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X.Org 7.2 is in ports. It'll probably be a bit before the mirrors catch up.

Courtesy of flz, the person to blame^H^H^H^H^Hthank for all of this:

One more day of BSDCan left. The FreeBSD Developers Summit was awesome. I'm getting super excited over ZFS, although I'm kind of disappointed no one gave the talk about the 27 different types of locking (or was it more?)

More pictures later.

P.S.: I am on vacation. No more IM's unless it's an emergency. Losing a Makefile does not constitute as an emergency.

I'm blogging from my phone in the back of a cab filled with pot smoke. Goddamn hippies. I was already sleepy, and secondhand stoner syndrome is making it worse. In a few hours I'll be in the air on my way to Ottawa for BSDCan. Maybe I can catch a brief nap then.

More updates when I'm less grumpy. See y'all at BSDCan.

As I think I mentioned in a previous post, I recently picked up a xbox360. I bought a few games, including two "hey look at those boobies" games: Rumble Roses XX and Dead or Alive Xtreme 2. The type of games they are is fairly evident just from their packaging.

 

DoAX2 defies gravity and physics. RRXX lets me kick girls in the head. Oh, yeah. I'm all about these games.

My beef with them is that the game play is highly affected by how the girls feel about each other. You have to build up relationships and make sure you're friends with someone before you can partner with them, and if you aren't BFF with your partner, then your game will be lacking.

What the fuck.

You know, I don't remember having to build up relationships before kicking some ass in Street Fighter or Mortal Kombat. These games are 100% female, yes - but they are clearly designed (bouncing boobies!) with a male player in mind. What male player in his right mind is going to want to bother building up a relationship with some chick just so they can play volleyball together? The hell? All pretense of realism was completely thrown out the window in DoAX2 - if you don't believe me, watch the trailer. It's like boobs in space. Gravity does not exist. If you're going to ignore physics, then why bother observing the belief that women have to be friends to work well together?

I don't want to be friends. I just want to see your boobs defy nature as I kick you in the head, or lob a volleyball at you. Gaming industry, please stop bringing this women are from venus shit to the table. My life is complicated enough. Now some chick in DoAX2 is pissed at me and won't be my partner anymore because I bought her some suntan lotion. You have to buy gifts for your friends and they have to like the gifts, or they get all snarky and drop you like a hot potato. This is a bunch of bullshit.

So much stuff going on, and there's just not enough time to write about it.

Monday I managed to step away from my computer long enough to meet up with a bunch of friends in Mountain View. It was really cool, introducing all of them to each other and watching new friendships form. They're all in IT, so you can imagine the conversations that took place. It gave me warm and fuzzy feelings inside. Tsk tsk, I better not be going soft. Afterwards, I took off with one of the guys there and rode on the back of his YZF-R1 all the way back to San Francisco. I learned that no matter how fat your ass is, it's going to hurt riding as a passenger on an R1.

I have missed my interview with bsdtalk twice now, which I feel completely horrible about. I keep getting dragged into high priority issues at work, and I have a feeling he's probably going to give up on me. I need to fire off an email to him apologizing once again - actually, I need to email a lot of people apologizing for dropping off the face of the planet. I barely have time for sleep.

It's the week before BSDCan, and I've still got a lot of work to do. I'm teaching another person in engineering my duties for my team so they'll have some backup while I'm gone. I have a few more big things I have to finish up at work before I leave, but unfortunately all of them are being problematic and taking a lot more time than I originally thought. Sleep this weekend will be sporadic, small naps taken between packing and hopping on my computer at work to finish up my projects.

A lot of people from Yahoo! will be at BSDCan this year. I am very excited. BSDCan is like all the fun of Christmas and my birthday rolled into one weekend. I got invited to the FreeBSD DevSummit, so I'm glad I scheduled my vacation and tickets so I'd be arriving earlier in the week. It'll be fun seeing old friends again, although I'm disappointed that a few of the usual suspects won't be making it this year. At least I'll get to chill with some people from other Y! offices that I haven't yet had a chance to meet. Even though I've told everyone at work I'm not going to be reachable, I know I won't be able to leave my pager and key fob at home. Nope, I'll be checking in. I am just that addicted.

Second Life sucks. No explanation needed.

I think my roommate is looking forward to my vacation so he can steal my wii and xbox360. I picked up Guitar Hero II for the xbox360 earlier this week, although I haven't had time to play it. This better be everything everyone says it is, or I'm going to be pissed. It looks dumb. While I was out, I had to pick up a few more pairs of jeans too. I keep destroying mine. Every time a pair of $90 jeans is destroyed, a fairy dies.

I need to call Cingular to find out if I'm going to get any massive charges for using my 3G data plan in Canada (or if it'll even work there). Last year the dorms didn't have internet, so I'm trying to ensure that I'm able to get to work in case of an emergency. Yeah. I'm the girl at the bar with her laptop out watching monitoring and her bug queue. My friends all make fun of me, but if my laptop isn't open and on the internet, I feel twitchy. Something must be breaking, and I won't know about it immediately! zomg!

I need to do laundry and figure out how to pack just as much stuff as I brought last year into less bags. I finally got my passport, so that's covered. I need to charge all my extra laptop batteries, camera batteries, phone batteries, and my USB AA batteries. I'm not bringing along any devices that use AA, but I like being prepared.

Mike called. He said he was thinking about going to BSDCan but decided not to. That's a relief. There is no drama at the BSDCan, thx. It was weird getting a call from him, but I guess I kind of did call him first. In my drug addled state at the hospital just after the motorcycle accident, I couldn't figure out how to use my phone's contact book, so I dialed the only number I could remember. I was trying to get ahold of Chad to let him know what happened and that I was ok, but the only number I could think of was Mike's. Creepy.

Also, I admit it. I bit someone. Fuck you, jkh. You may have won this time, but the war is far from over! ;)

Please, please, please stop emailing me asking me if I'm going to go work for Microsoft. If anyone had actually bothered reading the full news text instead of just freaking over the title, they'd see that Yahoo! turned them down.

You want my spin on it? I'm not telling you a damn thing about what's going on the company (perhaps because even I don't know the full deal behind this), but I will say this. A week from now, I will have been working at Yahoo! for 6 months. Time sure does fly when you're having fun. I love my job just as much now as I did when I started. I love this company. It is by far the coolest place I have ever worked. I could not think of another place I would rather be. I am very loyal to Yahoo!. They have done a lot for me, and I am exceedingly grateful that I was given the opportunity to work here.

Do I want the work culture to change? No. Do I want to work for anyone other than the management I'm currently working for? Hell, no. I will however always be FreeBSDGirl, no matter who signs my paycheck.

I will continue loving this company and giving it all I've got as long as they let me do what I love, which is work on FreeBSD. I don't want things here to change, but it's inevitable at some point that they will. Nothing is static, especially not in this industry. Let's all hope that today will not be the day.

I mean, hell. I'd rather work for Sun than Microsoft. ;)

One of my readers was kind enough to post a link to a slashdot story detailing how AACS is going after bloggers.

Bring it.

Not that this blog really follows a topic. "lol girls, motorcycles, FreeBSD"

Nevertheless..

I highly recommend this DVD, and it's only $5.99 at the moment.