Week 198

Last week was a slow one but I’m get­ting things in order for when Kars gets back. Round­ing up a bunch of stuff and clos­ing new con­sult­ing work that we will be work­ing on over the sum­mer.

I also dis­cussed my par­tic­i­pa­tion on a quan­ti­fied self track at MLOVE where I’ll be talk­ing about the ethics and pos­si­bil­i­ties of mea­sur­ing your­self. As far as I am con­cerned the quan­ti­fied self move­ment con­tains with­in it many of the same pos­si­bil­i­ties and also many of the same prob­lems that gam­i­fi­ca­tion strug­gles with.

I went to the local DIY­bio group at the Raum­fahrta­gen­tur to explore the pos­si­bil­i­ties of biotech­nol­o­gy and game design. The var­i­ous spaces in that part of Wed­ding are very nice even if only to relax at, but the group already has a fair­ly out­fit­ted lab­o­ra­to­ry which is con­tin­u­ous­ly being expand­ed:

(your dai­ly) Vic­to­ry Boo­gie Woo­gie is in its last week right now, so get those pieces in while you still can.