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| Thursday, August 21st, 2008 |
chrysaphi
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11:40p |
things from the past week 1) I am severely hosed. Before the conference in Paris (for which I leave on the 9th), I have to: - Do enough background research to write a coherent and interesting proposal for a fellowship for next year. (I've been reading articles for this all week, but really wish the scholars I've emailed would get back to me with the helpful hints I need.) - Find a second referee for said fellowship apps. - Hack some more on the collation engine. - Actually edit some text; at least enough to show adequate progress in Paris. - Revise the talk I gave in Copenhagen so that it's suitable for Paris. This unfortunately means removing most of the jokes, and finding tamer ones to replace them. - Finish the translation of Eusebios for which I'm being paid. - (Ideally also) revise the chapter I want to submit for D.Phil. confirmation by 1 October. 2) I had a really great time at YAPC last week. So much so, in fact, that I've been spending way too much time chatting to friends in the Perl world, while I'm supposed to be reading articles for the first task above. My talk went pretty well, and lots of people are expressing an interest in my thesis project. The talk was recorded on video, and will eventually be on the internet somewhere, I'm told. (I have no desire to watch myself talk, but I gather other people will want to see it.) The popularity of my talk is part of the reason I've been so distracted with chatting; everyone has something to say. If you want to read about the technical aspects of my project, and the software I'm writing, I'm blogging about it at use.perl.org. If you are based in or around London, I'll probably be giving it again at a london.pm tech meet in the next couple of months, and revision #2 should be all that much more polished. 2a) I released my first CPAN module for 4.5 years while at YAPC, with the assistance of ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) obra (I'd basically forgotten how.) I won a pair of T-shirts for this, hilariously sized XXL. Got teased about how on my next camping trip I can use them as a tent. (Also, the picture on the module page was taken at YAPC pre-registration. I was so pleasantly surprised by having a good picture taken of me that I immediately made it my icon there.) 2b) NFE. It's like NRE, but compatible with being married. *bounce* It's nice to be reminded that there are still really cool people in the world for me to meet. But man I need to quit wasting so much time chatting, or else I'll never get a research proposal out the door. Current Mood:  hosed |
chanaleh
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10:33a |
oops On top of all my cell phone woes (hardware failure imminent), I accidentally left the darn thing at home today. If you urgently need me, call my office. Or send email or, y'know, comment here. Current Mood:  hyper |
jered
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10:28a |
Blogging for Dollars I just noticed that I have failed to mention that I now have a separate work blog. This was probably intentional, as I found it all somewhat embarrassing at first, but I've now gotten over that. If you'd like to read about topics in storage (and really who doesn't?), go pop on over to Permabits and Petabytes. Tell your friends! Tell your enemies! Meanwhile, I'll continue to keep my less substantiative (but still better than Twitter) posts here. After all, LiveJournal is for high school drama, Wordpress is for... that other stuff. |
crs
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10:29a |
Clicky
click.
smush.
smush.
click click.
tick tock. |
stevie_stever
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8:41a |
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jered
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8:25a |
Burning Man 2008
Leaving for Burning Man in less than 24 hours, on playa late evening tomorrow. If you're going to be there, please stop by and visit us in Kamp Kaos/Hive (Boston), 8:30 and Esplanade! We'll have the playaground. |
| Wednesday, August 20th, 2008 |
dzm
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9:57p |
Colors I think this question is mostly for ilai. But it's a detail sort of thing. Stand at the southeastern corner of Beacon St. and Somerville Ave., preferably after dark. Look at the signals on the commute rail; look at the traffic lights. Are they actually different colors? (And if so, why?) |
ocschwar
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2:54p |
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twitch124
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11:51a |
Upcoming shows (8/20/2008) I don't go to all the shows I list in these posts, but if people commit to going with me I go. Bold means I already have tickets to that show. Italic means I don't have tickets but I'm 95% sure I'm going to that show.
I'm feeling very stressed out right now, so the list of shows is going to be shorter than usual until some stuff resolves.
( Read more... ) |
stevie_stever
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11:48a |
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stevie_stever
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10:57a |
100 push-up challenge(from yesterday)  Day 3 (120 second rest between sets) Set 1: 30 Set 2: 30 Set 3: 30 Set 4: 22 Set 5: 17 Total: 129 Not nearly so precipitous a drop-off as when I started. And strangely the pain in my lower left near the kidney didn't hinder me at all. I think in part this forces me to use my lower back muscles more, in order to keep the right posture for a push-up. This is a good thing. Current Mood:  accomplished |
brief_life
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12:04a |
Whatever I did to deserve friends like these... ...I hope I find out what it is so I never stop doing it. By my tally, I've spent 53 hours working on Into The Woods over the past four days. As my energy started to wind down this evening, I stepped back to look at the chaos and progress around me, and what do I see? flaggday is building the 2nd story of the orchestra. vampiretheatre is wrist-deep in a modified paper-mache mix, halfway through a friggin' awesome-looking tree. puffy_wuffy cuts platform legs, then cuts some more legs, then eventually even attaches some legs. ameliat brought me dinner. Brought me dinner! Dear gods, woman, as if you weren't incredible enough as it was! The orchestra director has been skipping work to help out in the theater these past two days, and he's a mighty useful pair of hands, to boot. The wholesome young man playing Jack has been staying late to help out AND has been giving me rides home. Not to mention my co-Not-TD, who was wheedled into TDing just as surely as I was, and who has certainly been the constant reliable rock I needed to pull this thing off. There may still be a lot about this show that irritates, angers, and frustrates me, but these last four days have been magic. It's been about nothing but the work -- problems that demand creative solutions. It's been about nothing but the work -- and the friends I have working beside me. Damn, I'm getting all mushy, now. *sniff* I love you guys. Thanks. Current Mood:  thankfulCurrent Music: I Can't Do It Alone, from Chicago |
| Tuesday, August 19th, 2008 |
navrins
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2:38p |
Auditions?
I'm thinking I should do some theater soon.
Who knows of auditions I should go to? Rehearsals should be within reasonable travel range from Arlington and Allston; there should be people I'll enjoy meeting and enjoy working with; and there should be a part I would enjoy playing and be reasonably appropriate for, at least enough to think I might get cast.
I know about a few already, but I'm curious what Dr. LJ will suggest. |
firstfrost
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12:08p |
Social Networking I've been playing around with Facebook recently, and it's been interesting to compare it to LiveJournal / Flickr / LinkedIn / Ravelry, and what I find compelling in each of them. Livejournal seems vastly better for both long soliloquys and conversations, but is more social than, say, blogspot, which seems to be more designed for Here Is Me and My Blog, In A Vacuum. Facebook is almost more like zephyr in its immediacy (I don't think I'd post to livejournal saying "My feet hurt" - it's too trivial), but also has a lot of interesting connection-y things, like photo tagging. But Facebook also seems also over-obsessive about informing your friends of everythign (Do I really care that someone is playing scrabble again? Does everything have to generate an invite?), and had that debacle of posting whatever you bought at associated sites onto your page. Ravelry does an amazing job of filling its niche (knitting / crochet / yarn), and is almost the perfect example of why databases rock. Search for everything everyone's made with Yarn X, or in Pattern Y. Get examples of everything made from a particular book of patterns, ranked by favorite-ness if you like. What can you make with 800 yards of laceweight? Well, what did everyone else make? And it has its own mysteries - why does everyone else like the Clapotis shawl so much? My flickr usage is mostly to stock my ravelry account, so I haven't really explored it very much, and the average flickr user (as opposed to the average ravelry user) probably doesn't care so much about pictures of yarn. And LinkedIn has never really attracted me; I think that's all in the presentation, since I don't really want to consider my friends to be Professional Networking Resources. Ah well. No real conclusions, but I've been thinking about it, and having decided that LiveJournal is for soliloquys, I felt compelled to make one. :) Current Mood:  contemplative |
jered
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10:19a |
Desktop "mobile-like" email client?
The mail client on my iPhone is optimized for low-bandwidth/high-cost links. It works with my existing IMAP accounts, but it doesn't try to retrieve an index all my messages, only the last 50. It will retrieve more if I want.
I need this same functionality on my desktop. Apple Mail doesn't seem to do it. Thunderbird doesn't seem to do it. Can anyone help me find a low-bandwidth optimized desktop (Mac OS X) email client? |
crs
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12:19a |
a wacky thought
True Dungeon plus Kingdom of Loathing... or, as a more general concept, the KoL LARP. |
| Monday, August 18th, 2008 |
stevie_stever
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11:50p |
Notes for today -Navigation at 2:30AM might as well be with blinders on, in the snow, uphill both ways -As one gets more conscious of the singing you are doing, singing gets harder, because you are trying to control more elements about your singing -I may be down in NY on Labor Day...Not quite sure as of yet... -Watching Serenity never gets old -Week 1, Day 2 of 100 push-up challenge(90 seconds rest between sets: Tried to go the easier route to get a significantly higher total(as well as rest my arms more) Set 1: 35 Set 2: 23 Set 3: 20 Set 4: 20 Set 5: 15 Total: 113 Great...all of 1 push-up more than yesterday. Still...we'll see what, if anything this does come week 2... -My head does NOT like it if I get up immediately after set 5 without having taken in a few deep breaths...it offers a headache in protest -Basic Dues + Initiation Fee for AGMA membership exceeds what I will be paying for rent in a month in Chicago @_@ That is all. Current Mood:  tired |
ocschwar
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8:05p |
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ocschwar
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7:20p |
So, Donald Trump is buying Ed McMahon's house and letting him stay there to bail him out.
'twould be inhuman to sneer at McMahon. He is old and infirm, and nobody with spine trouble should be made to move house, whether from a palace or a hovel. So now that the man who did so much to give Americans the idea that they can sit passively and someone will come from nowhere and give them money to solve their problems, gets to have Donald Trump come and rescue him.
Donald Trump. The supposedly savvy businessman who was the only man in the history of the human race to go bust running a casino.
There's beauty in that. |
ocschwar
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6:07p |
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mg4h
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2:00p |
Busy is good, right?
We had so many people at archery practice Sunday that four marshals were spending more time teaching and running the line than shooting.
On the one hand - woo, more people. On the other hand - I didn't manage to shoot enough to tire myself out :(
Nine years I've been doing this archery thing. It's still a hoot.
I hit something, yes? |
saxikath
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11:17a |
Dream. Last night I dreamed that I was trying to chase down kittens that were escaping. There were, I think, five of them. One in particular got loose -- got outdoors when it wasn't supposed to, I think -- and I was running after it, frantically trying to catch it because "Dan is going to kill me!" if the cat escaped. (I think the Dan in question was thedan, but I'm not positive.) Weird. |
stevie_stever
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10:36a |
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mg4h
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10:18a |
Why did no one tell me about this drink before?!??!!1!
Holy frijoles this is GOOD. I mean, I like ginger ale normally, and I wanted to put something in it Friday when I was outside grilling, so I randomly decided the last of the Midori would work out okay.
Then I tasted it. I suddenly wished we had more Midori in the house, it was so bloody good.
I realized that something this good probably had a name and was on a list somewhere of established drinks, so I went looking. Sure enough, there's a "recipe" - course, it's just mixing two things to taste, so not that hard, but I have a name now ;)
Fuzzy Chartreuse
3 shots Midori melon liqueur
ginger ale
crushed ice
Fill hurricane glass half full with crushed ice. Add midori, then fill glass the rest of the way full with ginger ale. This should result in a chartreuse colored drink. Add more midori to your taste.
Did I mention I bought more Midori this weekend....
;) |
| Sunday, August 17th, 2008 |
limpingpigeon
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11:58p |
YouTube Therapy: I'm sure I'm the last person on my friends list to see this but... I think I actually enjoy this more than the actual video. Current Mood:  amusedCurrent Music: White And Nerdy - "Weird Al" Yankovic |
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