Quiet time over the weekend, which I spent with Hugh Macleod of Gaping Void who is visiting at the moment. In fact he is downstairs on one computer, and I am up here in my office on another. I wonder if Hugh will see my post on RSS. Mrs Spaceship often jokes that the Smallest Space Cadet of them All and I will start communicating by e-mail soon, and that she will have to have a terminal in kitchen to find out what's happening in the family. Also met up with Sig, who suggests another career for me. Sig, I work for a German Software Company, and some of the things that happen there make Monty Python look banal and obvious, so you've got to laugh. Was great to meet him in the flesh, and just to shoot the breeze about all sorts of things. Smart guy.
I had a look at Thingamy, and I was impressed by it. I'll write more about it when I have time, but it's one of those "Scissor, Paper, Stone" type of things. Simple, but with a lot of implications. A thoughtful tool, and I suspect it could be used to make some very elegant solutions. It might even encourage a bit of out of the box thinking.
So, Hugh and I are in the same country but reading each others blogs. And why?
That's because of our inner introvert coming to the fore. Lovely article on the "The Atlantic" about introversion, I had always assumed until I read this that I was an extrovert, because I am sociable when provoked, and like people's company, and in general they like me. But I do sit for hours on end staring into space and just thinking, and this article allowed me to see why. I'm an introvert. Its like finding out that you are not good at writing because you've been using the wrong hand your whole life...
One of Mrs Spaceship's favourite jokes: (Being both a psychiatrist and half Norwegian)
"How do you know if you have met a Norwegian extrovert?"
"He stares at your shoes.)
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