I gave my Linux kernel tutorial at NordU yesterday, and unfortunately the jet lag choose yesterday as the day to hit hard. With a vengence.
I managed to give the class without many major screwups, but it definitely wasn’t my best effort. I had a few people complimenting me afterwards, which felt strange because I knew the talk wasn’t as coherent and as organized as I would have liked.
Afterwards, I went to have dinner with an old friend (one of the FTP maintainers of ftp.funet.fi, the original host site for the Linux kernel, back in 1991 :-), and was a terrible dinner guest. I was practically nodding off between every other sentence. Part of it was the people smoking at the next table over — one of ah, “disadvantages”, of living in Massachusetts is that my ability to deal with second smoke has gone completely down tubes — but part of it was just how exhausted I was.
A weird thing though is that I wasn’t tired when I finally came back to my hotel room and spent an hour or two catching up on e-mail on the laptop. Hmm…. people who feel energized when interacting with other people are called extroverts; is there a term for people who feel energized when they are working with computers? No wait, I’m not sure I want to know…
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