HEAD gimp has a ridiculously sweet about box, as TD pointed out this afternoon in IRC. Check it out if you have jhbuild installed.
Have generally had a pleasant post-birthday weekend; fresh scones yesterday morning and pancakes this morning. Watched Ran last night too, great flick even if it drags at times. Spent the afternoon at [...]
Enjoyed my birthday yesterday, and even got a bit of work done. ;) Was cool to have so many people from so many places say hi in IRC, and was more fun to have a few friends over, have a few drinks out of the nice new tumblers I was given, watch some Duke basketball, [...]
I read Wabi-Sabi yesterday. Fun little book explaining an aesthetic very different from our modern Western aesthetic. Of course, since it is an aesthetic of impermanence, imperfection, and nature (among other things) it’s a little hard to draw lessons for GNOME, unless someone wants to help me write a theme engine that changes over time [...]
I wish Nader had listened to Lessig.
[Later] Speaking of Lessig, I’m thinking about taking the plunge and trying to do the Lessig Challenge, where one gives as much money to pro-freedom groups like the EFF and Public Knowledge as one does to the movie, music, and cable industries. Given the size of my cable bill, [...]
Big Fish was incredible. It reminded me a lot of a friend of my dad’s who passed away a few years ago, which choked me up a little at the end. Aside from that, I’m excited to see magico-realism come to film- there were hints of it in Amelie, but in Big Fish it’s an [...]
Havoc, if you and the other NC refugees are looking for pretty good BBQ, come down in towards town and hit either Red Bones in Davis Sq. or Brother Jimmy’s in Harvard Square. And tell me beforehand, I’ll join you. ;)
Had a decent day so far, after falling asleep on my couch at like 10pm [...]
Had a pretty sucessful bugday. Nothing earthshaking, but nice. We tackled a fair amount of nautilus bugs. I would have done more, but nautilus is hosed on my machine for some reason.
After Toshok got mime disabling working, I finally got Evo HEAD built on my home laptop. It’s still got rough edges- the team definitely [...]
Had a pretty good day today- Duke lost a basketball game, but otherwise had some generally fun development discussions and hopefully got the ball rolling on lots of useful stuff.
I also met Nat’s new boss, Marcus Rex, from SUSE. He seems like a pretty good guy, and I think we’ll have a good relationship with [...]
Discovered in my mass of mail that James had implemented a feature I’d requested for jhbuild a few days ago. Nifty to see. Basically ‘cvs up -D’ for jhbuild, so you can say ‘do a build based on CVS from ‘ to narrow down and isolate problems.
Announced Thursday’s bug day, titled Strength In Numbers. I [...]
I forgot to mention that on the train to and from NYC, I read Jeff Noon’s Pixel Juice, which I hesitate to call brilliant, exactly, as it’s sort of Borges/Dick on speed, and some will find it unoriginal compared to them. But I really, really enjoyed- fit my mood, particularly on Saturday morning, perfectly.
