Back in Upstate. I actually extended my stay in the Bay thanks to Jordan from the 4th to the 8th. A weekend in the city was nice, and I was able to attend a last minute impropmtu p2p-hackers meeting as well, which as Steve mentioned, was very cool.
I didn't get to say all my proper goodbyes to everyone before I left, which was a shame, and is something I plan on correcting. Thanks to everyone who made my visit so enjoyable. I hope to return soon to more thoroughly see what San Francisco and the Bay Area has to offer. A special thanks to Janie for helping me out last minute with getting to Oakland Airport! Being able to avoid BART at 4 AM was a godsend.
In the process of talking about the n-many projects I've given myself over the past few years, the ad-hoc consensus was that a BEEP implementation in Ruby, which I started back last summer, was what should be given highest priority. I agree. To that end, I'm re-starting the SourceForge project site and pestering people who expressed interest to pester me. Hopefully I can attract some developers with better Ruby skills than mine and some neat ideas. It's looking good.
Still working on some local contract work which is proceeding apace. Still need to get paid more and paid quickly. The job hunt continues on all fronts, but I'm positive about a number of prospects, especially after the San Francisco trip.
I've been contemplating some stories and poems recently, some which I started ages ago (on my Visor, of all things) and hadn't gotten around to drafting out completely, editing, and then declaring some version of each finished. Also considering posting those here. Not sure yet. Guess you'll find out.
David McCusker is a really interesting person, I'd like to know more about him and his work. His journal format really irritates me though, and the occasional swaps into fantasy-land with his cast of characters, while interesting on one hand, really turns me off from reading his journal. It's not that I want all techie content, it's more that I can't perform fast enough context switches into the realms of Dave's more fiction-centric material, and I'm not sure I have enough background to provide me with some stable footing as to what's going on and where the interesting bits are, what the jokes where, and why it's cool. Having said that, I wouldn't want Dave to change his format in a million years. It's infuriating at times, but so was much of e. e. cummings, and I still like him. Distinct without being pretentious. I look forward to dinner with Dave sometime in the future. We seem to have lots of similar geeky interests.
I didn't get to say all my proper goodbyes to everyone before I left, which was a shame, and is something I plan on correcting. Thanks to everyone who made my visit so enjoyable. I hope to return soon to more thoroughly see what San Francisco and the Bay Area has to offer. A special thanks to Janie for helping me out last minute with getting to Oakland Airport! Being able to avoid BART at 4 AM was a godsend.
In the process of talking about the n-many projects I've given myself over the past few years, the ad-hoc consensus was that a BEEP implementation in Ruby, which I started back last summer, was what should be given highest priority. I agree. To that end, I'm re-starting the SourceForge project site and pestering people who expressed interest to pester me. Hopefully I can attract some developers with better Ruby skills than mine and some neat ideas. It's looking good.
Still working on some local contract work which is proceeding apace. Still need to get paid more and paid quickly. The job hunt continues on all fronts, but I'm positive about a number of prospects, especially after the San Francisco trip.
I've been contemplating some stories and poems recently, some which I started ages ago (on my Visor, of all things) and hadn't gotten around to drafting out completely, editing, and then declaring some version of each finished. Also considering posting those here. Not sure yet. Guess you'll find out.
David McCusker is a really interesting person, I'd like to know more about him and his work. His journal format really irritates me though, and the occasional swaps into fantasy-land with his cast of characters, while interesting on one hand, really turns me off from reading his journal. It's not that I want all techie content, it's more that I can't perform fast enough context switches into the realms of Dave's more fiction-centric material, and I'm not sure I have enough background to provide me with some stable footing as to what's going on and where the interesting bits are, what the jokes where, and why it's cool. Having said that, I wouldn't want Dave to change his format in a million years. It's infuriating at times, but so was much of e. e. cummings, and I still like him. Distinct without being pretentious. I look forward to dinner with Dave sometime in the future. We seem to have lots of similar geeky interests.
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