Remembrance of things past

mrissa posted a thought-provoking poll about memory and sense of self. I don't know mrissa well enough to post a long rambling comment to her poll when I just happened to find it by linksurfing, so I am bringing her questions here. And answering them in prose rather than with just numbers. Please do feel free to add your own answers or repost this.

( how old were you when? )

Well, that was more interesting to think about than the average meme! Any responses?

Shavuot

Last few days have been fun but hectic.

( festival doings )

I have a million things to do in the next three weeks to be ready to leave Sweden, but I seem to be spending most of my time relearning how to play go (jack is at a pleasingly similar level to me, generally competent at abstract board games but not very experienced at go), or writing patches for Dreamwidth. I am just at the stage of learning programming where I find it very satisfying, I keep discovering I can do things that a few days ago I had no clue how to start. jack's explanations of what's going on under the hood are very helpful with this (actually knowing what a class is is very useful for working with S2!)