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Can stop losing points for tardiness
(Yesterday at 19:51) |
Ha! This time I feel pretty confident that I'll lose zero points, or perhaps even gain a small number of bonus points, for posting from OGG Airport before a red-eye back from vacation, even though this requires that I post far before the end of the day here due to time zone. OGG Airport is Maui, Hawaii, USA, where they exclusively use the Vorbis audio codec.
I did do some normal vacation things on this vacation. But I also spent a lot of time sitting on a beach, balcony, pool, or airplane with my PiePad working on projects from exotic locales. I'm almost done with my SIGBOVIK paper, which is good because the first deadline for SIGBOVIK XX is nearly upon us. Actually I didn't do that much writing; mostly I was indulging myself in improvements to BoVeX, which I often fail to get to because I'm usually so behind on the paper due to Relentless Vigor of Expanding Project's Scope, or Surely I Can Write The Whole Paper and Implement Footnotes The Night of the Final Deadline, or etc. Now there is actually decent support for footnotes and floating figures. I fixed a bunch of layout bugs that were causing very bad choices (mostly relating to me not actually reading Knuth's paragraph-breaking algorithm that carefully and just reinventing it from the general idea). I also sped up all of the expensive phases of the compiler with indulgent algorithmic and data structure improvements, so compiling a conference-length paper is now at least 2–3x faster end-to-end.
Since I was recovering from being sick (for more than a month!) I hadn't done any long runs (or even moderate runs) since AD 2025. But on a trip I insist upon doing adventure running. In Maui I ran south from the hotel zone until the road ended in an apocalyptic lava field:
I smoke lava rocks
Maui was generally a good place for running, with light traffic and decent pedestrian infrastructure. It did however get very hot as soon as the sun was overhead, and down where I was, there were no gas stations nor water fountains nor any other source of potable moisture, so we had another one of those heat stroke hazards where I was just crawling along for the last five miles or so trying not to die. I was proud of my run's name, Magma Man 2: Dr. Wailea's Revenge. Anyway, with that 15-miler I consider myself back on the wagon and I'm looking forward to getting back home for (a) some longer runs, (b) a full-size keyboard and (c) Baldur's Gate III.
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