... and monday I start anew at Apple. It's been great at Cygnus, then at Red Hat. I've packed my cube, taken the last pictures of people, and had the good luck drinking with the office. Time to go home, take a nice relaxing weekend and prepare for an all new experience.

Eeek.

Here they are:

http://www.ophiuchi.net/~echristo/pics/2005_gcc_summit/

It was a great deal of fun hanging out and speaking with everyone. Next year should be great again.

Home. Had a great time, but it's nice to be back too. The kitties obviously missed me. "Hi dad! *shed*" "gee. thanks kitten"

Pictures so far:

http://www.ophiuchi.net/~echristo/pics/20050524_vacation/

Had a great time.

-eric

but i can't help it.

Your Birthdate: May 12

Being born on the 12th day of the month (3 energy) is likely to add a good bit of vitality to your life ( Read more... )

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bit old, but thought i'd put it in here for posterity ( Read more... )

I heard a bang and stars collided
Her skin drew me in just like a magnet
Little girl my little world is yours

Was relatively painless and the lines weren't too bad. This is likely due to the other polling place across the street as well. Used the Sequoia electronic voting machine. Was easy and quick - no paper confirmation though which is always worrysome. I like the idea of a good UI like that which would then give you a paper ballot to be read and ( Read more... )

I was quite out of sorts until evening. I think part of it was that yesterday would have been my mother's 51st birthday. In all fairness she killed herself out of neglect and bad choices over the years. The timing of it was particularly miserable for me because not a couple of weeks earlier I had been speaking with darkstormangel about the possibility of trying ( Read more... )

One of the judges for the Man Booker prize talks about it in this article here. Interesting thoughts on both reading (132 books in 147 days!) and writing. Since a number of the people on my friends list are writers I thought people might find it interesting ( Read more... )