cyberhobo

Month: October 2003

  • Memory Fault

    I’m collecting errors on a new platform! This is from Mac OS X 10.3. I’ve gotten the debugger up and am far enough to see that the error happens when the program tries to create a big (512k) chunk of shared memory. Smaller chunks work. In 10.2 I had upped the shared memory from 4MB…

  • Movie: Nine Queens

    This Argentinian film is about the slickest con artist movie I’ve seen. I’d say it outdoes The Sting. It gave Ann involved dreams about being swindled and deceived.

  • Yoga

    I went to a yoga class with Ann after work. Yoga makes me feel undisciplined, stiff, and weak. It requires a big effort. But my body is thirsty for it. It wants more.

  • Joshua Tree – Runaway 5.10d?

    Ann rejoins us and we take off for the climb Ted’s been talking about all weekend, Run For Your Life, 10b. In the book it’s the only bolted route on the prominent face of the Tumbling Rainbow formation, so Ted doesn’t bother even bringing the guidebook. On the approach I experience nervousness for the first…

  • Joshua Tree – Echo Cove

    I’m still feeling off, but agree to go with Ted to Echo Cove to TR stuff while Ann makes a run into town for ice and beer. First we play on a steep, thin crack with just a couple of pockets for holds. Ted works through it, I don’t quite get it. Then Ted leads…

  • Joshua Tree – Double Cross 5.7+

    Ted has never led Double Cross, and Ann wants to climb it, so we make it our pre-breakfast climb of the day. On the trail to the climb, blocking our way, is a big hairy tarantula. I remember the last one we saw at Wagon Wheel – Ted poked the ground in front of it…

  • Joshua Tree – Big Moe 5.11b

    Ann graciously goes back to camp for beer while Ted and I set up a TR on Big Moe in Echo Cove. Ted sends it twice. I get a bit further on it than last time, finally getting a foot into the big divot, but come up a few inches short of the next hold.…

  • Joshua Tree – Bighorn Mating Grotto

    I suggest we have a quick lunch and go looking for a place mentioned in the guidebook, the Bighorn Mating Grotto. It’s not at all obvious how to get there, and we have some discussion before agreeing to start up the Wonderland Wash. We pack a buch of gear for the extra exercise. Five minutes…

  • Joshua Tree – The Flake 5.8

    After breakfast Ted and I look at Dogleg and Double Cross, but they are both busy. So we wander over to The Flake and he starts up. The beginning chimney looks a little scrunchy even for him, then he exits right and puts a piece in that provides plenty of rope drag for the rest…

  • Joshua Tree – Stichter Quits 5.7+

    Ann has agreed to head out early, before tea, to do this popular climb, provided we return for tea immediately afterward. It works well. We arrive around 7:30 and have Echo Rock to ourselves. After I clip the first bolt Ann persuades me to try climbing some edges to the right, which ends feeling like…