Stuff Michael Meeks is doing
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Up late, breakfast, mended N's blackout blind, caulked
around some others, hook for E.; read The Economist, out for a
run with J. Helped H. with op-amps, lunch, jig-saw puzzling,
got to some recreational hacking in the evening. Up late with H.
and E. waiting for the new year.
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Spent much of the morning manually weeding the (porous
resin & gravel drive) - odd to see grass growing through it;
switched to pressure washing it instead - lets see if that helps.
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Turned a chess-bishop with new lathe chuck: good.
Made a pair of hooks on which to mount step-ladder in the
pantry.
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Up late, David over - got H's window adjusted to reduce
the breeze in her room; setup new chuck on lathe - looking good.
Put up new security camera, and cut down broken doors to fit the
garage. Dinner & puzzled until late, picked up H. from Melvyn's.
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Breakfast, and out for a walk to the 'big park', back
for a big fry-up together; bid 'bye & drove home - babes
got on with homework. Watched The Mentalist with the
babes, got on with a puzzle from A'.
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Up early, breakfast packed. Off to R&A's for a
fine lunch, got sucked into Erik Grankvist log cabin
building while playing games, chatting & relaxing
variously. Lovely to play with the boys - lots of baby /
battery power-tools deployed.
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Breakfast; B&A left, S&C&A&J over
in time for lunch. pub quiz, took the dog for a walk on
the heath; played the pillow game and other in the warm.
Watched The Princess Bride in the evening &
talked until late.
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Slept well in N's blacked-out room; up - E. mis-read
the clock. Stockings - pleased to have one for the parents too.
Breakfast. Babes opened secret santa presents. Out to All
Saints for some carols.
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Back for a walk to the Queen's statute; fine roast
turkey lunch; present un-wrapping action; puzzling fun, lots
of snacking and slugging variously. Caught up with M&D,
babes played rumikub and Among Us.
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Final admin bits, house tidying left & right.
B&A arrived mid morning, lovely to see them. Bread &
cheese lunch, played some games, sung some carols, JPs &
salad for dinner. Babes tried to get A. into the Mentalist.
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Last minute end of year invoicing admin thrash; grateful
for turning the bottom of people's budgets into Free Software in
2022.
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Pleased to see what we've achieved in 2022 with a nice
Thank
You blog from the marketing team.
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Calls with various staff; company meet-up in gather.town, nice
to see some different faces. Sync. with Andras.
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Julie & Isaac & David over for dinner - lovely to
see them; played games variously in the evening.
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Up; breakfast, worked with Simon in the kitchen until lunch,
call with Elisa. Dropped him to the station. Mail chew, catch-up,
booster vaccination, partner sales call, dinner. Out to sing carols
to the local retirement home (from outside) - worked late.
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Planning call; admin, into Cambridge to collect Simon L;
into the office, contract signing thanks to Iris & Hannah;
briefing, laptop setup thanks to Doug. Call with marketers.
Back to Newmarket, out for dinner with Simon N, caught up
with J. bed.
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Appalled to see Princeton E-mailing a list of a
million organizations to burn their resource in order to publish
a paper. What possible cost/benefit analysis was done there - lets
assume (conservatively) it takes an hour to respond to (or discard)
their request in each entity - that's a million person-hours: five
hundred person years, ~10's of millions of dollars burned: to burnish
someone's academic credentials. And I thought that the security circus
had problematically assymetric costs; but this takes it to a whole
new level - wow. Horrifying; and given ten seconds of thought - a
totally predictable stain on the reputation of a great institution.
I imagine Ross Teixeira and Jonathan Mayer have inadventently
created several tens of person years of work for themselves in
responding individually to each organization affected; quite apart
from any disgruntled others piling load on the university left and
right.
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All Saints - H. played organ, as did Peter; Carols. Lunch,
slugged, back in the evening with H. to sing for carol concert
with the town band. Watched The Mentalist with babes
variously, played Rumikub.
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Up lateish, caulked curtain-rails (long over-due), filled
draughty window-sills with foam (or is it just cold air falling?).
Doner kebab for dinner as a treat with the babes; watched The
Usual Suspects.
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Chocolate chasing, TDF staff & board calls.
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Annual reviews, 1:1's, chased chocolates with Eloy &
Melsr; ESC call.
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Up in the night, got more admin done, some patch review.
Back to bed. Took kids to school. All-hands call.
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Mail chew, catch up with Gokay, sync with Cor, lunch,
partner call. Worked late.
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Planning call; calls with engineering team; admin, reference
call, TDF marketing call, reviews & catch up with Tracie & Julie,
sync with Philippe.
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All Saints with the babes in the morning; met some interesting new people, Sian back for
tea & home, caught up with Aaron. Slugged & watched
with the babes. Tried to find screws to mend N's laptop; H.
back from Durham in the evening to much celebration,
enjoyed some time with her.
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J. counselling training much of the day. Managed
to fill the brown bin with wet lawn trimmings: hmm. Mail chew,
poked at profiling infrastructure in online happily. Watched
The Mentalist - included with Amazon Prime again.
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Kids to school; mail chew, call with Kendy, Andras,
admin, sync with Armin, Lubos, Thorsten; more calls, variously.
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Up early, babes to school. Worked on slides, partner call.
Catch up with Henry & Kendy, interview, admin.
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Sync with Thorsten, Lubos, mail, reviews admin,
slideware, call with Gokay.
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Out to play in the orchestra for Ely's Carol Concert - 1k
people in a rather cold cathedral, but some good music from the babes.
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Back to work until late catching up on the day's work.
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Mail chew, catch up with Szymon. Admin much of
the day, partner call, catch-up with Meir, Sian &
Aron picked up their car , ferried babes
in the rain variously.
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Planning call, mail, lunch, admin, sync with Philippe, Cor.
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Up earlyish, All Saints, lead worship on the guitar; hmm.
Talked afterwards, Sian & Aaron over for lunch; catch up
with Robert & Tom.
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Collected babes from StAG's Xmas party in Cambridge;
call with H, movie, sleep.
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Up early; dropped J. down to Church - and returned some
tables & chairs. Back - lots of maths with E. David over,
chatted, lunch when J. & M. returned.
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Put up Christmas tree together, sausage casarole for
dinner; maths & compsci with M. and N. in the evening; bed.
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Mail chew; re-amazed by the crypto.com video: a popular actor,
an emotive sound-track, appeals to consumer risk taking; we have to be
close to peak-nonsense - surely? "History is filled ..." also
with egregious examples of speculative bubbles. Buying and selling URLs
that don't necessarily have anything backing them sprains my brain; but
then I'm still invested in Tulip
bulbs: growth is more organic there. Then again - I'm not hearing
'buy crypto' from children yet, and the world is awash with cheap money
so perhaps we have some time to the peak.
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Georgie popped over with a ladder - oddly not ours; nice
to have tea.
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Call with Eloy & Cor, mail chew; 1:1 with Cor.
N. out for a sleepover.
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Watched Castle in the sky - the inspiration for
Ethereum in the evening, with E.
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Catch-up with Miklos, Andras, COOL community call.
Caught up with Simon, partner call. Got on with annual
review preparations.
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Mail chew, sales call with Eloy, sync with Olivier P &
Andras on server room racks; catch up with Tor & Kendy.
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Lovely memorial service for Roy Starling featuring the
town band (now with 'mask' on their instruments interestingly) -
a wonderful, encouraging Christian Gentleman & musician -
sadly lost to COVID early in the pandemic.
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David S. kindly helped M. and N. with their Physics.
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Michael Meeks (michael.meeks@collabora.com)
