An Exercise in Sanity

I hate to post another "blogvertisement," but I finally started reading Braxton's blog, "An Exercise in Sanity." It's pretty interesting.

Braxton is my next-cube mate, and a pretty nice guy. He and I don't always agree (in particular, he both likes Perl and doesn't have any problems with C++), but he does have some pretty savvy views about "the real world." Anyways, go check out his blog, maybe I'll post some rebuttals whenever he gets it wrong. :)

The long way home

On Friday, I'm heading back to Austin. From Lake City, it's a long drive, about 980 miles. I'm doing it in two days, because 14 hours of driving is too much for one day. I've decided to stop in Abilene, which should only be about 11 hours on the first day, and a nice short drive the next day.

There are some logistical issues with travelling with a dog as large as Samus (she weighs right around 75 pounds now), but dogfriendly.com has a listing for motels that are animal friendly, so that helps tremendously.

We've had a great time out in CO. Samus has been playing with her "cousins" Penny and Nickel. They're english pointers, and they're cute. Penny is super hyperactive and Nickel has hip dysplasia. Otherwise, they are happy and healthy. Meanwhile, we've hiked about 50 miles while we've been in colorado, plus about 5 vertical miles. I have to say that the last year of working out has made a tremendous difference for me. During a short but steep hike, we maintained a rate of 1 1/3 mph, which is actually pretty impressive as we were also doing 1100' vertically per hour. In general, I haven't been getting overly tired on or after our hikes, so that's been really great.

Although we've had fun, I'm ready to get home. I miss my wife a lot, and I think she's finally had time to miss me.

Go read Cass's blog

Cass used to work with me at NVIDIA. In fact, when I got hired at NVIDIA, he was my mentor in arch. He's stupidly brilliant, and yet somehow not a social retard, which is great. He's over at id now, which is a bummer because he and his family aren't in Austin anymore, but it's cool going up to visit them next to Lake Elron Hubbard.

Anyways, he writes somewhat more regularly than I do over at his blog The Hypothetical Third Dimension. Some of it is math-centric, but he usually follows that up with a segway into his second favorite topic: beer.

Has it really been 7 months?

It seems like it's been awhile since I've posted, and if google isn't lieing (and I have no reason to assume they would), it's been eight months! Anyways, life has been good.

I'm currently out visiting my dad for a month or so in Lake City, CO.


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Lake City is a paradise if you are into outdoor activities such as hiking, camping, fishing or even hunting (I'm not a hunter, but apparently it is a popular activity here).

Samus and I have been hanging out with my dad and his two dogs, and we've been having a good time. We've been on a few hikes since we got here, including Williams Creek and Water Dog Lake Trail.

Our trip is half over, and while I'm having a great time, I'm ready to get home to see TheFish as well.

Olivier could be a Visual Studio Installer Model

One of my fellow nvidians, Olivier, writes in his blog Mutable Conclusions. Prominently on his website, he features a picture of himself. I've included a copy here:



I've teased him about this mercilessly, but I think his picture would've been a perfect include in the Microsoft Visual Studio installer. Judge for yourself.

I'm a comic!

A friend of mine is a (yet undiscovered) great artist. She does phenomenal 2-D work, and keeps up a daily sketch site. I only recently discovered her site, but I was excited to see that I'd been rendered as a comic.

I feel the representation is fairly accurate.