joe shaw

I never really got onto the reality show bandwagon. I dunno what it is, but most of them seem so trite and stupid. And the ones where there’s a large emphasis on interpersonal relationships still feel so scripted.

And that’s why I find the ads for My Big Fat Obnoxious Boss so funny. All these greedy young people who do all kinds of things, like getting shot with paintballs by the boss while they fax documents, making complete asses of themselves is the kind of reality show I can get on board with. It’s such an obvious spoof of The Apprentice… the guy even has a catch phrase that he delivers in his boardroom when firing someone: “Get the hell out of my office”. It promises to be pretty entertaining.

Last night a group of us went and saw Team America: World Police, and it was crude and hilarious. No punches were pulled, and I think it might have been even more outrageous than the South Park movie. If you don’t mind rather crude sexual jokes and puppet vomit, go see it.

I also finally saw Super Size Me. The effects that the McDonalds food had on him was amazing, and the fact that the doctors were just as shocked really surprised me. It had an effect on me, so today I went curling:

hurry hard!

It’s a club, actually, and today was their open house. I went with Blzzard, Davidz and some other Red Hat folks. They really wanted us to join, but it was kind of out there and without a car I can’t really commit to any sort of league play (and that’s pretty much all they have). Oh well. It was a pretty fun time.

But the curling wasn’t enough exercise so Nat and I played tennis and I handed his ass to him. Well, okay, we tied 5 games each, but I had two sweet serving aces in there!

it’s fall in new england and the leaves are changing

The last few weeks I’ve been working on Beagle along with the other Hackers with Knives. I’ve been hacking on the Evolution mail backend, which has been rewritten a good two or three times at this point. For local mail it uses the native Camel index to do body searches, and for both local and IMAP mail it pulls the summary information out of the summary file and adds it to a Lucene index for fast querying. On Friday I made the Camel search driver cross-reference the UIDs it gets from the Camel index with the summary info in the Lucene index and it sped up queries tremendously. I have nearly 180,000 mails indexed, and I can search across them pretty quickly, although it’s definitely not a constant time search.

Also, last weekend was the GNOME summit. Nice to see everyone again.

alex looks a little less like a hobo than last time

The Stata Center is the coolest place ever.

this is why we can’t have nice things

sunday night star chamber