Trying new things or Being a new person

Posted by banane on January 29th, 2010 — in fitness

This is the second time I’ve gone up to Tahoe during the week. I woke up at 5- my adorable alarm clock (cat) did that magic- and picked up a ZipCar, turned on NPR, and then drove about 2 1/2 hours up to Donner Pass. Ski for 4 hours, drive home. Ta-da. The result is [...]

MySql, Ruby and Snow Leopard (yet another post)

Posted by banane on January 25th, 2010 — in technology

The blogosphere is full of a lot of posts about this particular problem, but I thought I’d chime in with my own insights. This is evidenced by two errors. First, whenever you try to do any kind of rake db task: rake aborted! uninitialized constant MysqlCompat::MysqlRes Second, you cannot install the Mysql Gem. missing libraries, [...]

Long Car Rides

Posted by banane on January 6th, 2010 — in language, travel

I had a long car-ride with my sister Amy- Berkeley-SF-Monterey and back a day later. We had some amazing conversations. Mostly, though, they are the conversations that don’t exhaust after 15 minutes. It’s a depth of conversation that I don’t experience usually. Sometimes with coworkers, where we see each other every day for lunch, and [...]