Wednesday
Work wasn’t bad… for the most part. I’m still getting hung-up on one part of the form that I’m coding. That is more than slightly annoying. And frustrating. I’ll get past it, but until then all that I can do is hack and slash at the code. Or burn it. Or immerse it in sulfuric or hydrochloric acid… or… or… *sigh* …or I could just fix the damned code.

I had a rather pleasant chat with this afternoon. My inner comics geek… (No, it’s not really an “inner” geek. It’s a pretty well-established fact that I’m a comic book fiend…) *shrug* We talked comics for a bit. And coffee shops. And David Bowie, including Absolute Beginners (both the movie and the song). It was rather cool.

I had lunch with . (Don’t forget to look for/read those books!)

I came home and got to reinstall the OS on one of the computers. And transfer files. And find drivers. And go back-and-forth between the two desks while I waited for things to install/load/configure. Whoop-de-fuck. But, it’s mostly done now. Just a few apps to install and then we can sprinkle it with dehydrated Holy Water.

NPR Stories

Stray Toasters

  • I wasn’t aware – until the past day or two – that SCO, the company suing IBM over Linux/Unix licensing rights, was based in Lindon, Utah (about 25 or 30 miles from Salt Lake City).
  • Analysis of Y-Chromosome Yields Many Surprises
  • Que Saree Saree… (No, those are not typos.)
  • Tiger, Tiger burning not-so-bright…
  • It seems that Cuban President Fidel Castro found himself victim of a prank played by DJs at a Miami radio station. Do you really want to play games with the man who had his finger on the Cuban equivalent of “The Button” during the Cuban Missile Crisis? I would tend to think not.
  • And then there’s this little nugget of joy, courtesy of .
  • “I’d say ‘bunnies,’ Raist…”
  • Are you a gamer who’s grown up but still has a fondness for the old-school consoles? Were you a fan of the Nintendo Entertainment System? Do you like computer case mods? If you answered “yes” to at least one of these questions, one of these might be the computer for you.

And that’s the end… for now.

Namaste.