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Archive for June, 02002
Japan and the top500
Thursday, June 20th, 02002The new top500 list is out. NEC and Japan take a huge lead with The Earth Simulator doing an amazing 38.5 Linpack TFlops.
Still in Albuquerque. Had a tour of the of the Z machine today. WOW!
To ABQ as an AA Gold Member
Sunday, June 16th, 02002Leaving Des Moines at at 6:30AM tomorrow morning to go to Albuquerque via DFW. Back Friday evening. I now have American Airlines Advantage Gold status, so I can use the first class line to check in. Wow.. traveling every week is sure worth it. The perks really make up for the inconvience... 
Bach and our brains
Saturday, June 15th, 02002Listen to any JS Bach... say the Well Tempered Clavier or the Goldberg variations. Rapture. My mind finds joy there, but I can not grok, with my current education, the beauty that lies in the mechanics that I know are present. Should I learn the theory and principles that drive it? If I did, would I see the math as the music spread across time? Would the listening experience be different? Could I understand it as Bach may have? Did Bach perceive it differently, more fully, or better than I am able? How was Glenn Gould's understanding different that Bach's? If my brain was more powerful, could I run the fugue "programs" of Bach or Gould? If I could, would this increased power have, as part, a capability or requirement for introspection of the process that would ruin the effect? Could I love/feel/understand it more/better than them with greatly increased cognitive abilities or is it all unachievable? How would I know what Bach felt? How can I quantify this or my own understanding?
Questions are much more important than answers.
Answers never sought do not reveal themselves.
MP3 status
Saturday, June 15th, 02002mp3s as of Sat Jun 15 10:07:12 CDT 2002: ~ 1162 CDs / 13517 tracks / 80 GB
Pictures from Austin
Saturday, June 15th, 02002Back from austin last night.
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Austin, TX
Tuesday, June 11th, 02002In Austin TX at IBM CSM/GPFS training. Interesting international mix of students. Japan, India, Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, Belguim, Finland, Scotland, Mexico, Israel, and probably others I have forgotten are all represented.
Austin is hot and humid. Too hot and too humid. Also sickly hip.
ISU grad school
Sunday, June 9th, 02002If I went to grad school at ISU - a work in progress.
ABQ, my lawn, and Austin
Saturday, June 8th, 02002Back from Albuquerque a few hours ago. mowed the lawn. rest of the day for washing
clothes and doing paper work. bleh. to austin tomorrow for CSM/GPFS training.
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SliMP3
Thursday, June 6th, 02002tomshardware.com has a review of the SliMP3. I love mine. You should own one.
ABQ
Wednesday, June 5th, 02002In Albuquerque until Saturday. Finally got my repaired laptop back... now I have to catch up on company email ;(.
Beef and stuff
Sunday, June 2nd, 02002Beef came to visit last Monday over Memorial Day holiday.
I've been in Albuquerque the last two weeks.
Going to Albuquerque tomorrow for another week and then to Austin the following week for training.
The paint is striped off of the garage and house windows. I hope everything will painted by the weekend.
Only a few details are left in the north upstairs bedroom. Hope to move back in over the weekend... Looking pretty good.
Had a good phone conversation with Spenser on Friday evening.
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mp3s as of Sun Jun 2 10:10:16 CDT 2002
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1034 CDs / 11975 tracks / 72 GB
Oh... and I put together my new computer last weekend.
