We moved arond the desks. Slightly less cramped now. We can now both sit comfortably. As it was originally we were only three or four inches apart when sitting.
I am at the desk in the back left.
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Feels very cramped. Oh well. Maybe I should start watching SNL again:
via Huffington Post I’ve got a backlog now, and must catch up… then perhaps stop these. We shall see. UN Broadcasting Treaty seen as severely limiting essential freedoms “Innertube” leaves local affiliates in a rip tide Mount St. Helens: There She Grows In Washington State, Online Poker Players Equal to Sex Offenders What’s a little debt between friends? DOJ Moves to Dismiss AT&T Class Action under Cover of Night
(via Boing Boing) Some more… Fired for Blogging? — Extraconstitutional Speech Protections Feds Go All Out to Kill Spy Suit The Perform Act: Anti-Satellite Bill Attacks New XM2go Devices Walk a Quarter-Mile or Die The GOP and Limited Government: Do They Have a Future Together I just finished packing my box and labeling my chair and computer. Over the weekend the movers will move our group from the 5th floor to the 1st floor. I will get a new office mate. I hadn’t bothered to look at the spreadsheet until about an hour ago. Turns out I lose Ian and gain Jeff. I liked having Ian as an office mate. I may be able to suck more information I need to learn out of Jeff though. I’ve been learning a lot from him in the last couple weeks as I slowly brush up my Computer Science knowledge (last seriously thought about my freshman year at Carnegie Mellon) and my mad skilz with fun unix command line text processing stuff. zcat blah.gz | grep ^foo | cut -f 5,6 | sort -u > newthing.txt Woo! And SQL. I’ve always been near it and have occationally had to make trivial modifications of exsiting queries and the like, but I haven’t had to do the stuff myself. Now it would be very useful for my job, so I’m ramping up my hands on knowledge of such things. My current office does not have a window, and neither will the new one. But in the current one I can look out the door and see plenty of sunlight. That will not be the case in the new one. It looks like it will basically be a cave. More lights may be in order. Dunno. Jeff is also a Math guy. I like Math. He’s always writing equations on the whiteboards. Equations are good things. I like equations. I need to work on my energy levels though. It seems I am often tired and find it hard to focus a lot. I just feel droopy. Have for a couple weeks now. And that kinda sucks. Eating right, exersizing and sleeping on a regular schedule would probably all help, but those things are hard. Maybe I can find some nice pills at the drug store that will deal with all that more easily. :-) Anyway, time to head to a meeting. And then, since nobody has their stuff any more, it will probably mean everybody will just call it a day a little earlier than normal. And then it is the weekend.
The view there is actually of the location for the 110 satellite. The 119 satelite had it’s moment a little later in the evening. It isn’t quite as clear a shot, but should be fine too. Because I didn’t think of checking all three until after the time for the middle one, I missed checking the first of the three, the 101 bird. I actually was outside around that time, just didn’t know I should be looking. I think it was fine though, with perhaps an even clearer shot than the other two. I’ll get a second shot at the 101 tomorrow though, so I’ll double check. 101 is actually the most important if I recall correctly… quite a few channels are on that one. In any case, a quick double check tomorrow, but looks like we should be good. Whew! This will carry us until the HD Cable Card Dual Tuner Tivos come out late in the year. Then it will probably be time to dump DirecTV and go with that. We shall see. All depends what everything looks like in 6 months or what not. I like DirecTV, but I have DirecTV for the Dual Tuner Tivos, not the other way around. (The new Dual Tuner SD Tivos are cool, but aren’t 100% if you have premium channels… the cable card one will be the way to go for sure.) A sample seven day period logging all items with calories that I knowingly ingested: Wednesday – 3 May 2006 * 5 UTC: Chicken Club, Fries, Coke from McDonalds Thursday – 4 May 2006 * 6 UTC: Half pound pasta with margerine and cheese Friday – 5 May 2006 * 0 UTC: Klondike Bar Saturday – 6 May 2006 * 2 UTC: Chilli’s chicken crispers, corn on the cob, fries and two cokes Sunday – 7 May 2006 * 1 UTC: Denny’s fiesta chicken with corn, green beans, rice, garlic bread and 2 iced teas with sugar Monday – 8 May 2006 * 2 UTC: Red Robin Bacon Cheeseburger, Fries and two cokes Tuesday – 9 May 2006 * 2 UTC: Cheddar Cheese Omlette with 3 pancakes and an OJ Five more for the road: Speed of light may have changed recently Cargo of nails spills onto I-95 Archaeoacoustics – pipe dream or possibility? McCain Says “Clean Government” More Important Than First Amendment UN cooking podcast-killing treaty |
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Tonight was the night where for my location the moon was directly in front of the location of the DirecTV satellites. I had planned for weeks to go outside and look when the moon was in front of the middle of the three. And there it is. The moon from a spot where we could put a dish. Clear as a bell. Basically, this means we shouldn’t have a problem getting a signal when Brandy and Amy move out here and we get the dish installed here. I specifically chose an apartment complex that was clearly dish friendly. The only remaining question was if we could see the satellite from a location where we could put our dish. Yup. Sure can.