Okay, the inn where we’re staying is pretty posh.
Okay, the inn where we’re staying is pretty posh. Fun week. I had hoped to perform a massive cleanup of the mansion this week, but that just sort of fell by the wayside. Today the plan is to hop in a car at around 6pm and drive down to Emmaus, PA in preparation for a combined double-birthday-party / New Years Eve festival / Holiday . . . → Read More: New year Since capital_l is on vacation and can’t be troubled, here’s a translation for the climactic confrontation in order of the stick. . . . → Read More: OOTS Translation I have now purchased three albums based on the mix tape that sacredangle gave me over Christmas: Tabla Beat Science: “Tala Matrix”. The “tabla” is a traditional drum of northern India. This band combines traditional tabla rhythms with electronica and a smattering of other instruments to build long, complex, ballads. It’s my new workout music . . . → Read More: Tabla Beat Science Pictures from Christmas are up here. I also took the liberty of putting some video clips of Albert playing the Lute online. They’re bigger files, but I think they’re pretty cool. video 1, video 2, and video 3. Oh yeah, had some sweet dreams over the weekend. The best moment was when I was . . . → Read More: Pictures Back from the Christmas trip to my parent’s place in VA. We flew down on Friday, encountering long delays which added up to arrival at the airport around 1 in the morning. My mother had driven in to pick us up, and drove us back, getting to the farm house around 3am. Good times. The . . . → Read More: Christmas Once more, I find myself at the airport. Except that this time, is here with me, and we’re heading off to VA to hang with the fam. The trip is evolving into a decent explanation of negative numbers. See, we used to have a 2 hour layover at Dulles. Our flight to Dulles is nearly . . . → Read More: Travel God willing, yesterday concludes the final business trip of the year. My rough estimate is 78 days on travel this year. No wonder my suitcase has some wear-marks. The Acela train from Providence to New York is very nice. There is even a “quiet car,” where “library” levels of noise are enforced. Turn off the . . . → Read More: Beat. I’ve got a friend with a System Administration position available in Basel, Switzerland. He says it’s: In the future, the goal is to contract out as much as possible, allowing the person to focus on helping scientists. However, they will have to do about 50% windows (dealing with it), 40% UNIX (mostly RH), and . . . → Read More: Job posting |