Braaaains

My new office is narrow, close to an often-beeping ATM, and it's too full of desks (granted, I might be able to have one removed).

But, it has a window, on the ground-floor, facing a roadway. And the window is mirrored. So there might be good people-watching. Yesterday there were two buff shirtless guys walking past looking at themselves (or each other?) in the mirror.

I idly considered putting in a webcam, but I won't, no matter how much certain people think it's a good idea.

...Today I'm a zombie. (Braaains?)

I slept more than 9 hours last night, which I hope catches me up on sleep-debt. Why is it that you feel tired and loopy after sleeping too long?

I don't think it's that you're plunked into REM sleep for the last bit and you're bound to wake up confused from dreams, since I've been up for two hours and I'm still feeling the same way, like I just woke up.

abandonment issues

Eep. My haircutter who I've used for the last 6 months has left for the summer.

This is the first haircutter whose results I've liked, since I lost the ponytail. He also didn't bug me about using Product. And he remembered me month to month.

Sigh.

[halfwitted, any chance you've found a replacement hairstylist yet?]

Good evening

I'm a happy camper. We just had our first guest presenter at my Perl User Group meeting; he was an excellent speaker, on a great topic [1], followed up by some good local-ish [2] beer, and biking home in shorts and tee-shirt for a total of ~10km today. And melted_snowball is coming in 2.5 days, huzzah huzzah.

Logistically, in the list of: preparing the talk, presenting the talk, reserving the room, ordering and getting the pizza, paying for the pizza, and cleaning up after the pizza, I only had to do one item. There have been many months when I didn't have to do most of them (some when I did) but I think this time it was distributed more evenly; two people each did two items, the other two were chiefly done by one person each. That is to say, I think we're more organized. I think if I were to be hit by a bus, the group would continue. Which is a good stage to be at.

[1] Cees Hek spoke to us on AJAX - Dynamic web sites with DHTML and Perl: How to use the popular Prototype library to fill your web application with flashy widgets such as draggable lists, autocompleting text boxes and transition effects. With a focus on HTML::Prototype and CGI::Application.

That is to say, some of the magick behind gmail, flickr, and such; sending data without reloading pages. With a minimum of fuss/writing XML (ugh).

[2] I've been corrected. It was by Molson. (*sigh* Shows what I know about beer.) But it was still OK beer; Rickard's Red.