May 22, 2009
Short Updates
Good morning! One more day of warm spell today, but at least the morning is starting out nice. There must be a lot of pollen in the air. I've sneezed about a dozen times since waking and I've heard the boys sneezing too. Are you ready for the holiday weekend?
Arrived in Boxborough. I would never gripe about the commute if every one was like this. Smooth traffic, sunny, 67-70F, and enjoying a good audiobook. Lots of the trees are lush and blossoming. It's as though nature is apologizing for Ice Storm '08 which left millions without power.
The nerd in me loves surfing the power statistics in the US with this interactive map. (related link)
"32.4m people will travel at least 50 miles this weekend. Up 1.5 percent from year ago." Yawn. I do that every day that I drive to work.
Promise me you'll watch the Wolfram Alpha demo before the weekend is done. (related link) It is like crack for analysis junkies.
After lunch took a tour of one of our two local compute farms. Man! It's huge! The power and cooling requirements! Rows and rows of racks, each rack filled with slices that each have two quad core AMD server chips and gigs of memory. No wonder the local power company cares about it.
I have a co-worker who swears by using NeilMed Sinus Rinse for sinus allergies. (related link) Can anyone else confirm/deny?
"Diesels are dirty." Have you tried the TDI "Coffee Filter Test"? (related link)
Ouch!! Quote: "Much has been written about the Insight, Honda's new low-priced hybrid. [..] So far, though, you have not been told what it's like as a car. [...] So here goes. It's terrible. Biblically terrible. Possibly the worst new car money can buy. It's the first car I've ever considered crashing into a tree, on purpose, so I didn't have to drive it any more." (related link)
Geek humor for today: 'Can God write a program so complicated that even He can't debug it?' Yes, with Perl.
Smooth commute home. I'm nearly done with "Life of Mary". When I got home we went for family portraits.
Snapshots I took today:
