pkg(5): Fueling the next steps

Most Fridays, I spend the two hours before lunch assisting at our co-operative daycare. The hour and a half before are pretty good thinking hours, most of which lately have been spent on packaging. As the year passes, and we move into fall here in Northern California, the thinking's been best assisted by having a brief, and warming, snack.

The notes being written are about some of the points raised about the use of hashing, but then I buckled down and wrote an outline for our ARC inception materials, which will probably take more than one or two Friday sessions.

Location: Café Borrone, Menlo Park, California.

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OpenSolaris: Picnic, California Edition

OpenSolaris just turned two—enjoy some good food and good company in the Northern California sun. Tomorrow's first ever OpenSolaris picnic [Upcoming] will be at Baylands Park in Sunnyvale, starting at 11:00 a.m..

Tamara and Ben will, of course, be superlative hosts. See you there!

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Anniversary sunlight

Midday during the anniversary, a few of us zipped off campus for a short lunch in downtown Redwood City. Obviously, this was part shared celebration, but also I wanted to make sure that Dan and Steve exited #opensolaris in favour of a few minutes outdoors and some refueling.

I'm not enough of a photographer to catch candidly seven faces, from table's end. But lunch was pleasant—and my presence as a parental unit at home was mandatory this evening, so I will only get stories of the meet-up.

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New pocket location

I'm not the most device-laden person around here—by far. But I occasionally like to carry a camera and my Visor, as well as the obligatory tether-phone. An extra pocket would be nice, as wearing a jacket (with its 2 - 6 pockets) is uncomfortable for much of the year in a California climate. I always thought that the Dockers was onto something with their Mobile Pants, but now The Register reports that Thomas Pink has upped the ante by placing a pocket on the back of a necktie.

Seems like a natural place for any digital music player or even a voice-driven phone, given a headset with one or two buttons.

Seasonal OpenSolaris shirt

Sara's tree is now available on a shirt:

Pretty slick.

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What I did during my summer vacation: hack hack hack

The rest of the family didn't have vacation time, beyond the Fourth of July weekend, so I got a chance to do some reading and to write some code.

I am particularly excited to use tag(1) at work: my home directory is hosted on the main zfs(7FS) server, which means practically unlimited metadata. Tagging—I hope—will let me coalesce my projects/, projects/old-projects, and play/ into a single projects directory with current and obsolete tags. I'm also toying with ideas around HTML files involving redirects as a private link collection and tagging file fragments via their offsets.

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Neck kerchiefs (or neckerchiefs)

So, while I wore the final symmetric/named knot at the OpenSolaris CAB dinner, I haven't stopped wearing ties to work. I'm tying a variety of knots for four-in-hand ties—Nickys and half-Windsors for the most part—plus the occasional bow-tie. As far as I can determine, it hasn't affected my work.

This is, of course, my wrap-up post on neckties.

For the record, 10

Tie knot: Knot 78 (Balthus).

For the record, 9

Tie knot: Bow.

For the record, 8

Tie knot: No time, no knot, alas.

For the record, 7

Tie knot: Knot 5 (Pratt or Shelby).

For the record, 6

Tie knot: Knot 25 (Christiansen).

For the record, 5

Tie knot: Knot 6 (Prince Albert variation).

Rained out

A rainy stretch here in Northern California is keeping me off the court while my body repairs itself. But I'll need to go practise in the wet if I'm ever to get my jump shot back...

Tie knot: Knot 44 (Grantchester).

For the record, 4

Tie knot: Knot 31 (Windsor).