Fast-forwarding through small talk
Posted on January 18th, 2008 by Sacha Chua
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- 2012: Emacs: Telling external processes about terminal capabilities, and watching over other people’s shoulders — Justin Giancola (@elucid) wanted to use full-ack.el to search through his project files using the Ack tool, but Ack refused [...]
- 2011: Of recipes and memories — Kevin Waite asks, “What format do you use to keep your recipes? Do you use Freemind or Org Mode?” [...]
- 2010: Weekly review: Week ending Jan 17, 2009 — Work [/] Prepare company profiles for upcoming Innovation Discovery engagements [X] Learn more about facilitation Relationships [X] Spend more time with family [...]
- 2010: What I want to talk about in 2010 — Following through on my resolution to give fewer talks, I’m thinking about what kinds of talks I do want to [...]
- 2009: Emacs basics: Changing the background color — One of the first things you’ll probably want to change about Emacs is the default face. This controls the foreground [...]
- 2009: lifecampto — (click for larger version) Event details at lifecampto.eventbrite.com
- 2008: Outlining Your Notes with Org — Large documents are almost impossible to write without outlines. There’s just too much to fit in your head. Outlines help [...]
- 2008: Glasses, glasses — "You’re ordering glasses from the Internet? You’re braver than I am!" was the almost-unanimous sentiment I heard when I told [...]
- 2007: Mirroring energy — One of the good things about this long-distance relationship with Simon is that I get to practice mirroring. I might be [...]
- 2007: An examined life… — … feels like it’s worth living. I write a lot. That’s because letting a day pass without finding *something* noteworthy about it [...]
- 2007: Grazing in the bookstore — I’m starting to feel a little strange in Powerbooks. Maybe it’s visual overload from of “SALE” signs everyone. Maybe it’s mental [...]
- 2007: Sometimes the universe gives you a sign… — … and sometimes it brings out the pompoms and cheers you along the way! Winston Damarillo thanked me earlier for referring someone [...]
- 2006: TODO lists in Emacs! — E-mail addresses removed. But it’s the real Stephen J. Turnbull… =) From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Subject: Re: TODO extension for source code [...]
- 2005: Reply from Leo Querubin — We are meeting with the committee to discuss these issues and will update you. E-Mail from Leo Querubin On Technorati: digitalpinay, issues, [...]
- 2005: Digital Pinay 2005: Sent mail to Leo Querubin, Special Projects Chair of PCS — Received from Leo Querubin: Hello Sascha, Your email was forwarded to me by Bombing of MediaG8way regarding your reaction to the Digital Pinay [...]
- 2005: Mail sent to Ateneo CS and CompSAt mailing lists — Updated copy at http://www.livejournal.com/users/sachachua/6605.html . Please leave comments there. Miguel Paraz just forwarded a _very_ interesting contest application to the CompSAt-EB mailing list, [...]
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This is a great observation. I’m a pretty severe introvert, so I find myself dreading coffee/social breaks at large conferences — unless I already know or have some background on some participants.
However, I also find it a little bit embarrassing to start the conversation as you have here. I think that’s because in earlier days — before the current prominence of blogging and social networking — browsing someone’s web presence felt a little like low-grade stalking. [See http://xkcd.com/300/ :) ]
Chris: I should make that sketch clearer. ;) I’m the person on the computer, oblivious to all things happening until someone says hi. =)
And yes, having some background on participants is a lot of fun. I attended a collaboration summit at IBM before – my first one! – and I printed tag clouds and pictures for all the confirmed attendees. MWAHAHA!
That was an awesome experiment. I should write about that… =)