Sumana Harihareswara brainwane@identi.ca
Astoria, United States
Wife, FLOSS geek, feminist, manager of people & projects, programmer, fanvidder. Recurse Center alumna. She/her. Married to @leonardr.
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2015-12-29T20:31:55Z via Identi.ca Web To: Public CC: Followers
RT @wiredferret My BMI* and history of depression will cost me $40/mo in extra life insurance costs. Yet another little freelancer ouch.
*BMI rant here
Also, super that I get penalized for treating my mental health issues instead of ignoring them.
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2015-12-29T20:30:22Z via Identi.ca Web To: Public CC: Followers
Potlatch 2016 (March 19, in San Jose + online, free) chooses Constellation Games as its Book of Honor! Poster: http://www.potlatch-sf.org/posts/potlatch-25-poster/
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2015-12-28T22:21:25Z via Identi.ca Web To: Public CC: Followers
In case you missed my Zen Cho & Hamilton musings since October: http://www.harihareswara.net/sumana/2015/12/28/1
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2015-12-28T22:08:25Z via Identi.ca Web To: Public CC: Followers
New post, with video transcript: http://www.harihareswara.net/sumana/2015/12/28/0 What Software Freedom Conservancy Does, Why It's Important, & Why You Should Give
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2015-12-28T21:42:05Z via Identi.ca Web To: Public CC: Followers
What @conservancy does, and why I support them: https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2015/dec/22/sumana-2015/ Get your donation doubled: https://sfconservancy.org/news/2015/dec/24/private-internet-access-match/
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2015-12-22T16:11:48Z via Identi.ca Web To: Public CC: Followers
RT @ncoghlan_dev Important point to remember as an open source contributor: it's not your responsibility to help others work around broken corporate cultures
Yes, organisations woefully underinvest in sustaining engineering. Donating your time to mitigating their mistake perpetuates the problem :(
It's natural to ask peers to help us for free, rather than learning to make a compelling business case, but the latter is more sustainable.
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I need to digest what this means.
Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠) at 2015-12-26T18:22:10Z
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2015-12-22T15:45:12Z via Identi.ca Web To: Public CC: Followers
then at some point in my 20s I thought "there's always exactly a week between Christmas & New Year's!
ohhhhhhhh......"
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I've had the same revealing moment somewhere in my early 20s, late 10s at most *and my family have always celebrated it.*
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2015-12-22T15:44:21Z via Identi.ca Web To: Public CC: Followers
and I knew from TV, but hadn't grokked, really important distinctions between things you do on "Christmas Eve" & on "Christmas Day"
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2015-12-22T15:41:58Z via Identi.ca Web To: Public CC: Followers
In college I dated a guy whose family celebrated Christmas so I started learning important Christmas taboos, e.g., presents must be wrapped
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Many families do not wrap presents. :-)
Yeah, all of these insights are of course specific to a culture and subculture, possibly down to the family level.
I'm sure there must be people in the US who get visits by Santa on Christmas Eve around 4pm, feed him porridge and glögg, and then proceed to open those gifts, just like in e.g. Sweden.
But that just reinforces the idea that traditions are full of codes and rituals that you cannot fully get an insight into unless you have the chance to participate.
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2015-12-22T15:40:30Z via Identi.ca Web To: Public CC: Followers
and it seemed like most of the important dates moved around, right? Mother's & Father's Day, Passover, Easter, Thanksgiving, Election Day...
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For the record, this "chained" posts would be clearer as replies to your first post about the topic ;)
EDIT: Well, and actually, they could all be one longer post. We have no limits here :p
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2015-12-22T15:38:24Z via Identi.ca Web To: Public CC: Followers
my family didn't celebrate it, & "Christmas" stuff seemed to happen throughout late December and into early January, so I didn't notice...
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2015-12-22T15:37:09Z via Identi.ca Web To: Public CC: Followers
I revealed to several Christian relatives yesterday that until my twenties I did not realize Christmas is on the same date every year
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2015-12-22T00:38:23Z via Identi.ca Web To: Public CC: Followers
.@conservancy's the only org actively doing GPL compliance work. A great point by @mjg59 about how critical it is https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/38992.html
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2015-12-22T00:19:06Z via Identi.ca Web To: Public CC: Followers
#HamiltonMusical as in conversation with @beatonna & "Drunk History" http://www.tor.com/2015/12/21/the-uses-of-history-in-hamilton-an-american-musical/ #HamiltonBway #hamiltunes
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2015-12-21T19:59:20Z via Identi.ca Web To: Public CC: Followers
RT @elysdir .@brainwane on Hamilton, metatextual historical fiction, Hark! A Vagrant!, sf, adventure, fanfic, and more. http://www.tor.com/2015/12/21/the-uses-of-history-in-hamilton-an-american-musical/
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2015-12-21T19:58:16Z via Identi.ca Web To: Public CC: Followers
RT .@brainwane explains how HAMILTON: AN AMERICAN MUSICAL uses history the way science fiction does: http://www.tor.com/2015/12/21/the-uses-of-history-in-hamilton-an-american-musical/
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2015-12-21T01:25:06Z via Identi.ca Web To: Public CC: Followers
RT @ashedryden We’ve begun planning African, Australian, Asian, and European @alterconfs! Can you help us in any of these cities? http://www.alterconf.com/conferences#future
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2015-12-20T20:52:47Z via Identi.ca Web To: Public CC: Followers
my Hamilton fandom makes me want to go back in time & apologize to my college freshman yr roommate who played Rent on repeat
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2015-12-20T03:43:47Z via Identi.ca Web To: Public CC: Followers
btw I particularly recommend @Wolf359Radio Season 2 if you liked the super harrowing bits of Battlestar Galactica
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2015-12-20T03:41:16Z via Identi.ca Web To: Public CC: Followers
In @Wolf359Radio, Eiffel just does sarcasm, Cutter is cheery-ominous, Lovelace does blase-ruthless, & Hera literally turns up sarcasm meter