The Twilight Report

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 18:28:00 GMT

14 October 2008 11:13am: Briefly returned to New Haven. The Dinosaur bones are still there. Trying to teach L dinosaur names as she teaches me Russian.
16 October 2008 10:33pm: Has anyone noticed that with the economy in the toilet the SPAM has changed from "get V1AgRa" to "Job Offer!"?
18 October 2008 01:35pm: Din dins with tehresa and lenviol was delicious.
20 October 2008 08:31am: Back in Australia with Rusian goodies. Flight was uneventfull but woke up for sunrise over the Pacific. Pretty moments.

I hope it's a long ceremony, 'cause it's gonna be a short honeymoon.

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 11:04:00 GMT

Finally got paid. Well, exactly when they said I would, it just seems like it has been forever waiting. Also: it always seems like a lot of money when it comes in, but as soon as I start adding up the bills and taking out the savings it starts to approach zero. Tyler joked years ago that one day if he worked hard enough he’d be worth nothing. It’s good to keep your sense of humour when you are in debt. I am well past being in debt, but it still feels as though there is never enough. The future is a tangled mess in my mind right now.

Things that I did over the weekend:

Switched from sendmail to Postfix. Wish I had done it sooner.
Upgraded my file server to FC4. Ditto. Although AFS authentication doesn’t quite work anymore.
Set up a heterogeneous distributed compiler system using four computers, five processors, six cores and three different operating systems to build FC4 applications. Why am I doing this? So that I can issue commands like make –j 12 (dork) and expect good performance.
Went to Terrigal and floated in the ocean for an hour. The water was awesome.

By far the best use of my time was going to the beach. A big part of coming out to Australia was the idea that I’d be able to go to Terrigal just about anytime I pleased. Years ago I had this perfect moment there. There had been some files and it had been smoky for days. Then on the last day we were in Australia the wind cleared it away and I was at Terrigal on top of the skillion. The colours were intense. It was beautiful. I don’t think I’ve ever felt like that anywhere else.

wing

Wed, 11 Apr 2007 05:48:00 GMT

on the way over here...

Fences

Wed, 13 Dec 2006 09:30:00 GMT

Lines

Tue, 12 Dec 2006 09:30:00 GMT

Fences

Mon, 11 Dec 2006 09:30:00 GMT

Fences

Sun, 10 Dec 2006 09:30:00 GMT

Flowers!

Fri, 08 Sep 2006 11:42:00 GMT

Is there a Gean-Luck-Pikard here?

Coastal 4245, 4246, 4247

Thu, 07 Sep 2006 23:55:00 GMT

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Thu, 07 Sep 2006 04:26:00 GMT

It's murder having to live this close to the beach.

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I hope it's a long ceremony, 'cause it's gonna be a short honeymoon.

wing

Fences

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Flowers!

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