Attention silvertongue1

They have put Our Gambit in purple satin and velvet.  Either he's working at a casino, or I do Not Approve!

Man, it's *really* hard to adjust to having just one computer, that I have to keep in good working condition because a large chunk of my life rests upon its functionality.  I keep daydreaming of getting something old on the cheap so that I can play around with stuff like Archer or DSL.  Except I really can't justify spending a hundred-plus quid on ( Read more... )

2000:  My roommate admitting, a few days before the election, that she was thinking twice about her vote for Bush.  I remember not really understanding the issues, but also staying up until the very wee hours of the morning, watching Florida go back and forth.  Lying in bed in our dark dorm room, watching people argue about hanging chads, or ( Read more... )

On signing into my SfP sandbox for the first time in months, I get this as part of my status message:

Last login: Fri Aug 15 09:57:44 2008 from [redacted]

Awwwwwwwwwww.  Warm fuzzies.

(It feels surprisingly good to really be working again, I have to say.)

ETA:  well, I will be when I can get into something other than my sandbox.....

So I've been pretty reliably keeping a diary for the past year -- mostly for reflection, writing stuff out, the usual.  But, also, in the tiny hope that someday someone (maybe even someone related to me...) will find it and read all about the life of a slightly bonkers twenty-something in the early 2000's.  I love thinking about this, and somewhat ( Read more... )

There's an awesome thread over on Comics Curmudgeon about superstitions in IT/programming.  I can't off the top of my head think of anything I've done (other than probably restarting my sandbox way too much, in the belief that that always makes things better), but the rest of you -- fess up!  I'm curious ( Read more... )

Home from the sea (well, the Bay).  It was about three hours until I was attempting to explain to my father that, despite what he might believe, my turning on my laptop within the bounds of the house did not cause his computer to self-destruct, and, um, that's Windows SP 3.  He might want it.  Also, the neighbors cannot get into our wireless ( Read more... )

The MacBook Air is so incredibly thin, it is making me ill.  Or that could be all the pocky on top of vietnamese hoagies for lunch ( Read more... )

Thoughts bouncing around ( Read more... )

I am desperately trying to get motivated to work.  It's not going very well.  (This is the downside of two jobs...on the rare occasions when I get into a groove for one thing, at some not-so-distant point, I really have to switch to the other.  It does not help that ship research is so.  incredibly.  dull right now.)

I don't know if it's the air ( Read more... )