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Beef has informed me that "you must live in a parallel world. daylight savings time does not end until the end of october." Frickin Ben Franklin.

I guess Iowa State won. Interesting. Cleaning up the house and packing. Perhaps I'll get the expense report from two weeks ago finished. Perhaps not. Flight leaves Des Moines at 4:00 PM, then Dallas, then Albuquerque. We get rid of the silly daylight savings time tonight.

Sequestered in my house, I can't help but hear the roars from Jack TriceStadium miles away or the rowdy college students a few doors down. Despite the distaste I have for American football (especially college football), I am amused that Iowa State may beat Nebraska today. The folks about four doors down have brought their whole living room into the front yard to watch the game and are playing strange drinking games. This is happening 2 miles from where the contest is actually being conducted.

Even though I just provided these notes, I guess I'm kind of a published author. You can actually buy the book.

Here are the authors (click on the image for a closer look)

There's a bit of magic about this picture. The people on the right were in France when it was taken and the people on the left were in Austin Texas.

Amanda visited yesterday and the day before. Except for this cold that I'm nursing it was great fun... talked about the old days, went to Ledges State Park along
the Des Moines River, and ate at Great Plains.

Leaving for Albuquerque late Sunday afternoon.

Mississippi mission accomplished. Back home.

Megan and Beef Their house, Seattle Washington	Grant Wood's 30-year-old sister and their 62-year-old family dentist Gothic House, Eldon Iowa

Looks like I'll be flying home on Sat. Gulfport -> Houston -> Des Moines. I think I left Rise of Endymion on the airplane with only 20 pages to go, unless I find it in the rental car this morning. Arghhhh.

At the Naval Oceanographic Office inside of NASA's Stennis Space Center in Mississippi. Back Monday evening or sooner if possible.

Tons of pictures from France at up at a temporary URL here.

Made it back across the Atlantic. Much more and a thousand photos to post later this week.

Wardriving in Ames with my new Zaurus and kismet:

Now i just need a GPS and I can do real mapping.

Spenser's in Japan. I go to France tomorrow.

http://www.earthviewer.com/ from boingboing.

Had a fairly restful week off. For the benefit of Doug Roberts, there have been two lawn mowings since my last report.

Talked to Kyle Dirks on the phone today. He moved from Colorado back to Portland this weekend and is still with Intel.

When I woke up this morning, I watched the Vanilla Sky DVD I rented last night. Very good film. After watching the film and all the special features, I decided to see what day it actually was (things get sketchy on vacation). I was quite disappointed to find out that it was Monday. I really, really thought it might still be Sunday. I was so convinced, that my watch and laptop were conspiring against me, that I logged into 3 geographically seperate machines to verify the date. Yes, tomorrow is Tuesday.

Spenser (homepage) was in town. He is probably on his way to Japan now. Spent some time at the Villwock's trying to get two machines to talk on their DSL connection. Found out they need a third machine to NAT network traffic to make this happen. I'll have to get that done this week.

There's a new Dag Nasty album out. I already have it on order. Dag Nasty are the shiznit. Emo originals. Bringing back my adolescence with a credit card and a website. Listening to Can I Say (1986) brings back powerful emotions everytime.

In related news, The Descendents are also coming out with a new record. Same memories, same type of must purchase release. Note to record companies: I have over 2000 CDs online in mp3 format and still I buy your records.

I'm going to France next week for an IBM conference on grid computing.

Never underestimate the bandwidth of DLTs via parcel post.

Read two really good short stories:
Lobsters by Charles Stross and 0wnz0red by Cory Doctorow. Finishing up the last of the Hyperion cantos: The Rise of Endymion.

Met with Andy Beattyfor lunch. He's working at The Krell Institute. Says he's working on a 'leet web database to track actual HPC code performance (unlike the top500's single Linpack benchmark). Can't wait.

Met with Ace and JO (same resturant different day). Video life recorders for $1000, wearable computing, Twiddler, new companies, and a quick tour of their University facilities. Pathetic web pages for such highly educated and big thinking people.

I could stand for some Fall weather right about now.

The plan for the Germany trip is starting to take form. Mostly my graphics and Mike's notes. A work in progress.

I hate travel.

Fear my mp3 collection: (~ 2132 CDs / 25651 tracks / 142 GB).