Three weekends ago I went for a ride for the first time in, well, rather a long time. My intention was to head west and see how far I got, which turned out to be work. I’d forgotten how annoying the wind in your face is. The next weekend I made it further, up to… Read more
I follow Paul Graham’s writings, because he has written some very influential works (e.g. Hackers & Painters, among others). He has a way of, in his essays at least, writing very clearly and very well. In particular, I like how he is able to classify and organise things, and then present it as if that… Read more
Well, I survived Florida – or more pointedly, the getting to and from there. I’ll start with the flights, because they were about half the waking time in the three day trip, and were interesting in their ways. Our corporate travel agency hates me, this is clear. They routed me through Atlanta on the way… Read more
Tomorrow I’m off to Orlando, Florida, for a few days. Work; career fair thing. Should be good. My flights are pretty evil – three hour stop overs in Atlanta & L.A. (there and back, respectively), which is retarded, but.. about my luck. There’s even the claim that the L.A. to S.F. leg is a turboprop.… Read more
Tax time… grrr… I won’t bore the rest of the world – or myself – with the details, but the “How do you compare with everyone else?” bit at the end of H&R Block’s TaxCut process is somewhat interesting. I earned more than average (yay!), and made an entire $44 interest last year! Unfortunately, average… Read more
Last night I saw 10,000 B.C. with F1 and Matt. I decided I wanted to see it in any case, so I sent word out. I couldn’t convince Ross, though – he simply has terrible taste in movies. :P In a nutshell, it wasn’t bad. Nothing particularly out of the ordinary, and it had some… Read more
Last weekend I finally went to the pool hall that’s right around the corner from me. First on Saturday night with Matt & Juni, then also Sunday with Gus, Julien, Pierre-Olivia (pompous French accent required for correct pronunciation ;) ). F2, Emily & cohort also rocked up. Sunday night was supposed to be for catching… Read more