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Re: A modest proposal

anna — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 20:38:22 -0000

Hey Joyce- got the link to this article from tharpo. I wanted to tell you that I'm also constantly wondering why women aren't in open source, and wrote about it here: http://www.banane.com/2006/09/08/tech-post-3-wo..., and I'm in SF WoW, and we're constantly talking about it too. In fact, Sarah Allen offered a free dinner anywhere if a woman on the list contributed to open source! I'll read your article and write back with comments, just wanted to drop this note quick.

thanks- anna

Re: A modest proposal

anna — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 20:48:09 -0000

Comma screwed up the link. One more try:

http://www.banane.com/2006/09/08/tech-post-3-wo...

Notes on your article-

I definitely had a lot of time playing with computers when I was growing up, which I credit to my mom, who always had to have the latest & greatest. In interviews, my random geeky projects usually shone more than my professional experience. "Installing linux from the network on my laptop" and "making an internet webisodic" , etc. The way to institutionalize this? I'm not sure. I'd support your starting point, though. When I was growing up in Silicon Valley, I went to tons of computer classes. They were everywhere, and cheap. I just found fellow nerdie girls to join me. Is that prevalent now? Not sure. Our gorup- www.sfwow.org- had an ajax workshop recently, and there we decided to host a women-friendly superhappydevhouse. Someone had gone to one recently and let's just say... we had some improvement ideas :) better food, in the city, etc. But I like the effort, and it all sounds good- not to diss on shdh or anything. One thing I wanted to point out is that women, at least, really like to learn from other women but also need to learn from men too. Many of my geekie male friends are supportive, and I also just ignore their bluster and arrogance about technology. I don't think they'll change, and in the interim I'll learn the skills for projects that I want to do- movies, poetry databases, stuff like that. I think that's my argument in general- women are more practical, and interested in social fabric stuff, so if technology relates to that, they will learn it. Making a baptism gown? Sure, a wordpress plug-in exists for that, made by a very smart open source woman contributor. Take a count of all the knitting blogs.

Re: (steve isaacs) - My FriendFeed "Interesting" Stats

anna — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 13:10:31 -0000

I find you interesting! LOL - I love how things like this point out the obvious.

Re: iMurder 7: Suspect: poobar

anna — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 16:55:26 -0000

Share your illustrious knowledge, psb

Re: iMurder 9: GiggleLoop, Inc.

anna — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 17:43:08 -0000

Oh, it's from Coupling, wish I could claim it as my own. In the next chapter there are going to be some Coupling jokes (the BBC Coupling)

Re: Top 6 Schwag in my Apt

anna — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 00:31:23 -0000

Yeah, unless the definition is just "free stuff" from companies- vs. "free marketing stuff from companies/" Forgot to include some very nice wooden hangers, also stolen from a dying dot-com.

Re: jock post: basketball

anna — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 15:32:55 -0000

aw, thanks Rocco!

Re: Ginseng Oolong

anna — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 13:16:30 -0000

Oh that sounds good! This one is very... authentic, if that means anything. I have been going to the Imperial Tea Room on Powell- so this is kind of a scrappy one, next to the milk tea place.

Re: iMurder 21: She’s Got Legs

anna — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 15:03:48 -0000

Yay! Thanks!

Re: iMurder 21: She’s Got Legs

anna — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 17:18:41 -0000

Oh merci! Je vais demander une amie si elle veut faire ca.

Re: Post-MacWorld Write-Up

anna — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 15:49:15 -0000

The dark side, you are such a geek. Yeah I saw some sweet laptop bags too. I took a photo to submit to Popgadget for Women - but for some reason (too much partying) haven't gotten around to it! You're right re: macworld deals, not that hot.

Re: New Year Resolutions

anna — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 03:26:03 -0000

I know I hate subway- but but but- hungry and it was closeby adn I didn't have my s**t together enough to bring my lunch... and the place I usually go was mad crowded... got to work too early... so many excuses. It's a rare non-indulgence, I swear!

Re: Dot Com For Locals

anna — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 02:41:12 -0000

Rocco- Yeah, the whole slightly more footage and a postage stamp backyard: ugh!

Nancy- my rent in PDX: 100$, no heating, an alcove but about 20 feet across. Note: was SE, but near a good wine/cheese shop and few blocks from campus! Washer drier! many common rooms...

Re: My Apt. vs. the Ritz

anna — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 18:11:00 -0000

Oh that's good to know- I feel like I've been in every downtown hotel in Seattle, but none here, except to visit friends in theres- the Argent used to be the ANA and it was cold and kind of impersonal. Good note re: the Hilton. I was trying to get my aunt to stay at a hotel downtown just so I could see the inside... it's the one on Powell near the cable car, up a bit from union square. Where Hotel was filmed, and where the door guys are dressed like silly early English people.

Re: My Apt. vs. the Ritz

anna — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 01:23:10 -0000

Nancy- that's the "monthly changing menu- 24hrs"- I consider mold, curdling, anything that changes the chemical composition an "ever-changing menu"

Re: Selling Shit and Postage

anna — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 15:40:07 -0000

No that's great! I looked and there's a 3¢'er, so I could get a roll of these: 3¢ stamps.

Re: My Apt. vs. the Ritz

anna — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 02:49:39 -0000

The nuances of bartendr-dom are lost on me, obviously. I usually just glug the bailey's from the bottle.

Currently my refrigerator has beef & tofu Chinese takeout going through its own little metamorphoses.

Re: Tech post #10: SHDH

anna — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 16:49:36 -0000

OK, how many people do you think were there? 100? I counted these women:
interviewer woman
2 women in the room right at the door
1 woman in the other room (kitchen room)
2 (us)

5, out of 100! so 1 in 20, you're right, I'm off :)

I out girly-girl you because I was the one who brought pink cookies!

Re: Tech post #10: SHDH

anna — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 16:50:11 -0000

Oh, Tom's mom, and Tom's neighbor friend who was helping Tom's mom, so 7 women out of 100.

Re: Tech post #10: SHDH

anna — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 02:33:23 -0000

I had a great time- I'm not sure why- I was trying to explain it to a friend at work and couldn't get past the "programming party" part. So I guess it's not for everyone. I wasn't that outgoing- and despite some of my friend's experiences- I actually got quite a bit done on my project!

Re: Mail (No, Not Male) Obsession

anna — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 19:01:15 -0000

This will bore everyone to tears, but whatever. Media rate for a pound of books- anything with a hardcover, basically, and some long tomes like Infinite Jest, is $2.07. The unabomber incident made it so that anything over a pound can't go in a mailbox. I tried it 3X and the third time got a nice little red sticker and a return. So I go to the post office- they say, you don't have to wait in line, just walk up here- if it's proper postage and over a pound, that is. Not sure htey let you skip the line for real questions. There's a shallow part of the counter (at north beach at least) and you put your over-pound-media-rate package there, get eye contact, and she/he will nod at you, and off you go.

Those arch. books- if you list on amazon make hte sender pay postage as it will probably be steep. Check the values there too.

Re: Ideas to Creation

anna — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 01:25:30 -0000

Oh man, the blue fescue is a lifesaver. We couldn't get enough of it- Dad did a nice landscaping of grasses on this strip of land near the street. Unfortunately he had to rip out the pombo grass (?)- it was very hard to get out, requiring me, my dad and brother-in-law to take turns at ice-picking and hacking it to bits. Because it's so destructive the city won't let you grow it- but other grasses look great there, the pussywillow kind and that fescue.

Re: South Bay Low Profile: Coffee Society

anna — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 20:00:40 -0000

LOL - is this related to the mirrors on shoes post I made- are you cross-punning, you pun-k

Re: Volunteering, Women in Tech, and CANWOW

anna — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 16:06:37 -0000

Thanks sugar!

Re: Mistletoe & Earthquakes

anna — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 03:54:08 -0000

She read it today and didn't say anything! To give her credit, at the time she was laughing really hard. So, the haikus to the right are automatically selected because they are the highest red, or about a movie that has the most recent screen date. It's all very complex and programmatic and I geek on it regularly. You too can submit a haiku, BTW. It just has to be about a movie. Zarathustra didn't get it, but I wasn't a Nazi about it.

Re: workblogs

anna — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 17:03:54 -0000

Thanks for the reference, Nancy- I'll definitely check it out!

Re: Learning to Swim

anna — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 02:41:19 -0000

Thanks sugar- I love your post today too. It was really touching.

Re: Learning to Swim

anna — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 17:23:52 -0000

Did I mention marco polo???

Re: Fisherman’s Wharf Treasure Hunt

anna — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 13:41:21 -0000

That's the challenge! There are two. :)

Re: Cash Free Weekend

anna — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 02:39:17 -0000

It's happened once- my rubber wallet was pickpocketed on the F Market, on the way to Zeitgeist, in 2005. I was almost pickpocketed in Beijing but thwarted it effectively by doing a basketball move. A dodge and sideways jump into traffic (3 tiny guys had triangulated me)

I actually think it's a good exercise to try to go cash free occasionally- to realize how much money we really need to get by day to day, on incidentals.

Re: Cash Free Weekend

anna — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 14:22:10 -0000

Oh yeah- I've been meaning to read that. They're local, right? Like Palo Alto or something?

Re: Cash Free Weekend

anna — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:55:50 -0000

I was gonna blog about it- b/c there's really nada on the web about how to cut hair. Seriously- I've looked. I love doing it by myself. Though my neighbor was joking that she wanted to "put her stamp" on my haircut as well and kept threatening me with her dog shears (!!!). I do a very mathematical approach learned from many, many "salon games" that me andmy sisters would play.

1) separate head into quadrants, use clips to pin up
2) cut bottom back hair. This is the hard part.
3) lower each symmetrical quadrant and even
4) I like to thin/layer as I go
5) do the top hair/bangs
6) Check for even-ness

Granted, I'm really not the most critical customer in the Salon de Bains (bathroom).

Re: Killerizr: Back In the Game

anna — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 17:19:54 -0000

I like 901 Columbus better- there used to be a Truly Med on Columbus too but it closed. Yep it's a real place, and George is totally real too. Say hi if you go!

Re: Ghetto Block

anna — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 22:19:08 -0000

Rocco it's funny - even though this is the less picturesque photo of the set, I love it the most. Like the guy waiting for a bus, the landmark clock, a random city sign. I love the city too :)

Re: Sailing to Berkeley

anna — Wed, 30 May 2007 01:52:41 -0000

What was great was coming into a harbor I kinda knew, but from a totally different perspective- and you knew someone already there!

Yeah the coiled rope one worked out strangely. Had no idea when I took it that I'd like it when i downloaded it- isn't that weird?

Re: In… Seattle

anna — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 17:31:40 -0000

WOW!!! You are so cool! I've asked dozens of folks and nobody found that.

Did some desultory investigation last night on the unfounded rumor that john denver was a wifebeater, and found some. But can I back it up here on this public forum? No, because I'm inundated with work - that's vacations for ya - fun while you're on them but hellish once back.

Re: iMurder Spoofed

anna — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 21:44:21 -0000

iMurder has completed, but Killerizr is the sequel and still going. I'll wrap that puppy up soon, I promise!

Re: Protected: Book Club

anna — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 18:16:47 -0000

Let's discuss @ the next one, how's that? I think we're OK going into 2008 but didn't think about it much after that. MOm did this list not me so I'm not guilty of any errors :)

Re: Best Small Team

anna — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 15:42:16 -0000

Yes!

Re: Endings & Beginnings

anna — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 22:39:51 -0000

Yeah. Talking to friend last night who said he was going to film in North Carolina- cheaper all the way around from SF. I have all of these ideas for cool locations- for Jiu Jin Shan. iMurder or Killerizr would be far easier to film here, tho.

Re: Best Holiday Evah.

anna — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 18:19:51 -0000

deal!

Re: True Crime: Death by Homonym

anna — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 18:31:26 -0000

God I am so bad with names!

Re: Tech Post #13: Notes on the New Purchase of an iPhone

anna — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 20:25:42 -0000

Yeah the MacBook was a big conversion for me too, then the Nano, now this. We're sucked into the Cupertino abyss!

Re: Tech Post #14: My First iPhone Hack

anna — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 17:52:26 -0000

There's a silencer switch on the side. I actually RTFM!

Re: Tech Post #13: Notes on the New Purchase of an iPhone

anna — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 17:54:30 -0000

Oof, I saw a guy at Ruby's drop his iPhone and the battery flipped out. A little part of me cried inside.

Re: Blogs vs. Novels

anna — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 17:27:25 -0000

I can't wait until the parties.

Re: recent reads, October

anna — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 17:12:51 -0000

To anybody who is reading this- the anonymous post above is Partha. I don't allow anonymous posts, but I know it's him so I'll let this slide.

Re: recent reads, October

anna — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 17:13:47 -0000

You think Spinoza didn't believe in God? I think he did- in the sense that Nature is God- which he states quite clearly in Ethics.

Re: Beer & Chocolate

anna — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 20:35:20 -0000

Thanks Bradley!

Re: Day 6: Focus

anna — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 16:09:53 -0000

CTM (as they write it on the scratchpad at Pakwan) has crack in it, I've decided. It is seriously addictive. We'll probably find out it's just condensed milk and ketchup.

Re: Do Women Buy iPhones?

anna — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 17:44:19 -0000

Oh yeah, I saw that after I posted this - glad it's on. Now, we need more... have you seen the SNL skit making fun of iPhone ads, very precious.

Re: WordPress Exploits and Patches

anna — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 00:04:25 -0000

Oh- thanks Matt! It's not in the footer, but at the end of a post, the individual post content, which users can't see, you can only see if you "view code" in the interface. I will change the db password, seems like the best idea.

Re: Business Idea

anna — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 03:57:52 -0000

Alyvia- yeah it's tough, funny thing for me was inverting the question, from where to what. Like, literally, what activities do I want to do all day. Me? I love the post office and packaging things. Favorite bit of being an author was making those packets and sending them off. Envelopes, printing, "office work"- it's all good.

Re: Things I Love About SF

anna — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:57:25 -0000

testing

Re: http://laughingsquid.com/bacardi-rips-off-the-cacophony-society/

anna — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 17:16:51 -0000

Oh this story reeks of so many things I hate: New York provincialism "this could only be shot here", advertising people trying to do something that someone else has done with more hilarity and panache, and artists stealing other art. Ugh! Go Cacaphony. I'm so proud I live here! They are hilarious during the race- and to the person who has never heard of them before, you've been missing out!

Re: FriendFeed Followers - Lurking or Particpating?

anna — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 15:18:03 -0000

I think this is a truly valuable enumeration/quantification of the online participation process! Thanks- I'll definitely refer to this in the future.

Re: Losing a Facebook/Orkut/Linkedin friend

anna — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 21:36:51 -0000

I think it's tough to say why you are defriending- I just defriended someone on FB because I acknowledged to myself that I didn't enjoy her company at dinner, rarely talked to her, so why be up on every little status change? Or when you're breaking up with someone, do they really need to know why you defriended them? It's kind of obvious. I think the more people use social networks the more they realize that it's easier to not add acquaintances in the first place. Question for you- while Andrez wasn't notified of being dropped, did he see you in his friendlist? In other words, is the functionality bidirectional or just unidirectional?

Re: Social Media Workshop at SFWoW

anna — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 14:54:07 -0000

I'm so excited! We're gonna have a great time. I posted a sfwow gushfest on mine too (http://www.banane.com/workblog)

Annas last blog post..My Talk & SF WoW

Re: Plastic Bottled Water in the Workplace and at Home

anna — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:04:33 -0000

I forwarded your blog to my sister Sally, who is greening the San Jose school district- a lot of institutional measures mimic the stuff you're doing with thinkspace, it sounds like. Great blog! So glad you got in contact, I'm enjoying these posts, too.

Re: Blogging for your Business

anna — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:05:24 -0000

I think it's truly vital for consultants to blog- and I think businesses could quickly create community involvement from blogging too. I look forward to checking out the recommended reading, too!

Re: Running on Wordpress 2.6

anna — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:38:22 -0000

Hey congrats, off on your own now!

Re: Team thinkspace plays in Redmond Chamber Golf Tournament

anna — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 16:39:07 -0000

Ah wish I could golf with you guys- that'd be fun.

Hey, Peter, here's a newsclip I thought might interest you- the affordability of organic cotton bags:

http://ecopreneurist.com/2008/09/20/organic-cot...

Re: The Blog Bling Mixer

anna — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 16:11:37 -0000

Hearing about these unconferences where you determine the speaker/schedule at the moment, really inspires me. It's just great sharing and co-teaching.