Sort of lousy Christmas break- step-father had a very mild heart attack on the 22nd, and then my grandfather fell and bruised himself very badly on the 24th. All things considered, this hasn’t been nearly as bad as it sounds- Brother (my step-father, don’t ask) has had a very routine angioplasty with a balloon and [...]
Monthly Archives: December 2004
Tue, 28 Dec 2004
28-Dec-04Thu, 23 Dec 2004
24-Dec-04Things not to spend a holiday evening doing: staring at a laptop, wondering whether or not your girlfriend’s flight will get into Philadelphia before her connecting flight to Florida departs. So far her flight from Boston to Philadelphia is three hours late. Half of that was a delay in taking off, and the other half [...]
Tue, 21 Dec 2004
21-Dec-04Sigh. I hereby officially resign from anything that requires proof of my capacities as a sentient being. My sound ‘broke’ during the summit, and has been broken since then, because I accidentally hit the HW mute button.
Mon, 20 Dec 2004
20-Dec-04Awesome weekend in NYC. Saw old friends again, watched Duke beat Oklahoma, saw Rent, made it to the new MOMA, attended a friend’s christmas party, ate well… and got to sleep in twice. Pretty swank.
On return home, excitement at Seth’s usability article (which I hope some day we see in developer.gnome.org/gup/ doc form) was surpassed [...]
Wed, 15 Dec 2004
16-Dec-04sr. garrett is my hero.
Wed, 15 Dec 2004
15-Dec-04Put up pics for my family from my weekend in DC. Favorite one is of a sliver of sr71.
Wed, 15 Dec 2004
15-Dec-04Updated Krissa’s box to gnome 2.8 today, and plopped a link for her website on her desktop. Will be very nice for her to just be able to click, drag, whatever to edit the website. Certainly better than raw (s)ftp for her use case. Thanks to everyone who has pushed that dialog forward over the [...]
Mon, 13 Dec 2004
14-Dec-04Had a great weekend in DC, split about evenly between spending Quality Time with my grandparents and spending time with old friend Eily.
My grandfather turned 90 on saturday, which is pretty cool. His alzheimer’s meds seemed to have stabilized that progression- he’s pretty flaky at the moment, and interesting conversations are likely to take [...]
Wed, 08 Dec 2004
09-Dec-04Random thoughts from the day:
My christmas tree now has flamingo lights, courtesy of Peter and Lizzie.
Apparently Sean Egan’s robotics course is using my book as a textbook. Pretty cool, to me, at least. Sadly, they aren’t using my old OS. C’est la vie, I get royalties either way ;)
I spent some time poking around art.gnome.org- [...]
Mon, 06 Dec 2004
07-Dec-04Had a yummi-licious dinner of a leek and mushroom risotto, with a bottle of the yummilicious Tablas Creek Esprit ‘02 which we picked up during our Thanksgiving wine tasting swing. Fine ending to an otherwise sort of ho-hum day- I did some of the shopping for dinner, some paperwork for work (the best kind of [...]