On Saturday, I practiced Iaido and tested for shodan (1st degree black belt). I felt like my test went well and the judges agreed (5/5 passed). I can recall a couple of mistakes, but each was more like "here is something I am trying to improve" and not "oh shoot, I wasn't supposed to do that ( Read more... )

After such an interesting week, I wrapped it up by working 12 hours today. Interesting efforts today including studying the assembly of the Windows implementation of memcpy. And quite the interesting tool for NUMA systems that I wrote. But enough of work ( Read more... )

Saturday was a really good day. Kathryn and I went snowshoeing off-off-trail avoiding loud snowshoers and louder snowmobiles; however, the snow was also not packed down and without routes, which meant that we went much slower than trail bound people. There were some moments of silence, on a slope of a mountain in the snowy trees. And we could ( Read more... )

This past Saturday was my division's (COSD) holiday party. I brought along my hiking partner. We were about 15 minutes late, which still meant we were running on time based on the corporate culture. (Like the ski trip last year that left at 7:15 sharp. So when I arrived at 7:15 and got on the second bus to leave, I remembered that no one is on ( Read more... )