After several weeks and dozens of great submissions, it's time to pick a winner.
Please take a few moments to choose your favourite (up to 3) posters.
http://www.eclipse.org/ganymede/postercontest.php
Winning posters will receive Eclipse schwag, graciously donated by the Foundation, and some coin to give to your favourite open source organization or free service provider.
Voting is open until June 24, 2008, 5:00 pm EDT.
June 5 marked the death knell for my conquest for world domination through Eclipse committer groups.
Before then, I was in a whopping 62 different linux groups on dev.eclipse.org, coming in third behind Kim and Sonia (80 and 79, respectively).
However, with Karl and Matt actively cleaning up these duplicate and often empty groups & standardizing the names, my numbers have dwindled to a mere 55. Sadly, I'll lose 4 more when we standardize GEF...
Still, consistency is better than world domination, right?
If your project needs some housecleaning, Karl's looking for volunteers to work with him on this effort. If you are interested, I'd recommend starting with a shared spreadsheet (eg., [1], [2]) to document your before and after states.
Hey, everyone, this is Nick's clone. I'm afraid I'm going to have to take over, as Nick's had a rather unfortunate "accident." Just after midnight, he turned and started trying to eat our fiancé, so I had to step in and end him.
He will be missed. Unfortunately, it may take a few months to grow a replacement, but at least all the insanity of the past couple days is over. On the plus side, this means that *I* get to go on the cruise in August instead!
Just got back from the short film fest. Kept having strange thoughts as I watched Martians Go Home! and saw all the reanimated corpses. It felt like I was home.
Just outside the theatre on our way back to the car, we encountered our first -- dare I saw it? -- zombie, and had to put him down. As you can see from this photo, I wasn't as overjoyed as the rest of my party, as I knew what must lay in store for me.
Decided to get away from the noises in the neighbourhood and the buzzing in my head by heading down the lake for a quick paddle. Ah, tranquility at last, despite the rather angry waves.
Unfortunately, after about a half hour, I saw a couple rockets fly over and when I looked up toward the Bluffs, I saw what looked like something on fire. Cripes!
After a frantic bit of googling on my phone, it looks like there've been reports of a zombie uprising. Speculation is that between all the lightning and rain over the last week, graves have been washed out and their inhabitants reanimated somehow. I know that sounds insane, but that's what they're reporting. There's also been talk of pollution leading to illnesses in birds, which might be related to all the feathers and offal I found yesterday.
I wonder if that means that I'm... infected?
Well, so much for an eerily quiet day. The silence has been replaced by barking dogs, sirens, and sounds of backyard destruction.
Meanwhile, my internet connection is still down, but the Bell connection at my inlaws' place is up. Took a dip in their pool, and when I came out I realized my skin was blistering.
(Un)fortunately, I have plans to head downtown tonight to meet some friends for dinner and catch the late show at the World Wide Short Film Festival... but after that I think it's time for a trip to the hospital to figure out what is wrong with me.
Well, great -- my internet's down. Bloody typical. Gawd, I'm in a terrible mood now.
Called Rogers to yell at them -- which is odd, since I'm usually pleasant when dealing with support staff since I know how annoying tech support can be -- and they told me this was an "unplanned outage," then tried to get off the phone quickly.
I kept him talking, as I heard what sounded like shouting and the sounds of glass smashing in the background. Eventually he relented that the switching station nearest my neighbourhood had been overrun by a gang of teenagers, apparently as part of some end of the school year prank. He said the last update he's gotten, the cops were working to clear the scene, but the kids were unusually aggressive and out of control, so it might take a while. I thanked him but the line had already gone dead. So rude.
Anyway, typing on my cellphone is becoming increasingly difficult as my hand continues to itch and it's making texting difficult. Plus, I'm having trouble focusing.
Will update later, if the network comes back.
Lunch. Decided I was in the mood for a burger. Unfortunately, about a minute after I dropped the frozen patty on the grill, I ran out of propane. Strangely, though, I didn't care -- I just pulled it off and ate it, raw, pink, and slightly bloody. I've always like my steak rare, but this is a little off, even for me. Still, it was the best burger I've had in ages.
After lunch I decided I should go get some more propane for the barbecue, so I headed over to the U-Haul store nearby. I must be looking haggard today, as the tank guy looked at me funny at first, and asked what I was planning to eat. Confused, I said something about steaks on the weekend.
Because the tank was filling really slowly, I decided to head into the U-Haul office to pay. As I started walking away, he urgently called me back and said the tank was done. He asked, hesitantly, if I was paying with Debit. I said I could, if he wanted, again unsure what he was getting at. He suggested cash, and when I said sure he seemed visibly relieved, as if the idea of me in the office was abhorrent. Or maybe the Interac network's down today. Who knows. I paid, and he took off at a not-too-subtle pace into the office, looking back once to make sure I was leaving in the opposite direction. Must be the heat, or maybe I'm just slow today.
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