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May. 30th, 2003 06:10 pmIt was a track workout this morning, which was pretty cool :) Mother and myself headed over there, and I ran some mixture of 100s and 200s (basically until I didn't feel like it anymore ... I'm not in Fast Alex shape right yet, so I didn't keep a clock on, or even a count of how many I did... just wanted to get my body used to running fast again) and she walked and ran as much as she felt like...
For lunch, mother and myself went to the Pitaria, which was very nice... I had a falafel pita, and the young woman who's always working there when I come in remembered my name, which was interesting, considering I'd only been there a few times before. After that, we popped into the Theatre school (where mom's a student) to take a look at the announcements board and say hello to people, which was interesting... it's a different world, over in the Theatre building.
This afternoon, I had this long conversation with Gil, one of Brett's friends from the Linux Kernel class, and that was pretty cool. The more I learn about him, the more I realize he's absolutely brilliant. We hung out in front of the CS building and talked about... economics, and Truth, and the universe, and religion and God and logic and physics... and a whole lot about history and World War II and leftist politics (he knows a whole lot about Trotsky and Trotskyists... apparently, according to Gil, the guy who whacked Trotsky in Mexico, with an icepick, did so in self-defense -- supposedly he was supposed to be just spying on him, but he found incriminating documents from the Japanese government in Trotsky's stuff [possibly a Japanese-sponsored counter-revolution against Stalin?], and Trotsky found out about it and goes at him with his climbing pick... which was turned on him. This is according to Gil.) and Argentina and Mexico. Gil's amazing... apparently he's at least trilingual (he speaks, and reads philosophy in, German, and he's Cuban-born, so he started out bilingual with Spanish) and went to this magnet school where kids were assumed to be on their way to medschool. He's just ... remarkably knowledgeable about all sorts of interesting things. We talked until my head (which I'm probably going to shave again, in the near future) started to feel sunburnt... what a funky guy. Brett meets the coolest people -- and he's going to be on our team for the final project for the class, so that'll be groovy.
... and my little LED doohickey actually does work, if you fiddle with it a bit -- it just doesn't make a good connection unless you put pressure on it in a particular way... kinda upsetting.
There's a 5K tomorrow morning -- the annual Miles For Meals race. Perhaps I'll do that. Perhaps I should call some folks to see if anybody wants to go and run it with me. This might not be an exhibition of my amazing aerobic shape, but I may surprise myself... but to do that, it'd have to become more of a mental exercise than a physical one. But that's what racing is, anyway... it should be alright as long as I remember not to out too quickly.
Hrm... we'll see how that goes. Tonight... is more device driver-ing and whatever else happens to happen :)
For lunch, mother and myself went to the Pitaria, which was very nice... I had a falafel pita, and the young woman who's always working there when I come in remembered my name, which was interesting, considering I'd only been there a few times before. After that, we popped into the Theatre school (where mom's a student) to take a look at the announcements board and say hello to people, which was interesting... it's a different world, over in the Theatre building.
This afternoon, I had this long conversation with Gil, one of Brett's friends from the Linux Kernel class, and that was pretty cool. The more I learn about him, the more I realize he's absolutely brilliant. We hung out in front of the CS building and talked about... economics, and Truth, and the universe, and religion and God and logic and physics... and a whole lot about history and World War II and leftist politics (he knows a whole lot about Trotsky and Trotskyists... apparently, according to Gil, the guy who whacked Trotsky in Mexico, with an icepick, did so in self-defense -- supposedly he was supposed to be just spying on him, but he found incriminating documents from the Japanese government in Trotsky's stuff [possibly a Japanese-sponsored counter-revolution against Stalin?], and Trotsky found out about it and goes at him with his climbing pick... which was turned on him. This is according to Gil.) and Argentina and Mexico. Gil's amazing... apparently he's at least trilingual (he speaks, and reads philosophy in, German, and he's Cuban-born, so he started out bilingual with Spanish) and went to this magnet school where kids were assumed to be on their way to medschool. He's just ... remarkably knowledgeable about all sorts of interesting things. We talked until my head (which I'm probably going to shave again, in the near future) started to feel sunburnt... what a funky guy. Brett meets the coolest people -- and he's going to be on our team for the final project for the class, so that'll be groovy.
... and my little LED doohickey actually does work, if you fiddle with it a bit -- it just doesn't make a good connection unless you put pressure on it in a particular way... kinda upsetting.
There's a 5K tomorrow morning -- the annual Miles For Meals race. Perhaps I'll do that. Perhaps I should call some folks to see if anybody wants to go and run it with me. This might not be an exhibition of my amazing aerobic shape, but I may surprise myself... but to do that, it'd have to become more of a mental exercise than a physical one. But that's what racing is, anyway... it should be alright as long as I remember not to out too quickly.
Hrm... we'll see how that goes. Tonight... is more device driver-ing and whatever else happens to happen :)
