i am posting this from inside a wallabee wallaby

since lions have already been done, i decided to hop inside a wallabee wallaby for this one. i'm sitting in its pouch typing away. yes, i am that tiny, especially when i suck my gut in and hold my breath. the wallabee wallaby, however, remains unimpressed.

(if you're wondering what the above is about, so am i. i'd heard of jonah and the whale before, pinnochio and the whale, captain ahab and the whale (man, whales got such a bad rap in literature), dogs inside of snakes, snakes inside of airplanes and airplanes inside of naval vessels (to keep the free association there going) ... but not until now had i heard of ades inside of lions. once i had, though, i just had to get into the $PERSON in $ANIMAL bandwagon. i'm a hopeless follower. no animals were harmed in the making of this blog entry, though the wallabee wallaby continues to be unimpressed.)

my sleep schedule has been completely messed up this week. more so than usual. maybe it was the appearance of Zack. he has that kind of effect on people.

i took him to the airport this afternoon as he has a company meeting to be at in Spain. i'm hoping he'll come back to Calgary when he's done there, but that's all still up in the air.

the good news is that we made progress with quasar, huge progress with packages and webkit in plasma and ate tremendous quantities of kick ass vegan chinese food. you may not care as much about the last bit of information there, but without that .. there would've been less code written, so in a way you probably do care. (the wallabee wallaby has just informed me that it doesn't care and that i've got another five minutes for this entry, max.)

between sleeping (or, rather, often not) at the oddest times and being busy writing code and driving people to school, airports and what not i have been ducking communicating with people (so if i owe you an email or a phone call: sorry, i'll get to you over the next few days here) as well as avoiding doing that screencast. i really wanted to be able to show more of the cool things that we were working on actually working properly and what not, so kept putting it off. well, Zack's gone and things work so it's time =)

i'm going to ping Danny to see if he's interested in including it in the next commit digest. if not, i'll post it here instead. if he is, then it'll appear on the weekend in the commit digest.

in the screencast i show kickoff, installing plasma and webkit packages through the Add Widgets dialog, webkit based widgets (two kinds: one with plasma and one with MacOS apis) and a little bit of quasar stuff.

it's this kind of productivity that makes me ponder what would be possible if there was a little villiage somewhere that i and others like Zack could hang out in, enjoy good food and just hack on free software all day. well, enough pondering for now, my time in this wallabee wallaby is up.

good day, love and hugs.