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Dream climbing

7:26am JST Friday 5 October 2007 (day 13708)

At a friend's house, watching some boys climb the smooth concrete supports of a bridge. There were little ledges where fingers could hang on. The most difficult part was a one handed upward jump from fingertips to fingertips. I didn't even consider trying it until I realized I was giving up before even attempting it. One of the guys was able to do it and he spit on the ground near the feet of my friend like a challenge had been won.

I got up to do it, but began to wake up as soon as I made the decision to attempt the climb.

I may become an SVN junkie

10:26am JST Friday 5 October 2007 (day 13708)

I just SVNed the four directories of code I'll be working on for the next part of this project. Would have been optimal to SVN them before I made any changes, but ¤·¤ç¤¬¤Ê¤¤¡£

First task will be to trim unnecessary carriage returns from the code. Currently, for some reason there are two carriage returns per line.

<?php

/* vim: set expandtab tabstop=4 shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4: */

// +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

// | PHP version 5                                                        |

// +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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// |  ¥á¡¼¥ëÅÐÏ¿/ÊÔ½¸/ºï½ü¤Î³Îǧ                                          |

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// +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

// | Authors: K.Asano <asano@...co.jp>                                 |

// +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

That's obviously crap for reading, and especially for printing. Dang.

<?php
/* vim: set expandtab tabstop=4 shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4: */
// +----------------------------------------------------------------------+
// | PHP version 5                                                        |
// +----------------------------------------------------------------------+
// |                                                                      |
// |  ¥á¡¼¥ëÅÐÏ¿/ÊÔ½¸/ºï½ü¤Î³Îǧ                                          |
// |                                                                      |
// +----------------------------------------------------------------------+
// | Authors: K.Asano <asano@...co.jp>                                    |
// +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

Much nicer.

There's not *exactly* one extra carriage return for all lines, so I am setting up a set of emacs macros to smurf the lines out about 20 at a time with visual inspection of the extracted lines, hoping to find nothing visible. If I do, then just do several undos and fix that portion by hand.

Zzzz today

3:23am JST Saturday 6 October 2007 (day 13709)

Another long day at work: 12.5 hours. Spent most of the day cleaning up the code (removing duplicated carriage returns) and grokking how it works, but some stuff I just couldn't get, and sent an email to the smart guy who comes around not so often.

Got an email from Tetsuya that he'd be offering free hugs from 10:30pm, so I went out there to join him, but he hadn't showed up by 10:45 when Ami called, so I chose to meet her in Nakameguro and head home.

Ami had been out with friends and was in a super silly kissy licky mood. I was just laughing and giggling every time she came close and licked me! She chose to go home instead of engaging in further licking at my place, but she'll come visit tomorrow (*).

(*) and by tomorrow I mean later today, in 8 hours. I've been up up up up reading through suggestions made to Dreamhost. Also determining that in three (3) years with Adsense, I have made $35. But it will take 6 more years (at this rate) to get the minimum of $100 to get paid. Fuck that. So I killed the adsense ads on the left and replaced with Dreamhost, my very lovely webhost provider. I seriously love them for their great prices, great service, funny monthly newsletters, and Huge storage and bandwidth! 500 Gigs of storage! and counting!

Oh, also, I noted that I had misread Tetsuya's email. He said 11:30pm to 12:30am. Oops.

geologists recover rocks yielding unprecedented insights into san andreas fault

##18:52 Friday 05 October 2007

Sensitive seismometers and tiltmeters to be installed in the SAFOD borehole directly above the spot that ruptures will observe for the first time the birthing process of an earthquake from the zone where the earthquake energy accumulates. Preliminary observations made in 2006 already have revealed the tiniest earthquakes ever observed—so small they have negative magnitudes.

Geologists recover rocks yielding unprecedented insights into San Andreas Fault

I love this kinda thing when science is measuring the super-small. Negative magnitudes. hahaha!

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Tags: science, fault, earthquake