20100824

getting ready for the big trip to 中国上海 and have to admit that it will be both a big hassle as well as an exciting trip. the trip is long enough to require major undertaking, but still short enough that it probably won’t even register as a blip on young S’s memory. but who knows? my first memories, fragmented as they are now, were as a two year old in Malaysia, 1975. anything is possible, and in any event, it will be good for S to finally be around proper 汉语 speakers. even better if she picks up 上海话 (my personal favorite).

also ramping up to get plugged into reJon’s events in 中国北京, which should be very good. a timely change from the drudgery of pencil pushing of late.

after the century ride to winchester bay, i haven’t had much saddle time at all. very sad. but of course, the bicycle is a never ending project—most recently in S’s world where she has taken to her little orange kick bike. it should be called a push bike, at this point, because there’s really not much kicking; it’s mostly just happy seated walking.

also spent the better part of the last week working on a site for a professor at UO. i have to say, it simple confirms why i never became a designer or web developer. and it also reminds me of a meeting i had at Cornell with a designer, when i was still at CAPS. double X wanted me to check on a number of trifling changes, which were delaying development and amounted to no big deal. i was not enthusiastic about having been tasked to bring these new requirements (as he called them) to the designer, who had already been strung along without pay. when i finally met with the designer, and after exchanging all requisite pleasantries over Gimme coffee, she looked me in the eye and said: i don’t do vanity work. fair enough, i replied. and that was that. never mind that she got paid much more for less work than i’ve already done on this website: http://cpcp.uoregon.edu so it goes when you are the subaltern in a postmodern bourgeois hierarchy.