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  • Outta Here

    And here is the geekish last post from my Ziggity Zam family blog:

    To use the Java meta-expression:
    @Deprecated This blog is officially deprecated in favor of http://joshhansen.net/. All of the posts and comments from this blog have been moved over to the new one. It’s been fun, family!

  • On The Road Again: Bidding Farewell to The Vato

    This is the momentous final post from my old ¡Oye, vato! blog. Shed a virtual tear for all the good times….

    Here we are, at the crossroads of history. For something like the three hundred twenty-third time in five years, my blog is moving, hopefully for good. The new address: http://joshhansen.net/

    Weird. There’s something strangely familiar about that domain name, but I can’t quite put my finger on it….

    You see, the recent economic downturn has hit the ¡Oye, vato! crew with unexpected severity. We’ve had to fire all the administrative staff, limit PR to Internet-only stuff, and cut the editorial department down to just one schmo with seniority. It’s a dark time here at the office.

    So, in order to economize and refocus the operation, we’re combining forces with the folks over at the highly exclusive Ziggity Zam site to produce a new blog of epic proportions: monstropolitan. But yeah, the address is just joshhansen.net, the boringness of which required us to compensate with an exciting and incomprehensible name that sounds like some new Godzilla-flavored ice cream. What do we have to lose except our dignity?

    Cutting through the pretenses, this new site allows me to combine my public blog (this one) with my family-only, private blog. Especially if they’re my buddies or kinsmen, people who register and log in at this new site will get special privileges like access to posts I don’t feel comfortable throwing out to the Internet in general 😉 But, for the most part, it’s all public so you probably don’t really have to bother.

    I have, however, started putting up some of my poetry, and most of that will only be available to logged-in friends and family. (Like reading my poetry is really some great motivation to sign up!) I also plan to put up pages about school, research, and professional stuff. In that sense, joshhansen.net will be a lot like Josh Hansen: the online edition.

    Hopefully I’ll see you—or, at the very least, you’ll see me—there.

    P.S. All of the content (posts and comments) from this blog has been transferred over to the new one.

  • Today in the Life of Josh

    • Awake a bit after noon, shocked to have slept so late. (Gotta set an alarm!)
    • Standard prepare-for-the-day stuff. (Pray, shower, read scriptures, eat breakfast (super late breakfast))
    • Walk to campus and give Nathaniel the tie that the Sister Sessions bought for us for Britten’s wedding
    • Work in the lab—debugging the regressions in the Language-ID system so I’m ready for my presentation on Thursday.
    • Walk home a bit after 7. Run in to Mary and chat with her on the way.
    • Eat a dinner of rice and veggies graciously provided by Mary, then go to Family Home Evening across the street at the intramural field.
    • Listen to Gabe’s lesson on dealing with doubts (using Nickel Creek’s “Doubting Thomas” song, which I liked)
    • Walk/run/sneak across town to Kiwanis park as we played “Fugitive”. (When I played that at home in high school we called it Mission Impossible.) On the way I ran into two friends from my last ward. Chatting with them resulted in my capture at the hands of Barney and his evil accomplices, but catching up with friends is more important!
    • Come home and write this post