Nectarines are tasty
Sitting in my lounge room with a fancy scarf. Cath is coming round later, then we zoom off to Amsterdam. There will be burritos at the local market first.
I wrote a command line scrobble client the other day. You never know when you’ll need to pipe your scrobbles.
Wow it’s been a long time with no blogging.. Just thought I’d post some abbreviated updates.
The lease on my current place runs out on the 31st, so I’m looking for rooms again.
I saw Fever Ray at Shepard’s Bush Empire on Thursday. It was amazing.
At Last.fm we’ve been working hard on the next iteration of search (with neat auto-completion) and launched a beta to subscribers on Wednesday.
I’ve been playing with HBase, and loaded a 700 million cell table into a 5 node cluster with no problems at all. I’m also setting up this mini cluster so I can run Dumbo jobs over HBase.
Also of note: Last.fm is hiring.
25ish hours on a plane, over.
Being in Melbourne again, hurts. There are people here I really really love and don’t want to leave behind again. I hear it’s common to get culture shock when you get back home. I think I skipped that, because firstly I’ve had that before after returning from months of hitchhiking and hanging out with yogis, and secondly I know I’m not staying.
But, I had pretty high expectations of being here. I thought every day I’d be hanging out with friends drinking beer, drinking coffee, having brunch etc etc etc… For the most part that’s pretty much what I’ve been doing, but I really do get exhausted by people and organizing meeting them. I need to be able to take it for granted that they’ll be there for another day we can hang out. If only everything could just be done on a whim.
I feel like having a midnight picnic on a warm night, but I just know it’ll be only me if I try to round people up at the last minute. Ah well, I refuse to plan it in advance or even think about it. I will whimsically buy wine and drink myself to sleep in a park on my own if I have to.
In some ways it’s great to be working from home now for the last of my stay here. It gives me a something to do other then mope about time and everyones busy schedules. I do like moping though.
It’ll be a good next week and a half.
I like tokyo. It’s busy and different and exciting. The traffic seems a little more civilized then London so far.
I think I’m still getting over the jet lag. Today I walked around Shinjuku all day. It made me want to play The World is not Enough again. Unfortunately I left my DS in london.
The first thing I did was go to a mega book store next to Takashimaya Times Square. They have half a floor for foreign language books. Weirdly they’ve pretty good mathematics text book section. I bought an Atlas of Tokyo.
I spent the rest of the day wandering around various record shops (as well as an anarchist book shop) recommended by Tokyo Damage Report. Also found a couple of Punk clubs. I nearly went to one but was tired and too cheap to pay the 1700 yen door charge.
Tags: tokyo
