July 31st, 2002: Capitalist Oppression
Ok, it's obnoxious to whine about the comforts of my life, but we have the worst housecleaners evar.
My wastebasket.
Also, my sister had her wedding reception on Saturday. I took one picture on this camera but then she handed me her new camera -- with more megapixels. I feel so inadequate.
July 19th, 2002: Boston GNOME Summit
After spending its first day alone in the office, I attended the second and third days of the Boston GNOME Summit. It was pretty fun and informative, and it really helped establish a feeling of coherence, not only for me personally but for everyone there, I think.
In 10-250 before Ron Page's presentation on Plumber
Jeff "I look like Jesus"... Henrikson, was it?
Christophe Barbe presenting gphoto2.
The guy standing, Larry Ewing, invented the Linux pengiun.
Larry Ewing and Radek Doulik
Next day, Louie's presentation on Bugzilla and how it's been working out for us. Can't say I learned anything really new about the process (it would be kind of bad if I did), but it does sound almost plausible for someone to rewrite Bugzilla with a non-shitty backend. It's tempting, but somehow I doubt I'll get on it.
Luis Villa
Strange mannequin in 6-120
Hackers; Sean Egan of gaim is in green.
I also saw Sean's presentation today; it was a little funny as basically all of the core GNOME hackers were there and getting into big platform discussions while Sean just wanted to explain the future plans for gaim. I'd have to say it was a bit haphazardly presented but we got some good discussions about how gaim could be integrated with the desktop in various coolio ways.
The back of Dave Camp's head.
July 19th, 2002: Parrot Pause
July 11th, 2002: Up to Gloucester
Took a day off to visit lonely Alex where he's staying in Gloucester with Kelsey, Ilya, Mike, and Killah G. Got sunburned like a mofo... A very pale mofo.
I feel like I've taken this picture ten times.
Ranger!
An interior monologue for you:
"Hm, Ilya and Mike are fooling with the grill. This is probably not a good idea."
"Is that lighter fluid in Mike's hand? This can't be good."
"Yeah."
(PS. My brother is apparently getting very hard-core.)
July 6th, 2002: Down on the Cape
Spent most of the official weekend down on the Cape. Didn't really do all that much, but I got to see another Commodores game and think a bit about implementing a trust-based peer-to-peer protocol -- inspired after reading the Gnutella protocol specification; it's amazing it works at all. Well, given the interface supported by LimeWire, there must be more supported than what's described in the spec.
Downstairs.
I'm not sure why, but for some reason this house always makes me feel really lonely. It kind of sucks, when I concentrate on it, but I think the feeling will improve with time.
Upstairs.
Note the weird completely uniform gray sky. As I was saying, sometimes the Cape can be so depressing.
Looking at the same from a different angle.
But this looks better, eh? The house itself is really nice: spacious and unintrusive.
Front lawn.
July 2nd, 2002: [Monty Python joke here]
While my sister moves between houses, we get to take care of one of her parrots for a bit. Inca is really big and colorful, a beautiful bird, though cruelly caged at the moment. He's also a victim of poor lighting here; I'm not going to try to bother to get better pictures until I can get him out of the cage, no small task with this dude.
Rut-row! Inca's... behind bars!
I also added an XSL script to make this page available as an RDF source just because it was pretty easy with XSLT and XML. Woo!
