the bay
By anders pearson 29 Aug 2002
off to DC tonight to go camping with lani and some assorted roommates out on chesapeake bay.
we plan on somehow catching some crabs or clams or something.
and of course, it is raining.
herd instinct
By anders pearson 27 Aug 2002
the freshmen have returned to campus.
for the next few weeks, it’ll be difficult to get around. when they first arrive on campus and don’t know anyone, they tend to form into groups with everyone in their freshmen center. and until they have full, busy schedules they all drift around campus in giant clumps.
zum
By anders pearson 22 Aug 2002
tuck is currently in new york for a brief period before heading back to china.
<p>met up with him, julie, and a random assortment of danish and german folk at a german bar called Zum on 7th and ave C tonight. </p>
<p>we had a couple enormous $10 beers. they were huge and came in a big stein about the size of my head that you pretty much needed two hands to lift. i don’t remember what the beer was called but it is apparently the official beer of Munich. </p>
<p>we learned how to drink and toast in danish. it goes like: “<span class="caps">SKOAL</span>!! [rising tone] <span class="caps">SKOAL</span>!! [falling tone] [then you sing a little song in danish] <span class="caps">SKOAL</span>!! [rising tone] <span class="caps">SKOAL</span>!! [falling tone] [yell something really complex in danish really fast. then you finally drink]”</p>
<p>too complicated for me.</p>
<p>got thoroughly rained on on the way home. quite pleasant.</p> ballhead
By anders pearson 22 Aug 2002
who says we don’t have fun at work…
drachen
By anders pearson 21 Aug 2002
i’ve been playing with python and tkinter lately and decided to start up a little project to give me something solid to work on as i learn.
drachen is a little GUI playlist editor designed to handle extremely large music collections. the interface is a little unusual and makes use of the sets instead of trees approach i mentioned recently in the bookmarks. from using drachen for the last couple of days though, i can say that i find it orders of magnitudes easier to work with than other playlist managers i’ve used.
hopkins
By anders pearson 15 Aug 2002
had a conference call today with don hopkins and a couple of my coworkers about an upcoming project that we’re working with him on. interesting guy.
dry paint
By anders pearson 14 Aug 2002
saw a sign in a restaurant tonight handwritten and taped up to the wall that said ‘dry paint’.
<p>brilliant. </p>
<p>i need to start leaving signs like that all over to warn people. maybe even ‘no paint’ signs where appropriate. a road sign or two warning commuters of ‘no construction ahead’ would be nice too.</p>
<p>hmm… ‘beware of no dog’, ‘not slippery when wet’, ‘no baby on board’…</p> move
By anders pearson 09 Aug 2002
we moved to our new office today. in the same building just down a floor. it’s a little smaller than our old one but the furniture is nicer and arranged better. we also have a conference room that is walled off so the noise of meetings can be contained a bit.
<p>i was sad though because to complete the move we had to unplug the servers and move them. my linux server had been up for over a year:</p>11:25am up 373 days, 18:08, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
<p>we’re planning on moving to new rackmounted machines at the end of the month though so i would have been retiring it around then anyway.</p> canonized
By anders pearson 07 Aug 2002
i made saint today on perlmonks. saint is the highest level at perlmonks. i hope i don’t lose interest in it just because i “beat” it. oh well, i guess i still have other people’s high scores to try to beat.
<p>technically, to be canonized, you’re supposed to be dead and have performed at least two verifiable miracles. i’m hoping nobody comes around to enforce the ‘dead’ part. i wonder what the miracles i performed were…</p> hello, i've come for your cornea.
By anders pearson 04 Aug 2002
lani and i managed to keep from going totally insane with boredom in dexter. i think that had something to do with all the allergy medication that lani had to take to deal with my parents cats; they made her basically sleep through most of the boring spells.
<p>on saturday we went down to wiscasset for Jesse and Alene’s wedding. nice little ceremony by the ocean. reception afterwards with about a billion batesies and an open bar. it was good to see people and catch up with them.</p>
<p>kamden dropped the real bombshell though. he informed us that he’s decided to leave the johns hopkins program in nanjing that he was doing to go to harvard this fall and take <em>pre-med</em> classes. yes, kamden has now decided to become a doctor. i guess this is probably only shocking to those of us who have known him for a while. he specifically mentioned that he might want to be a urologist — or, “peepee doctor” as kamden calls it. </p>
<p>the part-time job he’s applying for to help pay for school and get some experience sounds interesting though. he wants to work harvesting corneas, pancreases, and kidney’s from accident victims. i guess <em>somebody</em> has to do it.</p>