It’s another Geomagnetic.tv party, this time at the Gingerbread House — which is open for business again, apparently having gotten its permits in order. San Francisco’s “War on Fun” has even gotten coverage in Reason magazine; as Lois Beckett asks in SF Weekly, is it enforcement or harrassment? Hopefully it’ll all be copacetic tonight …
The Computers, Freedom, and Privacy conference is less than two months away … soooo much to do. The potential is there for it to be amazing and transformative: a great program, the right location, and perfect timing. It’s ridiculously stressful; oh well, I knew this going in. We’re in the home stretch now.
At the same time, Qworky’s moving forward — and on the diversity-in-technology front, it seems like maybe there’s a change in the air. Looking at what we’ve accomplished so far, I think it’s a clear proof point of the value of prioritizing diversity. We’ve identified underserved audiences like virtual assistants and fast-track professional women; made major steps towards building something that doesn’t fall into the same cookie-cutter (white-male-optimized) styles as everybody else; and gotten a huge amount of help from our remarkably-diverse community and advisors. Yay us!
Right now I’m so overloaded with short-term stuff that it’s hard to turn off my brain. With luck, the vibe and the music and the crowd tonight will be the antidote I need.
In case I haven’t mentioned it recently: I heart psytrance.
jon | 25-Apr-10 at 11:50 am | Permalink
Great party! The crowd wasn’t huge, and a lot of people where hanging out in the dubstep room, so the density on the pystrance floor was perfect. I basically danced for four hours straight. Whee!
A couple of weeks ago, I was talking with somebody about what gives me the most pleasure, and psytrance parties were right up at the top of my list. I was thinking about the conversation as I left the party, the moon hanging low in the sky at 4 a.m., large and almost full. Words are too limited to describe the sense of freedom and transcendence as time blurs in an immersive otherworldly environment, combined with the intense physicality of the sound, the vibe of people being in sync, and the Shiva/Shakti mix of masculine and feminine energies. Sometimes you just have to be there.