Robot Dreams
Entries tagged as drinking
Wednesday, October 10. 2007
Expected Surprise
I will never really understand how far the universe will go to strike at the least expected, yet most predictable if you have a perverse opinion of the universe, time. Here I was just getting back from the Hawaii vacation, getting back to the usual intermittent work and starting to talk about the ongoing Thot project, since nothing really pressing was going on, and I get called for the possibility of a huge amount of new work. The thing is that I just about rely on such things happening by now. As every time in the past that we try to get back to Thot stuff starts happen that prevents us from working on it. Needless to say I've been stressing out about this new work for the few weeks since then. And now that I get back word from our proposal, I'm even more stressed out. Thinking about the ramifications, and the planning, and much more. But then again I tend work better under stress... Needless to say I'm looking forward to tonights Drinking Liberally, seeing as I can use the drinking to relax a bit from the events so far. With that in mind I leave you with a bit of hilarity from last weeks Drinking Liberally...
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Wednesday, August 22. 2007
Drinking, Programmatically and Liberaly
OK, I must admit the title of this entry is mostly random, except for the "Drinking Liberally" part. Tonight I went to my first drinking liberally "event". If it wasn't obvious, politically speaking, I'm a liberal by U.S. standards. But I guess it comes naturally from being a minority from a US non-state that has a tradition of political fervor. It was fun, and I look forward to repeating the experience. Mostly this is an exercise for me in realizing, given recent past political history, that just voting isn't enough to change things. And on to the programmatic, and unrelated aspect of this post, except maybe related in the drinking part... Here's another autostitch set of images. In this case of the garden in the Aspen Physics Center taken while at BoostCon07.



