This is the end

Well, I've been back for a while now, and just finished uploading pictures of my trip (See link 1 and link 2). I miss it already.

Thanks for watching!

Joyeux anniversaire à moi!

I'm now a year older than I was three hours ago! Woo-hoo!

I also got to see Subtle tonight, a band I've wanted to see for months and never thought I'd see. They were _incredible_. What a night.

Pictures!

Two quick stories about pictures:

One, tonight, two interns, a full-timer, and I were sitting in a cubicle talking. One of the interns (Boris) asked the other (Cyrus) if he could copy Cyrus' Pictures folder to use as a slideshow screensaver. Cyrus said no, that he'd spent too many long hours scanning deviant art for pictures he liked and that he wouldn't have Boris leeching off his effort. The full-timer (Paul) said that since the computers are all running off of networked drives, that Boris could simply copy them directly. Cyrus decided he would remove read permissions from the folder, so Paul immediately opened a terminal and tried to copy them out before Cyrus could do it, which made it look exactly like one of those old hacker movies. Cyrus ended up beating Paul, but while he was distracted by his success, Paul simply copied them out of Cyrus' snapshot directory (the contents of our /home directories are backed up every hour), which honestly was a pretty brilliant move. Fun times.

Two, although I've had my camera back for a while now, until last week I did not have any memory cards on which to store pictures from it. That has changed, and since then I have taken some, which will be up as soon as I can so you can see stuff. Cheers.