Destruction! (for starters anyway)
This morning, Eden, Anna, Bec, Adam, and I helped Jeff part of the roof of Elm. Apparently, guests have been complaining for months about the smells of mold in the shower room. Well, no wonder, the entire roof was rotting away under the shingles and rubber edging. It was quite gross. Tomorrow, Jeff plans to reshingle it.
After lunch, I sat at home and followed MacRumors' live coverage of Steve Jobs' keynote address at Apple's annual WorldWide Developers' Conference. Someone also made a live audio feed available, so in low quality, I also listened to the show, which was pretty cool. MacRumors continues to provide the best, auto-updating, live coverage of these keynotes.
Steve demoed some previously unseen new features of Leopard, the next version of Mac OS X (10.5) scheduled to be released in October, offered developers a taste of games to come "back to the Mac" from big name developers EA and Id, and released a beta version of Safari … for Windows! With the success of iTunes, particularly since its release for Windows, Apple thinks it can also grow its browser market share significantly, currently holding about 5%.
The rest of the afternoon was pretty quiet, with time spent watering the recently seeded new lawns. Finally, clouds were offering some shade for this, so I didn't feel as guilty as when 80% of the water was evaporating before it drained toward the grass roots. And I helped Tamuz backup her computer and walked her through a few frustrations-turned-smiles. This evening, I helped Annie put the goats to bed and, later, watched the second half of Hitch with Ruhi, having watched the first half a week or so ago.
Even in silence, the food continues to be excellent. Actually, most of the staff are sitting in a room designated for soft talking. As much as I can appreciate silence some of the time, I prefer eating in the company of people talking, even if I don't actually spend much time participating in their conversations.
After lunch, I sat at home and followed MacRumors' live coverage of Steve Jobs' keynote address at Apple's annual WorldWide Developers' Conference. Someone also made a live audio feed available, so in low quality, I also listened to the show, which was pretty cool. MacRumors continues to provide the best, auto-updating, live coverage of these keynotes.
Steve demoed some previously unseen new features of Leopard, the next version of Mac OS X (10.5) scheduled to be released in October, offered developers a taste of games to come "back to the Mac" from big name developers EA and Id, and released a beta version of Safari … for Windows! With the success of iTunes, particularly since its release for Windows, Apple thinks it can also grow its browser market share significantly, currently holding about 5%.
The rest of the afternoon was pretty quiet, with time spent watering the recently seeded new lawns. Finally, clouds were offering some shade for this, so I didn't feel as guilty as when 80% of the water was evaporating before it drained toward the grass roots. And I helped Tamuz backup her computer and walked her through a few frustrations-turned-smiles. This evening, I helped Annie put the goats to bed and, later, watched the second half of Hitch with Ruhi, having watched the first half a week or so ago.
Even in silence, the food continues to be excellent. Actually, most of the staff are sitting in a room designated for soft talking. As much as I can appreciate silence some of the time, I prefer eating in the company of people talking, even if I don't actually spend much time participating in their conversations.
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