I'm struggling to come up with a post, after about a week of jetting around being elsewhere. jeramey and brennx0r were awesome in person, and I also got to meet dariusk 1 who was a lot of fun to be around. Gluing them together, I met nerdgir1 and pentasonic, at whose place Darius was crashing during PAX but who also know Jer and Bren (at least to some extent). And of course I got to see ( Read more... )

Yep, laid off. Sorry for posting it in two journals, for those that read both. I'll have more to say later.

( I am very long-winded when it comes to my history with computers... )

Still haven't gotten everything on my Tungsten T3 onto my iPhone. Still liking the iPhone as an all-in-one with great browsing, decent email (although it's causing me to reevaluate the way I filter spam, since it has no support for things like SpamAssassin spam warnings), decent phone, and excellent media player ( Read more... )

A brief dump of the last week:

Last weekend was my ten-year high school reunion. Because I went to a different kind of high school, I actually wound up wanting to see these people after ten years (never mind all the friends I have from then that I still see regularly). It was a blast. A lot of people with PhDs or in progress on their PhDs; a ( Read more... )

Got to see Joe and his new fiancé on Saturday. I think they're a beautiful couple and it's obvious they've been very happy dating for the last eighteen months or so; I wish 'em the best ( Read more... )

I had a geeky epiphany this evening. Pardon me if it seems basic, but... what the hell.

( geekgeekgeek )

it's a big pic, so the pics of me as Sonic the Hedgehog are ( behind a cut )

For reasons I'm not ready to discuss publicly (and don't pertain particularly to this post), I've been really stressed out the last couple of weeks. I haven't been sleeping well at all, waking up every couple of hours through out the night and being unrested in the morning no matter how early I actually went to bed ( Read more... )

HR pulled the effort into their lap. Which is kind of cool, it saves me effort, but it also means that it's going to happen on their schedule, not mine. When is that? Oh, "some time later this year." Bleh.