Archive for August, 2009

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Overworked and underfucked

August 27, 2009

Thankfully I can’t even take credit for this expression that I picked up from Aram back in Talponia days, but that’s exactly how I feel at the moment so you’ll have to excuse the hollow sound of this blog at the moment.

Things I’m busy with include researching robots, helping with blogging for LIREC, learning about origami for some of what i’ll talk about at Interesting, managing 2 large projects at Tinker.it! convincing new people to work with us on Christmas stuff, planning on learning all about conductive threads for the V&A, throwing crunched up post-its at Peter who sits conveniently accross from me, convincing Ben to quit Goldsmiths and just work with us for the rest of his creative life, enjoying having Cefn around the office in between paragliding trips, thinking about home automation from the ground up and cheap internet-of-things and taking the occasional trip to Europe to see friends. Conferences coming up soon as well.

All of this will of course materialise in different forms. Or I might just have a nervous breakdown. Will have to schedule that in though :)

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Stupid women events

August 3, 2009

Received this in my inbox.

“As one of the most influential women in the Web 2.0 right now, it is my pleasure to invite you to participate to the Women’s Forum Global Meeting 2009″

What is wrong with this statement?

1. It sounds like spam. Influential according to who?

2. It’s impersonal, if anything I’ve co-founded a very non-web2.0 business.

3. Tickets are 2.5K

4. Any event named XX Forum will receive a polite “I’d rather be dead”

5. Any women-centric event is unrealistic in my field of work.

Someone please fix this.