Wed 19 Sep 2001

  • food: Just had dinner. Limp salad with Heinz salad dressing in a ketchup packet. Lousy chicken and rice. Shrek on the TV. Mediocre Merlot. Whole wheat bread with cheese and butter. Crackers. Lemon cream pie, and a pecan chocolate shaped like a reeses peanut butter cup for dessert. Served with plastic cutlery. The merlot bottle seems more dangerous than the old metal knives they used to provide. Had Tea and a glass of ice water to wash it all down.

  • food (tea): Tea had heavy cream and Equal. I don’t know why I bothered with the equal.

  • flight path: Still over land. I had hoped we’d be over the atlantic by now.

  • nautilus: Seems to be having problems with my ChangeLog. Bad!

  • city lights: There’s very light cloud cover right now. As we hit variations in the cloud’s density the lights dim and brighten, much as if some one had a giant rheostat attached to them. I’d like to see the rheostat for the world.

Wed 19 Sep 2001

  • X (XDrawRectangle): Awful discovery. I had assumed that drawing a rectangle with XDrawRectangle meant that it drew a rectangle at [x, y], with sides width and height pixels wide. Unfortunately, it draws the rectangle determined by the points [x, y], [x + width, y], [x + width, y + height], [x, y + height]. This means that the sides are (width + 1) and (length + 1) pixels wide and long. This also explains a lot of the minor drawing/sizing bugs in the GtkTreeView. I fear I’ve just remade a classic X mistake.

  • airplane: Finally took off (an hour late). Food just arrived. I wish I could suspend.

  • pixels: Off a pixel, on a pixel, correct pixel, wrong pixel. What a funny word. I can’t think of anything that rhymes with it.

Wed 19 Sep 2001

  • airport: Surprisingly minimal security at the gate. Still, it’s better than what existed before. I’m a still little miffed though, as zana and I were told on the phone to be at the gate three hours prior to departure. It took 10 minutes to get everything set. Zana has an hour more to wait than me.

  • airport (redux): This is definitely the most organized I’ve ever seen the airport.

  • airport (electricity): Just changed gtkmarshal.list. I managed to find a plug just prior to compilation. This is very good, as I was afraid I’d be low on battery before boarding the plane.

  • hacking (GTK+-HEAD): With some help from anders (happy birthday!), I got editable cells working pretty well.

  • music: My dad got me a copy of György Ligeti for my birthday. It’s very, very good airport music. Björk is good airport music too. Something about those ‘ö’s…

Fri 14 Sep 2001

  • work: Went back to work on Wednesday. I got a lot more into my tree. It kept me busy all day, which was good. Still, it’s hard not to keep an eye on the news. All in all, it was a pretty dismal birthday. Zana tried really hard to make it nice though, and that was the best present I could have gotten.

  • present: Zana also got me a very cool Patriots cap, as well as tickets to the game against tha Panthers this weekend (not to mention train tickets down there.) Unfortunately, the game was canceled. I’m not sure how excited I could get at the moment about the game. For that matter, the Patriots were looking likely to lose. Still, it was an awesome idea, and I hope we can do it again some other time.

  • paper: Staying up late tonight working on my paper for the X technical conference for ALS. Fun fun fun.

  • fencing: Haven’t gone back. Too busy at work. They were probably canceled tuesday, anyways. I haven’t managed to get equipment, either. I will go next tuesday for sure.

  • flatulent doggy: The dog is having gas problems tonight. Blech.

Sun 09 Sep 2001

  • dinner: Had a very nice Boullabaise for dinner tonight with Christian. Zana had Mahi Mahi. We also has Oysters and Buffalo shrimp. It all was very excellent.

  • stray animals: While walking the dog with Christian and Zana, we ran into two dogs who had gotten loose. They were pretty friendly, though they mangaed to get the dog very excited. I dragged them up to a door, and managed to get the attention of their owner inside. She seemed to be relieved to get the dogs back, and didn’t know how they had gotten out.

  • stray animals (redux): I got a call from Christian soon after he left. He had gotten no further than the end of driveway, before he saw a white kitten in our front yard. We determined it was a stray as it had no collar. Christian took it home with him, and will bring it to the shelter tomorrow.

  • words: For some reason, I spent all day trying to remember the word ‘hemophilia’.

  • virtue (GTK+-HEAD): I wrote some documentation this morning. I saw Havoc did a little last night and the guilt got the best of me.

  • paper: I lost my work for my paper for ALS when I reinstalled my laptop earlier this week. Need to spend most of tomorrow rewriting it.