A fellow Barbarian IMed me today. “Update your blog, blogger.” I think my response was something like, “Suck a bag, bagger.” I thought about it and decided it was probably time to be a proper blogger and update my blog, but I just don’t have much to say. Well, not true, I have plenty to say but nothing I think the dozen of you would care to read. I have no new eye-candy to feed you. I have no new applications for you to test. I have been doing other things.

First, let me just say the move went swimmingly. I love my new apartment. I have very little to complain about, which if you know me is no small feat. It has a great view of the city. It has not one, but TWO bay windows. The water takes but three seconds to heat and issues forth with a reasonable amount of pressure. There is even an entire room that I forget I have simply because its door stays shut. I don’t know what to do with it. Guest room, I suppose, but for now it is where my moving boxes sit to gather dust. Oh, and there seems to be less dust in San Francisco. Did I mention that?

Secondly, my new Intel powered Macbook Pro is here. But I rarely use it. In fact I type this blog entry on my ‘older’ laptop because the lack of Adobe Universal Binaries makes using it a drag. Come on Adobe, pick up the pace! No new UB releases until 2007? You have got to be kidding me! Way to go and piss off your customer base. Bottom line, Photoshop, Flash, and Flash player all run slower than they do on this slightly older laptop.

What of Processing you ask? Well, Ben is crankin on it. Processing is already a Universal Binary but some of the libraries need updating before I will be able to test the alleged 2x-3x speed bump, JOGL being the most important of these. None of my openGL applications will run just yet, so I am taking a bit of a processing breather seeing as how OFFF Mexico was cancelled which means I don’t need to start worrying about presentations until early April when I will start getting ready for FITC in Toronto.

What else, what else. Well, I ate some really good dungeness crab a couple days ago that is not agreeing with my innards. I have spent the last 2 days trying to figure out if I will ever risk eating really good dungeness crab again. But just thinking about it is bringing up burps with memories of garlic butter and I have to say, it might be a long while before I will be able to separate the good-time-tastery from the 48 hours of mild nausea.

Again, what else, what else… oh, well, I met someone. He is getting most of my free time. But since this isnt Live Journal and you all are probably here to read more about spectrum analysis and webcam tracking, I will spare you the details. But he makes a mean bloody mary and has an adorable psychotic cat. Oh, and in mid-April, we are going to the French Laundry which was named the Best Restaurant in the World two years in a row. Okay, so those years were 2003 and 2004, but really, how much could it have dropped in a year? Second place perhaps? Third? Who cares!! As long as it is in the top 10, I wont complain. Much.