Sat 01 Sep 2001
September 1, 2001
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Thirteen: Last night, while watching the Carolina panthers play the Cleveland Browns, play was stopped when the score was 13-13 with 13:13 left to go in the fourth quarter
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Dinner: In honor of Mrs Lewis from the Inspector Morse novels, we had eggs and chips for dinner.
Fri 31 Aug 2001
August 31, 2001
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GNOME2: mmeeks came to visit. Good talk about the platform.
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Birthday: My Granpa turned 80 a few days ago. I sent him an email to wish him happy birthday. He’s doing pretty well, and is even trying to use a scanner now.
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Birthday (age): When my Grandpa was my age, he had already been shotdown over Belgium, and had made his way to Switzerland through occupied France. I’ve been fighting in GNOME. Sort of puts things into perspective.
Sat 25 Aug 2001
August 25, 2001
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scanners: These things suck under linux. Apparently I’m pretty incompetent.
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Usenix: Apparently I was never mailed that I was going to give a talk. I need to write the paper soon.
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GNOME: I’ve signed up to do waaay too much. Man, I’m hosed. On the good side, I applied James Cape’s patch (after a lot of cleanup) to GnomeDruidPageStandard. The new standard druid is going to look a lot nicer.
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sleep: Still staying up to late. Must end the vicious cycle sometime.
Thu 23 Aug 2001
August 23, 2001
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consumerism (redux): Bought a scanner today. My attempts to get it to work with sane have been all for naught, thus far. Grrr…
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druid: Spent the evening pretending to clean up GnomeDruidPageStandard while watching Scary Movie. It wasn’t as bad as I’d thought, or as good as I’d hoped. They managed to show all the jokes in the trailer.
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GTK+ (GtkTreeView): I’ve been trying to pick up work on this after all the nautilus of the last few weeks. I’ve made surprising headway. I’m really excited about the animations that Anders added, as well as the prelighting support I through in. It didn’t take long, but made a huge huge difference in how it looks.
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sleep: Damn. Up ’til 3:30 again. Must-get-sleep
Sun 19 Aug 2001
August 19, 2001
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consumerism: Zana and I were extremely domestic, and bought a dishwasher, some clothes, and a breadbox.
Tue 14 Aug 2001
August 14, 2001
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AisleRiot2: I seem to have hit a rut of some kind. Hopefully I can work around it.
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Dark Wing Duck: Classic Television! Zana and I saw an episode tonight. I had forgotten how much I enjoyed it while growing up
Mon 13 Aug 2001
August 13, 2001
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dishwashers (update): It definitely did not clean that last load. Zana and I just had to wash dishes for 30 min.
Mon 13 Aug 2001
August 13, 2001
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movie (American History X): Wow. What a powerful movie. Easily the most impressive movie I’ve seen in a long time. I understand all the fuss about it when it first came out, and wish I had seen it then. I can’t wait to see Edward Norton’s next movie. I think he’s a tremendous actor, and has very impressive control of his body.
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movie (Rush Hour 2): This was much better than the original. It had more goofiness, and fewer race-gags which I liked. Jackie Chan is certainly getting older, but he still has moments of fun.
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irony: I spent all day wiring up my wireless connection. I originally got it so that I could work in the living room on my laptop. Unfortunately, I didn’t get the reception I wanted originally, so I strung a wire to the middle of the house, and mounted the wireless hub on the cieling. I now get a great connection, though I’m ~5 feet away from where I wired to.
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drills: Here are the things I learned about drilling today: 1) You need a masonry drill bit to drill through stone. 2) If you are drilling through a slate floor, drill through the slate over the mortar. The mortar is tough as nails – the slate is not. 3) If you are drilling through carpet, drill really quickly so that you melt the carpet. If you drill slowly, you just rip it up and get stuck. 4) It’s a good things drills can go in reverse 5) When drilling through wood, an old, cheap, blunt drill bit covered with melted carpet works a lot better than a shiny new masonry bit. 6) I know nothing about drills.
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house (crawlspace): I took a grand tour of the underside of my house while wiring today. Apparently I drove the dog nuts while singing and hammering under there. Wheeee!
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dishwashers: Our 1972 vintage, bright green dishwasher is showing its age. I fear it is time to retire it…
Wed 08 Aug 2001
August 8, 2001
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toys: mkj and I got a cool powerball a few days ago. I don’t fully understand how it works. I don’t want to break it, but I do want to know how it lights up. Decisions…
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work: Meridian Engineers meeting last night, where our new VP tried to work through some scheduling/resource issues. I don’t think that many of us feel like a lot of progress was made, though I feel like the managers were doing the best they could given their constraints. That’s all we can hope for.
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nanotechnology: I finally understand why people on slashdot are so excited about nanotechnology. I finished the Diamond Age last night, and while I thought it had a weak ending, I thought it was an enjoyable piece of science fiction. Note the ‘fiction’ part guys…
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sick: Two lovers were hanged by their respective families and friends in India this past Monday for having an intercaste relationship. I can’t believe it’s August 2001.
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doomometer: We added a doomometer to our wall. It provides hours of entertainment. Well, minutes anyways…
