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Chat with Fred

9:44am JST Sunday 15 July 2007 (day 13626)

Talkin' with Mr Fred right about now. He's workin' on his big ol' project (which requires ~ terabyte of RAM) for modeling some sort of fluid flow through a reinforced fiberous tubes (aka the arteries in yo brain, boiyyyy).

He's going to do his presentation in Cali next week: heading out to work for a weekend (and ignore his friends) then do presentation, then hang out with his friends for a weekend.

I told him about Maggie's Marble Track being packed, and briefly introduced Ami, though she was being shy for some reason.

We mostly talked about random nonsense relating to computers, video, girlfriends, and over-friendly girls.

After we hung up, I turned to Ami and quoted Fred. "Yeah; he has no idea."

I'm wondering if it's better to meet him before or after his trip to Cali. I can definitely wait until he gets back, but I hope he secret can be maintained that long, especially considering I'm going to SWUUSI.

Not panic packing

12:26pm JST Sunday 15 July 2007 (day 13626)

Super duper thanks to Ami for helping me pack, keeping me on task.

fred

1:18am JST Monday 16 July 2007 (day 13627)

Online with Fred and dad, logged in to Fred's machine in Austin, using a split screen screen session to watch Fred editing a fortran file in vi in one window and compiling it in the other. Technology can be fun.

nathalie

3:14am JST Monday 16 July 2007 (day 13627)

Just "met" (via Skype) Fred's girl Nathalie, whose voice sounds nice. She's pretty funny and nicely unshy. Perhaps I'm too used to Japanese shyness. She's getting a Masters in Education, and was shocked to see the facilities available to the hard-science peeps like Fred.

"They have wall-to-wall computers, and we have makeshift walls..."

When we talked about her coming over here (as in, it's 0.00000001% likely that she will), Fred was telling her about the crowds, and I found a video on youtube

I posted the link in Skype as Fred was laughing that we have 3 ways to chat, all open at the same time: Skype, gmail, and it took me a second to figure out the third one. Oh, a terminal in screen.

So, for fun, I was like,

bash-3.1$ lynx http://www.youtube.com/v/gQG-aLi7lOo

to see what would happen.

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It was a bit against my morals, but I totally lied about how soon I could get there. I wanted a way I could word it so as to not actually lie, but I'm pretty sure Fred would have noticed. I was like, "the soonest likely time is this Christmas, but that isn't actually very likely; it's probably more like next year, but."