Edge of Vision

Originally uploaded by Neil H.
Here’s the Winamp (pre-3.0) costume I wore for Halloween. I used the T-Qualizer shirt from Thinkgeek as the basis of the costume, so that it would animate in response to ambient voices and music. It was really fun dancing at LindyGroove wearing the costume, and I had quite a few people go up to me to ask me about it. There’s also a photo of the costume lighting up in the dark.

I recently added the ‘Friend Wheel’ application to my Facebook profile, and I’m rather fascinated by the results:

I think there’s some issues with their ordering, but you can still clearly see three distinct groups with high within-group linkage. The three groups line up pretty nicely with people I know from high school (LMHS), people I know from my undergrad at Carnegie Mellon, and people I know from grad school at Caltech. There’s also some interesting between-group linkages — for example, I had no idea that my friend Andy from Caltech knew my friend Ashley from CMU.