Author Archives: David Terrell

New cult

I’ve joined the Mac cult with a purchase last week of an iBook. It’s ostensibly for Rebecca but I keep hauling off with it to sit in a corner and hack on Ugly. I’ll try to write a little bit … Continue reading

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Ugly!

No, not me. I’m working on a database project with mrw. For lots of reasons, we’re doing it in Java. (ok, two reasons. JDBC exists; and Swing works on both OSX and Unix.) From time to time, I’ll probably post … Continue reading

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Home!

Here are a few of the things I’ve done since I last posted: Had a taxi driver get lost in China. Caught the ferry to the Hong Kong airport by about 5 minutes. Rode on a hydrofoil. Had the ticket … Continue reading

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T-5:45

almost all the way packed. The first ferry leaves at 7:45, hopefully I’ll be on it. Just need to take a shower, and walk through the apartment about 4 more times making sure I didn’t forget anything.

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Pianosa Decommissioning

we’re finally making some progress. There’s even a plan!

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T-16:15

Just got back from shopping. Holy crap, is this a lot of stuff. I’m exhausted. Now to get some dinner, then go pack.

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T-22 Hours

Til I’m on a plane. At this point, I just want to be home. And eating about 4 beef sandwiches from portillo’s.

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More Pictures

By popular demand, more food pictures. A very confused ATM: ChinaTrip/IMG_5335 Hunan Beef: ChinaTrip/IMG_5336 Delicious Fried Prawns: ChinaTrip/IMG_5337 Tofu with Celery: ChinaTrip/IMG_5338 And more! You know where to look…

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China, Day 9

Took my product team to Mao’s for lunch. Gave a presentation on my product at 2. Sales guy asked me to stick around and give it again to some perspective clients. A couple awkward moments in the latter, like when … Continue reading

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Seismology

Kristin Buxton has some pictures of Mt. St. Helens burping. Gesundheit!

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