In the east there is a shark which is larger than all other fish. It changes into a bird whose wings are like clouds filling the sky. When this bird moves across the land, it brings a message from Corporate Headquarters. This message it drops into the midst of the programmers, like a seagull making…
Tag: work
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Bouldering in Boulder
Sun Feb 8, 17:35: AC 8657, YUL-ORD, arr 19:04 Sun Feb 8, 20:08: UA 959, ORD-DEN, arr 21:49 Mon Feb 16, 11:25: AC 1072, DEN-YUL, arr 16:53 I don’t actually mind Boulder anymore because I have a friend there who climbs and skis, and they have the best climbing gym I’ve ever seen.
Boulder for work
Tue Sep 30, 17:40: AC 525, YUL-ORD, arr 19:05 Tue Sep 30, 20:02: UA 959, ORD-DEN, arr 21:34 Fri Oct 3, 19:33: UA 256, DEN-ORD, arr 22:50 Sat Oct 4, 9:40: AC 8694, ORD-YUL, arr 12:43 Unfortunately, I can’t get home on Friday night.. so it was either stay in Chicago, or stay in Boulder…
SC 07
Nov 6, 8:25: AC 761, YUL-SFO, arr 11:40 Nov 6, 13:32: UA 6558, SFO-RNO, arr 14:23 Nov 16, 6:15: UA 1608, RNO-DEN, arr 9:20 Nov 16, 11:10: AC 1072, DEN-YUL, arr 16:43 DO NOT WANT (though I’m planning on taking a couple days off and driving to San Francisco – it will be good to…
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…
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…
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