Done yesterday (20100906 Mo - 07 Tu)

[mdlbear]

0906 Mo
  * up 7am; W=200 :(:(; drugs, nose, teeth; bath; dishes, coffee
    weight gain may be water at this point.  Still, very bad.
  * Labor Day
  @ The Alien Jellyfish Song by Chris Conway -- link to a comment of mine
    involving a recent IM conversation at work.
  * 9am: walk: Rose Garden  
    ! few thoughts; combination of present and drifting
  $ HSX: transfered $1k to HSX from svgs for 200912-201009 IT svcs
  * SF with Colleen -- Steinhart, CAAoS, DeYoung
    Got individual memberships, which allow one guest.  Caught the last day of
    the Birth of Impressionism at the DeYoung.  Good trip.  Ended up pushing
    Colleen through the Impressionism exhibit to conserve battery.  KFC for
    dinner.  Good trip.  Long day.
  % it's mostly the left hip that hurts today
  Q Acoustic Guitar: Why Do Guitars Sound Better as They Age?
    via a comment on this post by allisona
  * bed 10:30ish; snuggle

0907 Tu
  * up 6:30; W=199.4; drugs, nose, teeth; dishes, coffee
  @ xkcd Wedding Cake
  * address N's package 
    % realized after mailing that I hadn't proofread the address; checked the
      merge file when I got to work and it was, as expected, correct.
  * bring in beef jerkey, prunes
  * bring in Barnard for presentation.
  @ Consumed - Objects With Back Stories - NYTimes.com
  @ The Problem With Ping
  @ Popcode Harnesses Image Recognition For Markerless Augmented Reality
  @ HipHop for PHP: Move Fast - Facebook Developers
  @ Hacking 4 Health - Schedule and Venue (CrowdVine) Sat. 9/11 (really!)
  * code review at work.  Fun as well as useful.  Ran late, and only half
    done.  This does not surprise me.  Emacs worked fine for the presentation,
    with two terminal windows on the Mac for reading and writing notes.
  * No walkies.  This does not surprise me either.
  * found Droid charger.
  @ Dailymotion - RAINBOW WAR - a Film & TV video (don't remember who
    linked to this, but it's fun)
  * bed ~11pm; snuggle

Monday was wonderful. I went for a walk around the Rose Garden in the morning before Colleen got up. In the afternoon, we went to San Francisco for the newly-rebuilt California Academy of Science and Steinhart Aquarium, and the DeYoung art museum across the street. Ended up buying both memberships; we'd had a DeYoung membership, but it had lapsed several years ago. But well worth it.

The Academy of Science/Steinhart Aquarium is a simply wonderful space. The rain forest exhibit is a helical path through a spherical enclosure that takes you from the forest floor to the canopy, from which you can look down into the segment of river three floors below. The elevator then drops you into the aquarium's Amazon River exhibit, looking up into the rain forest. Unlike the rain forest, the aquarium is highly non-linear -- we kept turning corners and running into new sections that we hadn't seen and hadn't realized existed. The only problem is that, being highly nonlinear, there isn't a clear path through it that guarantees that you'll see everything.

Over at the DeYoung, we managed to catch the last day of the Birth of Impressionism exhibit. I ended up pushing Colleen through it because the scooter's batteries were flagging; this was probably better than her trying to motor through the crowd, so it all worked out.

I was pretty damned tired by the time we got home, though, and my left hip was hurting. We picked up a bucket of KFC for dinner on the way home.

 

Tuesday was pretty good, too, but I didn't have time for a walk. Probably just as well. The main event was a code review. It ran late (three hours rather than the scheduled two) and only got through half of the four projects, which didn't surprise me. But I had fun, as well as learning a lot. The gimmick was that everyone had to learn someone else's code well enough to present it. This was brilliant, because it not only got me familiar enough with Joe's code (for example) to work on it, but meant that one was less likely to get defensive about it.

I brought my netbook in for the presentation, and it worked perfectly. Emacs makes a very good code browser. I used the Mac laptop for notes; I had one terminal window open on my file of pre-review notes, and a second for live note-taking.

The catch is, now I get to fix the bugs we found. But I expected that, and it'll be a good way for me to learn PHP.

The bear is going to go fall over now. Lots of good links under the cut.

Comments

[saffronrose.livejournal.com]

At the Birth of Impressionism exhibit, Ihad to go waaay up close to read the plaques, and then scoot waaaay back to see the blasted paintings.

Rainbow War was indeed fun.

[mdlbear]

I did most of the squeezing-in to read, and reported back to Colleen wherever I'd left her.