Updates and links
May. 6th, 2013 10:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
First some me-related updates:
And then some links that amused me:
- I got to help staff a table at roborave on Saturday. fun! I was too busy to take pictures, so don't ask.
- GSoC ranking continues apace. It's actually less busy for me than it was, since I don't need to interact with the students as much until selection is finished, so I've gone from over a hundred people potentially wanting to talk to me to something closer to 20-30. (project admins + mentors with melange trouble). I expect there'll be some wrangling to make sure the Systers and Mailman don't have any overlapping project ideas, but that can wait a few days.
- To save people from asking me: I'm not expecting to hear about the Portland job for another couple of weeks. This is actually pretty convenient for me since it means I can focus on GSoC during the selection period; horray for good timing!
And then some links that amused me:
- Check out this awesome quote from the guy who introduced Sriracha sauce to the west.. Just scroll down; it's been helpfully put into the picture of Mr. David Tran. But the article itself is pretty interesting too.
- You may have seen the link going around claiming that the Miss Korea contestants all look like clones. I chalked it up to some sort of racist "all Korean people look the same" nonsense, but this analysis of why they all look the same is pretty interesting. Short answer: makeup and photoshop by pageant folk. (Although I bet there's some racism involved in the spread of the link too.)
- "Ship just got real." This is the most compelling smooth-jazz voiceover in a trailer for a turn-based boat game that you're going to see today. At least until you watch the second one, which has even more boat puns. J tells me that the game is actually pretty fun even though he only bought it because the trailer was hilarious.
- Ever wanted to know if your interface is being messed with by a monkey? Android has you covered with
isUserAMonkey()
. - Also, there exists a set of
log.wtf
functions in Android. Handy!