This was in my mailbox today:
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But in the morning, I wake early. I intend to go to a seminar by an 8th degree Judo black belt. The guy was on the 1964 Japanese Olympic Judo team (the first year that judo was in the Olympics). He has since coached the US judo team twice. I hear that he has both . . . → Read More: Now I sleep Today I did brain surgery on a running compute cluster. I swapped out the head node (the scheduler, or the interactive machine depending on when you learned this stuff) for a new one. I did this with thousands of jobs sitting in the queue and some of them still running. I did this without dropping . . . → Read More: Geek-itude There is no excerpt because this is a protected post. There is no excerpt because this is a protected post. If you don’t know about NBC’s Olympics Coverage, you really should. It’s seriously a backstage pass. You can watch the competition halls live, while people warm up. You can scan forward and back through hours of raw competition footage. It’s about as close as I’ve ever imagined to hanging out with the olympic teams. Yeah, that’s the metadata partition on an 80TB San. A second drive failed while the RAID was rebuilding from the first failure. “Data was lost.” Even though I’ve already posted several times this weekend, I need to add one more: and I were pulling out of a parking lot near the Alewife T, and we heard a loud, steady horn. As we made our way up to the main road, we saw that it was coming from a three . . . → Read More: Adventures in medicine Not bad for a weekend: 7 quarts dill pickles 6 quarts beans 7 quarts cherry conserve 21 cubes (single serving) pesto 1 box layered basil and romano cheese 24 basil/water slurry cubes In unrelated news, after all the basil and romano … I smell *really* good right now. |
