Rising (Update #3)

[andrewducker]

Got up yesterday at 9-ish, after 12 hours of sleep. Lilian had barely slept at all, but was actually pretty functional. She had a massage while I checked LJ (and made yesterday's update) and then we headed townwards. The idea was to go swimming, so she phoned Stanford Uni (where she recently gave a paper at a conference) to find out if she was allowed to use their pool. They told us that we'd have to buy day passes, but that was fine, so we headed into town. Pausing briefly at a cool second-hand bookstore to buy reading material for the day and at a fantastic bakery for breakfast, we then headed in the direction of the unversity via the free bus service.

The campus was very pretty, marred only by the fact that we'd been lied to on the phone and weren't allowed to use the facilities at all. So we headed on to the nearby shopping complex, wandered around the shops for a bit (Lilian's tiredness kicked in again, so I had to dissuade her from buying lime-green capri-pants in a moment of stark madness) and then headed home again. That seemed to take up most of the day...

I slobbed about a bit in the evening, reading more of Cryptonomicon, and then we headed out to dinner with spikeiowa, whumpdotcom, cynthia1960 and the sadly LJ-deficient Donya. Much was discussed, including metadata, further to which a post will shortly be made, which you will all ignore.

Came home and collapsed into unconsciousness, woke up at 8-ish, read Buddha for Beginners and then came out to check on LJ.

Plans for today are to head to the museum of computing for a guided tour, and then possibly pop to Frys, where I will buy a USB charging cable for my Palm (hopefully).

Oh, and to waste half an hour writing an entry none of you will read.

Onwards!

Comments

[whumpdotcom.livejournal.com]

It was great to meet you yesterday.

I'll read that metadata entry, but then, I'm a geek.

[trav28.livejournal.com]

hehe...I read and enjoyed.

good job you talked green_amber out of the capri pants. That could have been a most evil fashion disaster....

[green-amber.livejournal.com]

They were LOVELY!!!!

[trav28.livejournal.com]

hehe...if you say so, dear.

Am off to London now, will keep my eyes peeled for some capri pants for you ;)

[birdofparadox.livejournal.com]

I read it :P.

I'm glad you're having a good time. Next time you should hit the east coast, so it's somewhat possible to actually meet you.

[andrewducker]

I've never made it to the East Coast. Despite the fact that it's significantly closer.

I would lke to tho.

[drainboy.livejournal.com]

REPLY TO...posts we won't reply to.
We always _read_ them.
But then follows apathy....oh, the endless apathy.

(I work quite hard dontchya know? Did I mention the working? And the hardness therein?)

[andrewducker]

Work? you don't know the meaning of the word work!

I bet you're even working in one of those high level languages, rather than assembler, like God intended.

[drainboy.livejournal.com]

I do.
I read it in a dictionary.

Something to do with "equaling heat".

And we don't work in assembler, I go in and change the ones and zeroes BY HAND

[green-amber.livejournal.com]

We saw a lot of Very Big Machines that did that today:-)