Trilobite

The weather is beautiful in Pittsburgh today. This morning I vacuumed up the leaves at the bottom of the the pool, which I enjoyed for some strange reason. I guess doing chores isn’t so bad if it means you can go swimming afterwards.

It’s 5:00am and I am in the computer lab at school trying to finish my homework before the long weekend. In 24 hours I’ll be fast asleep in a big comfy bed hundreds of kilometers from here. It sure will be nice to sleep on something besides the horrible vinyl cot in my dorm room. I’m surprised I don’t dream about being in the waiting room at the dentist every night, sleeping on that thing.

Anyway, I’m going to visit Peter and Gina in Pittsburgh. It will be good to see everybody again. It’s been a long time. Celine and I are hoping to go the zoo for a private tour while we’re down there. I hope that works out. And Gina’s got lots of other activities planned for us in case we get bored with lounging by the pool.

The Free Software Foundation has a saying: “Free software” is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of “free” as in “free speech,” not as in “free beer.”

A lot of people on the internet refer to this statement every time they talk about something being free, and instead of using the word “free” on its own they say “free, as in speech” or “free, as in beer.”

Today I found out about Vores Øl beer. It’s free beer, as in speech. The recipe contains guarana beans, so the beer has a bit of caffeine in it. If anybody wants to try making a batch with me, I’m ready to learn about beer making!

My dorm is right downtown and pretty cheap so there are always lots of travellers staying there. Today I was walking down the front steps and passed through a crowd of Spanish (or maybe Portuguese) teenagers with digital cameras taking movies of a black squirrel eating a peach. Three of them were holding up their cameras and walking very carefully towards him, and all the rest were hanging back looking nervous and curious. I thought it made a funny scene. It made me think of the vorpal rabbit from The Holy Grail.

I miss our little squirrel. I hope he’s doing okay. Celine took Thesia, Sheera, and Fizi to see him the other day and thought they saw him from a distance, but he didn’t come out to visit.

I’ve switched to a new blogging program (Blosxom). This one does lots of neat things that blogger.com doesn’t, like organizing my posts by category. I still have to work out a few kinks but everything should be pretty much the same as the old Trilobite.

The blog was offline for a few hours today. I had planned to take it offline permanently, but Celine convinced me otherwise. She reminded me that even though I haven’t felt like posting anything for a while, it’s still nice to look back at all the pictures and remember the things we’ve done.

Blogger.com are being a bunch of weenies and I think it’s time to switch to a new blogging program. Expect to see some changes around here in the near future…