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Airports are depressing places. They fill me with the urge to depart. If I can’t depart soon enough, the only logical thing to do is to drink alcohol and play on the internet. It’s a vicious cycle. Oh well. At least I’m not trying to…

So here I sit – awake as all hell but with vision bleary from exhaustion. Typing is an effort. My mind spins and spins. I munch homemade sauerkraut and sip ginger ale in an attempt to settle down to the point where I can lay…

Continuing on the theme of reveling in the ordinary things – it’s a truly glorious day. I played a bit of hooky and hopped a train to Providence this afternoon. Usually I drive, but it struck me as a nice day for a train ride.…

First off: Rogue Farm is a pretty awesome Sci Fi story. redmed and I just got back from Ohio, where we attended the wedding of robotify to Emily (who, if she’s on LJ – I don’t know about it). It was a small wedding, perhaps…

The totally ordinary parts of my life are where I find the most happiness. redmed described yesterday pretty well. Wake up – putter around – start moving – get breakfast – pick up veggies from the farm share – make some sort of preserved concoction…

I filleted a cod this afternoon, and then I made fish stock with the non fillet part. Sort of a “whole buffalo” mentality here around the mansion. Used thyme that I grew myself, too … and a leek from the CSA. Anyway, I was wrapping…

I’m in Miami on work, helping these folks bring up a new compute server. They’re one of those truly interesting groups – a hundred years of plant research – 300 subspecies of mature mango tree on the campus – that sort of thing. I’ve been…

So I finally threw away the circa 1995 website that I had up at chris.dwan.org, and made a whole new one based on wordpress. I have no intention of moving the blogging stuff over there – except perhaps for some of my more structured and…

I think that the last time I made a serious update to my web presence was in the mid 90s. Some things have changed a lot – while others have remained pretty much the same. These new CSS widgets and doo-dads sure are glitzy. In…

I am in Minneapolis. I have been brought here by a particular storage vendor who wants some opinions on the “life sciences market.” For this, we are having breakfast in the morning and perhaps a couple of meetings. This afternoon, I arrived on an airplane.…