Present Perfect

Festival

Went to one day of Werchter with the boys band. Sadly arrived late for AYWKUBTTOD. Rilo Kiley was good. Bloc Party was great, but we didn't go forward soon enough so we had to follow from the side and didn't get enough of the sound. Nine Inch Nails was ok, Interpol was great but short. We got home fairly early because Interpol was moved forward for some reason. Anyway, I realized that I miss going to festivals and having some loud live music play - if the music's good. Maybe I should catch another this year - Pukkelpop or Benecassim.

Music

... And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead still takes the prize for coolest band name ever. I didn't really "get" their latest album on the first few listens, but I've been listening to it all day today and "Will You Smile Again" is all over the place, excellent song.

Tom McRae made a new album, has some good tunes on it as usual. Every album he made has at least one song with that McRae Moment - this album has it in Vampire Heart, in the tiny pause between "so I curse you with a vampire heart" (where the backing vocal goes up and decelerates to a standstill right before a drop) and "for letting me love you". That, and the way the woman sighs "love you" after that. Go Tom.

Lift to Experience - how I miss thee. Those sonic scapes of desert rock with a biblical twist and a self-evident grace. There might not ever be another album. Some time ago I found this painful article about the lead singer and the daemons of music. Sad to read, I wish there was redemption at the end.

My brain is wired for music. I walk into an airport hall and hear some woman sing "Too many people" and in that split second the words tranvision, vamp, and perfect shoot through my brain. I guessed a song once where I had heard only the first second - where that second isn't actually part of the song, but just the musicians tuning instruments. When I am old and in a home I will be a reverse jukebox: a song will be played, I will write or type out the artist and song title, and people will take money from me.

I need more music. If anyone has suggestions, shoot.

Festival Went to one day of Werchter with the boys band. Sadly arrived late for AYWKUBTTOD. Rilo Kiley was good. Bloc Party was great, but we didn't go forward soon...

Pop Quiz

Guess the Unix system that produces this output:

shiny:thomasvs$ touch acaps
shiny:thomasvs$ touch acapS
shiny:thomasvs$ rm acaps
shiny:thomasvs$ rm acapS
rm: acapS: No such file or directory

Hint:

shiny:thomasvs$ touch acaps
shiny:thomasvs$ ls acap*
acapS
shiny:thomasvs$ ls acap*
acapS
shiny:thomasvs$ ls acaps*
ls: acaps*: No such file or directory
shiny:thomasvs$ ls acaps
acaps
shiny:thomasvs$ ls acapS
acapS
shiny:thomasvs$ ls acapS*
acapS

Notice how the shell actually checks what you're asking for and interprets it - contrast "ls acapS" with "ls acaps" output.

WOTD

figuroutable: within the capacity of someone to be figured out. Ok, let's focus here. This distcheck bug should be figuroutable.

Pop Quiz Guess the Unix system that produces this output: shiny:thomasvs$ touch acaps shiny:thomasvs$ touch acapS shiny:thomasvs$ rm acaps shiny:thomasvs$ rm acapS rm: acapS: No such file or directory Hint:...

link for peter. You can click her and drag her around. Who comes up with this stuff ?

link for peter. You can click her and drag her around. Who comes up with this stuff ?

Kristien and I landed in Brussels on Saturday. Wiebe proposed to pick us up and was there half an hour later. He drove us straight to the frietkot nearest to his new loft, where I pigged out on fries, a taco (unrelated to what other countries call 'taco'), kipcorn, spring rolls and garnaalkroket. Kristien tried to confuse the friestender by ordering a "curryworst" but quickly changed her order to "frikandel special" after seeing his questioning looks.

We saw Wiebe's excellent loft, good catch. We saw Wiebe's new girlfriend, another good catch. In the evening some friends came over for a snack, a drink, and a game of Werewolf. Sadly we only played two rounds because Michel's new girlfriend was new to the game and felt too much pressure to understand the game straight from the start - something you really don't want to do when playing this game. She didn't want to keep playing, and since without her we were only seven we could not continue. I should go buy the game and get people back in BCN to play it. It's amazing how a game with so few attributes (a set of picture cards) and so few rules can be one of the most engrossing I've ever played.

Sunday was spent in the Eastern part of the country for the birthday party of Kristien's grandmother, who turned 80. Good old-fashioned Flemish cosiness in an archery's club house with buffet and "vlaai", I loved it.

I had contacted my old dentist to tell her that I could be on stand-by if she found a hole in her schedule or someone decided to cancel an appointment. I got a call from her today to scheduler for Wednesday. I've never been so excited before to go to the dentist's. Correction, I've never been excited to go to the dentist before, ever, period.

Monday was boys' night out, I dragged them along to see Sin City. I definitely liked it, spectacular visuals. Peter was afraid to admit he had spent half the movie with his eyes closed. After that, drinks and chicken legs on the boat. I never realize this when I'm not here in OldCountry but damn, I like my friends. I could just sit around and say nothing for hours while they make fun of eachother. It's been a while since I laughed this much.

Tuesday evening I went for a quick bite with Ellen. Unfounded fears put to rest, good to see her again. And after that, a night out in the garden at Katemy, meeting Muis and playing badminton.

I realized late last night that a) I'm happy and b) I've grown emotionally detached again. Also realized this is still a wrong combination. Not sure where to go from there though :)

Kristien and I landed in Brussels on Saturday. Wiebe proposed to pick us up and was there half an hour later. He drove us straight to the frietkot nearest to...

svn commit -m "commit every sin" *.sin

I've been going over the Xiph.org projects' build setup again, in preparation for a buildbot that will be public soon. This commit was part of the vorbis-tools gettext fixing.

svn commit -m "commit every sin" *.sin I've been going over the Xiph.org projects' build setup again, in preparation for a buildbot that will be public soon. This commit was...