Entries this day: Ants_and_Cheese Interview_planned Mail_solution XDarwin email_relief y_tu_mama_tambien

Ants and Cheese

8:16am PST Monday 2 December 2002

Sally has been randomly singing the Ants and Cheese song in various forms and to various tunes. So funny! It's taking over the world!

Interview planned

9:54am PST Monday 2 December 2002

Wow! wow wow!!!!

I'm at UCI (University of Civics and Integras; University of Chinese Immigrants; University of California Irvine) and have just called Nova and arranged an interview with them IN 3 DAYS here in LA!! Holy shit that is awesome!

Gotta get a suit; I got nothin' but shorts and T-shirts and jeans this part of my trek. Whoooooo!

My interview is from 9am - 2pm Thursday 5 December. Rock.

12:06pm

I need to update my resume and copy my existing letters of reference/recommendation that I have already in case they don't still have them. Easy. And get a suit. Easy given money; I may be able to borrow one.

Lunch with Sally now.

Mail solution

2:14pm PST Monday 2 December 2002

super thanks to Marcel for clearing up my problem sending email:

I think it's related to RFC0001, which says that all ports have three
timeouts per period, after which normal port operations recommence
(after a brief commercial break). Unfortunately, the RFC was vague on
several important interoperability issues.  Chief among them were
timeout length, period length, and average airspeed of an unladen
swallow.  Vendors argued intensely over what these unspecified
defaults should be, with Microsoft refusing to release airspeed
figures for it's proprietary, genetically altered "Microsparrow 3.1"
product.  This split vendor support into two camps: those who had a
monopoly, and those who wish they had one. Unfortunately, those in the
monopoly-envy category had to deal with labor unions (being without
means to operate without one).  Based on my intense analysis of your
problem, you can't use Mail because port 25 labor workers have refused
to go back to work until their demands for higher wages, more paid
vacation, more official holidays, and free manicures have been met.
Unfortunately, that means packets you've sent destined for port 25 are
rotting on the IP stack, due to a classic case of "priority
inversion," whereby port worker demands for lifestyle-enhancing plush
benefits have incorrectly received a higher priority than your
communication needs.  Liberally applying baking powder to the inside
of your PowerBook should take care of the stinch of rotting packets,
although it might have other operational consequences.

Marcel

XDarwin

3:50pm PST Monday 2 December 2002

Wow.

I've just installed XDarwin on my Mac. Now I have X available on here! Wow! Just like in our computer graphics and design class. Nice.

email relief

6:11pm PST Monday 2 December 2002

Quickly:

how strange that I literally feel emotionally better now that I can send email from my computer (and not have to use Yahoo!)...

Weird weird weird.

I haven't figured out (or tried to) yet what that's all about, but it sure is interesting.

Apparently Kinko's internet access blocks port 25.. pooh.

y tu mama tambien

9:34pm PST Monday 2 December 2002

Just watched Y Tu Mama Tambien, which I really enjoyed. American movies should be so free and expressive.

Just such.... depth of passion in their friendship and so beautifully tragic to suddenly never see one another again, like the guy who reaches the height of his life dream at age 25 and dies in a plane crash flying to the next event. How she knew but wouldn't tell, and just chose to live her life dream until the final days.

So beautiful that the fishing family just took her in as a member of their family. No questions. Full respect for her wishes.

So thankful to be living some of my life dreams now, with no impending deadline.

Plus some of the scenes were just so hot.