Not quite

Thu, 30 Jun 2005

Today has been a day of near (or not-so-near) misses. 7am - Ignore alarm. Eventually get up an hour later. Mind you, I'm meeting a friend at 9am, with almost an hour-long bus commute to get there. 8:30am - Miss phone call from my friend. It turns out that she's going to be about 15 minutes late. [...]

Flapjack Lakes

Sat, 25 Jun 2005

Last weekend Jeff and I went to Flapjack Lakes. It's a 16-mile hike, 8 miles in and 8 miles out. It's somewhat like the Heather Park trail in that it's a relentless slope (never a downward step on the way in). Although it takes 8 miles to gain about 3200 feet, almost all that gain [...]

Backgammon for laughs

Fri, 10 Jun 2005

After dinner today, Jeff and I played two rounds of backgammon. He trounced me the first time (he didn’t gammon me, but it was close). The second game was more exciting.
My second or third roll was double-sixes, so I took the opportunity to move my two blots out of Jeff’s inner board. This turned out [...]

Sarge is released!

Mon, 6 Jun 2005

Woohoo, Debian 3.1 (Sarge) is released today! I can hardly believe it; people were saying any minute now as early as last summer. I guess I got used to the perpetual almost-ness of it. Not that it makes all that much difference to me, actually. I run unstable, so the main effect on me will be [...]