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I took the tickets from my aborted attempt to go visit my brother on Thursday (all praise Southwest air) and flew down for Aaron’s funeral yesterday. My parents drove up from central VA. It was a long and brutal day, but cathartic. I’m going to write all about it here and then move on. . . . → Read More: Funeral / Closure At a friend’s request, I created a playlist of contemporary a cappella as an introduction to the genre. In doing so, I discovered something interesting: I like this sort of music again. When I stopped singing, I was so burned out on the politics and crap associated with the creation of music that it actually . . . → Read More: Music The Post has weighed in with this editorial which sums up pretty nicely the facts and opinions presented so far. This guy has an opinion that meshes well with mine … though he’s a bit more direct in his choice of words. I’m fixated on this. I know I shouldn’t be, that I should . . . → Read More: More news coverage What’s new with your brother’s friend, shot in the head, you may ask? The coverage in the Post continues, one article per day: Feb 28: There’s a policy debate Mar 1: People who were there dispute the officer’s account Mar 2: The cop who shot my brother’s friend has a lawyer. Even the DC chief . . . → Read More: Death This column from the New York Times strikes me as wise: . . . → Read More: Education This is 100%, totally not safe for work. A bra company has a breast bounce simulator. Not terribly interactive, but it is simulated bouncing boobs on the internet. The wireframe rendering view is sorta creepy … as is the overall professionalism of the site when combined with the fact that it’s really just an . . . → Read More: Simulated bouncing boobies Last night was a good night for sparring, even though I was left exhausted and shaking. . . . → Read More: Sparring This was in my mailbox this morning. Yes, he really does write like this. I dedicate it to all of you still living in the ‘hood. . . . → Read More: Funny ** bleary ** Is it the weekend yet? Still building the cluster in New York. 71 compute nodes, and a nice little 3.5TB SAN (storage area network) for the data. Today we finally got the last of the machines to image (by physically moving disks around … how un-civilized). I’m currently beating the crap out . . . → Read More: Urk |
