Dispatches from a happy Hullian

Oscar has a few words that are obviously from my dad (and always uttered in an Oscar version of my dad's delivery):

• “Heyyyy!!!”: This one came first, and is mostly when he's suffering from grandparent withdrawal.
• “Upp-à-là!”: when climbing or jumping.
• “Bingo!” (sometimes sounds like “mango!”)

He also definitely knows the word “grandpa!”. That all these words have exclamation points after them is not accidental.

gregorama

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.