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September 24, 2004
Canoeing Sunday September 26th
So this Sunday, as predicted looks to be a whole lot better then last Sunday. 87 degrees, Sunny, no rain. It's gonna rock. Here are the specifics.
Questions and Answers
- When : September 26th, 2004 around Noon until around 5 or 6PM. The trip down the river takes 4 or 5 hours assuming we take some time to swim and eat lunch and stuff.
- Where : Forrestville, CA
- Where exactly : Where Mirabel Rd runs into River Rd in Forrestville. Here's a satellite image.
- How much : Each canoe and paddles and life jackets is 50$ (up from 45$ last year). Each canoe has 2 seats so 2 people can paddle. The typical set up is for 2 people to share a canoe and each of them paddle being 25$ each (cash only, no credit). If 3 people want to join up to cut costs or because one person is lazy, and have 2 people paddle and one person sit in the middle of the canoe and hang out. If anyone wants to do the 3 person thing let me know and I'll give you suggestions about how to do it.
- How long does it take to get to Forrestville : About an hour and 15 minutes.
- Where are we going to leave from : We can caravan in multiple cars and we'll meet at the SafeWay parking lot at Church and Market. This way we'll be able to park and assemble. If you don't live in Berkeley/Oakland or the City, you may want to go directly there and meet us at the site.
- What time are we going to leave from Safeway : We'll head out at 10AM, try to get to Safeway at 9:30 to 9:45 cause we aint waitin'. Make sure to eat breakfast before you come over or bring/buy some food to eat on the drive up, canoeing takes a lot of energy. If you're planning on shopping at SafeWay, DON'T arrive at 9:30. Arrive before so you've got time to shop for food and then head out with everybody.
- How do I contact Gene if I have questions : Call me on my cell phone at 415 722 9846 or email me.
- What should I bring : (Listed in Order of Importance)
So Vital that failing to bring these items, means you shouldn't go at all.
- 25$ in cash
- River shoes (Tivas, or some kind of sandle shoe that you can get wet, and still wear and that you can climb on rocky river bottom with. Old shoes work.)
- Sunscreen
Important
- Lunch to go in the cooler
- Drinks (it's gonna be hot and you will get very thirsty. Bottled water is a good idea) [No glass]
- Change of clothes to leave in the car so you don't have to ride home wet.
A good idea.
- A hat.
- clothes that you don't mind getting wet in
- sunglasses
- a pack to put your water bottles in and BUNGEE CHORDS to attach it to that canoe, so you don't lose it when the canoe tips over.
- Where can I find more information on this : Check out the place that we're going, Burke's Canoe Trips
- What's the weather going to be like : Warm and sunny.
Who's going
I'll update this with the pairs of people as they get decided.
- Dianna and Jacob
- Dustin and Keri
- Zack and ???
- Gene and Sean
- Ivan and ???
- Michele and Kristen and Christine
- Jason and Erik
- Danny and Swiss
Vehicle to Person Ratio
- Passing through SF / Berkeley Oakland
- Kristen's Audi : 4 seats
- Ivan's Sportscar : 2 seats
- Passing through the Far East
- Michele's RAV : 4 seats
- People going on their own and meeting us in Forestville
- Jacob and Dianna in Jacob's car
- Dustin Keri and Zack in Dustin's car
Posted by gene_wood at 11:55 AM | Comments (31)
September 18, 2004
Canoe Trip This SUNDAY!
UPDATE!! UPDATE!! UPDATE!!
I've spoken with everyone who was able to go tomorrow and we are going to postpone the canoeing for exactly 7 days until Sunday September 26th for the following reasons.
- Forestville is predicted to be between 63 and 68 degrees tomorrow with a slight chance of rain. It's predicted to be 81 and no chance of rain next Sunday.
- Danny got sick, Christine was unexpectedly called to LA, Jason is getting drunk tonight, Jack's out of town, Illka can't make it, Kati's down south. The list goes on and on.
I'll update more information here on the fixed and better plan for next Sunday, hopefully if you saw this and weren't able to make it tomorrow, you'll be able to next Sunday.
So this year not much notice, but it's still gonna be fun. Canoeing on the Russian River this Sunday, September 19th. Go ahead and comment here if you are a go and if so who you want to pair up with and I'll post updates so people can see who'll be there.
Questions and Answers
- When : September 13th, 2004 around Noon until around 5 or 6PM. The trip down the river takes 4 or 5 hours assuming we take some time to swim and eat lunch and stuff.
- Where : Forrestville, CA
- Where exactly : Where Mirabel Rd runs into River Rd in Forrestville. Here's a satellite image.
- How much : Each canoe and paddles and life jackets is 50$ (up from 45$ last year). Each canoe has 2 seats so 2 people can paddle. The typical set up is for 2 people to share a canoe and each of them paddle being 25$ each (cash only, no credit). If 3 people want to join up to cut costs or because one person is lazy, and have 2 people paddle and one person sit in the middle of the canoe and hang out. If anyone wants to do the 3 person thing let me know and I'll give you suggestions about how to do it.
- How long does it take to get to Forrestville : About an hour and 15 minutes.
- Where are we going to leave from : We can caravan in multiple cars and we'll meet at the SafeWay parking lot at Church and Market. This way we'll be able to park and assemble.
- What time are we going to leave from Safeway : We'll head out at 10AM, try to get to Safeway at 9:30 to 9:45 cause we aint waitin'. Make sure to eat breakfast before you come over or bring/buy some food to eat on the drive up, canoeing takes a lot of energy. If you're planning on shopping at SafeWay, DON'T arrive at 9:30. Arrive before so you've got time to shop for food and then head out with everybody.
- How do I contact Gene if I have questions : Call me on my cell phone at 415 722 9846 or email me.
- What should I bring : (Listed in Order of Importance)
So Vital that failing to bring these items, means you shouldn't go at all.
- 25$ in cash
- River shoes (Tivas, or some kind of sandle shoe that you can get wet, and still wear and that you can climb on rocky river bottom with. Old shoes work.)
- Sunscreen
Important
- Lunch to go in the cooler
- Drinks (it's gonna be hot and you will get very thirsty. Bottled water is a good idea) [No glass]
- Change of clothes to leave in the car so you don't have to ride home wet.
A good idea.
- A hat.
- clothes that you don't mind getting wet in
- sunglasses
- a pack to put your water bottles in and BUNGEE CHORDS to attach it to that canoe, so you don't lose it when the canoe tips over.
- Where can I find more information on this : Check out the place that we're going, Burke's Canoe Trips
Who's going
I'll update this with the pairs of people as they get decided.
- Michele and Kristen and Jason
- Dianna and Jacob
- Danny and Swiss
- Gene and Christine
- Sean and Ivan
Posted by gene_wood at 11:30 PM | Comments (32)
September 11, 2004
IMAP options
It looks like, after a bit of research, that there are a few big games in town when it comes to IMAP servers. The two main players are the UW IMAP server and the Cyrus IMAP server. Others include Dovecot, and Courier. There are more in addition to these, but these are the ones I've been looking at. You can find more at IMAP.ORG.
I've been reading a great summary by Mike Richardson on the different IMAP servers in the market, as well as an evaluation of the Cyrus IMAP server by Dianna Laakso.
It looks like if we move from our UW IMAP setup to the Cyrus system, we can get away from having a Unix user account for every email user, as well as using LDAP as our centralized user system. This will allow the user accounts that exist for email accounts, to be the same as those that exist on the main site, in the addressbook, etc.
At this point I'm worried about the process of migrating from UW to Cyrus since I can't find any single package that will just do it. It's not like we have a lot of users, but I'd still like to make it as easy as possible. Anyone out there have any experience with this? There is a single tool, mbox2cyrus, that I know of that will convert a users mailbox from mbox to Cyrus format. I'm not very excited about it though.
Posted by gene_wood at 07:02 AM | Comments (0)
September 08, 2004
Sureal factor in suburban MA reaches level 8
I woke this morning on the floor of a friend of Jared's in Billerica. I looked outside to find a hot dark dreary rainy morning. I packed up and headed over to a McDonalds in a deserted strip mall. I got drive thru "breakfast" parked in the deserted lot and enjoyed the rain while I ate. A few minutes later a car drove into a parking space about 3 rows away and parked. A 25 year old fit looking girl got out in gym workout clothes (athletic pants, sports bra) and walked over to the parking space next to where she parked. It was really starting to rain pretty hard at this point. She took a hacky sack out of her pocket and began to play hacky sack by herself. She was pretty skilled. She did this for about 10 minutes, then put the hackey sack back in her car and pulled out three rubber balls which she proceeded to bounce juggle against the asphalt. She put these away, took out the hackey sack, continued for a few more minutes, packed up and drove off. It seems that nobody in Massachusetts cares about the rain, in that as this was happening the whole time a guy in a t-shirt and jeans was blowing the grass trimmings around on the giant unused lawn embankment next to the parking lot. By the time I left he was pretty much just shooting the water off of the wet grass up into the air.
I'm now at the colocation fortress again, and have just found that we won't get any more servers today, meaning that 58 servers are still in Boston, and we won't get them until tomorrow, leaving us with about 14 hours to rack and build 58 servers.
Posted by gene_wood at 09:00 AM | Comments (3)
September 07, 2004
Concrete Skyline goes to Boston
I'm writing from inside a MCI Worldcom colocation center in Billerica, MA. It's an industrial building in a forest basically. The facility is really big. And there's a lot of servers. It's about 78 degrees and humid. Hope it cools down back home. It'll rain here tomorrow and then through the end of the week.
Posted by gene_wood at 03:58 PM | Comments (4)
September 06, 2004
BBQ at our new place TODAY!
Short notice, but whatever. Come over to our new place and have some BBQ this afternoon. Come over before and hang out in our sweet pad or killer backyard. The apartment offers you nice seating, a beautiful view, and good music. The backyard offers landscaping, seats, pretty plants, and grills.
- Where : Gene and Kris's place
- When : If you want to hang out, come over anytime around noon or after. If you want to have food, come over between 4 and 4:30pm. We'll light the coals up at 5PM SHARP.
- What [to bring] : Your grill item(s), and your drink(s).
- How [do I get there] : Take the K L or M to the Castro stop. Come upstairs and head up Castro (up the super steep hill, North) for 1 block. You'll come to 16th (panting) and turn right. Go down 16th (down the steep hill, East) about 5 buildings, and you'll come to our building.
Posted by gene_wood at 09:17 AM | Comments (0)
September 05, 2004
SF Indie BBQ : WRONG DATE
Flavorpill fucked up the date of the Indie BBQ. It's not today. It was yesterday. Sorry, they're usually reliable.
Posted by gene_wood at 02:50 PM | Comments (0)
VFR Update
Thursday at about 2pm I got a call from Emeryville police. They'd found my bike in Oakland. It had been stripped. They said to pick it up I had to call Oakland PD because there was a "hold" on the bike. I called the Oakland impound yard and asked how do I get my bike because there's a hold on it. They transfer me to traffic because the hold is a "traffic hold". I talk to a guy in traffic who informs me that the bike was in a fatal accident (one in which somebody died). Because of this they have to keep the bike for a week or so to investigate the death. I've been trying to reach the cop who's on the case to find out the specifics, but with now luck. From this I'm assuming that the guy who stole the bike is dead since he probably wasn't able to sell it in 2 days, and if there's an accident involving a motorcycle and somebody dies, it's probably the rider. I'm also assuming that the bike is in poor shape since if there was enough energy in the collision to kill the rider, the bike probably didn't fare too well either. I'll post more when I find it out.
Posted by gene_wood at 10:52 AM | Comments (5)
September 02, 2004
SF Indie BBQ
Looking for something to do this Sunday? SF Indie BBQ is the place to be. 1pm-7pm, free, 5 local bands playing 40 minute sets with DJ's spinning in between, BBQ, beer. This is all taking place at Thee Parkside (1600 17th St, 415.503.0393). Be there or be without-BBQ-and-local-live-music.
Posted by gene_wood at 09:25 AM | Comments (1)
September 01, 2004
VFR I miss you
So I figured I'd try to let everyone know this at the same time, just to cut down on the times I have to tell the story (twist the knife). My motorcycle was stolen yesterday from in front of AskJeeves at about 4:30pm. I left the keys in it when I parked it and have obviously gotten what I deserved for doing so. At about 4:30, a Ford Expedition drove up and the passenger (young kid about 16) got out and unlocked and drove off with my bike. One of the security guards at the building thought this looked odd, so he took down the license plate of the Expedition. The car is registered out of Oceanside, CA (southern california) so it's not of much value. Anyhow, maybe it'll turn up in the next month, or maybe it's gone. I didn't have comprehensive insurance (only liability) since the bike had been almost totaled (from an insurance standpoint) about a year ago, when a guy backed his car into it while it was parked. So that's my story, and I guess the moral is don't be a fool and leave your keys in your car/bike.
Posted by gene_wood at 09:11 AM | Comments (9)
Stolen VFR
Stolen Motorcycle
- 1991 Honda VFR 750 F
- Distinguishing characteristics :
- The left side (from the rider's perspective) middle and lower fairings (big red plastic covering panels) are missing.
- Silver aluminum plate attached to the back of the bike just below the license plate with a San Francisco parking permit (Area S) on it.
- Right side middle fairing has scrapes and a crack on it.
- 4 "Bunngie Buddies" mount points attached to the rear fairings
- Stolen : 4:30pm Tuesday August 31st. on Peladeau St. near the Chevron station at Powell & Hollis in front of the Emerystation building in Emeryville.
- Suspect : Passenger in a Grey Ford Expedition, License # 4DZW536, 17 year old black male, short hair, medium build, white shirt white pants.
- Picture
- Location : 5860 Peladeau St. Emeryville, CA
- What to do if you see the bike or the Expedition : Contact Emeryville Police at (510) 596-3700. The officer dealing with this case is Officer Davidson.
Any information at all would be greatly appreciated. The bike was not insured for theft and so this is my loss, not a big corporation. My name is Gene Wood and you can reach me at (415) 722-9846. Thanks very much.
UpdateThe bike was recovered two days later when the thief killed himself riding it. I will recover the remains tomorrow (of the bike).
Posted by gene_wood at 08:00 AM | Comments (0)