I went through an ordeal last night. I was at Eudemonia for BATLL IX (Starcraft tourney!!) all day, and caught the last BART home. I got off at Daly City and walked towards the cab line. I was fourth in the group of passengers. The first two passengers got in to taxis without incident. The… Continue reading When Taxi Drivers Attack
Category: life
Events over the last few months, and other thoughts
Once I miss one event, I feel like I can’t blog before I catch up. Blizzcon 2011: October 21-22! I’ve been to 6/6 Blizzcons now. (The others were in 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010.) I watched esports. Lots of esports. GSL finals on Friday night, Blizzard Invitational on Saturday night. On Friday, Jaedong, Fantasy, and… Continue reading Events over the last few months, and other thoughts
Lilypond
Here is Peterson arranging Wassail in Lilypond, which is music engraving software for TeX. Unlike most music editors, you have to enter in the notes as text. Also, you can’t just select a part and play it: you have to use the tool to convert it to a midi, and then play that. It renders… Continue reading Lilypond
“You require more neutrophils”
According to two blood tests in August & September of this year, I have persistent asymptomatic neutropenia. I have an appointment with a hematologist in January of next year. I picked up my referral packet today at NEMS. NEMS got me a referral to SF General Hospital (which is where the hematologist is). NEMS is… Continue reading “You require more neutrophils”
kittens
Our housemate Quentin came home with orphan kittens on Sunday. He and his girlfriend had found them in the street, in the rain, huddling next to the body of their mom. They were really weak and inactive on Sunday, but we’ve been feeding them (formula from a bottle, then food from a can) and now… Continue reading kittens
Archery!
Yesterday, Fritz, Peanut and l went to the Redwood Bowmen Archery Range! It’s behind Chabot Science & Space center (which I’ve never gone to) in Oakland. It was a beautiful, beautiful day. We shot loaner recurve bows, while the more experienced archers (such as Fritz’s family friend, Neil) shot their compound bows. Peanut and I… Continue reading Archery!
On not multitasking
Last Tuesday, at the Starmonkeys Ruby class, another student said that she’d audited a Software as a Service course at Berkeley. So I looked it up and found the RAD lab and got a class syllabus for cs169 from fall 2010 and started reading it. There’s a big prominent link at the top of that… Continue reading On not multitasking
password oops
I have ubuntu installed through vmware fusion on my mac. I tried to fire it up the other day but found that I’d forgotten my user password. Googling it got me http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/resetpassword This worked, mostly. The only weird part was at the recovery menu (with the blue screen in the background) — when I hit… Continue reading password oops
noisebridge, day 1
I came to Noisebridge for the Tuesday night Ruby class and stayed for the MakerBots. I printed a tiny open-source violin, and then a hairclip with stars that was popular on thingiverse. It was sort of hard to get it to work — the machine with the red material has some trouble maintaining a constant… Continue reading noisebridge, day 1
Ankle
Last Saturday (March 12), I went to hang out with Courtney for his birthday. Part of the day’s activities (after rock band at Elvin’s) included a one-hour visit to the House of Air, a trampoline park at Crissy Field. It’s $14/hr to jump on their trampolines. You have to sign a waiver before entering, and… Continue reading Ankle