Saturday 2019_01_19 (update)
So I did go out to try to sample São Paulo night life.
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Spachyderms in São Paulo
Sore bottom in São Paulo
My bahookie is getting bored with sitting on hard wooden chairs in my hotel’s bar/restaurant, despite wearing padded cycling shorts. Yellow bikes don’t help either. Continue reading
So what has Bruce been up to recently?
Part of an occasional series of posts to try to show that I don’t lie around all day! This post covers the time since we got back from honeymoon in early September.
At Napier
- Working with my colleague Wegene Demeke on the initiation of a project to investigate some aspects of participatory budgeting (PB) in São Paulo [Wikipedia], Brazil. We’re particularly interested in whether and how PB benefits the very poor. This is going to be fun, not least because neither Wegene nor I speak Portuguese, but we have some excellent partners at the University of São Paulo.
- Working with the Prof on a funding bid for some networking events. That’s ‘networking’ in the sense of connecting humans, not ‘plumbing‘! The bid has been submitted but we won’t know whether we’ve been successful for a while, so watch this space!
- Taking part in a follow-up to research by the Scottish Community Development Centre (SCDC) on community councils.
- Marking courseworks for an undergraduate course.
- Drafting an idea for some public engagement/democracy work. Again, watch this space!
Elsewhere
What has Bruce been up to so far in 2018?
Now that almost all of my current projects are either finished or in other people’s hands, it’s a good point to try to review what I’ve done so far this year. Continue reading
Igor!
I’ve assembled my first ever Hackintosh, following a variant of this ‘recipe’. I’m rather pleased that it booted first time. Now I need to think of a name for it. (At the moment, it’s named after its case: Phenom.) Continue reading
Food for thought
I enjoy the weekly briefing from the Scottish Community Alliance – 6 interesting and challenging articles about how we can make our society work better, leavened with the occasional salutary tale, and always a lot of potential learning. This week’s briefing is no exception. Here’s some highlights:
- Andy Wightman talks about challenges for Our Democracy
- How to influence planning policy
- Ideas about zero-waste housing.
Enjoy!
Splitting the difference
Until now, I’ve had one Twitter handle for both my research and my personal tweets, namely @myceliumme_CC. This handle was also used to auto-tweet both from this blog and my personal blog. It’s now time to split these streams:
- If you’re interested in my research, please note that @myceliumme_CC is about to become @Bruce_research.
- If you’re interested in what I do away from work, please follow the brand-new @BruceRyan_rants.
There’s nothing to stop you following both!
Au revoir!
Well it’s time to leave Napier for 6 months to pursue other personal interests. I’ll be back in October to work on the IL-DEM project with Peter Cruickshank and Hazel Hall.
For now a huge thank-you to friends and colleagues in the School of Computing/IIDI, principally in the Centre for Social Informatics.
Personal life interrupts this blog
A brief interlude from my non-work life. I guess that we might encounter some local government manifestations on our travels.
Elly and I have been spinning at the wonderful LifesCycle for four years to help keep ourselves fit enough to enjoy exploring the world on bikes. We are going off on our adventures later this year, but we know we are incredibly lucky to have the time and the security to do that. LifesCycle has been a strong supporter of Mercy Corps and we would like to add a little bit to their support of people suffering around the world, particularly refugees. If you have two minutes, this video will give you a little bit of insight into the people Mercy Corps supports. Continue reading
