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Wow - busy weekend. Mary's mom and brother were in from out-of-town, so Friday I took them out to dinner and hung out at some parks with them. I stumbled across a rock-climbing wall, but it turned out to be a pretty hard one - I've never rock climbed before, and I was definitely not making it up this one. Then we found some bike races and watched those for awhile.
Saturday I bailed and left Mary to show her family around; I watched Life on Mars, which turns out to be a really good show, if slightly cliche and melodramatic. The portrayal of Sam's "coma" state, and how it interacts with the world around him, is really interesting. They tend to beat you over the head a bit with the themes. The ending is really awesome, though.
I also tried to practice for the ICFP, but I don't currently have a Linux box around. I was going to practice by working on the 2007 ICFP in C++; but trying to develop C++ on windows is basically impossible. Visual Studio is sadly the best IDE for it that I've seen (besides vim), and I don't have a copy up here. So a friend of mine suggested VMWare, which is what I'm working on installing now. We'll see how that goes. I supposed I could always dual-boot...
Today we went to downtown Seattle. Driving around was a nightmare; there was a gay pride parade going on, so they had a bunch of streets blocked off, and I'd never been there before anyways, and the street closures made my GPS worthless... wound up paying too much for parking, and then staying over our alloted time anyways (which we didn't get fined for, thankfully).
The Space Needle was pretty cool. Reminded me a lot of the CN Tower, but shorter. The view was *way* better though. The mountains on the horizon, Rainier looming up out of the haze, Puget Sound and downtown Seattle... just awesome.
After that we went to the Science Museum (not the Science fiction museum). It was like the Omniplex on Oklahoma, only a little bigger. It was built around the arches. Typical science museum stuff; I beat Neil (Mary's bro) at huge chess, despite a stupid move costing me my queen. I need to play that game more.
Now, I'm totally exhausted.
Saturday I bailed and left Mary to show her family around; I watched Life on Mars, which turns out to be a really good show, if slightly cliche and melodramatic. The portrayal of Sam's "coma" state, and how it interacts with the world around him, is really interesting. They tend to beat you over the head a bit with the themes. The ending is really awesome, though.
I also tried to practice for the ICFP, but I don't currently have a Linux box around. I was going to practice by working on the 2007 ICFP in C++; but trying to develop C++ on windows is basically impossible. Visual Studio is sadly the best IDE for it that I've seen (besides vim), and I don't have a copy up here. So a friend of mine suggested VMWare, which is what I'm working on installing now. We'll see how that goes. I supposed I could always dual-boot...
Today we went to downtown Seattle. Driving around was a nightmare; there was a gay pride parade going on, so they had a bunch of streets blocked off, and I'd never been there before anyways, and the street closures made my GPS worthless... wound up paying too much for parking, and then staying over our alloted time anyways (which we didn't get fined for, thankfully).
The Space Needle was pretty cool. Reminded me a lot of the CN Tower, but shorter. The view was *way* better though. The mountains on the horizon, Rainier looming up out of the haze, Puget Sound and downtown Seattle... just awesome.
After that we went to the Science Museum (not the Science fiction museum). It was like the Omniplex on Oklahoma, only a little bigger. It was built around the arches. Typical science museum stuff; I beat Neil (Mary's bro) at huge chess, despite a stupid move costing me my queen. I need to play that game more.
Now, I'm totally exhausted.