I have breathed new life into forrester -- it is weaker, but still alive, with that disk missing a good 2 gigs of space that were unable to be written in odd ways (badblocks thought the space was ok, mkfs did not). As only /usr/local was dead, all I need to do is restore the software I compiled myself, and do a cvs pull of the software I wrote from the repositories on sourceforge. Not too hard.

I did another run again today -- my longest ever in Columbus (for those who know the area, I ran roughly from the Olentangy Damons to Henderson Road, beginning the trip with a detour through a pretty forest area, walked around for a few minutes there (no sitting or stopping completely), and then ran back. It reminded me back of my cross-country days. I am very mildly sore, but I remembered all the good advice about stretching and having a 'ramp-down' walk after the run finished, so I probably will be ok.

I'm seriously looking forward to moving to Pittsburgh, and continuing to grow my relationship with Debb :) I need to put more effort into finding a job there. I hope to visit Pitts this weekend with her, although there's a chance that this weekend won't work out (relating to something that I'd rather not bother trying to explain to all of you out there). I am very much hoping to be hired by CMU -- that would rock, and I'd get free tuition for a school that is involved in interesting Cognitive Science stuff. Still, I'd best fling the net as wide as possible, lest I end up with nothing and starve :) Chances are pretty good that I'd move without securing a job first, but it's still an unknown, and I hope to avoid such a difficult decision.

I'm on a number of sciency mailing lists, and have made some comments there and on my website that people have found sufficiently interesting that they want to have more detailed information or discussion on the topic. I love this stuff, but apparently I've said too much interesting at once -- it's gonna take me some time to bring together the resources to give answers that I'm proud of. I'm also putting time into getting the new version of my webpage together..

Oh, final note -- I might've mentioned ages ago on here (or maybe in the predecessor to my netdiary, which AFAIK only one person other than me has read) that I used to run a BBS, and that this BBS had a logo that came from some of the weird geometric nightmares that I used to get more frequently when I was younger. Some years ago, I used PovRay to make a nice 3-d raytraced version of that logo, spiffed up a bit. At work today, I dug out the only remaining easily-found copy of the image, and with the help of a workmate, pulled it out of OS/2 Bitmap format into a PNG. It's great to have it again, and again it graces the background of one of my desktops. It brings back memories of my OS/2 days (on which it was originally traced). My logo, the old cross-country stuff, love, all of them are things that were once part of my self, that are back again in one form or another. That's the firey bird for ya..

Wind, carry me east..