Fri 06 Jul 2001
July 6, 2001
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kite: I got to fly my kite!!!! It wasn’t very windy, so I got to practice low speed flying. It was very tough to keep in the air, as it continually stalled and fluttered down. I managed to get Edward to fly it for a while, too. He thought it was pretty cool. Tomorrow we’re going to Ocracoke Island — with some luck I can fly it again then.
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sports (windsurfing): My dad and I tried windsurfing today. I hadn’t been in many years, when I did it in Mission Bay with the Readheads. We were pretty incompetent, but managed to get the hang of it eventually.
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definitions (hang of it): In this case “hang of it” means we were able to go forward pretty well, with a minimum of time spent in the very warm water. We were unable to tack very well, though, as we kept getting further and further away from the beach chairs.
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tennis (wimbledon): All of the people I was cheering for lost today (though I think I have a mild preference for Henman, and he’s winning.) Suck.
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book: While not windsurfing, I read the Tailor of Panama. I’m having trouble associating with such a congenital liar, though.
Wed 04 Jul 2001
July 4, 2001
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openh323: What a crappy packaging system! Alex got gnomemedia to work today, and it was pretty cool. We tried to make RPMS of this package, and it took forever. No autoconf/automake, no concept of actually installing packages. Just a bunch of Makefiles. Blah.
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kite: I’m going to fly my kite this weekend!!!!
Wed 04 Jul 2001
July 4, 2001
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talk: Was up way too late last night working on a proposal for ALS. I think I got it in time — it was at least July 3rd in some places of the world (Hawaii, Alaska…). Not much sleep as a result.
Sun 10 Jun 2001
June 10, 2001
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hacking: Man, it’s been a while since I’ve entered any diaries. I’m tired. I just got AisleRiot2 to draw the old freecell style cards. There’s a screenshot of a random game written in Scheme using the new engine at http://jrb.webwynk.net/files/Screenshot-Test_scm.png I took it with the very nifty screenshooter. GNOME is sooo cool nowadays…
Wed 30 May 2001
May 30, 2001
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walk (fireflies): I took the dog for a walk tonight. The fireflies are out in full strength, such that wherever I go I see a few. There is a field next to a power substation nearby that has been completely overrun with these fireflies, such that it looks like someone through a whole bunch of glitter into the air and let it settle slowly. I sat with the dog for five minutes, just watching them, listening to the bullfrogs. I hope they last for most of the summer.
Wed 30 May 2001
May 30, 2001
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hacking (GtkTreeView): Started adding keybinding support. I should have done this a long time ago — it was a lot easier then I thought.
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wireless: Got 2 cards and a base station. Now I can use my laptop wireless from anywhere in the house. It’s very cool…
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federico: Congratulations, dude. I hope you guys are always happy together.
Mon 28 May 2001
May 28, 2001
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lunch: Memorial day today. Christian came over and we barbecued hamburgers and hot dogs. Additionally, we made a mediocre green salad, and a very nice pasta salad (Shells with seedless summer tomatoes and pesto.) We asked him to bring the beverages, and he responded by bringing a whole lot of beer, some nice pink lemonade, and Coca Cola. We ate too much then tried to go see Shrek. Apparently a lot of other people had this idea and the movie was sold out. We changed plans and ended up at the Open Eye Cafe for coffee. Then we came home and watched episoide two of Monty Python’s Complete Flying Circus.
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theonion: I think that the only thing currently that is as funny as Monty Python on a regular basis is The Onion. Zana got me Our Dumb Century (ISBN: 069452199X) recently, and it totally rocks my world.
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hacking (AisleRiot): Not much work today. Maybe tomorrow evening…
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hacking (simple-screenshot): I’ve now made gnome-core depend on gnome-print. My mother would be proud.
Sun 27 May 2001
May 27, 2001
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simple-screenshot: It’s sorta cool actually. http://people.redhat.com/jrb/simple-screenshot/ I also spent the necessary 5 minutes figuring out how to rotate pixbufs with libart. Tomorrow I’ll integrate this with AR2.
Sat 26 May 2001
May 26, 2001
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doggy: Stinks. Managed to get into something outside recently. I’ve shampooed him four times too…
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sports: Watched the Lakers destroy the Spurs with Zana tonight. It was pretty fun. I thought Tim Duncan was cooler then that, though…
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hacking: Wrote a small screenshooter for GNOME inspired by Havoc’s post. I found what I think is a bug in gnome-print along the way.
