Somewhere in the past few months, my gopher aspirations came under assault by offline life. But I'm still plotting my return to command line socializing. In addition, I've been thinking a lot about various projects -- a couple include creating a multi-user digital toolshed for comparative analysis of news media, letting me to play with some text analytic methods; and creating a forum/environment for crowdsourcing the prioritization of issues and stances that make up desired political platforms. I've fallen out of touch with the Zaibatsu as well, unfortunately, and need to make some dedicated time to burrow back in. solderpunk made some comments a while back that really interested me, about the future of the circumlunar space as a collaborative hackerspace. I am increasingly interested in studying and supporting the remaining non-commercial internet, places like the Zaibatsu, SDF, or tilde.team. I'm excited to see CS continue to develop.