Entries this day: Dream Rarg dan_cleaning dream_garbage_man latenight_bike_ride zzzz_iPhoto

Dream

11:40am JST Wednesday 7 January 2004

Hanging with YRUUers, Rich from San An, Colleen from Houston but now Corpus, and others. Rich was working on some sort of school project thing and I was tired so I had to go and Colleen was walking with me for a bit, but then I remembered I had forgotten some papers so I went back for them. Colleen didn't wait for me and I was sad at first, but then released it.

Rarg

4:27pm JST Wednesday 7 January 2004

Slept till noon. Stuck on my computer since then. Though I did take a shower. Haven't been stuck due to pornography (I'm glad about that), but I've been miscellaneously trying ways to get more photos on my site. I've whittled it down to some problems:

iPhoto takes too long to allow easy update of comments for images.

bah who cares about this? I haven't eaten yet today.

Okay, um, I thought of two things:

! I don't 100% care what the filename is for images. Thanks cause people don't care; they want the image, not the name of the image. Computer should handle the details of naming. (but there are some issues around this; it's almost like I need a DB of images)

@ I can use my images directory to hold images by topic and my journal directory to hold images by date. I think, though bits are cheap, I will only have one copy of the images, and use either a symbolic link or make the journal reference images in the /images directory. This is what I'm doing now because my journal text files and directories are permission 600 while images and directories are 644. I couldn't display the image files unless they are stored in a different structure. OH and that reminds me the symbolic links won't work anyway due to permissions, so nevermind. I'm glad in a way because I didn't like even having a link cause it makes the structure a bit messy.

But, there's the issue of how to easily tell myself the name of the file as I'm writing the journal entry about it. I wonder if homesite has been ported to OS X yet. I wonder if emacs can know how to do it.

6:36pm JST Wednesday 7 January 2004

Have eaten. It feels like a lot longer than 2 hours since I last wrote. Poopy mood right about now. I think I get depressed if I sit at home all day. Maybe there's something to be learned from that.

I'm just going to go to sleep now and hope for something better to come up.

God where is my energy?

dan cleaning

3:41pm JST Wednesday 7 January 2004

Super thanks to Dan for cleaning the kitchen yesterday. We had an inspection today (we had forewarning (though Dan didn't know this)) and the kitchen passed with no worries. To keep from having to work on the kitchen with him, I told him two jokes: the vaseline car joke and the pirate joke (which is actually the magician parrot joke).

I did take out the recycling that he bagged up, though.

ps: Today is the first day of the four days Dan has had his bike that it was not ticketed, nor stolen. However, he almost caused a four bike-pileup (almost being the key word) and in the resulting state of shock, he got lost on the way home.

dream garbage man

9:40pm JST Wednesday 7 January 2004

I got a job as a garbage man here in Japan. Though I don't know in what city. I was on my first day of work, sitting below a firestation and the guys up in the fire station were looking down at me, but they were sleeping, possibly sleeping with their eyes open, but their heads were down like they were sleeping, but with eyes open so it looked like they were looking at me, but they made no reaction to anything I did. Maybe they did this all the time and were never surprised by what people did below their station.

I was not sure what to do on my first day of work, so I waited until the other trash truck arrived and I started to do what they were doing, but quickly I got caught up because they were on the other side of the parking lot and I couldn't see what color cans they were collecting so I waited until they got to my side of the parking lot and I showed them my delimma. I had been about to pour some different recycleable materials together and I didn't think it was a god idea to unsort the sorting that had taken place already.

I woke up before they could explain what I should do.

latenight bike ride

1:41am JST Thursday 8 January 2004

Just went out riding bikes with Dan and Lubo (from upstairs). I told them about the cool place to watch the shinkansen at night (that janette and I found) and Dan was like, "I'm up for an adventure; let's go check it out."

The shinkansen wasn't running; there were workers on the tracks. When one of them was nearly below us I was like, "こんばんわ" and the person looked up at us as if dumbstruck. I'm sure s/he was just wondering what we were doing up there. Nothing more was said and they continued walking into the tunnel.

After about 20 minutes of taking pictures with Lubo's camera, including an inadvertant video of him on the phone (and almost a video of me trying to break into the phone booth) the group of workers started walking back toward the nearby shinkansen track entrance/exit. We were also ready to leave and I asked them if we could get pictures, and basically they said no. "いいじゃない" (not okay). I was surprised and a bit taken aback (yay; I've felt insulted in Japanese!) but pretty much got over it.

We rode around the back alleys behind our building, retracing backwards where Dan got lost and then exploring a bit ourselves. (Fun = me zooming past them as we rode underneath the train tracks with low sidewalk clearance. The sidewalk makes a distinct dip to go under the tracks.)

We were pretty much freezing, and they were tired after having worked instead of sleeping all day. Got home and I checked the temperature: 37 degrees ("feels like 31") (3 C ("feels like -1")).

Fucking brr, dude.

zzzz iPhoto

6:06am JST Thursday 8 January 2004

I've been up for hours (4 hours?) since the bike ride, smurfing my photos with iPhoto Buddy, a freeware tool that helps organize my photos in iPhoto, making it work with smaller chunks of photos, thereby increasing the speed when working with a particular chunk.

The process of creating chunks requires copying libraries and then removing the unwanted bits from the various libraries, XORing the pics, kinda.

Right now I've asked iPhoto to import a large directory structure with very few files in it. It's taking far longer than I hoped, but it might be doing the right thing (importing 4 art images from a library). We shall see after I wake up; I'm going to bed now.

6:13am

Ah, it seems to have worked. Nice.