A blog by Erty Seidohl
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HS Day [47 .. 50]: Missed Blogging
I managed to not blog the last four days. Oops! Important events: My good friend Ellie visited on her way home from Europe, where she had been presenting her findings on sunspot activity at a physics conference. I freaked out about non-existent bedbugs (in my defense, the evidence was there!) and proceeded to nearly throw…
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HS Day 45 & 46: Arch Linux
On Monday, I decided I wanted to try installing Linux alongside my Windows 8 so that I could dual-boot. Turns out that’s a lot harder than I thought it would be. I’ll do a full technical write-up tomorrow (since I have to do a full install from scratch … again). Anyhoo – Monday at Hacker…
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HS Day 42, 43, 44: Role-Playing Games
Friday – There’s no Hacker School on Fridays so we have our D&D games then, and we met today at 1pm to do just that. There’s construction going on at the old Hacker School place, and the new place has people from The Ladders who have to do Actual Work, but we found a secluded area…
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HS Day 41: Peter Norvig Shirt Day
Peter Norvig, who finished up his residency with Hacker School today, wears amazing shirts. Apparently his wife makes them for him. We decided to have a Peter Norvig Shirt Day today to celebrate, so a bunch of people dressed up in Hawaiian shirts. I put on a brown short-sleeved shirt with flowers on it –…
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HS Day 40: Bourbon
I started today off by sleeping in again, but, being the second Wednesday of the month, it’s Irresponsible Wednesday so that was okay. Matt very kindly messaged me to make sure I was okay. I arrived at Hacker School around 2:30 pm. Only five hours late… I worked with Erik, Alex, and Matt on the…
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HS Day 39: Journey to the West
I started out today pretty tired, but made it to Hacker School on time. I spent the day over at the old location after check-in since that’s where the Risk AI people were working. As usual, the last 10% is taking 90% of the time – we’re very close on many fronts, but it’s probably…
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Day 38: Monday
Being a student at Hacker School, “Monday” is pretty much the best day of the week. Not only do you get to go back to Hacker School, but there’s a whole four days of Hacker School to look forward to. Mondays are also the talks by the residents, accompanied by dinner. Pretty much the best.…
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Greta’s Grandfather
Greta’s grandfather passed away sometime Sunday night. I didn’t get much of a chance over the last 6 years to really get to know him except the occasional visit, and, of course, providing tech support. He was part of the old guard – won his house in a poker game while returning from the second…
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HS Day 37: Across the Hall
Imogen moved out of the apartment today, meaning that I am taking over her room. It’s a lot larger, and has two large windows that face what I assume to be south – I can see the Statue of Liberty off in the distance out of one, and the tail end of Manhattan out the…
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HS Day 36: Chatting about School
Alice posted to the Hacker School mailing list last night about needing a windows computer to create a boot disk to restore her Windows 8 computer, which had died. I responded (or, actually, had Matt respond for me since we were drinking beer together and he was the one with his phone open) and said…