<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@gamingonlinux" class="u-url mention">@<span>gamingonlinux</span></a></span> Looking forward to this one. That aesthetic is sweet.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.cloud/@slampoud" class="u-url mention">@<span>slampoud</span></a></span> Ha! I seriously doubt that any kind of foundation like that would pay too much attention to me. However, I do consider the fact that I&#39;ve somehow managed to pay the bills by reverting back to my 8th grade existence of playing trombone in band and fucking around on the computer to be a small personal success.</p>

<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@dabeaz" class="u-url mention">@<span>dabeaz</span></a></span> you def do, you’re practically an institution on your own. I look at what you’ve put out into the public sphere, self-funded, and I’m so friggin impressed and grateful. If the python foundation or linux fiundation or something like that had permanent Fellow positions, you’d be a shoe-in. Just to keep doing what you already do.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.cloud/@slampoud" class="u-url mention">@<span>slampoud</span></a></span> I need a benefactor.</p>

<p>Remember when people were typing one word and then blindly accepting the next one from autosuggestion because it was a kind of fun and silly thing to do?</p><p>We now have a whole industry built around it.</p>

<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@dabeaz" class="u-url mention">@<span>dabeaz</span></a></span> spot on!</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.cloud/@slampoud" class="u-url mention">@<span>slampoud</span></a></span> That sounds like it would be pretty ideal. Currently funding situation sure makes the prospects of such a thing sound scary though.</p>

<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@dabeaz" class="u-url mention">@<span>dabeaz</span></a></span> I have an idea for a technical book I want to write, and I really really want to make the time.</p>

<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@dabeaz" class="u-url mention">@<span>dabeaz</span></a></span> I don’t want to teach, though. At least not yet. I was (the equivalent to, because the title doesn’t exist in the UC system) a research professor a bit over a decade ago, which is a postdoc blessed with grant co-PI rights, but no teaching reaponsibilities. That’s what I’m talking about.</p>