Take this job and shove it
Sunday, July 28th, 02002Why am I up and working at 10:00PM on a Sunday with a few hours of prep work remaining still, when I have to get up at 3:45AM to catch a flight to New Mexico?
Archive for July, 02002
Photos from Notre Dame and other stuff
Saturday, July 27th, 02002A succesful cluster implementation at Notre Dame. Hello to Rich and In-Saeng.
Received a nice photo book of Notre Dame as a gift. Thanks! Achieved 48.17 GFLOPS in the HPL benchmark across 64 1.4 GHz PIII CPUs (32 compute nodes).
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After South Bend -> St. Louis -> Des Moines by plane, I arrived home late last night. Drove home
through a powerfull thunder storm.
Last weekend I went to Mason City for Aaron Buettner's wedding. Saw Craig and Berta. My camera ate the wedding pictures. Saw many people from High School that I haven't seen in 10+ years. This made me feel strange.
Monday I'm off to Los Alamos National Lab via Albuquerque and Santa Fe. Be there for a couple of weeks.
You're missing a lot if you've never listened to The Dave Brubeck's Quartet's Take Five.
Reading
Thursday, July 25th, 02002Charlie Stross, writer to watch and read.
See this interview
First, and before I hunt down stuff serialized in SciFi magazines, I should finish all the Greg Egan (Just finished Diaspora. Wow.)
Almost done at Notre Dame (pictures). Just GPFS, integration, and training left.
Again to Notre Dame
Sunday, July 21st, 02002again to nd.edu this week.
Notre Dame
Monday, July 15th, 02002Flying to Chicago and then driving to the University of Norte Dame tomorrow.
Kurzweil and Gentoo
Sunday, July 14th, 02002The full text of Kurzweil's new book Are We Spritual Machines is available on the web.
Spent the last few days getting Gentoo Linux running on my workstation.
Iowa and my garage
Sunday, July 14th, 02002Iowa is pretty:
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The garage and window trim etc is finally close to re-painted (before and after):
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Back in Ames
Friday, July 12th, 02002After a <scarcasm>wonderful</scarcasm> trip through St. Louis, I arrived back in Ames late last night.
In ABQ
Sunday, July 7th, 02002Ensconced in my Albuquerque hotel room... wheee.
Travel plans
Sunday, July 7th, 02002On my way to the DSM airport in 30 minutes, then St. Louis, and finally Albuquerque. Be back Friday or sooner if possible.
Wearable computers, Vinge
Saturday, July 6th, 02002Archives (including video) of the past 4 International Symposiums on Wearable Computers. You have to be an IEEE member to read the papers.... lame.
Vernor Vinge gives the keynote for the 2000 session. Sounds a lot like A Deepness In the Sky to me.
Brady ID Pro Plus
Thursday, July 4th, 02002If you're serious about labeling cables, you need the Brady ID Pro Plus shown below:
So.. It's the 4th of July, I got back from New Mexico at ~ 2:00 PM today. Just now I'm listening to Ludwig Van's 9th, the "Alle Menschen werden Brueder" part, and we, at long last, get rain with an impressive thunder clap to boot. Ode to Joy indeed.
I'm going to see Minority Report tonight. Back to Albuquerque on Sunday evening.
