The Design and Implementation of laffer1

I'm having trouble sleeping tonight. I normally have trouble on Sunday nights. It's not just the fact I'm heading back after a week vacation (ha!), but the events that have transpired over the weekend.

Thursday, Chris met me to work on the build cluster for MidnightBSD. Caryn was playing WoW the whole time. I had this odd feeling all day, but I couldn't quite place it. My father was at the hospital, after collapsing during a test for his heart.

Ila called me sometime Friday with the news. My father had surgery. I talked to him Friday night. He called me Saturday afternoon to let me know he had been released.

At this point, the facts end.

Man enters ER after collapsing during heart stress test, fails to call family after recovery.

Isn't that how a journalist might write this up? I don't know, but it's happening to me. My father is at McLaren in Flint after he collapsed during a stress test. He had a 99.9 percent blockage in one of his arteries. They had to use a heart stint, and I don't even know his room number right now.

My grandmother had to call me after a brief call from him in the recovery room. My mother found out from his friend. I'm left with little information and a really shitty day.

My mother believes he's angry with both of us and we should visit him since he's a heart patient; we might upset him.

I'm still migrating from my PPC Mac to an intel model. It's been an interesting experience. I used a Time Machine backup to migrate data. It did not move data from the second drive I backup though. I've been copying 100GB of data over since yesterday. It's a very slow process. Mail.app still has some glitches, but the speed bump helped somewhat. I think Mail is the most resource intensive application on my system and I have photoshop installed! Many people would think that is crazy, but consider that it just "imported" 169,000 messages duirng the migration! I also have 3 accounts and until recently made use of hte RSS feature. I found it would lock up waiting on updates for that when I had to shut down so I stopped using it. Front Row is nice, but I think I'll like it better when I get iTunes setup. I have to deauth the mac before i can migrate to this machine.

One news outlet has run a story about the "controversy" surrounding Ann Richards what if support for Clinton.

http://www.kvue.com/video/index.html?nvid=222284

The original site is at:
http://www.standupforhillary.com/

This site is attempting to support Clinton in Texas.

Caryn and I had a nice meal earlier. It was nice to get out and relax after the the last few months. I had to do some work today, but it's not as bad as it could be.

For some odd reason, I'm watching Dragnet (the 80s movie). It's rather
amusing.

I'm testing out the new just journal command line client for UNIX systems. It's actually a very compact program so far. I'm quite happy about that.

this is a test

I've been quite busy lately working, going to school, and trying to balance many group projects. I had no idea this semester would be so busy at the start. In fact, I thought this would be an easy semester. I was wrong.

Nearly every aspect of my life has gotten a 75% effort lately. As a perfectionist, I'm quite annoyed by this course of events. It's hard for me to let go of one project and jump to the next.

Caryn and I went downtown on Valentine's day and on Saturday. We ate at Seva's and Cottage Inn respectively. It was a nice change of pace. Yummy. We also went to the new Borders store. It has a decent selection of computer books compared to other stores in the area. I got a book on GTK programming, and Caryn bought books on MySQL Stored Procedures as well as a cookbook. I revised the code for my assignment today and did some other homework.

I just googled my name and wow I came up everywhere. I think the first 10 hits are me. However, the first hit i found was disturbing that wasn't me.

http://books.google.com/books?id=DjlqULpdv3wC&pg=PA58&lpg=PA58&dq=lucas+holt&source=web&ots=0RG9zvU4lD&sig=MZH4KZ93iYQm2qxid8GWIZDvAPU#PPA347,M1

Apparently, my name was used in a romance novel in the 80s. Bummer.

Apple released Mac OS 10.5.2 today. So far time machine seems to be much improved and the GUI is much more responsive. I'm quite impressed so far. I had to reboot a MidnightBSD machine (the build master) today to swap a video card. It had been up for 111 days. That is the longest uptime I'm aware of for MidnighBSD to date. I had to take an exam today in COSC422 which was rather weird. I'm not sure how I did. Apple has not yet released Apple TV 1.2.

On this super tuesday, I've had one hell of a day. I've been editing web pages for job #2, adding user accounts for job #1, trying to debug a strange windows problem on the server at job#1, editing word documents for Technical Editing, reviewing source code for a team project due at 1pm tomorrow, finishing homework for Li Zhang's class, doing laundry, helping andrew disable part of his script on the xserve, talking to triv about mports, and praying I get my journalism homework done tomorrow. I had one class meet today. I've been trying to follow the poll results. Needless to say, it's not a fun day.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7222114.stm

It's the end of the search as we know it...

This would be terrible for the Internet. Google and Microsoft would not be competative. We'd end up with two big search engines + services.

I just installed MS Virtual Server. It seems to work quite well so far. I'm rather impressed. MidnightBSD 0.1.1 is running in a VM. I'm hoping to use that machine as an extra cluster node for building ports at some point. It's a pretty fast box and mostly idle.

I'm testing the new Just Journal widget. It's rather nice looking compared to the old one. Slightly better error handling as well.

Sony finally released a frickin blueray player for $199. Unfortunetley it's for the PC. In February, you can buy an internal SATA reader. I'm eyeing it very closely, but I don't have an HDCP display so the quality isn't going to be that good.

I've been working on the just journal widget for some time today. A user suggested some improvements in the widget. I'm working on it now to try to fix it. We'll see what happens.

It's a very cold day today. The roads are covered in snow. I'm already sick of winter and it's not close to over yet.

http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/01/17/1553206

Amazing..and according to some blog info, it's under the BSD license!!!! WTG Microsoft.