I shouldn't be surprised

Speaking of communities, there exists a community C such that C is in (lisp). And looky, there's also mathematics and algorithms. Geeky-cool... but I doubt I'll join any of them.

For some reason I've felt like this was a nice long weekend. Despite two social engagements I had time to do laundry, cook and study a chapter and a half worth of Lisp. We also finally made the decision to go to Belize this winter along with the bluechromis/jg26/hiddenbear crowd, which has been kind of hanging over our heads. And the condo association has decided on a contractor to redo the exterior of the house, though this is a mixed blessing (time to decide on a color scheme).

My head has been buzzing lately. Some (not all) of it is due to reading Naomi Klein's scary book No Logo. You all know I like Starbucks and I think I may come out of this book believing that branding is necessary if people are really to support manufacturers who pay workers a living wage... however, something about reading it in Starbucks sort of made me feel like an Asshole (TM). I wanted to ask the baristas what they were making and if they thought it was fair.

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A certain community I could mention has 10 members and 3 posts. Squee. A post just went out to community_promo... we'll see what effect that has. Perhaps nothing, but I'm open to pleasant surprises. :)

Crazy things happened at work today, both of them involving spooky people calling the company and knowing my name. The first one called Dan the Cat claiming that he was a party planner, HLM was planning a surprise party for me and asking for the names of coworkers who might like to be invited (and Dan the Cat actually tracked down my home number so he could talk to HLM and be 100% sure it was a fraud before telling me about it. He's a gentleman to the core... it's impressive.) The other one called a couple of people on a team I often work with, claiming to be from Colubrid HR and asking for the names of people sitting nearby. That person gave the name of an actual (but non-HR) Colubrid employee and claimed to have spoken with me -- which he hadn't.

Both were headhunters, of course, drawn to the acquisition like buzzards to a steaming pile of offal. My guess is that my personal website is just a little too Googlable regarding the names Colubrid and Politic Frog.