Sunday evening, I crashed at around 6pm. By my math, I had been awake (minus a couple o fitful naps in the air) for about 40 hours. It was very rapid. redmed and I were out shopping for a futon, and I was participating usefully. Then I sat down on a futon, and she was asking “are you okay? Do you want to go home?” I went face down until 3am (9am Frankfurt time).
Monday I spent puttering around the house. Got RI plates for the jeep, paid the bills, and put tomatoes and peppers in the garden.
Yesterday was Bio-IT World Expo in Boston. I gave my talk, and participated in a roundtable on grid computing. Since my opinion is that the word “grid” has been so devalued by hype and marketing that it no longer has any value. Not that the technology itself sucks, mind you, just that we need to scrap the term. Sort of like “best practices.” Nobody is ever going to say “no! I don’t use best practices!” Therefore, we can skip it entirely.
Pleasant dinner with technolope simianpower and capital_l. Got my TGI Friday’s standard of the Southwest burger, with a veggie patty substituted in. It doesn’t suck.
Back to Boston today, as I got suckered into sitting on another roundtable (Grids in Pharma, hype or reality?). I hope they want someone on the “hype” side, otherwise this could get ugly.
At some point, I wouldn’t mind doing a little bit of programming. Maybe next week.
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