June 2, 2002

i got a baseball bat and phil, joe and i did some batting practice at the school by my apartment. surprisingly, not only was i able to hit it at all (which i had originally doubted), but i could hit it pretty far too. joe and phil had similar experiences. at one point, we had lost 3 out of 4 balls in hards behind the backstop, but found 2 of them eventually. tomorrow we are going to get more balls.

nat, taylor, alex, and ryan stopped by for some grilling.

my hard drive died the other day so i got a tibook (finally). built evo for it, seems to work nicely (with ldap and ssl). managing software by rsyncing /gnome2 is not very scalable. i need to start building some fink packages.

June 3, 2002

got to work: around noon
finished reading mail: around 4

phil got some more balls and we played a bit more baseball. miraculously, not losing any balls this time. i almost hit one over the fence but it hit a tree. a dog stole phil's glove.

time to sleep.

June 6, 2002

over the weekend blizzard came over and watched the harry potter movie. at some point it killed my dvd player. they finished watching it in the ps2, which died 2 days later.

it's been raining for about 24 hours.

June 7, 2002

nat, your rearranged page doesn't make sense since i have to wait for the whole thing to load to see new content.

June 12, 2002

p a n i c

joe and i saw insomnia today. i guess it was good cause i wasn't disliking it at any point during the film.

nat, get well soon.

today i did 6 loads of laundry, and had exactly enough quarters to do it.

i am very hungry and very tired.

i fixed some bugs today.

i need to figure out a way to get iTunes to visualize my guitar as i play it. i think that would be fun. i wonder if i'd have to encode it to a mp3 stream? will require more investigation.

i am really glad i got the strokes cd a while back. it is really good. nat likes it too. it will be interesting to hear what their next album sounds like.

doing laundry is impressively rewarding, for how much i dread it. and it's not hard to do. i don't know why i dread it so much.

it's gonna be hot. dc's never seen it like this before.

June 16, 2002

it being sunday and all i feel compelled to update this thing.

the weekend was quite productive. yesterday i rebuilt gnome2 on my desktop and rsynced to the laptop. today i ripped about 35 more of my cds. and listened to aphex twin. in addition to straightening up my room a bit. i also realized i could play console video games connected to my dv camera. sadly the one i have is old and crappy so i can't do video in -> dv out and play them on my computer screen.

ok so not as productive as some might say.

i think i've been having interesting dreams but i can't remember much of them, aside from being at a baseball game where jim thome stole home. i attribute this to the sleeping schedule i've developed. well not so much sleeping as the waking up schedule. i had been not going to sleep until too late but waking up at sane hours anyway.

friday we retriaged our gnome 2 bugs, and knocked off 10. i also shaved off over 3 seconds off the solaris gnome2 login time, but there's lots of room for improvement.

June 17, 2002

"Gentoo is the penultimate Linux distro in my opinion." -- /. poster

June 21, 2002

merely days after i realize it's june already, june is nearing its end.

so there's these new "chillout" compilation/mix cds out these days, and for some reason radiohead gets on them. i don't really have an opinion on "pyramid song" being on them, but "stree spirit (fade out)" is not something i'd "chill out" to.

if thom yorke was dead, i'm sure he'd be turning over in his grave.

the best part of me being in a band would be my own reviews of it:

In an ironic twist, the band ended the show with a horrid rendition of Radiohead's "Anyone Can Play Guitar".

i'm sure that joke's been made before.

June 22, 2002

cool summer morning

i'm sitting here about to go to sleep, listening to rain starting to fall, after a fun evening of hanging out with friends and meeting some new people.

raindrops falling to the ground

we saw the minority report last night, and it was actually very good. they had a preview for a new silence of the lambs movie with ed norton, phillip seymor hoffman, and mary-louise parker(!!!). it comes out 3 days before my birthday. i am psyched.

i'm going to sleep

June 23, 2002

go

June 25, 2002

i got reason yesterday. it's pretty sweet but i wasn't in a good mood so i couldn't do anything good.

i had a story about me getting the astrobotnia cd but i decided it was pretty lame.

i'm at the airport with nat and joe. we are going to ottawa. so far it's been a fun trip.

June 26, 2002

joe nat and i are sitting in our hotel room on our laptops watching the west wing. i like this episode a lot.

we watched some of the g8 protests on tv, then decided to go check it out. there were a few people hanging out outside the us embassy, including one of the people we saw talking on tv. there's a ton of things spraypainted all over the city. some of the slogans are pretty good. i wonder if they make them up on the spot or if they have a list they walk around with. what's the web site they get that stuff from?

oh my. they are pronouncing the kia sportage like "fromage" rather than "storage". what's going on?

June 30, 2002

i'm sitting in our hotel room (again) waiting for the sleeping princesses to awake. there's pretty much a constant "stream" (can't think of a better word) of horn-honking coming from brazil fans outside.

last night was pretty fun. after the keynote where nat failed to win the programming with qt book from o'reilly, we ate at e18hteen ("life's too short to drink bad wine!" -- the owner) - a trendy-ish restaurant somewhere in ottawa. it was good, i didn't order nearly as much as everyone else but was full afterwards anyway. sadly the dj didn't spin whilst we were there.

after that we headed to the black thorn for the party. we hung out there for a while talking to some people who were using the rc-installer (!!!) code for installing their product. much pain saved in using the nasty rpm binary-incompatible workarounds. i also discovered i wasn't the only one thinking that zab did kt - sammy had been duped too.

then nat and i decided to try to find the place dave ralph was spinning at. most of the conversations went something like this:

nat: hey, do you know where the dave ralph show is?
them: dave who?

we eventually gave up and just hung out with some people at like a youth hostel or something. they gave us some canadian flags. they seemed like nice people, and said a couple of people from the conference were staying there.

nat went back to the hotel and i went back to the black thorn and after a bit came back with joe. soon after we got back, some pizza arrived. we think nat ordered it before he went to sleep, but we're not sure. it may have been the pizza we ordered the night before which never arrived.

at least i learned how to spell "ottawa" finally. also, i was promised riots.

for lunch i had an omlette at some place with joe and nat. there was a big piece of eggshell in it, which sucked. i would have said something about it but just before that the table next to us left without paying and i felt bad for the waitress.

i had dinner in the north end with blizzard, shona, alex, nat, joe, taylor, ryan, and dr. pat. it was quite tasty although a bit expensive.