[gentoo-user] [OT] Canek's youtube channel

[gentoo-user] [OT] Canek's youtube channel

[walt]

A few days ago, one of Neil's replies in this list (gentoo-user)
reminded me that Canek disappeared some time ago after being very
active for quite a long time.

Just today (24 Sept) I suddenly remembered Neil's comment and I
decided to ask if anyone here had heard from Canek off-list.

But no.  I decided that asking someone to google it for me is too easy.
I'm all grown up now:  I'll google it for myself:

https://www.youtube.com/user/canekpelaez

Here's the strange part: notice that yesterday (23 Sept) he 'liked' a
video introduction to gnome 3.18 -- after years of posting nothing to
his youtube channel that even remotely relates to computing.

Why did he post that link yesterday, and why did I decide today to
google for canek?  I have no idea, but the timing is, um , interesting.

Canek, are you still lurking here?  Please come back to us :)

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Canek's youtube channel

[Canek Peláez Valdés]

On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 8:07 PM, walt <w41ter@gmail.com> wrote:
[ ... ]
> Canek, are you still lurking here?  Please come back to us :)

(This is personal and definitely off-topic, so please skip if you are
not interested).

I'm still here, and I sill read almost all top posts (but I don't
follow most threads). Thanks for the concern.

I've got my tenure track at UNAM (which is kinda big deal here in
Mexico). I've been swamped in work for the last five months, and it's
gonna be that way for at least until the end of the year, probably
more.

As for my lack of participation on the list, if you have noticed
almost no GNOME/systemd questions are asked on the list anymore, and I
attribute it to the excellent work done by the corresponding teams of
Gentoo devs. The growing pains we had when systemd was introduced are
basically over, and running Gentoo with it is easy as pie nowadays.
And I still maintain that for years it was easier to run systemd on
Gentoo than on many other distributions.

Certainly I haven't had any problems at all since a very long time.

On top of that, and because of my workload, I set almost all the
packages in all my machines to stable; basically I only have
vanilla-sources and dracut in ~amd64. Therefore, I cannot be of much
help to someone running systemd 227 when I myself run 218. The same
applies to GNOME; I just updated to 3.16 on September 13.

At some point my workload will stabilize (I hope!), and I intend to
get back to experiment with unstable packages and participating on the
list. Also, and since I will have an stable job until I die/retire
(for almost all practical purposes), I hope to finally start the
process to become a Gentoo developer myself.

Thanks again for asking.

Regards.
--
Canek Peláez Valdés
Profesor de asignatura, Facultad de Ciencias
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Canek's youtube channel

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Thu, 24 Sep 2015 20:54:12 -0500, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:

> I've got my tenure track at UNAM (which is kinda big deal here in
> Mexico).

Congratulations, well done.

> Also, and since I will have an stable job until I die/retire

I hope that means long term stability and not a short lifespan. After
all, the same could be said of Kamikaze pilots...


-- 
Neil Bothwick

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Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Canek's youtube channel

[Canek Peláez Valdés]

On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 2:44 AM, Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Sep 2015 20:54:12 -0500, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
>
>> I've got my tenure track at UNAM (which is kinda big deal here in
>> Mexico).
>
> Congratulations, well done.

Thanks.

>> Also, and since I will have an stable job until I die/retire
>
> I hope that means long term stability and not a short lifespan. After
> all, the same could be said of Kamikaze pilots...

The former, not the later. I hope.

Regards.
-- 
Canek Peláez Valdés
Profesor de asignatura, Facultad de Ciencias
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México