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gregorama to review my interests list and pick out the seven most interesting ones (to him). Here are the explanations-of-sorts:
gregorama to review my interests list and pick out the seven most interesting ones (to him). Here are the explanations-of-sorts:- boop
- … is something I picked up from denkizero, I guess mostly a greeting/handshake thing sort of like coucou, which I also find fun.
- fnord
- it's a marker of the conspiracy
- generative design
- I worked on a project dubbed Generative Design for several years in university — it was about shape grammars, symmetry and cataloguing traditional pattern. I think it's sort of dormant now, but it was good fun and was the backbone of my M.Sc. thesis.
- sibboleths
- A shibboleth is a code-word which is unpronounceable or unknown to the out-group: "sibboleth" is how the out-group pronounces it. I got the out-group note here (in the footnotes), and have been sort of piqued by political shibboleths, left and right, of late.
- useful trivia
- Better than useless trivia! I'm pretty full of the useless stuff, and sometimes it does turn out to be useful, or at least pertinent.
- whimsy
- I like running with the joke (and remaining smiling).
- verbosity
- I read a fair number of blogs, and some of my good friends are academics.
