Home again, home again. And tomorrow, on the train to Boston. Ungh. At least real rock stars get cocaine and groupies. Class went well. Tomorrow, I plan to verify that … oh who the hell cares? I’m going to be a geek again tomorrow. Any questions? No? Good. I’m going to bed.
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Color me surprised, Bethesda doesn’t suck nearly as much as I remember it sucking! There’s a Rock Bottom brewery around the corner from my hotel, plus six or seven really yummy smelling Thai and Vietnamese restaurants. Plus, the streets are populated with semi-drunken 30-year-old fratboys. This means that it’s totally safe out there, as long . . . → Read More: Bethesda At the airport, headed to Bethesda, MD for a two day training gig. This should be fun, since I actually get to work with one of my colleagues. He will teach a one day course on the cluster queuing system, and then I get to teach my “intro to The Software” session. Audience of eight, . . . → Read More: On the road again. Check this out: I was digging for some old references, and I found this: An article in chinese with my name on it. I plugged it into a handy dandy web translator, and this popped out: “Should the computation environment which promotes turn the reality” It’s a mangled rewrite of an article that I wrote . . . → Read More: Me, but in Chinese! That whole “early train” thing is starting to suck just about now. Staring at a little moving progress bar, creating a clean install … so I can copy that install to another disk … so I can re-install a clean OS by remote … so I don’t have to be here tomorrow in order to . . . → Read More: Baked On the early train this morning. 6:20 out of South Attleboro. Damn. The sun isn’t even up yet. In most of my days, there’s only one 5:30, and it has nothing to do with morning. Today is debugging day. One customer is testing airflow issues by letting a large set of jobs run for three hours with the rack doors open, then shutting them and running for another three hours. God, I hope that one works…I’ve got no idea where to go next. Another is still wrestling with the malevolent . . . → Read More: So this is where it stops… Had a good one this week: User was having a bear of a time getting our software to install correctly. Stuff just wasn’t acting right. Plus, he’s behind a firewall, so there’s only so much I can do in terms of remote diagnosis. Finally, he calls me on my cell phone absolutely triumphant. He had . . . → Read More: Users Spent the afternoon with two guys from Intel, who were explaining why their technology is cool and getting cooler. While the information was nice, it was even nicer to feel important. Like, I’m some sort of valuable guy to know, and getting on my good side is important to them. Yeah, that’s it. In . . . → Read More: Corporate… The train this morning is very, very cold. It was 60 degrees out as I drove to the station, and somehow I was dumb enough to still be wearing my Tivas and just a t-shirt. Tomorrow, sweatshirt. No doubt about it. The plan is to spend the day in the frigid, dark confines of our . . . → Read More: So cold |
