VV and I watched the same movie tonight, at different times owing to being on opposite sides of the continent. Amazing how beautiful that movie really is.
I went to Safeway earlier and found this wonderful italian blend I’ve purchased a few times in Boston. Villa Antinori’s Toscana. Every time I drink it, I think about the possibility of spending Austin’s 31st somewhere in the tuscan hills in a villa, drinking wine, speaking broken italian, and relaxing with friends.
and with that, back to the wine.
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’cause noone’s really gonna be free until nerd persecution ends.
Gilbert Lowell
Yesterday I drove to the DMV in Daly City. I was so stressed about everything I have left to do that I 1) got on the wrong freeway (101 instead of 280), and 2) didn’t realize this until I hit Brisbane. Even with the screwups I managed to arrive at the DMV at 10:40 and leave at 11:30. Rushed back to the city for my hair appointment, arrived right on time, and found she was a little behind anyway. Funny how things work out ok even when you try (and fail) to make them go quicker.
and yes, I finally got a haircut. my hair was out of control.
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Charity woke me up at around 3am this morning while she was burning episodes of something (Veronica Mars, maybe?) to dvd on her tivo. I told her about a dream I’d just had:
I was one of 4 men manning a nuclear missile silo, just outside of town. We’d driven in to town for a beer and were relaxing when the call came in - “It’s time. Get down there.” We raced back to the silo, running red lights, crossing the yellow line to pass cars, etc. I lingered at the top as the other guys headed down in the elevator, and called you. We talked for a few minutes about nothing at all. I wasn’t supposed to tell you what was going on, and I didn’t.. I just kept trying to say goodbye in the most meaningful way I could. Kept dancing around both the sinking feeling in my stomach and the words I wanted to say but couldn’t. I left you with a big lump in my throat and a soft “I’ll come see you later.”
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Being in San Francisco is strange and sad this time. I spent the afternoon with Paige, and she mentioned me “coming home” several times. I sorta smiled and shrugged it off, not telling her the obvious truth. Like I told VV the other night, I can’t really say that Boston has captured my heart, but San Francisco has definitely lost it.
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and finally because I told Jeff I would, here’s some PDA.
15 Jan 06 477 Boston, MA 7:35pm Oakland, CA 11:15pm
24 Jan 06 472 Oakland, CA 10:05am Boston, MA 6:40pm
Give me a call, we’ll do lunch.
Austin left me what I think is the best use of flickr notes I’ve seen.
I knew there was a reason I enabled that feature.
I’m still here, really. I’ve just been feeling kinda overwhelmed by the amount that’s happened in the past few weeks, and couldn’t really get a handle on how I was going to relate all of it. Have to start somewhere, I guess, and yesterday is as good a place as any.
On the consumerism front: Santa came twice this year. The second time, yesterday, he wasn’t pulled in a sleigh but drove a brown truck. The tv, the cowboy hat, and the 5 quart saucier came. Now I can wear an apron and cowboy hat and make fudge while watching a bad movie. New laptop battery came to the office too, so I can once again hack untethered for more than an hour. Fun fun fun.
On one geek front: Hacked some more on the Audioscrobbler stuff in Banshee today. Committed two patches submitted by Ruben Vermeersch, one for queue saving/loading, and the other for rudimentary skip detection. The speed and excitement displayed by both maintainers as well as contributors in mono-land is really amazing. I mailed Aaron (an extraordinary example to be sure) a half baked plugin and in a couple of days he’d written a plugin system for banshee as well as a UI for the plugin. A couple of weeks later, and someone is contributing patches for missing features. To say this contrasts with my experience in gnome-land would be an understatement. It’s probably something to do with individuals creating applications, as opposed to a group creating a desktop.. or something.
On another geek front: The 2.0 System.Configuration is about ready to be enabled. I’ll probably flip the switch Monday for System.Web and System.Web.Services. I put in some code to keep the 1.x configuration handlers working if they’re specified in machine.config (mostly to make type-reflector work with my 2.0 machine.config) and realized we could use it to slowly migrate parts of mono over to the new config machinery. I’m still really excited about seeing apps move to this stuff.. I’m also still trying to figure out if a gconf settings provider would be possible (and be a good idea).
On yet another geek front: I found out that my vcard parser from evolution-data-server is being used by opensync project. Rock on. Granted it abuses the hell out of GLists and, as in any handcrafted parser, maintenance is an issue, it’s the most robust parser of its kind that I know of. No matter what the input, it’ll spit out a vcard. It’ll even try to make sense of a .mp3.
more soon.
