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da ([personal profile] da) wrote2006-09-12 11:32 pm
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useful day

I think today was well-seized. [livejournal.com profile] melted_snowball is in bed, and I'm headed that direction very soon.

This morning while I was writing my prior week's report for $boss, I came up with a few crazy ideas that had been percolating over the last few weeks. When we met, he liked them. I hope they pan out. [livejournal.com profile] kraig, you get to find out first.

The day seemed quite long; but not in a bad way at all. I kept finishing things and saying, "isn't it 5 o'clock yet? Oh, only 3? Weird," and so on, every 30 minutes or so. I wasn't bored, nor hyper-alert, nor over-caffeinated, nor particularly hit by NADD, just a bit more efficient than usual. Go, me.

When 5:30 finally did roll around, I biked home in the rain, which would've been fun except I realized I was running a bit late. And they went and moved one of the paths again, due to that darned sewer construction.

I got home and hopped in the car to pick up pizza before City Cafe closed. I took what I thought was the safe route, but it wasn't. But it was "closed" and passable-through-huge-piles-of-dirt, not closed-as-in-deep-hole-and-exposed-street-innards. I got to City Cafe before they closed, and they had just one pizza left. It was unlabeled.

I asked if it was chicken-pesto. John whipped open the top... and it was indeed. A lucky man, was I.

And he gave me a defective butter tart. Mmmmm. (Defective tarts don't have calories, don'tcha know?)

And I remembered to buy coffee while I was there.

And I managed to get half the butter tart home for dan, even though it kept trying to leap off the pizza box into my lap. Mmmm gooey lap-tart.

The evening was more sedate, at least for me. After a quick meal [livejournal.com profile] melted_snowball managed to go to chorus rehearsal even though he had been teaching at 8:30 this morning. (How'd he do it? I'm not certain.)

Meanwhile, I watched Princess Mononoke (meh. more review later) and installed Windows (ick) in a virtual environment on my mac.

And... wow, we're going to Boston in two and 1/2 days. I'm excited!
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[identity profile] kraig.livejournal.com 2006-09-13 12:50 pm (UTC)(link)
yay, I like finding things out first!

"gooey lap-tart" - my brane broke.

[identity profile] da-lj.livejournal.com 2006-09-14 03:27 am (UTC)(link)
Heh. And today totally fell apart (wth do I do with mef-fe's gnome, when it segfaults on Firefox and gimp, and kde doesn't? bleh. but that's a rhetorical question, I've still got some things to check before I really start going nuts with that). I'll stop being suspenseful and stop by tomorrow, assuming nothing else goes boom before the morning.

[identity profile] kraig.livejournal.com 2006-09-14 02:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Pretend the plan was kubuntu all along? :)

[identity profile] da-lj.livejournal.com 2006-09-14 03:05 pm (UTC)(link)
but wait, it was. ;)

[identity profile] kraig.livejournal.com 2006-09-14 03:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah yes, of course! *puts his pinkie finger by the corner of his mouth*

[identity profile] psychedelicbike.livejournal.com 2006-09-13 01:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Nor do broken cookies have any calories. They all leak out through the cracks. Of course, that only counts if they come broken. Breaking the cookies yourself does not allow for sufficient time for the calories to leak out. Leakage can be expressed as a Poisson distribution, as the leaking of single calories is essentially a random process.

Re: Princess Mononoke, subbed or dubbed? I tend to prefer the subbed versions, as you'll still get the original voice actors and intonations, when often the dubbed versions, the dubbing director has no idea what's going on. Take Kenshin for example - he's a 14 year old assassin, but in the dubbed version, he has a voice like a grizzled 30 year old combat veteran. Ick.

[identity profile] da-lj.livejournal.com 2006-09-13 09:49 pm (UTC)(link)
I listened to dubbed, because my eyes sort of hurt and I was also installing windows on my laptop at the same time. :)

Generally, I agree, though. :)

[identity profile] pekmez.livejournal.com 2006-09-13 01:52 pm (UTC)(link)
hmm, oops. I didn't manage to note in my calendar when your Boston trip was
going to be, and we've told my mom that we'd be driving down to NJ this weekend (probably Friday night - Sunday afternoon) - are we going to have any overlap?

[identity profile] da-lj.livejournal.com 2006-09-13 02:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Unfortunately, this trip's a very short one- only Fri-Sun, and dan's working on Friday just as soon as we get there.

Sorry we couldn't make this trip longer! Next time we'll plan to have time with you three!

[identity profile] pekmez.livejournal.com 2006-09-13 03:25 pm (UTC)(link)
oh, phooey. well, if you find yourself not booked on Friday, then I'll be
doing my usual baby-chasing work while dan's working, and we could get together without him or b.

[identity profile] dr-tectonic.livejournal.com 2006-09-13 02:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Did you spend the day doing many different tasks?

My theory is that time seems to flow faster as you get older because your brain chunks things up by recognizeable patterns. So a day that you spend doing a bunch of different things, or doing novel things, will seem much longer than a day where you just worked on one familiar thing. The older you are, the more familiar patterns you have to match against.

[identity profile] da-lj.livejournal.com 2006-09-13 09:54 pm (UTC)(link)
That's a good theory. I was doing a bunch of tasks; though, not more so than usual. I was working on more queue items than usual, probably because my morning went so well.

Overall I wasn't doing much that was novel, apart from having a really effective meeting in the morning, and I was thinking about the stuff we talked about throughout the day.

Maybe a little novelty goes a long way. :)

[identity profile] sulle-stelle.livejournal.com 2006-09-14 12:20 am (UTC)(link)
I watched "Princess Mononoke" last week (my very first netflix). [Great minds think alike!]

I liked it, overall, though it does not show remotely the visual complexity or attention to detail of, say, "Spirited Away." So, in that sense, it's not as good. Miyazaki's style has definitely grown and matured over the years.

However, at the time it came out (which was awhile ago now), I suspect it was groundbreaking...

[Before you ask: currently watching "Upstairs, Downstairs," which is quite a departure from "Princess Mononoke"...] :-)

[identity profile] da-lj.livejournal.com 2006-09-14 03:22 am (UTC)(link)
*amused* Hey- thought you said Pilates of the Caribbean was your very first netflix. ;) Can't just go becoming a netflix virgin again. I mean, really. (Not like I'd never do anything like that. No, d. would never corroborate any such behaviour on my part... Never.)

I'm trying to imagine "Upstairs, Downstairs" with either main character from Princess Mononoke, and it really doesn't work.

Maybe with a Doctor Who tentacled monster in the closet. (new series, not old, so better animated effects).

*shudder*

[identity profile] sulle-stelle.livejournal.com 2006-09-14 11:00 am (UTC)(link)
Well, I got two netflix, and watched "Princess" first. (I give"Pirates" a 4 out of 10, while we're on the topic. Really don't get what the appeal is with that movie...)

[identity profile] da-lj.livejournal.com 2006-09-14 01:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Heh.

my co-worker who loaned me Princess Mononoke also loaned me nausicca, which I've heard much less about, but it looks sort of similar. I'm looking forward to seeing that; probably nest week.
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