. Both a very, very short walk from either of the prospective new places (the two places are right around dupont & 32nd). We finally got to see the other place, and my pinchpenny reflexes fought for the first one, but the price difference really isn’t that big. And seems to have a definite preference for the second one. Saw & bf on the way back to the bus. At least, I think it was his bf. I’ll have to actually say ‘hi’ to him sometime. =)

Back home, with plans for gaming later in the evening. I baked cookies. recipe for those who requested it

Grad School web bio

So, the humphrey posts an internal site where students can look one another up, and read one another’s bios. They wanted us to answer a few questions:

  • Education: undergraduate college(s) and degrees, including year graduated; undergraduate major(s); other graduate degrees if any.
  • Work or internship experiences
  • Travel/studies abroad;
  • General interest in public affairs (what you plan to study; broad career goals);
  • Hobbies or favorite activities.

Here’s mine

Lengthy reports to read later….

This report on the environmental impacts of transportation in the US should make interesting reading at some point in the future, when I have time…. =)

Along with a report which “proves” that Most mis-estimates of transportation expenditures are lies, not errors.

Also, several from the Victoria Transport Policy Research Institute, including: Understanding Smart Growth Savings, Evaluating Research Quality, evaluating transportation land use impacts.