Back in the OC

[nibot]

I cleared off my desk and I feel better now. Lamp, laptop, notebook, pen. Good to go.

I am back from Baja now. It was a good trip. I will write about it later. Nowadays I feel guilty about writing, because so many people complain that it is too much to read.

The best part was riding in the back of a pickup truck, speeding down a dirt road in the the middle of nowhere, looking up at the snow-covered Sierra de Juarez, the purple sunset, and the desert storms racing through the valley.

It is possible to remove all of your Livejournal friends with a single unix command. I admit, though, that I used, instead, cut-and-paste, search-and-replace, and telnet.

I am going to Hanford on Sunday.

http://43things.com/people/view/tobin
http://del.icio.us/tobin

Comments

[nibot.livejournal.com]

in the words of someone on lj_research: "While I appreciate LJ making friends data readily accessible, my interviews indicate that an individual's friends list is not a very accurate reflection of their social network. Social and communal norms inhibit defriending practices and these LJ users use friends-locking and filtering to effectively defriend others without letting htem know it explicitly. This contributes to an overall sense of community in the group I'm studying. A lack of defriending also confounds examinations of networks evolution over time."