For the past few years, when someone asked me about my religious/spiritual beliefs, I've said "I believe in something, but I don't call it God."

Well, apparently the label I'm looking for is Neo-Pagan.

Here are my top (> 90%) results from the BeliefNet Belief-O-Matic quiz:

1. Neo-Pagan (100%)
   
2. Unitarian Universalism (97%)
   
3. Secular Humanism (93%)
   
4. Liberal Quakers (92%)
   
5. New Age (92%)
   

Effie and I will be getting married March 28th! Save the date! Invitations forthcoming...
of course, we have to design the darn things first, then get them printed, and then mail them out... and it would probably be good to have a complete guest list first... oh jesus the organization required is daunting... and doing it on a budget? ugh... can we just crash someone else's wedding? ;)

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I'm at a festival that's like Flipside, except that people are charging tips for things like drinks, not officially vending, but obviously breaking the spirit of the thing. I wander around with my cousin or with Effie for a while, they wander off to do other things and I'm wandering around alone. I see some dudes all dressed in black dress clothes setting up what looks like a kick-ass dance scene for when it gets dark - they've blacked out all the walls and ceiling/floor in a hallway and are putting up black lights. I remind them to mark the stairs so people don't trip when they're leaving. I hear about some camp giving away free goodies (but it's hush-hush so don't tell anyone) and wonder if there's any left. I realize I need to pee, so I duck into a weird unisex bathroom that has stalls for both men & women, as I'm peeing, this asian dude walks up to me and starts talking at me. It's clear I have violated their turf or gotten myself into some kind of trouble with his gang. He starts talking about how they apply pressure to people, sometimes they just take money, sometimes they dig through the person's past to find useful information. I don't like where this is going.
"What's the easiest way for me to get out of this?" I ask.
"B-boys. You've gotta take a class and join our B-boys team."
"No shit!?? I would totally do that! I've always wanted to learn to break dance!"
"But you can't move. We had one guy who was taking class 3 days a month and he moved and...."

and then the doorbell rings.

Effie and I are putting together our first touch screen table. A different method (DI) than they show in the videos here (LLP), but similar. Check this shit out!!!

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via nuigroup.com - a terrific opensource resource for all your multitouch needs.

Interesting concept for the week: demurrage currency, or money which accumulates negative interest.

The conceptual key to understanding this shift involves changing the "arrow of time" in the investment process. Under the present system, the discounted present value of any investment has to be higher than the interest rate of a risk-free government bond. This implies that anything that produces value more than twenty years in the future is basically worthless today, thus providing a systemic incentive not to care about the long-term consequences of our actions. With demurrage, the incentive works in the opposite way: income in the future would become more valuable than income today, thereby automatically prioritizing the long-term implications of today's actions.

Once the basic necessities of life are covered, the logical uses of money in this new context would include investing in ways that will reduce expenses in the future (pay back mortgages, improve home insulation, improve energy efficiencies, start one's own food gardens) and investing in anything that will keep, or increase in, value (land improvements, trees and forests, and anything else that grows over time).

gotta repost this one: Tech Support Cheat Sheet from XKCD for all those "can I ask you a computer question" situations.

I am in Jury Duty from hell. We are finally in deliberations and one of our Jurors acts like he's being personally attacked whenever anyone disagrees with him. Hopefully he'll be easier to deal with tomorrow morning after a good night's rest.

I can't help thinking - no matter which side gets a favorable verdict in this case (in any case), the lawyers always win.

Latest funny blog discovery: Texts From Last Night

exempli gratis:

(512): its been so long since i'vebeen laid i've forgotten what a penis looks like. When a guy makes me hot i picture him finishing the job by whipping a multi-setting showerhead out of his pants.
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(832): Jennifer and I just ate like 4 jello shots w/ a guy dressed as inspector gadget. We are still in the capital building btw
(281): I love Texas.
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(713): Saw 2 former students outside gas station. gave me money to buy 2 12 packs, asked if I wanted to go to their party.
(713): I told them I had a gf and took one of the 12 packs. Come over.
(832): Texas should really raise its teaching standards.
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I just learned through a recent Daily Show episode that there are over 200 (two hundred) fart-related applications in the iPhone app library.

Having second thoughts about developing games for that medium...