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Brief Trip Report

Tue, 15 Nov 2005 12:38:30 -0500

I had an amazingly good time, compared to previous trips. My nephews are now old enough to behave themselves and not fight, at least while I'm around. X is just entering High School, and Roo is a little behind him. Roo is in a rock band, and they've actually had public performances; I heard them rehearse a little, and they actually were making music. Not my kind of music, granted, but pretty impressive for twelve-year-olds. X works in a bike shop, is a vegetarian, and I'm pretty sure badger would think he's the cutest thing ever with his nerdy hornrim glasses and mohawk (I didn't get to see it gelled up to its full glory, but he was planning on wearing it that way to school today to see if he could get away with it). As for my mom and grandmother, least said, soonest mended.

The best part of the trip was, as usual, getting to see badger, rook, and russet, and playing rpgs with them. I guested in rook's buffy game as a demonic stockbroker, and that was a complete blast. I think I played his English as a bit more broken than rook intended, but I had fun and the other players seemed to enjoy it. Zamber's amber game on Sunday was also a lot of fun, and I definitely would be up for her running some more of that if we ever get another opportunity.

Icky Thoughts

Tue, 15 Nov 2005 12:35:31 -0500

Is it evil to wish your aged relatives would hurry up and die? 'Cause after spending some time with my 94-year-old grandmother this trip, that's what I was thinking. She sure doesn't seem to be getting much enjoyment out of life.

Adium

Tue, 27 Sep 2005 12:12:17 -0500

Trying out Adium for my cross-service IM needs on OS X. Now that I've upgraded to Tiger, Fire crashes on startup. There's probably a newer version that doesn't have that problem, but I'm not that fond of Fire, so it seems like a good time to check out the competition.

Badger Might Be Amused

Tue, 16 Aug 2005 22:02:57 -0500

Harry Potter Dating Sim

In case that annoying Spanish-speaker

Fri, 12 Aug 2005 13:24:36 -0500

who's called over a dozen times in the past day, including at around midnight last night, calls again, I asked badger how to say

"This is the wrong number"

No es el numero correcto

"No matter how many times you call, it still won't be the right number"

Usted puede llamar hasta el infierno se congelara, pero ya no estara el numero

Yes, I DO know that

Fri, 12 Aug 2005 13:20:04 -0500

The post I wrote about blogging about blogging being the most boring thing ever still hasn't scrolled of the front page as I write this. But, you know, if I can't be boring on this, my most personal and intimate of blogs, then what's the point of having it? If this is for anything, it's a place for me to jot down things that I may want to remember later; it's notes for my future self, not an attempt to reach an audience. I've got other blogs for presenting ideas to the public, such as it is.

It's not like anyone reading this blog expects to be entertained, you know?

Experimental Results

Fri, 12 Aug 2005 13:15:22 -0500

The results of my experiment in concentrating on one blog are as follows:

It didn't make a difference. The best predictor of whether I post to any of my blogs is whether I posted anywhere in the past twenty-four hours. If I write a blog post, I'm more likely to write another; it doesn't seem to matter whether the post was to the same blog or not.

So it appears that if I want to keep blogging, the best way is to just keep blogging, to keep the momentum, rather than worrying whether the nonexistant readership of any of the blogs is getting any satisfaction.

Harry Potter Reminder

Fri, 12 Aug 2005 13:07:40 -0500

Petrificus Totalus

badger pointed the above out, but since I'm behind in my Harry Potter, I'm trying to avoid spoilers for now. Once I've caught up, I'll take a look.

Eureka, part two!

Wed, 10 Aug 2005 23:51:42 -0500

I've found a product that works to let me remotely control my Windows desktop from my Mac. It's a professional product, but there's a limited-utility free version that does everything I need; I might buy the pro version anyway, if it's not too expensive, just to encourage them, particularly since it involves using their website to log into the remote software. Basically it's a Java applet that can talk to a remote control server that you install on the host machine; pretty much what PCAnywhere does, but without needing both machines to be running the main software. It seems to have a bit of a problem in Firefox, which can't find the right Java class, but works perfectly in Safari, and that's good enough. Now, to bed.

Eureka!

Wed, 10 Aug 2005 22:09:30 -0500

I've finally found the right settings to let me print from my Mac notebook on my Windows printer, via my wireless network. It was quite a bit trickier than I had initially hoped, requiring installing software on both systems, but at long last it works.

My next interoperabilty project requires accessing some CD-ROM reference software that only works on Windows from the Mac. There seem to be two approaches I could try: running an emulator on the Mac, or running a Window Remote Desktop client on the Mac. I'm leaning towards the latter, since it seems like it ought to be the more robust solution--pretending to be a certain kind of TCP/IP enabled software seems like a simpler task than pretending to be Windows itself, particularly when that would have to include reading a Windows CD-ROM using the Mac CD-ROM drive. Plus the Remote Desktop software is free...

update Crap, you can only do Remote Desktop if you have Windows XP Professional. So much for that idea.

Yeah, Badger needs this

Fri, 20 May 2005 17:36:07 -0500

Laser Sword Sex Toys

And another thing...

Fri, 20 May 2005 11:40:25 -0500

Isn't blogging about blogging the most boring thing ever? It's like those stories that everybody tells students not to write, but they write anyway, where they write about the process of writing and having writer's block...

...and thus do we become what we despise.

Nothing human is alien to me - Goethe

An Experiment

Fri, 20 May 2005 11:38:30 -0500

I think I'm going to try to consolidate all my other blogs into one for a while and see if concentrating my energies makes any difference.

Bloggone?

Thu, 19 May 2005 22:39:38 -0500

I don't know, lately I've just felt less and less urge to blog on any of my blogs, and I don't really know why. At first I thought that I had stretched myself too thin by seperating them into so many different categories (but who in the world would be interested in reading the different things that I was writing about except myself?), but it's not like I'm even posting a trickle spread across various blogs...this is probably the first post to any of them this week. I still read a bunch of blogs, but if I even feel the slightest urge to comment on something I've read it subsides almost at once.

It's almost like, after a certain point, there's an inertia to posting that I find hard to overcome. I have some thoughts on topic x, but I didn't post anything on topic y when that was getting chewed over by the blogs I read and y was more interesting to me than x, so why bother with x? Plus there's a nagging sense that any time spent blogging, or reading blogs, could be better spent actually working on one of my too many projects that never go anywhere. Although, knowing me, if I really tried to buckle down to some of them, then the urge to blog as a procrastination mechanism would become overwhelming....

Welcome to the Jungle

Mon, 04 Apr 2005 08:21:37 -0500

Sign on the break-room refrigerator:

If you did not bring it, it's not YOURS! Don't eat it! Reward for info leading to the arrest of the B.B.B. (Brown Bag Bandit) x####

to which some wise-ass affixed a napkin with the following scribble:

It was Yummy!!! Clue #1

The drums in the jungle...the sound of the drums never stops...each night they seem closer...