Not a Star Wars review
- My first week with EVDB has been taken up with things like filling out all of those wonderful starting-a-new-job forms, configuring my shiny new work-issued 15-inch Powerbook (which I’ve named Roisin) to be a nice development box, getting up to speed on the various bits of the system, and seeing the new Star Wars movie. I made my first (inert) Subversion commit on Wednesday, and am hoping to really crank out features for the site in the next few weeks.
- EVDB is in La Jolla, 10 miles as the car drives from where I live in University Heights. But I don’t drive, and the various combinations of bus routes (6 & 41, 15 & 150) I’ve been experimenting with take anywhere from just under an hour to about 90 minutes to take me door-to-door. So I’ve been getting a lot more reading in than I used to.
- Speaking of reading, I’m most of the way through War for the Oaks by Emma Bull, and am enjoying it quite a bit. You might think of it as a much lighter Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, but set in late 1980’s Minneapolis and with Priss from "Bubblegum Crisis" as the main character. Faerie wars, motorcycles, and rock & roll: it’s hard to go wrong with such a combination.