Tibet

From my favorite political cartoonist:

Incidentally, for a glimpse of what Americans sound like when they’re defending the Iraq war before the rest of the world, peer in at some of the online comments on the riots in Tibet by Chinese: the Tibetans are barbarians, they should be grateful to the Chinese for being . . . → Read More: Tibet

Obama

For the first time in my adult life, I think that I actually support a candidate.

Here’s a link to the full text.

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Party

I was at a really nice party with medyani, fanw, and friends on Saturday. It was almost nothing like this one:

If a crane falls in Manhattan, does it make a sound?

A 20 story tall construction crane fell in Manhattan today, killing four and destroying one building.

There was a bar located in that building.

The name of the bar? “Fubar.”

Tibet

I know that most of you folks follow the news, so you know that there is currently some bad stuff going on inside the increasingly Chinese province formerly known as Tibet. I may have a bit more news than some, through involvement in the Save Tibet movement:

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23 and me continues to be late.

Dear FDMTS,

We wanted to acknowledge that you’ve been waiting longer than anticipated to receive your data from 23andMe. Our sincerest apologies for the delay; the laboratory analysis process typically takes 4-6 weeks, but we are experiencing a backlog that is resulting in longer than predicted processing times – up to about 10 weeks. We . . . → Read More: 23 and me continues to be late.

Good day

Today was pretty good. We had an Apple engineer onsite, and everyone learned something.

We rebuilt a 30TB SAN to make it faster, and we rebuilt a 40TB SAN to make it more reliable. We made a plan for the 50 and 60TB installs, when we can get a maintenance window on them. I specced . . . → Read More: Good day

My day at work

All my travel plans worked out great. Saw sacredangle‘s junior guitar recital, which was stunningly awesome, and got to hang out with the whole extended fam as well. Conversations were happening in at least three languages at the after party. I felt privileged to be there.

Late in the evening, justkidding_nr shared some of her . . . → Read More: My day at work

Nerd girls

As usual, jwz says it best when he says almost nothing.

Wow.

Test

I passed. Got the certificate and everything. The only mishap was my own dumb fault, when I got kicked in the fingers. If I had, for example, been making a fist like they tell you on day one, I wouldn’t have four kinda-sorta-jammed fingers now. All things considered, a small price to pay.

Also lots . . . → Read More: Test