Public and Private

In this brave new internet world (as of about 1995), I’ve been thinking of my personal information sharing generally as public and private.

Information Classification

Because of my work, classifying information comes as second nature. I have two separate and non-intersecting information streams. You are reading part of one of them.

100% of the talk about people on social [...]

Motorcycles

I haven’t publicly or completely told the story of my particular flavor of urban nomadism (the first definition). I’ll get around to it eventually, but motorcycles are a decent run-up for the later main event.

So yes. Motorcycles. I like them.

Remember that feeling you had when you first realized that no one was holding the back of [...]

Ian Gorrie Social Engineering HOWTO

Here are things I like. If you talk to me about these things, I’ll likely think you’re cool.

People I like or have liked:

Joe Rogan
Chris Rock
Patton Oswalt
Bruce Sterling
Walter Jon Williams
Richard Morgan

Things I like:

Technology
Japanese stuff
Movies
Motorcycles
The Outdoors
The Economist
Good games

Activities I enjoy:

Assorted geeking out
Fishing
Learning new things
Challenging people while trying not to be a challenging person
SCUBA

Things I used to like but [...]

What we do

It’s nice that geeks are cool now. Now there are a lot of people who say they’re hardcore. Here’s some of them:

These stereotypes are not who I’m going to be talking about, though I do have some guilty pleasures of a few of those portrayed above. I’m going to talk about me and my kind. The [...]

Bored on a plane: Gogo wireless on Virgin America

I was looking forward to trying out some in-flight wifi on my flight to E3 today. Sadly, I have personal reservations about paying $10 for an hour worth of internet.

Why pay for internet when you can poke at their infrastructure for free?

See. I knew you would see it my way.

I wasn’t really interested in doing anything [...]