Thus begins the snow isolation
News ·Wednesday December 24, 2008 @ 01:09 EST (link)
20081217: Worked from home due to snow forecast and ice on roads; working from home for rest of week then off next week, probably week after too.
(Started snowing heavily in the afternoon.)
20081218: Still snowing (10"-12" accumulation at 10pm) in "The Island Nation of Duvall" (as someone on the work Duvall mailing list put it), possible high winds this weekend.
Watched Saw (second viewing, or perhaps third): they try to present Jigsaw as a rational actor, "punishing" people, and giving them a way out of his trap. But I don't find him consistent, nor does he have standing to punish (he's not God, he has no injury if people aren't sufficiently appreciating life, despite the fact that he himself is dying). Lawrence saying that "Jigsaw Killer" is a misnomer because he never directly kills anyone is sheer sophistry.
20081220: Grades are in (supposed to be available on MyUW on the 17th, but they weren't available until today; until now the grade was "X" meaning not yet submitted); I got a 4.0 in Accessibility (I have no idea of the distribution; perhaps everyone did), and my 1.0 colloquium credit (colloquia are pass/fail). It's good news, but tough to maintain especially with more mathematical and programming-intensive courses, like I expect next term's Programming Languages to be. At least now I can put in for my tuition benefit at work.
Power went out for a half minute or so at 2345. minas-tirith decided to help out by turning off ip_forward (what the blazes?). Fixed it up in /etc/sysctl.conf; might have been due to the baselayout-2 change?
Having read the Wikipedia definition of paleoconservatism, I cheerfully identify as one, despising the managerial state; I suppose "paleoconservative libertarian" most accurately describes me (which is why I favor the Constitution Party, although I think the Libertarian Party has more of a chance of getting a candidate elected, so I support them too).
20081221: The promised windstorm never materialized (Honey wasted a lot of worrying). Sent Christmas gifts (money, since we didn't get out to pick gifts and postage is expensive for packages anyway) to (parents and younger siblings in) our families. Honey's relatives in Pullman finally got back to us on coming here for Christmas, begging off because of the weather.
11 o'clock news says Duvall got 19" of snow (up to 23" including overnight), more than anywhere else in the Seattle area (Seattle itself only got 9½).
20081223: Happy Festivus: shoveled the driveway out, took about three hours (1300-1450), went faster when a neighbor loaned me a snow shovel; but even after getting the car out, no dice; the local kids had been sledding on the road all day and it was too slick to get up and the library, one of our destinations, was closing at 1500 anyway. Argh.
Started watching Babylon 5; it's rather comical; bad acting ("Why, why… is the acting so bad?"), bad technology and special effects (you'd never guess it was made in 1993, contemporary with the end of Star Trek: The Next Generation (which ended in 1994).
Books finished: Technical Analysis of the Financial Markets, Into the Labyrinth, Day Trading the Currency Market, The Seventh Gate.DVDs finished: Friends: The Complete Second Season, Paycheck.
20081217: Worked from home due to snow forecast and ice on roads; working from home for rest of week then off next week, probably week after too.
(Started snowing heavily in the afternoon.)
Having read the Wikipedia definition of paleoconservatism, I cheerfully identify as one, despising the managerial state; I suppose "paleoconservative libertarian" most accurately describes me (which is why I favor the Constitution Party, although I think the Libertarian Party has more of a chance of getting a candidate elected, so I support them too).