Zhanga: February 7, 2009

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Saturday, February 7, 2009 (6 comments)

On Tuesdays and Thursdays I have an early class and an afternoon class in the same building, so I often just take a nap in that building after eating lunch. Two days ago, as I was waking up I overheard the following:

Henry: I've never seen somebody sleep like that before... I mean, they usually at least look like they're breathing. He just looks dead. How can that possibly be comfortable?
Me: ....hey... what... hey I'm awake now
Henry: Hey he's awake! That was the most uncomfortable-looking sleep position I've ever seen...

Apparently he had been talking about me for five minutes before I woke up. I guess it must have been pretty comfortable...? Or I guess I could have been dead.

After class I went to the most nerdy thing I've ever been to in my life. The mangitude of nerdiness might blow some of your minds, so try not to think too hard about it. It was an Open Source University Meetup sponsored by Sun. The notice for the event called it an "OpenSolaris Installfest" and said something about a "tech talk," so I assumed they would talk about the operating system, why it's good, cool things about it, etc. Stuff that would interest me. (OpenSolaris is like a more hardcore nerd form of Linux, made by Sun.)

When I got to the event, I was the third person to show up. There was a sign-in list with a column for "major" -- the two names above me were political science and public policy. Wtf? Eventually, about 30 people showed up and over half of them were Chinese girls. (Already one thing OpenSolaris beats Linux at.) I think there were two white people present, and of the Chinese people, I heard exactly one of them speak any English -- the presenter. I felt like I was in a grad students' Chinese Students Association meeting. Every time the presenter hovered her mouse over a word, a Chinese translation would pop up.

The actual meeting was the most boring thing on the planet. All she did was talk about Sun and joining the Sun group on campus and, literally, show how to install OpenSolaris. It involves hitting enter twice, waiting, clicking next, waiting more, clicking next, waiting and waiting and waiting, etc. And the pizza was an hour late. Bah.

Aside from trying to decode fobtalk (the presenter could have just spoken in Chinese since 95% of the audience would have understood her better) and watching a progress bar slowly crawl, one other thing happened. The girl sitting next to me asked me how this operating system was any different from plain Linux, which is a major milestone in my (and/or Linux's) life because it marked the first and last time any female will ever speak to me about Linux. Well, until my sister realizes what's on her computer...

4:28PM

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