By
Miguel Diaz
12 Jan 2004
For a company that makes a disgusting amount of money, one would think they would be able to afford heat. It seems however that the concept has escaped them.
<p>About 10-15 years ago, the building I’m in was built as a “temporary” solution to some space issues that were encountered on this campus. As such I could probably piss through one of the walls to the outside (insulation? what’s that?). Being as nobody works on the weekend (supposedly), management figures that they shouldn’t have the heat on (to save money). So, come Monday morning when we all get in to work, the heat finally pops on (barely) but it takes and inordinate amount of time for the building to heat up. This morning it was <a href="http://www.ucomics.com/boondocks/2004/01/06/">55 degrees</a> when I got in here. I can wear all the sweaters and coats in the world; but I still haven’t learned to type in gloves. Perhaps, I should just work from home for the winter…at least I’m not <a href="http://www.ucomics.com/boondocks/2004/01/11/">too cheap to pay for heat</a>.</p>
By
Miguel Diaz
12 Jan 2004
just want to make sure my diary entries actually go to my diary now…
By
anders pearson
10 Jan 2004
went to the new york <a href=”http://python.meetup.com/“>python meetup</a> last night. it was pretty good. plenty of smart people.
one guy there was a developer on <a href=”http://www.stackless.com/“>stackless python</a> and <a href=”http://www.twistedmatrix.com/products/twisted”>twisted</a> so we got a pretty good overview of what’s going on with those projects. other topics of conversation included <a href=”http://psyco.sourceforge.net/“>psyco</a>, <a href=”http://openmosix.sourceforge.net/“>openMosix</a>, <a href=”http://www.pfdubois.com/numpy/“>Numeric</a>, <a href=”http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?InfernoOs”>inferno</a>, and the trials and tribulations of porting C code between architectures (to OS X in particular).
other random observations: all 6 people who showed up were employed (it seems uncommon; every other programmer gathering i’ve been to lately has always been half unemployed people hoping to make a contact to find a job). none of us were windows users; all Linux or OS X users (and all of us owned at least one piece of Apple hardware, whether it ran OS X or not). i didn’t ask, but based on the conversations about type inference mechanisms, closures, continuations, compiler and runtime optimizations for dynamic languages, and methods of proving program correctness, i’d guess that everyone there had at least some formal CS background.
By
anders pearson
09 Jan 2004
reminder to self: when planning to take a nap while listening to music, take a minute or two to put together a playlist; don't just rely on shuffle mode over the entire collection. i just have too many weird, creepy ambient tracks in there and run a significant risk of dozing in and out of a 20 minute long track that consists of howling wind noises, distant buzzing sounds, screwed up tape loops and ominous whispers with a title something like 'never answer the telephone'.
this is particularly confusing and unnerving when combined with my tendency towards sleep paralysis when i sleep at odd times.
By
Miguel Diaz
08 Jan 2004
What’s the procedure for reporting bugs in Thraxil? I know I’ve run into a couple in the past. (can’t exactly remember them now) And I figure it would probably be best to mention something in the future. I ran into a server error (or some such beast) a while back and it presented me with an e-mail form to explain what I was doing when I broke things…unfortunately the script that was to run when I submitted the form was nowhere to be found. Just curious if there’s an accepted procedure or if it’s just “e-mail anders and he’ll file it under more annoying shit Miguel e-mails me about”.
By
anders pearson
04 Jan 2004
pictures from lani and i’s japan trip are <a href=”http://thraxil.org/images/2004/01/japan/“>online</a>. later, i may even go through and label them.
By
Miguel Diaz
01 Jan 2004
fuck new years and it’s making me black out from all the alcohol…i remember talking to a friend of mine…and then i wake up naked in the guest room of my house (guess my g/f didn’t want me in the bed w/ her)…ugh…haven’t blacked out like that since college…
By
Miguel Diaz
31 Dec 2003
Am I the only one that thinks John Ashcroft bears a striking resemblence to the Cigarette Smoking Man from The X Files? Perhaps Chris Carter isn’t as creative as I always thought…just clairvoyant.
By
Miguel Diaz
24 Dec 2003
Can we PLEASE vote him out of office yet??
By
Miguel Diaz
23 Dec 2003
Hi, my name is Miguel and I’m a Buffyholic. But that’s beside the point. According the Hollywood Reporter, Alyson Hannigan is going to be playing Sally in “When Harry Met Sally” on stage in London. While I am rather disturbed at the thought of Luke Perry portraying Harry, I would spend large sums of money just to watch Alyson rehearse that orgasm-faking scene over and over again.
