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I’m in the airport in Detroit. I’m becoming comfortable, because I plan to be here for a while. Flights to both DC and Boston have been cancelled. Somehow, the flight to Providence is still supposed to go. Ha. I say “ha ha.” The crowd noise changed perceptibly when they announced the cancellation. It went from . . . → Read More: Squeeeeeee put some pictures online from our trip to Martha’s Vinyard. Clicky clicky to see. The raw suck stopped at about 2pm yesterday when I obtained a car from the Enterprise rental place in the basement of the hotel. The conversation with my business partner went something like this: Me: I’m going to rent a . . . → Read More: Stuff Bitch gripe moan whine snivel whine moan. Thank you. I’m going to go give my talk now. This is the one I knew about before I got here. They sanitized my slides (“mind if I remove all references to the fact that your software works on other platforms?”). At 1:30, I’ve got another 15 minute . . . → Read More: Ahem I’ve finally just walked away from the demo booth. It’s screwed. Anyone within range of it when it detonates will be taken with. Ka-boom. The conversation at the time that I left was between Apple and the hotel “engineers” over the fact that we need two independent 20 amp circuits to power our booth. Not . . . → Read More: Kill Gah. Hello from the Renaissance center in Deeeeetroit. My demo is not working. I’m one full cluster build behind schedule, because my demo is not working. I’m having a hard time taking the fact that my demo does not work seriously, given that it does not need to work in order to (a) impress people . . . → Read More: Ownzed Why have a blog at all, except to post narcissistic and self indulgent thoughts? Things you enjoy, even when no one around you wants to go out and play. What lowers your stress/blood pressure/anxiety level? Make a list of 5, post it to your journal. 1. Playing with my plants, trimming the tops of the . . . → Read More: Me, me me… Back home for a day. Trip number one (last week) went well. I logged about 1400 miles on the car, and got in visits with , my family, Mo and baby Margaret, a friend from work, and amnesiadust. It felt like the kick-butt academic tour. CMU, Annandale, Princeton, Yale, then home. Further thoughts on high . . . → Read More: Zoom. Well, my brother Albert is now officially a graduate of Annandale High School. Congratulations to him. For the record, he’s off to Europe this summer, and then headed to Peabody conservatory in the Fall to enter a dual degree program in Guitar performance and recording engineering. So yeah, he’s doing okay. Hanging with the parents . . . → Read More: Congratulations Albert Went to the resident graduation for Jen’s program tonight. It made me think of the first such graduation I attended, where the brewmaster of the Mighty Hammer Brewery and I met and agreed that we would need to stick together to survive the process. Overall very pleasant. I like Brown better than UMN. The director . . . → Read More: Travel From today’s New York Times column by Thomas Friedman: “Geo-greens seek to combine into a single political movement environmentalists who want to reduce fossil fuels that cause climate change, evangelicals who want to protect God’s green earth and all his creations, and geo-strategists who want to reduce our dependence on crude oil because it fuels . . . → Read More: Terminology |
