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Well, some pretty long boring spots in the past few weeks, mostly me flailing about trying to find a new videogame to play. I'm seriously considering WoW again. But this weekend was pretty cool.
Yesterday I went sailing for the first time. We had a 4 person crew of interns plus an instructor on a J/24. It was a blast, but a lot more physically demanding than I'd expected - I worked the jib most of the time, which meant a *lot* of hauling on sheets. But it was one of the least intellectually demanding jobs, which was kind of refreshing. I could get into that kind of thing.
Immediately afterwards I went back to the conference room at work that my team had rented out for the ICFP. Me and one other member worked all night on our lightning round submission, after the other team members took off. I'm still pretty exhausted; I only took a 4 hour nap today. The contest is pretty crappy, though; I guess 2006 is going to stand out as a high point in ICFP problems for a long time to come.
Now, a nice relaxing weekend.
Yesterday I went sailing for the first time. We had a 4 person crew of interns plus an instructor on a J/24. It was a blast, but a lot more physically demanding than I'd expected - I worked the jib most of the time, which meant a *lot* of hauling on sheets. But it was one of the least intellectually demanding jobs, which was kind of refreshing. I could get into that kind of thing.
Immediately afterwards I went back to the conference room at work that my team had rented out for the ICFP. Me and one other member worked all night on our lightning round submission, after the other team members took off. I'm still pretty exhausted; I only took a 4 hour nap today. The contest is pretty crappy, though; I guess 2006 is going to stand out as a high point in ICFP problems for a long time to come.
Now, a nice relaxing weekend.