Josiah Carlson (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} chouyu_31) wrote,@ 2008-07-16 08:58:00 |
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thought dump
I took the bus this morning (rather than riding my bike) because my legs were sore. Three and a half weeks of riding after not riding for a year will do that, I suppose. The bus is actually more convenient physically (I walk 1 block on either end) and time-wise (it runs every 10 minutes in both directions during any time I would conceivably need to ride it) than any route I've ever seen in OC. And here OC is supposed to have the best bus system; bullshit (you needed to get a transfer to travel between UCI and a local mall, wtf?). To be honest, it was a little difficult for me this morning, because there were so many options, and on my way home I could have cut off a solid 15 minutes if I would have remembered which routes went my way. Ah well. I may make this a Wednesday thing, give my legs a break mid-week.
Incidentally, I'll also be up in San Francisco M-W next week for work in the San Bruno office. I don't know if I'll be able to get to the other sites to visit anyone, but who knows.
My 1-month stint with OS X has had it's ups and downs. The most recent external monitor stuff is annoying. Also, the current state of samba drive mapping in Leopard leaves something to be desired (I ended up writing a couple scripts to automate the mounting and unmounting, because it was actually easier than using the built-in tools). For a while I was using Expandrive, but for day-to-day work, the samba mounting scripts work with less confusion. I could manually use Macfuse + sshfs, but again, samba works (and was easy to set up). I'm considering buying it and the Windows version for personal use, but that's another discussion entirely.
Also, I joined Netflix. So far I've gotten a chance to see a few good movies, and even to start going through Outlaw Star, which I've wanted to do for quite a while. One interesting feature is that you can see what DVDs others in your area are watching. For reference, people in Venice have really strange tastes.
I took the bus this morning (rather than riding my bike) because my legs were sore. Three and a half weeks of riding after not riding for a year will do that, I suppose. The bus is actually more convenient physically (I walk 1 block on either end) and time-wise (it runs every 10 minutes in both directions during any time I would conceivably need to ride it) than any route I've ever seen in OC. And here OC is supposed to have the best bus system; bullshit (you needed to get a transfer to travel between UCI and a local mall, wtf?). To be honest, it was a little difficult for me this morning, because there were so many options, and on my way home I could have cut off a solid 15 minutes if I would have remembered which routes went my way. Ah well. I may make this a Wednesday thing, give my legs a break mid-week.
Incidentally, I'll also be up in San Francisco M-W next week for work in the San Bruno office. I don't know if I'll be able to get to the other sites to visit anyone, but who knows.
My 1-month stint with OS X has had it's ups and downs. The most recent external monitor stuff is annoying. Also, the current state of samba drive mapping in Leopard leaves something to be desired (I ended up writing a couple scripts to automate the mounting and unmounting, because it was actually easier than using the built-in tools). For a while I was using Expandrive, but for day-to-day work, the samba mounting scripts work with less confusion. I could manually use Macfuse + sshfs, but again, samba works (and was easy to set up). I'm considering buying it and the Windows version for personal use, but that's another discussion entirely.
Also, I joined Netflix. So far I've gotten a chance to see a few good movies, and even to start going through Outlaw Star, which I've wanted to do for quite a while. One interesting feature is that you can see what DVDs others in your area are watching. For reference, people in Venice have really strange tastes.
