joe shaw

Whew, what a week.

Saturday my good friend and roommate from college Bryan came to Boston to do a show with his band Sweetheart. The show was actually in some guy’s kitchen in JP, so the venue sucked. It was a second floor apartment and with all the equipment there, I was convinced the floor would collapse. One of the guys in the band complained that he couldn’t really get into it, because every time he tried to rock out he’d knock a can of beans off a shelf. I had a good time anyway, and Bryan and I chatted the rest of the night talking about stuff. You know, junk.

The next day I had breakfast with Bryan and the band at some vegan place downtown. It’s in this really weird, tucked away place, and I can’t imagine they get a lot of business. It’s just in one of those parts of town that’s all office space and barren of life outside of the work week.

Sunday was also when they had calling hours for Ettore. I felt a lot better having gone.

At some point during the week my camera broke. Well, not the camera, the lens. Now whenever I try to use the lens it makes this horrible motor noise and says “Error 99″ on the display. Other lenses work fine, though. It totally sucked… I took about 5 pictures, set the camera down, came back to it a few hours later and it was busted. I’ll need to ship it off to get repaired… I am going to try to get away with just sending the lens and not the whole camera.

All week Robert Love was in town and it was great to see him again. I am so happy he’s working for us. I’ve wanted Ximian to hire a kernel guy since about the second week I worked here and there’s no better guy for desktop stuff than Robert. He’s already on Planet GNOME and done an OSNews interview so clearly other people in the community are psyched too.

Robert and I spent a lot of the week planning world domination with some Indian food interspersed. Unfortunately hardware integration is one area that we really need to catch up to Windows and Mac OS, but I think we’ve sketched out a pretty decent plan, and we’re building on top of a lot of great work out there already like Linux 2.6, udev, and HAL. And of course we’ll figure out some way to tie in the Novell services.

Thursday I went to the Bruins-Flames game with Sam, and it was awful. I mean, the game was awful; it was nice to see Sam. First I forgot that the FleetCenter would give me a hard time about my backpack and so when I got there, they did, and I ended up having to take a taxi home just to drop my bag off. I thought about leaving it at a bar, but I just couldn’t do it with my laptop in my bag. So I missed the first period, but that wasn’t so bad because the Flames scored two goals on four shots. It was among the worst games of hockey I’ve ever witnessed, and I am pissed off at the FleetCenter enough that I think I might not go to a game there again. Maybe playoff games. And the Beanpot. But nothing else. Fuckers.

Yesterday I had to pack up all my things at the office for our move to the new office in Cambridge. I have a ton of crap. Oh, I got a new computer for work. It wouldn’t turn on. I found that the power switch wasn’t connected. So then it turned on but wouldn’t boot. I found that the hard drive wasn’t plugged in. Go HP.

Yesterday was also Blizzard’s birthday. He can no longer be trusted, but he sure had a lot of Blue Ribbon BBQ.

Now I’m on vacation and have the house to myself this weekend. Ah.

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Hey asshole, that’s what we like to call consistency.