Archive for June, 2005

Donkey versus Waterfall

Wednesday, June 22nd, 2005

So, I fired up E-Mule, to get some stuff I want.
Usually I use bittorrent (Azureus implementation) to get stuff I want, but it doesn’t work with particularly old/rare/low demand stuff.
So, I went to emule. And I searched for it. And lo and behold, I found 35 different versions of what I wanted.
And so [...]

tasty

Saturday, June 18th, 2005

Today was the Taste of Tippecanoe.
I showed up around 6:00. 8 bucks to get in, 5 bucks for a sheet of 10 tickets. most of the good foods were 8 tickets per dose (so 4 bucks). So, the food was a little overpriced, but not too badly.
Lots of entertainment. 4 stages [...]

disconnect

Saturday, June 18th, 2005

I think one of the reasons I sort of feel “off” lately … other than the borked sleep schedule and lack of exercise and general physical not-healthyness, is that I sort of feel a disconnect from where I was before.
I think it’s a consequence of a prolonged period of fairly fast growth. Two years [...]

ennui

Saturday, June 18th, 2005

Yikes …
My attitude about work pretty much took a hard left a couple days ago.
I just got …. tired, and stopped caring about my crazy deep projects like the already-ignored subversion project, and the ldap project.
I keep bumping into more cool things I could do with ldap. With a working ldap backend for user [...]

shiavo and the schism

Wednesday, June 15th, 2005

Was reading this abcnews story about how Terry Shiavo’s autopsy revealed that she probably wasn’t abused (though couldn’t conclusively prove an eating disorder as the cause of her initial collapse either), and that she was definitely in a persistent vegetative state from which there was zero hope of recovery. Further, it found that her [...]