Manic Oppressive

As I approached my apartment complex tonight, I saw about half a dozen firetrucks on the streets beside one of the buildings. I figured that something had burned down or something, So I figured I’d park and find someone who knew what was going on.

Turned out not to be my building, so I strolled on up to my door, where there was a notice on the little clip thing. It starts out “We want to inform you of a recent incident that occurred in our community. On October 11th, at approximately 11:00 pm one of our residents was approached and assaulted by two unknown men.”

(emphasis theirs).

Wow. I’ll sleep nice and easy tonight.

I was cruising down Colorado Blvd. this evening, and I noticed some really bright, chaotic lights dancing in my mirror. I figured it was another one of those really plowed macho guys driving an SUV. I think I assumed correctly.

Anyway, as I approached the junction at I-25, I noticed that there were two cars stopped in the left lane, behind another car that wanted to be in the turn lane. (The lines there suck, and the signs and arrows are ambigous, so I forgive him for not being in the right place). Since I’m in the left lane, I brake (slowly).

I hear screeching behind me. So I look in the trusty mirror, and see the guy behind me almost plow into me. “Sweet!” I say, and pop into the center lane cutting off a police car. As I passed the guy who thought he was in the turn lane, I kind of waved him on so that the left lane would be free.

The drunk spins out, weaves around the cop to the “beside Dylan” position, which is normally only reserved for paying customers. Then he takes off like a bat out of hell.

I saw the drunk guy again at Yale. As the light turned green, he had troubles getting into gear. And the police car? No idea what happened to it.

Ok. There’s this guy I work with… he was the other side of the following coversation:

otherGuyAtWork: I dont understand the concept of having more than one pool
keithspook: The problem that the pool solves is contention on the free store. So if you only have one pool, then you still have the same contention (so it’s only a little faster). If you have N+1 pools for N threads, then there is never any contention.
keithspook: Multiple pools can be implemented with pthread_mutex_trylock()
otherGuyAtWork: wats the advantage?….reduces contention?
keithspook: yeah, something like that.

Draw your own conclusions. Or self portrait, it doesn’t really matter to me anymore.

So the storm a few days ago, knocked out the power to my apartment.

ManicOppressive didn’t come back up, due to some crazy DHCP stuff on the subnet, but it’s up now.

I went to the G.A.B.F. last night. They give you a plastic tasting cup, and you walk around taking samples from brewies. There were a lot of people there, and whenever someone dropped a cup everyone around them would jeer. Since there was a lot of dropped cups it made for an interesting sound.

The weird thing was the demographic. Or maybe it wasn’t weird at all, I don’t know. I think maybe next year I’ll attend a “quieter” session.