Yesterday I turned 31, and lest I be accused of growing up, I thoroughly enjoyed and celebrated my birthday. First, MJ surprised me with a trip down to the Computer History Museum in Mountain View. I had been in the building before for a holiday party, but they hadn’t completed the major Revolution exhibit that […]
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Upcoming travel, Raspberry Pi, LISA 12 and HHD
September 15th, 2012 by pleia2
Following the Ubuntu Global Jam event last Saturday, I was able to spend Sunday finally catching up on some home stuff that needed done. Managed grocery shopping, swung by Bed, Bath & Beyond to get a frame for my O’Reilly award (yay!) and when I got home I spent quite a bit of time dusting […]
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Been busy! Xubuntu, animals, trip to Philly…
September 4th, 2012 by pleia2
I have been exceptionally busy lately. I have a lot going on with work, some exciting but loosely scheduled plans for travel are upcoming in October, today I learned that I’ll be going to the Ubuntu Developer Summit in Copenhagen October 29th – Nov 1st, and we have personal things like wedding planning and some […]
Some *nix events and an evening at the SF Zoo
August 20th, 2012 by pleia2
While Matti was in town we ended up at brunch one morning talking some about Tom Limoncelli’s excellent Time Management for System Administrators book, so I ended up rereading it last week. I’ve actually adopted a lot of the things discussed in the book, but I still have work to do when it comes to […]
Since Portlands
August 4th, 2012 by pleia2
It was pretty cool visiting both Portlands in July, but it sure managed to make my July fly by. I can’t believe it’s August already. At work I recently published 5 things about FOSS Linux virtualization you may not know following up with a conversation about virtualization tools I had at SCALE back in January. […]
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Santa Cruz and this week
July 15th, 2012 by pleia2
I mentioned in my last post that following Felton LUG I went with Bob Lewis (and Peter Belew) over to Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park. It’s a beautiful park, that I later learned is much larger than the part week walked, with a number of trails and even a campground. We ended up doing a […]
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Super Princesses, presentations and anniversary
July 3rd, 2012 by pleia2
I’ve been going to the movie theater more than usual lately, and still have at least one movie on my list to see. Two of the ones I saw last week stood out for their super princess power (and passing the Bechdel Test): Brave and Snow White and the Huntsman. Both movies centered around a […]
Conservatory of Flowers, movies and computer-y events
June 14th, 2012 by pleia2
This past Saturday was beautiful and the rest of this week hasn’t disappointed either. After services in the morning we ended up at The Elite Cafe on Fillmore for a great brunch. From there we headed to Golden Gate Park to visit the Conservatory of Flowers which we’d recently gotten a membership to. I have […]
Buckminster Fuller at SFMOMA and server reinstalls
June 7th, 2012 by pleia2
My boss is a Buckminster Fuller enthusiast and over the years some of that has rubbed off in reading some of his essays and a renewed interest in geodesic dome structures. So when The Utopian Impulse: Buckminster Fuller and the Bay Area opened at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) I knew I […]
Retirement of the Armada
May 24th, 2012 by pleia2
I am a firm believer in “crap technology” as Thomas Hayden defines it in his post Ixnay on the iPod: In Praise of Crap Technology. It’s not some ideological thing, and in fact I never had a name for it until hearing a segment with him on Marketplace, “Crap technology, not crappy, where he says: […]