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I don’t believe that I’ve posted about my Labor Day. * I put my bike in my car * I drove south for about an hour and a half to the ferry. * I rode the ferry to Block Island * I rode my bike up the big hill for about a half hour, to . . . → Read More: My Labor Day It’s disturbing to me that even though I don’t watch TV and I avoid the standard news outlets like the cess-pits they are, I’m still somehow occasionally sucked into the political circus. Somehow, I caught myself wondering about Joe Biden’s qualifications, and interestedly poking around this Alaskan governor’s resume. See, here’s the thing: I . . . → Read More: I do not care about the vice presidential picks Picked up about 50lbs of tomatoes yesterday, and with able help from and , rendered them down into 6 quarts of sauce, 5 pints of salsa, and a couple of trays of sun oven dried tomatoes. In between, we made it one of those nights where there are more empty wine bottles than people at . . . → Read More: Fried I’ve been lately pondering the fact that overpopulation is the elephant in the room in every conversation about the environment. Six billion is simply too many people for all of us to live in the way that we might if there were only a billion or so. Personally, I have no concept of numbers . . . → Read More: Population This week is a bigger geek milestone than last week. I’ve spent the past two days sitting next to a truly monstrous storage system. Each disk tray contains 16 750GB disks. Each rack contains 10 racks and two controllers. We have SIXTEEN racks. Theoretically, that’s 1.9 petabytes of raw space. In reality, depending on how . . . → Read More: Mine’s bigger I am now the proud owner of a Wii. Does anyone want to be my Wii friend? I see that my Mii can wander the world and travel to other Wii’s, but I have no idea how that would work. Does anyone actually do that? Pictures from the 100TB storage build are up. Lots of infrastructure porn. Interesting facts: * Half of the system is powered down right now because the electrical power wasn’t ready when we got there. * One big filesystem: 87TB of usable space. * 70 CPUs of linux compute cluster, plus the old 24 CPU . . . → Read More: Big storage Built a GFS volume today with an actual capacity between 85 and 90TB. It’s part of the badass nature of this project that I honestly don’t care whether it was exactly 87.5TB, or whatever. 5TB? Who cares? It’s huge. Go find a bucket for the slop in my measurement. Can’t? Too big? That’s right, that’s . . . → Read More: High water marks returned from Salmon this morning, bearing 12 pounds of Seattle (which is, like, the whole fish or something). Wait, something like that. It was pre-7am, I may have mixed up the details. Anyway, I froze 11 pounds of salmon in little baggies with water, and we cooked the remainder for dinner. Mmmmm. Ahhhh. Smack. . . . → Read More: Salmon I spent the morning and early afternoon training with Noriyasu Kudo. He’s an 8th degree black belt in Judo, and is also ranked in Kendo and Karate. In the 1964 Olympics (the first year when Judo was an Olympic sport), he represented Japan. Prior to that he had been “all Japan” champion twice. This was . . . → Read More: Moves |
