oh yeah, this trip means no posts again until at least sunday.
most interesting thing about today: I found out the DeCSS was overturned, or ruled in favor of the defendents (read: good guys)
I also connected some weird parts of my own city today. It's strange how you can live somewhere for several years, and yet never realize you're only 5 or 6 blocks from somewhere else you spent a lot of time previously. (In this case, it was a friend's house.) My mental map of minneapolis has been updated.
Friday, November 02, 2001
end of the week for me. I'm taking tomorrow off to go to this juggling convention. It's in Iowa of all places. ;)
I'm really looking forward to the trip. A little show, a little show off... good people. Digital camera...
yeah. the issue of where to move this thing is still up in the air, but I'm thinking probably it'll make its way to my homepage (livingtech.net) and who cares about the ftp security issues involved.. but maybe not. maybe I'll find a free host yet.
I'm really looking forward to the trip. A little show, a little show off... good people. Digital camera...
yeah. the issue of where to move this thing is still up in the air, but I'm thinking probably it'll make its way to my homepage (livingtech.net) and who cares about the ftp security issues involved.. but maybe not. maybe I'll find a free host yet.
Wednesday, October 31, 2001
Monday, October 29, 2001
"Welcome to the Freedom2surf signup page!
Sorry - Our free webservers are currently full"
oh well. I'm looking for other alternatives.
This is the first time I've opened up blogger in IE for pc. Very weird. How do they do this? I'm so confused... It's not a frame, and it very much appears to be a part of my browser. How do they do it!?
um, yeah, what was I going to talk about? Hmmm. working on the weekends sucks, especially when you find out about this expectation on sunday afternoon. I've been depressed lately. (I don't think this is actually related to working on sunday, but anything is possible.) I blame lack of sleep, and far too much to do after work... I have less and less "unscripted" time. Time to just do whatever...
My poetry journal has been the most neglected it has been in at least four years. I write in it sometimes once a week now, and I was doing so well there for awhile. Aproaching my once or twice a day in the summertime. I guess when it's nice outside, I want to go sit more and write. I also blame the fact that I haven't really read anything inspiring lately. I was very excited to get the new book of poetry by Jeff Noon, but it turned out to be pretty uninteresting. I should read more of it, but when do I have time?
My most recent musical discovery is this punk/pop band called The Strokes. I think they're from the UK. (I really have no idea.) The first song on the album, and the title track, is "Is This It", which is probably a question, despite the lack of punctuation. The phrase keeps rolling around in my head, both in lyric, and in word form (does anyone else end up thinking in typing strokes?) ... yeah, you can't respond yet, but you will be able to. soon... I'm desperate for that instant feedback... I've become addicted to reading the comments on Yami's site, and I want the same thing for myself. Of course, I don't have hordes of foreign exchange students who have everything in common with me, but maybe I'll find an audience in the balding-mid-twenties-underpaid-techie crowd.
a poem off the top of my head:
=========
sweet silvery jukebox-smile
teeth matte like the grit on a scratch-to-win
pig-tails and short skirt--
high-school-girl high
you cavort my eye
cajole my attention span into flickering your fickle direction
I'm a weak knee'd gummy worm
squishy in your palm
precicely pinned in your geometry textbook
hearts and stars around our names
I'm your disected frog, I'm your stairway physics experiment
I'm empty and old, used and discarded
=========
whatever happened to that jittery feeling anyway? I used to get all nervous talking to girls on the phone, now I just want to hang up and talk to someone in real life, or go check my email... speaking of...
Sorry - Our free webservers are currently full"
oh well. I'm looking for other alternatives.
This is the first time I've opened up blogger in IE for pc. Very weird. How do they do this? I'm so confused... It's not a frame, and it very much appears to be a part of my browser. How do they do it!?
um, yeah, what was I going to talk about? Hmmm. working on the weekends sucks, especially when you find out about this expectation on sunday afternoon. I've been depressed lately. (I don't think this is actually related to working on sunday, but anything is possible.) I blame lack of sleep, and far too much to do after work... I have less and less "unscripted" time. Time to just do whatever...
My poetry journal has been the most neglected it has been in at least four years. I write in it sometimes once a week now, and I was doing so well there for awhile. Aproaching my once or twice a day in the summertime. I guess when it's nice outside, I want to go sit more and write. I also blame the fact that I haven't really read anything inspiring lately. I was very excited to get the new book of poetry by Jeff Noon, but it turned out to be pretty uninteresting. I should read more of it, but when do I have time?
My most recent musical discovery is this punk/pop band called The Strokes. I think they're from the UK. (I really have no idea.) The first song on the album, and the title track, is "Is This It", which is probably a question, despite the lack of punctuation. The phrase keeps rolling around in my head, both in lyric, and in word form (does anyone else end up thinking in typing strokes?) ... yeah, you can't respond yet, but you will be able to. soon... I'm desperate for that instant feedback... I've become addicted to reading the comments on Yami's site, and I want the same thing for myself. Of course, I don't have hordes of foreign exchange students who have everything in common with me, but maybe I'll find an audience in the balding-mid-twenties-underpaid-techie crowd.
a poem off the top of my head:
=========
sweet silvery jukebox-smile
teeth matte like the grit on a scratch-to-win
pig-tails and short skirt--
high-school-girl high
you cavort my eye
cajole my attention span into flickering your fickle direction
I'm a weak knee'd gummy worm
squishy in your palm
precicely pinned in your geometry textbook
hearts and stars around our names
I'm your disected frog, I'm your stairway physics experiment
I'm empty and old, used and discarded
=========
whatever happened to that jittery feeling anyway? I used to get all nervous talking to girls on the phone, now I just want to hang up and talk to someone in real life, or go check my email... speaking of...
Sunday, October 28, 2001
day of computer frustration 1,000,001.
My mom got a cute little (impractical) Olympus digital camera from her brother. She has never wanted, nor needed, a digital camera. She needed a real camera, so I bought her one for her birthday, and she's happy. I inherited the little tyke, and it'll be fine for web stuff... IF I COULD GET IT TO INSTALL ON MY MACHINE!!! Note: this may not be the fault of the manufacturers, or their software... but I keep getting an error that says I need to install various other stuff on my computer, (in the midst of trying to install the drivers for the camera) and asking me to kindly insert my windows 98 SE disk. Well, the files are not found on the disk. Wonders of wonders, my camera still does not connect.
*sigh*
I'm trying to find a good free host with php. This is a more daunting task than I'd first imagined.
now I have to go into work and fix some crappy templates because we've sold all self-respect, and have a completely inexcusable deadline for a microsoft project. It's insane how at a very much lower level than their software development people (ie, their web-outsourcing people) the attitudes at microsoft are exactly the same as the attitudes they are most known and despised for... basically that they want to push the product out the door regardless of QA and/or project readiness.
And this is progress for my stupid company. (yay, we have big clients! :P)
My mom got a cute little (impractical) Olympus digital camera from her brother. She has never wanted, nor needed, a digital camera. She needed a real camera, so I bought her one for her birthday, and she's happy. I inherited the little tyke, and it'll be fine for web stuff... IF I COULD GET IT TO INSTALL ON MY MACHINE!!! Note: this may not be the fault of the manufacturers, or their software... but I keep getting an error that says I need to install various other stuff on my computer, (in the midst of trying to install the drivers for the camera) and asking me to kindly insert my windows 98 SE disk. Well, the files are not found on the disk. Wonders of wonders, my camera still does not connect.
*sigh*
I'm trying to find a good free host with php. This is a more daunting task than I'd first imagined.
now I have to go into work and fix some crappy templates because we've sold all self-respect, and have a completely inexcusable deadline for a microsoft project. It's insane how at a very much lower level than their software development people (ie, their web-outsourcing people) the attitudes at microsoft are exactly the same as the attitudes they are most known and despised for... basically that they want to push the product out the door regardless of QA and/or project readiness.
And this is progress for my stupid company. (yay, we have big clients! :P)
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