"If it's not on fire, it's a software problem." (Matt Burch)
It's on fire (well, giving off smoke). Presumably, it's a hardware problem. Not my computer, but the minimalist Linux server the neighbours cobbled together to let everyone hook up to the 'net at the same time. And given the one brother at home was refusing to open the windows in spite of the growing smell that was already ringing throbbing headachy alarm bells, I figured it was a good time to get the heck out of the house. Hopefully it'll be fixed soon, it's just a matter of getting a power supply... (yeah, right).
Mind you, there was method to my brother's madness: the weather gods have finally realised it's December. Which means 30°+ days (kept out of those houses unlucky enough to lack aircon by fans and firmly shut curtains and windows) starting out dry and getting sultrier until evening storms come to wash all the sweat away. Minima in the low twenties if you're lucky. Welcome to the sunburnt country. And I might not be much of an artist, but the walks to and from the train station have reminded me that I can be quite the expert on the practical applications of light and shade, or rather shade and the burning hot lack of shade, when it suits me. Speaking of which, though just saying this will probably mark me as unpatriotic enough to get me on a dozen ASIO and AFP watch lists, the War Memorial really needs a couple of trees in front of it. I don't mean to obscure the diggers' memory, but four or five minutes waiting in front of it for the Kintore Avenue pedestrian light to turn green will have people cursing that memory, not honouring it. ;o)
As long as we're on about a lack of patriotism, of course, it should be pointed out that this is ideal beach weather, trams leave every 20 minutes and buses every fifteen if I'm that way inclined, and I'm not going anywhere near one. (I fully expect to have a cordon of MiBs waiting for me outside work now.) Nonetheless, I firmly believe that if the god of materialism had wanted us to spend the summer working on our malignant melanomas, he/she/we/it/they wouldn't have given us air conditioning, and especially not big university libraries equipped with it. ;o) Although the fact said library is closed from Christmas to January fifth --- horror of horrors --- may indicate differently. Damn, I think too much. And am now going to go off to brave the sunshine again, to look at OS exchange programs so as to exacerbate this problem (well, and arrange to be closer to athe_fionavar, of course... ;o) Sprechen sie Deutsch?
Mind you, there was method to my brother's madness: the weather gods have finally realised it's December. Which means 30°+ days (kept out of those houses unlucky enough to lack aircon by fans and firmly shut curtains and windows) starting out dry and getting sultrier until evening storms come to wash all the sweat away. Minima in the low twenties if you're lucky. Welcome to the sunburnt country. And I might not be much of an artist, but the walks to and from the train station have reminded me that I can be quite the expert on the practical applications of light and shade, or rather shade and the burning hot lack of shade, when it suits me. Speaking of which, though just saying this will probably mark me as unpatriotic enough to get me on a dozen ASIO and AFP watch lists, the War Memorial really needs a couple of trees in front of it. I don't mean to obscure the diggers' memory, but four or five minutes waiting in front of it for the Kintore Avenue pedestrian light to turn green will have people cursing that memory, not honouring it. ;o)
As long as we're on about a lack of patriotism, of course, it should be pointed out that this is ideal beach weather, trams leave every 20 minutes and buses every fifteen if I'm that way inclined, and I'm not going anywhere near one. (I fully expect to have a cordon of MiBs waiting for me outside work now.) Nonetheless, I firmly believe that if the god of materialism had wanted us to spend the summer working on our malignant melanomas, he/she/we/it/they wouldn't have given us air conditioning, and especially not big university libraries equipped with it. ;o) Although the fact said library is closed from Christmas to January fifth --- horror of horrors --- may indicate differently. Damn, I think too much. And am now going to go off to brave the sunshine again, to look at OS exchange programs so as to exacerbate this problem (well, and arrange to be closer to athe_fionavar, of course... ;o) Sprechen sie Deutsch?