January 4, 2002

blah.

this week i spent hacking bonobo window/control support in glade and unfortunately gtk plug/socket focus issues. i also did a little patch to ORBit to make it take debug flags at runtime rather than compile time.

watched some movies at nat's after work.

then came home and played with the computer. i was going to make sawfish draw nicer gradients, but after looking at the code it looked fine. so then i tried switching to 24-bit colors and they look nice now.

then, decided to try the preemptive kernel patch. after using it for a while it locked up so i'm back to the "standard" 2.4.17+xfs+acpi kernel.

then i decided i was tired of waiting for ximian updates to galeon, nautilus, and mozilla so i downloaded some from havoc's site. had to rebuild my evo rpm to play nicely with those, but that didn't take long as i had an already built tree.

amazon is going to make a killing from me getting a guitar. i ordered the guitar tabs for the bends, and ok computer, and also zeppelin's first five albums. i got the bends and ok computer today, and of the two ok computer is better as it will show more than one guitar part (the bends only seems to have one).

oh i have been working for ximian (and living in boston) for two years now. crazy.

January 5, 2002

so around 5 or so there were quite a few military helicopters flying near (and over) my apartment in brookline.

there were at least 2 chinooks and 2 or 3 others that weren't so easily recognizable. they were circling / flying for maybe half an hour to an hour, but i haven't seen anything on any news web pages or anything about it. some guy near my apartment said there were a lot of cops near northeastern's stadium but i don't know where that is so i can't tell.

i would really like to know what's up with this so if you have any info please mail me.

oh by the way seeing military helicopters flying around your house is very weird and unsettling.

update: it was just practice.

January 8, 2002

[ nice dream ]

for the past 4 or 5 nights i've been having some terrible nightmares.

the night before last, i had one where i was walking up my street, then a car was coming down it driving very fast, and hit an street lamp pole, and flew into the air and then landed. right before it had hit the pole, it had also hit a person. the person was a mailman, but was actually this guy who used to live by me when i was little and who died this last year. a few moments later, some ambulances came for the guy in the car and i pointed out the other guy, and at this point his feet had fallen off and this goo was dripping out of his legs, not unlike i imagine ebola to be like.

last night after having been asleep for a couple of hours i woke up from something scary enough that i tried to wake myself up from it. i don't remember anything else about this one though.

the last dream just before i woke up today started out (well, at least this is where i have a memory of it) with me walking around near harvard square with my infant brother. i dropped him off with my family and then went to the place by bertucci's. except it had grass. anyway, moby was going to be giving a concert there, so i was there early in order to get a decent spot.

i was about 10 or 15 feet back but there was only one other person there besides moby (who was setting up) so i went up to the front. and then i started embarassing myself by saying how i liked his concert here last summer and other things.

anyway eventually more people came in and he started playing stuff. i am pretty sure he started playing heart shaped box by nirvana, and then some of the people left. his guitar broke or something and he stopped playing it and some guy started taking some of it apart. i found myself with my guitar, and started to play that's the way from led zeppelin III but everyone yelled at me to be quiet. i thought i heard the guy messing with the guitar ask if moby could borrow mine, and was waiting for him to ask again, but he didn't.

at this point there was a fly or something which i squished, and i remember hearing a buzzing noise growing louder as if there was a huge swarm of flies or something approaching us. fortunately i woke up before this all turned into some horrible fly / maggot related nightmare.

January 16, 2002

on my way home from work i was listening to idioteque from imbw and found it interesting to listen to thom yorke's breathing, and how that fit in with the phrasing of the song.

January 17, 2002

[ let down ]

last night's west wing was pretty disappointing. i was really looking forward to it as the last two have been very good.

today my hard drive was making this high pitched noise. i can't describe it. joe heard it. but it isn't making it any more.

January 22, 2002

went to bed "early" last night due to having gone to be quite late the two nights previous. spent a tremendous amount of time not asleep.

had a couple of interesting dreams... one was on the day of the boston marathon. i was at a hotel for some reason, and was going to go to a spot on the course to cheer for my dad. anyway i was late, and it was going to take me an hour to get to the spot, so i took a taxi. i guess we drove by some mall or new disney place because i remember seeing a rediculously huge mcdonalds. however i don't think it was big enough to warrant my wondering about terrorists blowing it up.

anyway, i got out of the taxi a little bit early and walked around the course. i would go into more detail, but i'm losing interest and joe is out of the shower. one thing i wanted to mention was that i had thought that they would have needed a lot of security at the start of the race due to terrorists and all.

not all my dreams are about terrorists. i had one where i was playing ice hockey (not on ps2) and another where i got some letters from a friend in paris and someone else, although the latter was all torn up due to mail people looking for anthrax.

January 26, 2002

i have been playing with tinderbox this week. i got it to try to run a build in a chroot today. whee.

my thigh bones ache. the last time i remember this was when i had the flu before.

January 29, 2002

wore shorts for the first time this year. too bad it will snow thursday.

got the tinderbox client almost working right. trying to figure out what's going on on the server end.

picked up the new chemical brothers cd as the one song i saw a video of rocked.

*finally* won an F-1 car in GT3. wheeeeeeeeeeee.