I'm staying at the Hilton, arriving Thursday and leaving on Tuesday.
Hawkfeather, Davey Wolf and Mnty will be in my room for the con, but they're all leaving on Monday.
For Monday night it's just me and Accophox—hit me up if you need space that night.

There is a possibility I might be in the area earlier and/or later than the con for job hunting, but right now that's looking slim as I need all the time I have before FC to get CFT's stuff together and won't have the time to set anything up.

Anyway, who wants to meet up during the con? :)

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I finished the last of the requirements for my Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, and just need to file the paperwork so I can actually graduate at the end of Spring term. (I missed the deadline to graduate at the end of this term by a long time and was so focused on trying to stay up with classes that I also missed the deadline to graduate at the end of Winter term.)

Now? Job search time. This is going to be fun. Maybe.

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I need a roommate for FC

I need at least one more person for my room in the Hilton to make the cost doable for the two other people in the room. Room is comfortably full! Only floorspace remains, and I'd have to think on what to charge for that.

The cost would be $37.13/person/night with you sharing my bed or bringing something to set up on the floor.

Check-in is on Thursday the 12th, and check-out is on Tuesday the 17th. (You would not be obligated to pay for Monday night if you are leaving on Monday.)

I need a roommate (or couple) in Portland

My current roommate just got a job in Texas and is moving out around Christmas.

The room is huge. You could squeeze in four queen mattresses on the floor and still walk between them, although I'm not so sure you'd be able to open the door. There is a ceiling fan, central heating and cooling, and two closets attached to the room (one walk-in, one ordinary sliding-door).

The apartment is huge, totaling over 1200sqft (ish), and is right next to the 32nd and Hawthorne stop of the #14 (frequent service) bus line. You would be living less than 20 minutes to downtown (and a lot more) by public transit. (If you haven't used Mapnificent before, go play with it, even if you aren't looking to move.) Features of the apartment include a kitchen with gas range, oven, dishwasher and a built-in, off-street parking, private washer and dryer, and a fireplace I've never used.

Rent for the room is $650/month including Water, Sewer, Trash and Comcast. The only utilities to pay for (split per person) are Gas and Electric. With two people, utilities have averaged $77/month/person over the past year.

If you are interested, please let me know ASAP. I need someone to move in during January at the latest or I will have to downsize, and although this place isn't cheap, it's a good deal for what you get, especially given the location.

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My initial impression of Diaspora is that it has promise.

The biggest thing I don't like is that it uses the "push" model of G+ and others, where I pick who is in what aspect. I'd much rather there be some mechanism for people to add and remove themselves from my aspects, so that they are in control of what posts of mine they see.

It also needs photo galleries in addition to just putting up a photo as part of a post, and I'm also wondering what cross-pod functionality there is going to be. (Can I add someone to an aspect who is on another pod?)

I also have a use case in mind that might not be well-served by the default way things work: I would like to be able to set up a pod for attendees of a yearly event to share their photos, videos, and experiences from an event, as well as keep track of each-other during the year and discuss the planning of the event with staff. A centrally-managed aspect of "Event 2011 Attendees" might suffice, but I'm very interested in other ideas for how to turn it slightly more into a community forum.

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This is mostly a note to myself because I always forget how to do this. I use it to have my Polipo cache in a separate sparsebundle from my home, because a Polipo cache can grow to hundreds of thousands of tiny files and the disk space reclamation from sparsebundles is less than perfect.

1. Create a certificate using Keychain Access, export it as a .cer by dragging it to a folder.
2. Create the disk image: hdiutil create -verbose -size 30GB -encryption AES-256 -certificate ~/Desktop/Polipo.cer -type SPARSEBUNDLE -volname Polipo -fs HFS+ Polipo.sparsebundle

Aside: hdiutil's "-pubkey" option is a red herring. As far as I can tell it hasn't ever worked, except maybe for smart cards.

Supporting files for how I run Polipo:

~/Library/LaunchAgents/polipo.plist:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>Label</key>
<string>polipo</string>
<key>ProgramArguments</key>
<array>
<string>/Users/MYUSERNAME/.scripts/polipo-cache</string>
</array>
<key>RunAtLoad</key>
<true/>
</dict>
</plist>

~/.scripts/polipo-cache:

#!/bin/bash

hdiutil attach "/Library/Encrypted Caches/Polipo.sparsebundle" -mount required -mountpoint "/Library/Encrypted Caches/Polipo" -owners on -nobrowse && ulimit -n 1024 && exec ${HOME}/.command/polipo "$@"

I've been on Twitter for a long time under another name, but never openly as me. My presence there has been an experiment in creating and operating as an identity that spans both RL and furry interests, but is connected to neither of my (RL or furry) identities.

The experiment has been a success, in that I can draw a very strong conclusion: it sucks to be vague about both RL stuff and vague about furry stuff.

Thus, I've recently started a new account that's me, as a furry: @gsderp

I'm on the fence about whether to continue using my old account. I'm not deleting it—it's valuable history, given that it dates to when events I attended a few blocks from my house would make the global trending list, and it has valuable connections I probably couldn't rebuild. However, its purpose is unclear—all I'm using it for at the moment is a dumping ground for geeky links and topics that would bore or mean nothing to most of my furry friends. :/

I also have no idea what to do with this LiveJournal. I won't be deleting this, either. However, I'm despising SUP more than ever and am wondering if Dreamwidth is a reasonable thing to be looking at—I sometimes feel the need to write things that can't be expressed in 140 characters and need a friendly, enduring and ideally modern outlet. (FB and G+ need not apply.)

Photos by Koinu: Campfire Tails 2011

I posted pictures! (This is a sadly rare event. I've got literally thousands of photos from conventions that have never seen the light of day due to the fact that I just get overwhelmed with how many of them there are.)

This time, I had some help from grayscalewolf with pruning them down from over 700 to just 200.

Shameless crosspost from FA:

Do you like the outdoors?
Do you like hanging out with a bunch of really fun furries?
You should come to Campfire Tails 2011!

TLDR:
Outdoor furry "Festival" (bring a tent) near La Pine, Oregon.
August 4-8. (Registration closes July 1st.)
$45 to register, including food.

(You can attend for less, even for free if you get enough people to give you their "Help a Friend" credits.)

So much has been going on, and yet the only writing I've been doing has been over on Twitter, ephemeral and chatty.

I do very much love how Twitter works for that, conversation and coordination. In contrast, LJ seems to sort of require a much higher quantity of thought in order to make a worthwhile post, and as such it wound up being relegated to "that thing I read on my phone while falling asleep."

Still, I do want to get back into the habit of writing out long-form journal entries. They serve as useful reference points when trying to remember or reconstruct my past in a way that Twitter posts do not.