Updated: 12/1/02; 12:37:35 AM.
Rough Days for a Gentil Knight
The Radio weblog of Oblivious Allan Baruz.
“He was a verray parfit gentil knight.” —Chaucer
        

Wednesday 27 November 2002

My contribution to Thanksgiving: cannoli and tiramisu from Termini Brothers at Reading Terminal. So, at three o’clock I went. SS gave me good instructions to get there. South was stop and go but looking across the median at the northbound Expressway I saw an unmoving carpet of cars. I found the parking we usually use when going to lunch, but overshot Reading Terminal twice walking. Eventually spiraled in. Thirty minutes on line, then got caught in the snares of the used bookseller across the aisle. Nasty habit. Got back to the car, then got lost in Camden. I tried to go north and east, but ended up at the edge of the river, watching the bridge, in a very bad neighborhood (aren’t they all?). By this time it was dark, so I called Edward, who used his trusty Mapquest to read off my best path of attack (How did I ever survive before cell phones?). The instructions were good, but my sense of timing was lousy. I had to make three U-turns, one for each of the three major roads I had to get to.

On the Turnpike, with its undifferentiated traffic for the first several miles, I was stymied in my attempts at problem solving. That’s what keeps me awake when I am driving on little sleep, the constant interest of problem solving: how do I find a way to make the idiots in front of me join the idiots behind me? Stuck in traffic moving at exactly the same speeds all around me, I was weaving in my lane and just barely avoiding the nod-off of doom. Eventually the Turnpike bifurcated, traffic lessened, and I was fully awake. Or was it the Coca-Cola?
11:38:15 PM    comment []


I always forget where Richard Gabriel’s essays are.
11:17:03 PM    comment []

Hm. Alan Kay at HP? I really should clean up my Squeak mailing list mailbox at Yahoo! (Blasted non-POP thingamabobbie. Should I pay for POP access? No! Screw them!) Though Kay &co. tend to be cagey on the lists about job hopping.
Kay declined to offer too many specifics about what exactly he'll do at HP labs. "They know what my agenda is going to be, I just haven't figured out which of the 50 ways make the most sense for HP," he said.
Sounds like the contrary of what happened with Xerox. And Apple. And Disney. Sigh. Good luck, Alan! If you can cadge it out of them, a new generation of Digital HP Itsies (Itsys?) for running Squeak would be appreciated.
12:00:58 PM    comment []

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