blivet 2.0

It has been almost two weeks. During that time we have become actively involved in another land war in Asia, my son turned 17 months old, my wife got accepted to the Geosciences Ph.D. program at UNLV and I became ‘the’ Archaeologist at the Las Vegas Springs Preserve where I work.

I have not wanted to talk about the first one, I refuse to stop talking about the second and third ones and the fourth one is more of a ‘bwahaha, now I can begin to implement my fiendish plan for world domination’ sort of thing.

Oops, did I just say that last part out loud?

Ian went to the Doctor on the 17 March and, since he was sick at the 12-month checkup, got both his 12-month and 18-month vaccinations. He also got measured and weighed (is that an ear tag?) and is doing pretty good in terms of development. At the time of his examination, he weighed 27.12 pounds (75th percentile), was 33.3 inches tall (89th percentile), his head circumference was 20 inches (99th percentile — that boy has a big ol’ head) and his weight to height ratio came in at the 57th percentile. It seems the CDC doesn’t have a cuteness metric, so that will remain a subjective measure.

I am very proud of my wife, needless to say. She also had the good taste to land a graduate assistantship, which makes things even sweeter.

Now the Archaeologist thing is really pretty simple. Greg got promoted to ‘Manager’ and thus I became the only ‘Archaeologist’ on the project (he had been the other one). Actually, there are three others, but Jake, Sali and Russell are technically still ‘Interns’ until they finish that whole graduate degree brain-hurting thing. Of course, being ‘the’ Archaeologist does mean the buck stops here for that part of the project too. slightly later: Besides, I’ll need something to do here in Las Vegas while Audrey works on her Ph.D., right?

There you have it, the short version of the local update.

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3/13/2003

blivet - 2003/03/13

Filed under: from blivet ETP — Hal @ 7:21 pm

Jeff, Dave and Grainfield, Kansas #

Jeff’s previous musings about Grainfield once got me talking about Osage City and Lyndon, Kansas where I grew up. Dave’s route will pass about 40 miles north of there. Not that there would be any signs pointing the way from I-40. I don’t think there are any. Most folks going there already know the way. I haven’t been back for 20 years. That bothers me sometimes…

Mozilla 1.3 #

Mozilla 1.3 has been released. Image auto sizing and junk-mail classification seem to be the most obvious new things in this rev. [via Rafé]

This note is mainly for me at work, as I imagine anyone coming here already knows this.

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3/12/2003

blivet - 2003/03/12

Filed under: from blivet ETP — Hal @ 2:45 pm

SETI@Home to follow up on promising data #

Very good. Hopefully my 40118 hours and 2632 units on three computers helped in some way.
[linked to from from all over, including Susan and garret]

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3/10/2003

blivet - 2003/03/10

Filed under: from blivet ETP — Hal @ 3:22 pm

Scripting the Unscriptable in Mac OS X #

"This is the tale of a U.S. government statute, a certain Cupertino-based computer company, and a small revolution taking place quietly on your computer, if you use Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar." Matt Neuburg writes on Jaguar’s implementation of AppleScript in TidBITS#670. Very cool. [more]

RSS would make things unrandom #