Perspectives of a Canadian in the Old/Deep/New/Geographic South: This is where I ramble on about nothing in particular and post a few nice pictures.
3 days left to go and I think I’m about half finished with my seminar presentation. Probably won’t be as in-depth as it could be, but I think it will be enough. My audience aren’t exactly experts in the field.
Qualifier is looming big and large and will involve a lot of writing. I also need to write up a fairly extensive literature review as well. Better start hunting. My Pubmed-fu will be getting a pretty good workout and there will be lots of stuff to read.
After Tuesday’s run, I took it easy with today’s run. A slow leisurely pace that put me at just over 32 minutes for the 5k. “Slow and leisurely” is a lot faster now than it was a few months ago.
I don’t know about anyone else, but I love that tired worn out feeling in my legs after a good run. It gives me that “tired but satisfied” feeling.
Ran into an odd situation with my computer (Fedora 16, using KDE) where Dolphin kept telling me the trash was full even though there was nothing in it.
~/.local/share/Trash has a three directories, presumably where things are stored in various states of “trashed-ness”. All of them were empty but Dolphin insisted that the trash was full whenever I tried to move something there. Verified in Dolphin and in a terminal window that all the folders were empty. Even deleted them just in case there were any invisible hidden files.
The Trash folder also contained a file called metadata. Looked like a regular INI style file with just one parameter: size. In this case, size was set to some freakishly large value with like 20 digits or something (I didn’t really count). Having run out of things to do at this point, I decided to delete the file and hope that if it was important, Dolphin would recreate it.
After getting rid of the file, the Trash worked properly again!
Apparently Dolphin uses the metadata file to store how much stuff is contained in Trash. It seems reasonable to assume that Dolphin checks the value stored in metadata against the maximum size for the Trash configured in Settings. If the metadata value exceeds the max size setting for Trash, Dolphin tells you the Trash is full. In my case, a messed up size value got written to metadata and Dolphin wasn’t going to let me send anything to Trash even though it was physically empty.
According to Runkeeper, I finished today’s 5.1 km run in 27.6 minutes, a (current) PR! Still about 10 minutes slower than what I used to do in high school, but that was a lot of years ago and I don’t think I’ll be running that fast anymore.
Today’s run felt pretty good, and the pace didn’t feel as fast as it was. I set out with a goal of finishing the 5 km in around 29 minutes so shaving almost a minute and a half off that was a nice surprise.
I think by i5k time, i might be able to get close to 25 minutes.
It seems like it was only yesterday when I took this picture of Simba when he was 7 weeks old.
Yesterday he turned 6 years old, still a funny happy jumping bean of a dog.
I love my pups.
Update: Oops. I’m such a bad doggy parent. Simba’s birthday was the 20th, not the 27th. I’m getting the days of the dogs’ birthdays mixed up.