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swestrupI've had a busy long weekend so far. I've already written about how ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
_sps_ ended up here after an evening spent at denizsarikaya and nancyrihakova's place. We pretty much just collapsed when we got here. I'd been up for 22 hours at that point, and he had had to get up stupidly early to work on a stressful demo.
So, Saturday I dragged myself out of bed around 1:00 pm-ish and found_sps_ puttering away on the web-site. He complained that his mind wasn't really in it, so as soon as I had had coffee and some breakfast, and checked e-mail, we went for a walk. We got out the door at roughly 5:30 or 6:00 pm (I do NOT wake up quickly on the weekends). We ended up going down to the little lake near my place, doing a circuit of the shore and walking back. This took us roughly 6 hours, as _sps_ had brought his camera and tripod and took (he later told me) about 800 Megs of images. It was a lovely walk, as the weather was warm, and though it continually threatened to rain, all we ever felt were a couple of drops. The lake was quite picturesque, and I enjoyed trying to see what it was that causes _sps_ to go "I think I'll photograph that!". Sometimes I guessed right, sometimes not. (Mention was made that we need to somehow get the nancyrihakova and her camera out there sometime -- I think she'd love it.)
The sun was already low in the sky and by the time we were ready to head back, it was completely gone and we were navigating by diffuse light from the clouds overhead. (Montreal has enormous light pollution, on overcast nights its like having 3 full moons). I had a little penlight and_sps_ had Flash of Doom™ technology on his camera, so we weren't completely without light. Anyway, on the way back we decided to take the unlit wooded path we came in by (which was the shortest option) instead of taking the slightly longer but much better lit path by the ritsy houses. As we were heading for the bit where the wooded path branched off from the other, we had a conversation like this:
swestrup: Look at that scene! Its so like something from out of "Thief"!
sps: It sure is.
swestrup: We need to bring the Thief developers here some night to take notes, because I *so* want to virtually break into that house over there.
sps: You realize just how wrong that is?
swestrup: What, because we shouldn't just be living our lives vicariously through simulations, but should actually go out and DO things for real?
sps: Exactly!
So, we entered the woods and took a wrong trail in the gloom. We ended up coming out onto lawn 200 meters further from home than we had planned, and behind a fence that caused us an even further detour. So, we then trudged the 8-10 blocks home and collaped for half an hour. Then, as I had so foolishly promised earlier, I made supper.
The next day I REALLY slept in (6 hours of walking is not something I'm used to) and couldn't pull myself out of bed until 3:00 pm. When I got up I discovered that_sps_ was away on a little shopping expedition (as he has threatened to do for some weekends now). I got myself coffee and breakfast, and was just having my morning shower when he returned.
We spent the next bunch of hours debugging his website code, and we had supper and watched "Enterprise", before putting in a few final hours of debugging. Whentaxlady finally drove him home, the website was 75% implemented and had one obvious outstanding bug, but was already somewhat useful.
So, now its the monday and although I got to bed by 2:00 am for once, and optimistically set my alarm for 10:00 am, I slept through it and didn't get up till 1:30 pm. Even then I really did NOT want to wake up as my dream seemed to involve me being a 'Tester' hired to interview new starlets at a porn-star convention...
_sps_ ended up here after an evening spent at denizsarikaya and nancyrihakova's place. We pretty much just collapsed when we got here. I'd been up for 22 hours at that point, and he had had to get up stupidly early to work on a stressful demo.So, Saturday I dragged myself out of bed around 1:00 pm-ish and found
_sps_ puttering away on the web-site. He complained that his mind wasn't really in it, so as soon as I had had coffee and some breakfast, and checked e-mail, we went for a walk. We got out the door at roughly 5:30 or 6:00 pm (I do NOT wake up quickly on the weekends). We ended up going down to the little lake near my place, doing a circuit of the shore and walking back. This took us roughly 6 hours, as _sps_ had brought his camera and tripod and took (he later told me) about 800 Megs of images. It was a lovely walk, as the weather was warm, and though it continually threatened to rain, all we ever felt were a couple of drops. The lake was quite picturesque, and I enjoyed trying to see what it was that causes _sps_ to go "I think I'll photograph that!". Sometimes I guessed right, sometimes not. (Mention was made that we need to somehow get the nancyrihakova and her camera out there sometime -- I think she'd love it.)The sun was already low in the sky and by the time we were ready to head back, it was completely gone and we were navigating by diffuse light from the clouds overhead. (Montreal has enormous light pollution, on overcast nights its like having 3 full moons). I had a little penlight and
_sps_ had Flash of Doom™ technology on his camera, so we weren't completely without light. Anyway, on the way back we decided to take the unlit wooded path we came in by (which was the shortest option) instead of taking the slightly longer but much better lit path by the ritsy houses. As we were heading for the bit where the wooded path branched off from the other, we had a conversation like this:swestrup: Look at that scene! Its so like something from out of "Thief"!
sps: It sure is.
swestrup: We need to bring the Thief developers here some night to take notes, because I *so* want to virtually break into that house over there.
sps: You realize just how wrong that is?
swestrup: What, because we shouldn't just be living our lives vicariously through simulations, but should actually go out and DO things for real?
sps: Exactly!
So, we entered the woods and took a wrong trail in the gloom. We ended up coming out onto lawn 200 meters further from home than we had planned, and behind a fence that caused us an even further detour. So, we then trudged the 8-10 blocks home and collaped for half an hour. Then, as I had so foolishly promised earlier, I made supper.
The next day I REALLY slept in (6 hours of walking is not something I'm used to) and couldn't pull myself out of bed until 3:00 pm. When I got up I discovered that
_sps_ was away on a little shopping expedition (as he has threatened to do for some weekends now). I got myself coffee and breakfast, and was just having my morning shower when he returned.We spent the next bunch of hours debugging his website code, and we had supper and watched "Enterprise", before putting in a few final hours of debugging. When
taxlady finally drove him home, the website was 75% implemented and had one obvious outstanding bug, but was already somewhat useful.So, now its the monday and although I got to bed by 2:00 am for once, and optimistically set my alarm for 10:00 am, I slept through it and didn't get up till 1:30 pm. Even then I really did NOT want to wake up as my dream seemed to involve me being a 'Tester' hired to interview new starlets at a porn-star convention...
