Quick update from Amsterdam (yeah, you read that correctly): Oktoberfest is fun – everything I expected. I found friendly Australians and Germans to drink with, etc. I drank far too much on Tuesday. I lost count, but my best guess is 7-8 litres of beer. I didn’t think that was even possible for me. On…
Author: scjody
Acquisition; Oktoberfest!
My employer is being bought by Sun Microsystems. Overall, I think this is a good thing. I know Sun hasn’t been the best Linux / Open Source player, but they have done a lot of good when you look at it. We’re going to be part of the systems group, whose mission is basically “Sell…
RAMROD FTW
West East Apparently RAMROD is not a movable feast. It will be happening on Saturday the 22nd, which means I’m not going to xkcd day – but the rest of you should still go… For those of you unfamiliar with the concept of RAMROD, it is the Ride Around Mount Royal in One Day. Every…
“The calves retained their golden color and were not yet resigned to the fact of their bisonhood. They frolicked and ran—”I’m going to be a gazelle!”—and acted not at all the stolid beasts they would become.” — Tim Cahill, Pecked to Death by Ducks
XKCD day
Is anyone else interested in driving to Boston on the weekend of the 22nd for XKCD day? I’m currently a “maybe” since RAMROD is scheduled for the Saturday, but I figured I should see who else is interested. I’m not doing that long of a drive on my own. Logistics: It’s about a 6 hour…
Hoosic River Ride
Last Saturday was the annual Hoosic River Ride – my third time on the ride, and it’s definitely the highlight of my riding season. cpirate and dfcarney, do try and come next year. I assure you it’s worth the drive. This year was my first time on an actual road bike. I was pleased to…
It’s way too hot.
“heat wave”: random whining: Yesterday was the first time ever that I couldn’t eat an ice cream cone quickly enough to stop it from melting down my hand (I eat quickly.) Last night, I got to sleep OK, but then the smoke detector woke me up at 3:30 for no apparent reason. Then I couldn’t…
Oktoberfest!
I’ve decided I’m going to Oktoberfest this year. No particular reason but I need a vacation and Bavarian beer is awesome. I’ve been meaning to do that and Burning Man for a while, and BM makes more sense for next year. So.. has anyone done it before? Anyone want to go? Munich is a direct…
Internet randomness
Continental Airlines is such a tease: Yeah, I’d like to fly to Tokyo at 11:30 PM! Sadly, it’s for someone else who put in my frequent flyer number by mistake. I hope I get his miles. Also, I was filling out some stuff on a social networking site, then realized I had been filling out:…
Apparently THUNDERSPANK is back for one night only – Monday at 8pm and 10pm at the MainLine. I’m going to one of those – anyone else interested in seeing it, or seeing it again? Thanks to girlintheclouds for pointing this out!
Enlightened Two weekends ago, Vic and Jen came to town to ride the Tour la Nuit and Tour de l’ÃŽle. They arrived on Friday evening just in time to scarf down some Southern Fried Tofu and head out for the night ride. Never missing an opportunity to blow 10,000 minds at the same time, I…
The horror, the horror
I went to messiahdivine and cloquewerk‘s place last night and we eventually ended up playing Arkham Horror. I’m fairly convinced games like that were created by alien intelligences to test how much computation and grunt work humans will willingly do for fun. In the 2 hours before I had to go home, we got through…
I’ve been pondering buying a road bike for a few years now, since I do a lot of recreational road rides where one would be useful. Then cpirate bought one – so now I need one to be able to keep up with him. Plus while shopping for his, he discovered a rather good deal…
A couple of things I’ve promised to send people over the past few days: For those of you who love Craigslist, here’s a disturbingly accurate parody. Also, mainly for auzure_skies and jbailey, here’s what happens when you have a world famous violinist play anonymously in a busy subway station, and here’s some of the response.
Party, potluck party!
I haven’t had a party in a while, nobody’s had a potluck in a while, and my parents are in town. All good excuses to have a party! When: Friday, April 13, 18:00 – ? Where: 4104 Hotel-de-Ville, metro Mont-Royal BYOB, bring food to share, and bring friends and wellwishers! I’ve sent this out via…
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C.O.M.A.
Is anyone going to C.O.M.A next weekend? Kind of crept up on me so I haven’t made any plans – I’ll go on at least one of the nights, but I don’t think I can do 3 in a row. Looks like a great lineup though! If anyone from Ottawa wants to come up, spare…
Scanning!
I’m finally scanning the huge number of slides (and maybe even the smaller number of filmstrips) I’ve shot since buying an SLR in 1998. This has, perhaps, been my longest-term project ever. rgb lent me a Nikon LS-2000 slide scanner in early 2003. Every time I’ve pulled it out to use it, something different has…
I’m going to have a party on the second weekend in April. I haven’t decided on any details and I know this is too early for people to know if they can make it or not, but here’s your chance to influence the date:
The things I do for money
I occasionally try to explain what I do for a living to people with varying degrees of success – so now I’d like to show you. This is Jaguar. It is the 10th most powerful supercomputer in the world and the most powerful open use machine (in other words if you have a good enough…