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Just got back from Spokane, where we visited my sister for her birthday. We’ve never really visited Spokane before, but it was a great trip, and a wonderful city. We had a really good time, and Hilly gave a good tour. Saturday morning we did the Peace Rally downtown, and there are some pictures in the Gallery. |
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Month: January 2003
Second Week Blues
Every term starts off with a flurry of people who haven’t read the instructions, or didn’t take their caps-lock off, or can’t connect from work. Its somewhat invigorating to talk to that many people that quickly.
The second week slows way down, and you start to get calls from the truely hopeless, ingorant, and mean people. This term, the second week was busy. We’re having students take the WebCT calls and such, but I think the volume was higher. Not sure why yet. But I’m exhausted. Oh, and the entire network is down because a router crashed, though its been acting up all day. Sadly, no one cares when its not your fault.
Ansel @ 100
Today Scott, Sarah, Chandra, Michelle and I went to the Ansel Adams @ 100 exhibit at the World Forestry Center. There were 50 pieces on display, and two in particular that have been imprinted in my mind for years. I can remember writing an essay on the boulders piece in high school photography. Seeing it full size and in person is much nicer. Granite really is beautiful.
Just outside the Ansel gallery was a picture of Theodore Roosevelt & John Muir, and Teddy with Gifford Pinchot. These names were all fixtures in my Environmental Ethics class. All the while Muir & Pinchot (etc…) were battling, Adams captured the escense of these places that most American’s can only experience through his pictures. To his credit, these pictures are almost enough.
“Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.” – John Muir
Suv, they rule
Two fun sites shared with me today:
They Rule is a really cool map/database of corporate interbreeding.
Bumper Mentality is an article Alan sent to an SUV owner/sympathizer who complained about the size of parking spots and saftey of non-suvs. Its basically a big F*ck-you SUV Drivers, but in a classy kind of way. You make us proud, Alan.
outage
Sorry for the outage. I was playing a game that crashes after every level, and every time I restart I get a new IP address, and I forgot to re-map the ports at my router. I promise I did it every other time.
Joe & Lindsay
Joe and Lindsay were kind enough to drive down to Portland and see us while they’re back home. It was great to see them and hear about life out east. They spoke of how self-absorbed people on the east coast were, and feel like yelling “be happy!” It would be rough to be surrounded by fearful drones.
Joe, Scott and I played a round of disc golf at Dabney St. Park. It was very nice, though muddy. I left my discs at home, so I played 9 holes with Scott’s putter, then used a discarded “chauncy shit disc” someone hadn’t wanted to keep. It helped but not much.
Solaris upgrade
Today I went to work at 6AM so we could upgrade our Spot server to Solaris 8, move it to a different server room, and add a 330GB storage array. Its gone fairly well so far, but we’re having trouble moving the WebCT partition to its own RAID5 unit. Now I want to go home, but can’t until i make sure WebCT works again.
In other news, I may finally be able to install Solaris for x86 onto an old PC at work.