I would greatly appreciate any comments on the text and ideas discussed in this site. I normally check the following addresses:
        skyebend@stanford.edu

And if I'm on the road, I check
        skyebend@yahoo.com

I graduated from Bennington College in June 2001, Worked at the Santa Fe Institute in New Mexico for another short bit, then at the University of Chicago on a project. Went back home to the Oregon coast to kick it for a couple of months, stay away from computers, and collect my thoughts. In the beginning of 2002 I went to S. America for a while, bummed most of the length of Chile, across Boliva, and saw some excitement in Argintina. Then a period of confused coast-to-coast bouncing, one month working in Budapest, a zip trip across Romania, Bulgaria to Turkey, and spent 8 months pounding keys for Dan McFarland doing sociology/network visualization stuff at Stanford. Also tried to avoid Palo Alto, enjoy SF. I eventually located the Brass Liberation Orchestra, and went to jail for the first time. When the stanford thing finished, I moved back to oregon to help friends build an organic farmstead.

I guess I'm in that "transitional" phase which follows when released from an (academic) institution.  I'm still doing research on social network visualization.  I'd like to keep studying cultural transmission, and start learning more small scale economic theory.   I'm hoping to find a place to study that seems a good fit.  I feel a need to do a lot of inquiry about contemporary culture and social systems, with an emphasis on how to facilitate favorable change.  I'm also devloping  kind of an obsession with balkan brass bands.

<--- Skye trying to look intellectual and intense ;-)