Hello, Iron Blogger!

So I've finally joined Iron Blogger (for the home audience, a local "blog or buy beer" group), and figured I'd introduce myself. I'm zdamien on the IRC channel and Damien in real life, brought into the group by mad and cjb, whom I know from gale, and mad from Caltech as well where we were minimally overlapping undergrads. I'm a software engineer/cognitive scientist slacking on my inheritance, with current enthusiasms in economics, Krugmanite politics, sustainability, science fiction, filk music [sic], RPGs, and anime. Projects are trying to learn Spanish and Japanese better and exercise more. I run Ubuntu 10.04, have an N900, and have never owned Apple.

My 'blogging' is a Livejournal, mostly link dumps, book reviews, observations of my daily life and updates for my friends, intellectual musings, and travel logs. Emotional drama, insofar as I have any these days, mostly stays in direct private communication with friends, so have no fear.

Top blogs I follow are Paul Krugman, Do The Math, Rocketpunk Manifesto, and Bleeding Heart Libertarians. I spend far too much time on RPG.net; high level moderation makes it one of the most pleasant and interesting places on the internet to talk about stuff. Oddly I forward a lot of the first two, and much less of the rest especially the last.

Past posts of particular interest (long but doubling as a handy reference for me):

( Mercy cut )

Others might be found at http://www.livejournal.com/tools/memories.bml?user=mindstalk
And there's lots of other tags.