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Since I got lots of messages in the past few hours asking if I'm fine: I'm in Jerusalem, and the only explosions we had here today were the independence day fireworks.

On my way to Israel, where I'm going to be spending a week.

Right now I'm at Fiumicino airport, next to Rome. Last time I was here it was quite a process! This time, I'm only transferring from one flight to another in the same terminal ... which means I only had to take a short train ride. Twice. And a security check (and throwing out a full bottle of iced tea I bought at the terminal at Logan). Then, a 90 minute wait followed by 40 minutes standing in line to board after they called boarding, followed by 90 minutes sitting on the plane at the gate, until they told us they need to find another plan and sent us all back into the terminal.

Edit: After I posted this, it turned out our second boarding was via an almost 10 minute bus ride from the gate to the plane.

Current Mood: nostalgic

Friday, May 3rd, 8:30pm: Valerie Thompson's Graduate Recital at New England Conservatory (Brown Hall)

You may already know that my friend and housemate since 2008, Valerie Thompson, is a musician, a cellist and song and tune writer of breadth and creativity. Likely you've seen or heard or watched a video of her band Goli, a duo with Vessela Stoyanova on electronic marimba. If you haven't, ( watch some videos of Goli... )

Maybe you also know that Valerie tours with Laura Cortese Acoustic Project and Long Time Courting, is in the Elephant Tango Ensemble and the house band for Bent Wit Cabaret, and often performs with various other bands including Molly Zenobia, Sarah Rabdau and the Self-Employed Assassins... and just general has more musical projects going on than anyone else can keep track of.

Goli went to grad school in 2011. Valerie and Vessela both went into the 2-year graduate program in Contemporary Improvisation at New England Conservatory, and now it's almost graduation time.

At NEC Valerie has written new songs (video of "Page in the Book"), collaborated with amazing musicians (video of string quartet from Joe Maneri tribute), and joined ensembles with a wide variety of styles and instruments (video of ensemble piece from Joe Maneri tribute)... and she's going to top it all off with her Graduate Recital on May 3rd, less than a month away.

She'll be accompanied by her classmates and friends Jeff Balter, Anna Patton, Rachel Panitch, Daniel Pencer, Abigale Reisman, Abby Swidler, Petaluma Vale, Vessela Stoyanova and MORE! Plus you get baklvava :)

This is going to be an amazing show! Come! Bring friends!

P.S. Vessela Stoyanova's NEC Graduate Recital is that following Monday, May 6th.

You've probably already heard about the Veronica Mars movie kickstarter, which has 5 days to go. They're trying to break the record for largest number of contributors to a kickstarter.

A much more modest movie kickstarter that I contributed to also has 5 days to go: Funny Bunny - A new feature film by Alison Bagnall. As of when I'm writing this, she's raised $42k of her $50k goal to make the film.

Alison's sister works at ITA Software, where I work, so Alison came by our office in 2011 to show her previous film The Dish & the Spoon and answer questions. Not only did the film totally charm me, but I learned that she'd made it kind of on the fly: Another film project had just fallen apart, and Alison had two actors she really wanted to do something with (Greta Gerwig and Olly Alexander) but no movie, so she collaboratively put one together with and around the two of them.

I'd love to see what she comes up with next!

Help me help her reach $50,000?

Alice was telling a story about some other people and at one point fumbled between saying "master" and "ma'am" in reference to one of the characters in the story, and what came out sounded like "mas'm" or "massem". I think this could be an excellent word for a gender neutral or genderqueer parallel to "master" and "ma'am"!

Since John Kerry is now Secretary of State, we need to elect a new US Senator from Massachusetts. The primary for this special election will be on Tuesday, April 30th. Don't skip this one; there's a very big contrast between the candidates!

Ed Markey and Stephen Lynch, both of them members of Congress, are running in the Democratic primary. While it's not certain that the winner will become the Senator, it's quite likely. The most recent poll shows it's a race either candidate could win, so take a look at some of the differences in their recent voting record in Congress:

Stephen Lynch was one of only 34 Democrats who voted against Obamacare. Ed Markey voted for it.

Patriot Act reauthorization, 2011, HR 514: Ed Markey voted against, Stephen Lynch voted in favor

FISA Amendments reauthorization, 2012, HR 5949 - extending government power to spy domestically without cause or warrant: Markey voted against, Lynch voted in favor

Keystone XL pipeline: Markey voted against, Lynch voted in favor - though was part of a larger bill

Reduce military spending, H.Amdt 150: Ed Markey voted in favor, Stephen Lynch voted against

End loan guarantees for renewable energy, HR 6213: Ed Markey voted against, Stephen Lynch voted in favor; IOW, Markey wanted renewable energy loan guarantees to continue.

End the Afghanistan war last year, H.Res 18: Ed Markey voted in favor, Stephen Lynch voted against

End Big Oil Tax Subsidies Act, HR 601: Never got to a vote, but Markey co-sponsored it and Lynch refused to sign on.

Edit: A couple more about Lynch...

In 2006, Republicans put forward a resolution opposing a timeline for withdrawal from Iraq. Stephen Lynch was the only one of 10 Representatives from Massachusetts who voted in favor of that resolution.

Stephen Lynch was one of only two Massachusetts Representatives to vote in favor of the Stupak Amendment to ban coverage of abortion in health insurance under Obamacare. (Markey voted against it)

Edit: MassEquality endorsed Ed Markey for Congress.

Edit 2: Union endorsements are split, with Lynch getting a lot more, but Markey getting most of the biggest unions (SEIU, AFSCME, NEA+MTA), and the AFL-CIO opting not to endorse in this race.

Markey swept the progressive endorsements:
- Sierra Club, League of Conservation Voters, 350.org, MA Clean Water Action, National Wildlife Federation
- NARAL Pro-Choice and Planned Parenthood
- Council for a Livable World, Massachusetts Peace Action
- Progressive Mass, Daily Kos, MoveOn, PCCC, Democracy for America, Progressive Democrats of America

One of these two is likely to be the next US Senator from Massachusetts, so please don't skip the vote on April 30th!

Pass it on to other people you know in Massachusetts, especially people who are probably going to vote in the general election on June 30th but might miss the April primary because they don't always pay attention to primaries.

How many computer scientists or other important people in computing are famous enough that people outside the field know their names? Which ones?

If you're not and never have been a computer science or computer engineering major, or professional programmer or system administrator or something like that, please leave a comment naming anyone you think of as a famous computer scientist or important person in the history of computing? Or that you can't think of any, because maybe the answer is that none are well known enough to be known to most people here.

(If you are or have been one of those things, you could comment too, but state your background)

Edit:

1. People who are primarily engineers who made significant contributions to the field of computing count.

2. Leave a comment with what name come to mind (or that none do) before reading other comments. Repeats are great! Then I know several people thought of that name.

3. ( Steve Jobs... )

On the drive to Connecticut this weekend I listened to an episode of This American Life about coincidences. Several stories of coincidences were told, some rally excellent, others nothing special. One idea they explored was that when a coincidence happens to you, you view it more significantly or remember it more than when you hear about a similar coincidence happening to someone else.

It got me thinking of a coincidence that happened to my parents last year.

When I was very little we lived in Jinja, Uganda, where my parents had been living for several years before I was born. My parents divorced here in the US, and my father remarried here.

My stepmother had never been to Africa. Last year, my dad planned a long vacation for the two of them to Uganda and Tanzania, to show her all the places and things from his past. They were going to see wildlife, and nature, and the cities, and visit Jinja and see if our former house was still there.

In the spring my stepmother's mother was diagnosed with cancer, and it was clearly going to be fatal within a year, so my parents cancelled the trip. While she was still here, they weren't going anywhere. As it turned out, the cancer progressed very quickly, and she died three months later, in the summer, during the time that they would've been in Africa.

Her final few days were right on the dates when, if they'd gone to Africa, my parents would've been in Jinja. Spending those days at the hospital with her, they met her nighttime caretaker, who'd become good friends with my stepgrandmother in a short time. A young woman from Jinja, Uganda. She and my dad traded stories, and when he described where we'd lived, she knew the street and recognized the description and told him the house was still there.

[ My parents did go to Africa this winter and did most of what they'd planned for the summer trip. ]

...

Tell a story of a coincidence you know of? One that happened to someone else, who told you about it, and you remembered it.

If Ed Markey's seat becomes vacant (if he gets elected to US Senate, which he's currently running for), State Rep Carl Sciortino will run for that office, he announced today. Rep Sciortino represents a distict covering part of Somerville and part of Medford, and lives in Medford (which is in Markey's district; Somerville is not).

I'll write more about him later, if that seat does open up, but I just wanted to post a short Yay!! now. Carl is my favorite member of the Massachusetts House. He's awesome. Originally elected in 2004 after defeating a 16-year incumbent in the Democratic primary, his first major achievement was saving the Green Line extension early in his first year in office; it was at serious risk of cancellation that year (partly because Romney was Governor). He's also a co-author of the transgender equal rights law that Massachusetts passed last year.

aroraborealis's annual anonymous confession post for this year has started.

I considered locking this to friends-only, but I think it's important and I want people to link to it and re-share it and that's not going to happen unless it's public. Please read it, and share it?

I'll start with a story, something that really happened though I changed the names and some details for anonymity. Ella was good friends with a couple, Bob and Cate, and they flirted and kissed. Sometimes they attended the same sex and BDSM parties and scened with each other. One time, years ago, at such a party, Ella was having sex with someone and Bob came over. While she was giving the other guy head, Bob went down on her after what he thought was a nonverbal okay from her to join in. Ella actually would've rather he didn't, but she didn't think she minded much and she was having too much fun to interrupt what she was doing and tell him to stop, so she just enjoyed herself and let it go. Later, however, she realized that it was more of a problem for her than she knew at the time, and it made her feel icky and a little bit violated. Wanting to keep her friendship with Bob healthy, she told him about it. Not only did Bob get defensive, but Cate really freaked out. She seemed to interpret this as an attack, an accusation that Bob was a bad person, and she knew he wasn't! They weren't able to reconcile this and the friendship fizzled.

It's been on my mind lately, partly due to attending the "Addressing Sexual Harassment in Our Communities" panel at Arisia and the hours of fascinating post-panel conversation with a few people. Not long after Arisia, a friend told me about finding out from someone close to her that, a long time ago, she'd had sex with the person thinking it was consensual when actually this person did not want to and wasn't able to tell her so and just went along with it. I've long known that it's possible that I've done something like that sometime in my past, despite trying to be very careful never to do so, and I might've really hurt someone, and if it has happened, I may never know. In fact, after that post-panel discussion, I told one of the people I'd been talking about one instance where I worried, after the fact, that I might've made a mistake and crossed someone's boundaries even though the interaction seemed good while it was happening. It's on my mind because I know that any of us - including most of you who read this - may possibly have done this to someone, and may never know for sure.

My reason for writing this post is my belief that our very efforts to combat harassment and assault and rape are exacerbating this aspect of the problem, ( and I want to explain why, and what we can change to stop doing this. )

After two visits to Maui, this winter was my first trip to any of the other islands. We started on Oahu, which felt like a cross between Hawaii and mainland. It has a real city, and highways, and streets with mainland-style English names (not a majority of streets, but a lot). Lots and lots of people, and traffic jams. Because the tallest mountains on Oahu are around 4000 feet, it doesn't have the weather/desert dichotomy of Maui, with its nearly 10,000 foot volcano.

Possibly the thing I noticed most, after getting used to the idea of a real city in Hawaii, was that we didn't see a rainbow the entire first day. When we didn't see one the entire second day, I noticed it even more. We'd gone all around the island, and up in a helicopter, been to a beach and a waterfall and various elevations. Where were the rainbows? Yet another way Oahu is more like the mainland, I thought.

But then we spent 6 days on the Big Island - on the water and up the mountains, in the rain forests and the deserts, on boats and helicopter, all over - and still no rainbows. As we were flying to Oahu for our last day, I was thinking about this. About how I'd spent a total of 10 days on Maui in two separate trips, and I don't think there was a single one of those ten days when I didn't see at least one rainbow. Some days I saw 3 or 4 at separate times in different places.

... then we flew over Maui, which is between the Big Island and Oahu, and we saw a rainbow down below.

I'm going to be traveling with Alice, leaving Boston Friday morning and getting back Monday afternoon January 7th. Two days of travel, 4 days Oahu, 5 days on the Big Island.

[ Would've been 2 and 7 by my original intent, except that all the islands except Oahu ran out of rental cars for some of those days by the time I tried to reserve a few weeks ago. It was quite a challenge getting the car I did get, which might've been the last one available on the Big Island before Jan 2nd. ]

Pieced together from parts of several articles I read recently...

Over the years, the percentage of the NRA's money that comes from members and membership activities has decreased, while the percentage that comes from gun-selling corporations has increased. As that happens, the NRA morphs gradually from a grassroots organization to a PR arm of the gun industry. Effects of this include:

1. The NRA's interest has shifted from an individual's supposed right to own a gun, to corporations' interest in opportunities to make money by selling guns. For example, I think most NRA members do not personally want to own semi-automatics and high capacity magazines, but the NRA has been uncompromising in opposing restrictions on such things because gun companies can make more money if they're allowed to sell a wider range of products.

More interesting, though,

2. Acting as a marketing wing of the gun industry, one of the NRA's new roles is promoting gun sales, which they do by spreading paranoia that your ability to buy guns is about to be restricted. Especially any time a new Democratic president or Congress is elected. More fear = more people rushing to buy guns while they still can.

And even more interesting,

3. Like Super PACs and similar outside groups run "negative" political ads so that the candidate they support doesn't have to take the backlash, the NRA as the gun industry's Super PAC has another role: take the heat off the corporations. Be the lightning rod for criticism, so people don't protest or pressure corporations directly. Seen in this light, saying stupid and offensive and "out of touch" things fits into the NRA's role well.

With time off from work or school, chances are many of you are going to fly somewhere in the next month.

You'll probably have to take off your shoes, likely go through a full body scanner, will be forced to leave all your liquids at home or take a checked bag (and pay for it), and either way won't have your drink when you get to the gates. You may wait a long time in line for security, possibly longer than you expected, worrying about being late for your flight, and then reach the end and have to rapidly take off and unpack a number of things. Some of you will accidentally leave something in your carry-on bag and then be forced to choose between missing your flight or discarding the item - possibly something useful, or with sentimental meaning, or that cost some money.

All for nothing.

None of these practices contribute in any way whatsoever to anyone's safety. All they do is increase stress, delay, cost, and the risk of theft (when your expensive stuff is waiting in a tray at the end and you're still going through the scanners). We are literally spending large amounts of money just to make our lives worse, with no benefit to balance it. Just to waste our time and destroy some of our possessions and make travel stressful and less pleasant.

Why? Because our political leaders are afraid of us. They fear that not only do we demand this stuff, but that if anything bad happens, they might be blamed for not having done enough. Many of them know this security theater at airports is harmful, but they're afraid that we don't know it, and they'll be punished if they try to change it.

Show them that may not be true. When it's still fresh in your mind, after you've just flown somewhere or returned home. Call them and ask them to end it.

You can look up your US Senators and Representative's phone numbers on lots of sites, such as this directory.

[I also posted this on Blue Mass Group]

We hear a lot about Congress and Obama working to find some elusive deal that could stave off the "fiscal cliff", and occasionally we also hear about why we should to avoid it: According to the Congressional Budget Office, allowing the "cliff" to happen is likely to send the economy back into recession in 2013, and sharply increase unemployment.

What we don't hear much about is that Congress can simply repeal the fiscal cliff, without any complicated deals.

"Sequestration" - the automatic spending cuts that start to take effect in January - is just a law passed by Congress in 2011. Congress can repeal it, and that alone would be enough to prevent a recession in 2013 according to the CBO report - even if all the Bush tax cuts expire.

Extending the payroll tax cut and unemployment benefits would double the impact. Extending the Bush tax cuts on income below $250,000 would do even more (In contrast, extending the Bush tax cuts on higher income would, according to the CBO, have very little impact). But even if we did neither of those sensible things, just repealing sequestration would be much better than doing nothing. Neither Congressional Democrats nor Republicans actually like sequestration or want it to happen. So why do we hear so little in the news about that option?

I started a petition on change.org: Congress: Repeal the "fiscal cliff".
Please sign, re-post it, and send it on to others.

Facebook is holding a user vote on changing their rules. Voting ends at noon (Pacific time) this Monday, December 10th.

Although they provide a link to the current Statement of Rights and Responsibilities and Data Use Policy and the new proposed Statement of Rights and Responsibilities and proposed Data Use Policy, the old and new versions are very similar and it's hard to see what is changing. So, I diff'ed the old and new versions for you.

I edited out some insignificant formatting changes, URLs, and corrections of typos, and left only what look like substantive differences. Lines beginning with < indicate text being removed from the old version, and > indicates text being added to the new version. Please share.

Edit: BTW, it seems to me the most significant changes in both documents is that the old versions have provisions for causing Facebook to hold a binding vote when they want to make some kinds of changes, and the new versions drop that. In the old version, a vote is only binding if 30% of Facebook users vote, and IIRC Facebook says they're dropping that because they never get 30% participation in the votes anyway.

Changes from the old SRR to the proposed new SRR:

< You will not use your personal timeline for your own commercial gain (such as selling your status update to an advertiser).
> You will not use your personal timeline primarily for your own commercial gain, and will use a Facebook Page for such purposes.

< If you create or administer a Page on Facebook, you agree to our Pages Terms.
> If you create or administer a Page on Facebook, or run a promotion or an offer from your Page, you agree to our Pages Terms.

< We can change this Statement if we provide you notice (by posting the change on the Facebook Site Governance Page) and an opportunity to comment. To get notice of any future changes to this Statement, visit our Facebook Site Governance Page and "like" the Page.
< For changes to sections 7, 8, 9, and 11 (sections relating to payments, application developers, website operators, and advertisers), we will give you a minimum of three days notice. For all other changes we will give you a minimum of seven days notice. Comments to proposed changes will be made on the Facebook Site Governance Page.
< If more than 7,000 users post a substantive comment on a particular proposed change, we will also give you the opportunity to participate in a vote in which you will be provided alternatives. The vote shall be binding on us if more than 30% of all active registered users as of the date of the notice vote.
< We can make changes for legal or administrative reasons, or to correct an inaccurate statement, upon notice without opportunity to comment.
> Unless we make a change for legal or administrative reasons, or to correct an inaccurate statement, we will provide you with seven (7) days notice (for example, by posting the change on the Facebook Site Governance Page) and an opportunity to comment on changes to this Statement. You can also visit our Facebook Site Governance Page and "like" the Page to get updates about changes to this Statement.

( Changes to the Data Use Policy... )

According to my coworkers at Google Cambridge,

Bugs (reproducible, of course - it's a bunny!)

longjmp

Grace Hopper

Note: Includes actual names currently in use on living pet bunnies.

What would you name a pet bunny in your profession?

I was not expecting to see Jason Webley perform a song on stage tonight.

Last time I saw him was a year and a week ago, the day after his 11/11/11 tour finale, but he did not perform that day. He'd started his indefinite hiatus after the 11/11/11 show the evening before. That previous night, I stood at a railing at night on the Seattle waterfront and watched him send his clothes (including hat!) up in a ballon, then swim off to a waiting sailboat. Wondering how long it would be 'til I'd see him perform again.

This evening, I went to a book launch event and reading by Anthony Martignetti, co-hosted by Amanda Palmer and Neil Gaiman - the two people I was standing at that railing with a year ago. Just before intermission, Jason Webley appeared and did a duet of Icarus with Amanda.

Once again I don't know how long it'll be 'til I see him perform again, but this was an excellent surprise.

Last weekend

dreams_of_wings took me to Whistler in the Dark's Ted Hughes' Tales from Ovid because she was in a panel of scholars following the performance that day. What I saw was an integration of spoken word, dance, and aerial silks, characters acting roles as they narrated their actions with the poems, gods portrayed by multiple actors simultaneously, like concrete poetry with space and motion in place of arrangement on a page... and a crescendo of storytelling, carefully paced.

Only one performance remains not sold out. Sunday, November 18th, 2pm, at the Emerson Paramount Black Box Theater near Downtown Crossing / Boylston / Chinatown. Get tickets here.

1980: George HW Bush runs in Republican primaries, doesn't win, becomes Vice Presidential nominee
1984: George HW Bush is again the VP nominee
1988: George HW Bush wins Republican nomination, and presidency
1992: Bill Clinton vs. George HW Bush
1996: Bill Clinton re-elected president
2000: George W Bush wins Republican nomination, and presidency
2004: George W Bush re-elected president
2008: Hillary Clinton runs in Democratic primaries
2012: No Clintons ran. No Bushes ran. Is this even allowed anymore???

Seriously, this hasn't happened since the 70s.

How many of you were alive the last time the US had a presidential campaign with no Clintons or Bushes on the ballot?

Today: Canvassing for Elizabeth Warren in the afternoon, contra dance in Cambridge in the evening.

Tomorrow: Canvassing for Elizabeth Warren in the afternoon, contra dance in Cambridge in the evening.

Unfortunately Monday won't repeat the pattern.

[Also posted to Blue Mass Group. I originally sent a version of this as a letter to the editor to a newspaper in early September. Please share/repost/link this!]

Scott Brown, I heard your ad thanking small business leaders for working hard and creating opportunity.

Years ago I co-founded a small business with some friends. We connected Boston area companies to the Internet, secured their networks, set up email systems and databases, and helped them put up web sites.

We worked hard. In the first few years I took almost no vacation and worked 60 hours a week. Before we merged with another company, we'd grown to employ nearly 30 people. I guess we're among the people you meant to thank.

We often used public transportation to get to our customers - many of which were companies founded by people who'd graduated from excellent nearby universities, with the help of federal financial aid. Government regulators ensured we and our customers had safe water piped to our offices and homes, while government employees - police and firefighters and courthouse staff and others - protected our neighborhoods from crime and fire and disease and gave us confidence that our contracts would be honored and we'd have recourse if bills were not paid.

We were able to focus on what we could do best because all around us, public services and public employees took care of so many other things we needed, and did it so well that we hardly ever had to worry or even think about most of those things. And if it hadn't been for the government managing and funding the creation of the Internet years earlier, there would have been no need for our business in the first place. Public investment fertilizes and waters the gardens where new business can best flourish.

Senator Brown, you are committed to tearing down everything that creates an environment to nurture small business success. I don't want your thanks; I want a Senator who won't undermine opportunities for other people to work hard and succeed like we did.

Friday night Alice and I went wandering in the park by the state capitol in Hartford. We saw the huge oak tree, heard some seasonally scary squirrel sounds, and the sound of a block party playing hits from Thriller to Gangnam Style wafting over the downtown area. Eventually we walked up to a pond, and in the middle of the pond we saw...

- An abstract metal sculpture that from one angle looked like it was supposed to look like a swan without actually looking like a swan, and from another angle looked a bit like a gingko leave.

- A circular fountain.

- A small brass pedestal with a small brass heron-like bird statue, in the middle of the pond a little past the fountain.

It looked realistic enough that I looked twice, then said to Alice, "that's not a real bird right?" to which she responded "of course not" or something like that, which was the response I expected. Then it moved its neck.

My compact camera at first seemed not up to the task of getting a good photo of it in the night, but I experimented with some features of this camera I hadn't tried before, and managed to get some good 8-second exposures. No tripod, but timer delay late me rest it strategically on the stones on the edge of the lake, which worked just as well. Fortunately the heron posed very patiently, shifting position only every minute or so.

( Click for Hartford heron photos )

Valerie Thompson, my awesome cello-playing housemate, is completing a graduate program in Contemporary Improvisation at New England Conservatory this spring, and just scheduled her recital for Friday evening, May 3rd. I'm sure I'll post about it again closer to that date, but put it on your calendar now, and plan to come!

Valerie's Goli bandmate Vessela is also completing the same program this spring, so she'll have a recital around that time of year as well, though I don't know when yet. In addition to her own band Goli, where Valerie sings lead and writes most of the songs, she also plays cello in the Laura Cortese Acoustic Project, Long Time Courting, Molly Zenobia's band, and several other ensembles and groups.

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