Wednesday had a reasonable number of ordinary work things. It also had a retirement lunch for 3 people who’d taken the early buyout. This was nice, but I’m sure we’ll miss these folks when they’re gone. Then when I got the usual Golden Eggroll food, they said, “Um, it’ll take longer than usual. OK?” I [...]

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Sunday, Stephanie and I went to see the Braves play the Diamondbacks. This worked out pretty well. We rode the light rail to the game. Of course, everybody else also was riding the light rail, so it was really crowded and we couldn’t sit down. Ah well. It took longer than I’d thought to get [...]

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It’s been a very long and busy week. Last Tuesday, we learned that Patrick’s quitting. He said he wasn’t happy with the long-term prospects at the company, tired of the immense pigheadedness of corporate, and really wanted to go somewhere else and do iPhone development. Wonderful. What does this mean for ordinary peons like me? [...]

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Anyway. The big excitement this weekend was getting everything, including accelerated 3D, working right with nouveau on my superannuated nVidia card. It took some fooling around, and manually downloading and compiling libdrm and Mesa. It did work, though it was a bit more involved than the Gallium documentation for accelerated 3D on nVidia cards made [...]

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Wednesday had a bunch of stuff at work, including a very long meeting that wasn’t really all that productive. Ah well. I mentioned that Steve, Stephanie, and I were planning on getting Popeye’s chicken for dinner, and Patrick waxed eloquent about how good food from there was. So Stephanie picked up the chicken, and when [...]

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Well, the stock market sort of barfed on Tuesday, but what can you do? Not much. Work wasn’t all that fun. Garrett’s peeved at the company and the whole development process, and said as much during today’s meeting. It doesn’t really matter to him; he’s quitting and moving to California. I got TV-out working (mostly) [...]

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Monday. <SARCASM> Always a good day. </SARCASM> Well, at least it wasn’t too bad. I did a bunch of ordinary work stuff. Things are probably not going to be quiet and normal for a while, though. Jeff’s taking early retirement in May, Garrett’s quitting and moving to California in June. These things will mean more [...]

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Anyway. Friday, there wasn’t a heck of a lot going on, because I had the day off since I was on call all last week. I spent a lot of that time petting Moira, reading Anansi Boys, and after eating dinner, went over to Stephanie’s to watch the last episode of Firefly, disc 2. (I’ve [...]

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Here’s another picture from the Sedona trip. This was taken somewhere on the Lizard Head Trail. Work actually hasn’t had that much happen this week. We’ve got a new employee on the team—this will be really useful later on, and will take some of the pressure off the rest of us. Of course, it took [...]

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This is one view of the ancient ruins we saw while on the Jeep tour west of Sedona. Anyway, Friday was notable mostly for going out on a long walk to Five Guys for lunch. Mmm, dead cows and potatoes. Stephanie and I bought some more tickets for the gigantic lottery, but neither of us [...]

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