you know how some people have internal clocks that let them wake up at a certain time? i have something like that, except that it's an internal TERROR ALERT METER.
this morning i woke up horrified. the dream i was having was that i was in high school in a classroom. there was a high-pitched beeping sound, and some people thought it was a fire drill sound. but i remember those sounded much different (at least the ones i remembered). this sound was a terrorist alarm or something. we all left the building, and when we got out, there were like 30 ambulances in front of the building, and there was that yellow police tape all around. a policeman picked up a broken bottle of something. i had assumed it was what the poison stuff had been kept in or something.
things are a little fuzzy for me after this, but i remember trying to take pictures and take down notes, as if i were a reporter. for some reason i thought that someone from caldera was trying to kill me. which is strange, because while i was still mostly asleep i actually got a call from utah. i have gotten one before, i think.
anyway, i woke up really freaked out. i struggled to get out of bed, and went to check my email and discovered that some things were busted. it turned out to be caused by this bug, which isn't fixed (5 (!!) years later).
today i had a pretty good run. i also played catch with phik, and then joe joined us for some hockey. it was not the most energetic hockey for me, but that's understandable. then we watched the tail end of the ducks' loss. also we had some tasty burgers cooked up by joe and phil while i tried to get squirrelmail set up on my mail server. it turns out that it doesn't really handle folders with 17k emails in them, like my Inbox has.
aparently that box was hitting some bugs that other lustre users were hitting. if joe changes his updatedb to run at midnight every night, phik might be able to fix the bugs before people get to work in the morning.
also on that list is a cray t3e that i am pretty sure i programmed on when i took my computational physics course sophomore year. i think it only had 256 cpus at the time, or maybe it was 128? i remember when we went to visit psc (i thitnk the only field trip i had in college) i thought that machine was neat cause it had a little lcd panel on the side with a spinning cray logo.
wow, it's late and i'm exhausted.