Posted by rae in
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Reidat 10:32 pm on Tuesday, 30 May 2006
.. and thank God!
It’s been a week of hot weather, with today capping it off at 36 C (which is 97 F), and the humidity was awful.
I’m really looking forward to the nice cool 20’s.
San Francisco has been under 20 C all week.
Actually, it almost always seems to be 20 C there!
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Last night all the OSAF’ers headed down the street to the Thirsty Bear for dinner, drinks, and shooting a little pool.
For some reason we decided that Jeffrey should try on different glasses, including some shades that made him look like one of Agent Smith’s men.
Agent Jeffrey
Afterwards a small group of us (Bear, Bryan, Jeffrey and myself) headed off the the IMAX theatre in the Metreon to see “V for Vendetta”.
My expectations were somewhat low for V, as I am a huge fan of Alan Moore’s original graphic novel os the same name, and Moore had his name removed from the movie’s credits.
Nonetheless, or perhaps because of this, my expectations were handily exceeded.
Overall, despite quite large variances from the original story, I felt that the movie was true to the spirit of Moore’s work.
The movie’s climax works really well because it plays the the strength of the film medium, which wouldn’t work in a comic.
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Posted by rae in
Reid,
workat 12:38 am on Tuesday, 9 May 2006
I visited four airports last night.
I started in Toronto, went to
Pittsburgh,
then to Las Vegas,
and finally to San Francisco.
I have created
a set on Flickr
for your enjoyment, to which I will be adding more pictures during the week.
[For those that notice and actually care, yes, I am putting Flickr pictures directly in my blog.
This goes against my ideal of keeping my blog archivable, but I will try to remember to fix this when I get back.]
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Posted by rae in
Generalat 6:01 pm on Friday, 5 May 2006
Next week I’ll be at OSAF in lovely downtown San Francisco, which took me a while to spell properly (I was using “Fransisco”). Many meetings are already planned, and I’ll be sharing a room with
Ted, who is a fellow late-nighter, which is a good thing since my plane lands at 1:30am!
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Posted by rae in
Reid,
workat 1:50 pm on Monday, 1 May 2006
Last night I was
working on Chandler
(to get something committed before the code freeze today),
and doing laundry at the same time.
Unfortunately, while throwing some wet/damp sheets across the room into the dryer, I managed to do something bad to my back.
Augh.
So today I am all set up in the bedroom upstairs, with my laptop and gear for my one-on-one with Philippe at 2pm (in a few minutes) as well as a bottle of Diet Coke and some sesame seeds. Mmmm.
I am sitting in our wonderful, comfy chair-and-½ which seems to have pretty good lower-back support, with my legs up and the phone within easy reach.
Hopefully the back will be all better by the time I fly to SF this coming Sunday.
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