Well it looks like I still have some way to go before I'm fully to grips with Licq, I managed to deny a couple of requests this morning by accident. Thankfully it keeps a nice log of all the system requests so I was able to email them and request that they resend the request.
Got to work and learnt how to navigate the logs for out email server at Star Internet (I mentioned yesterday that they have set up a separate division to sell their anti-virus software because it managed to capture the love bug without any updates.) The logs are very pretty, but not very printable. Oh well, you can't have everything.
Took a look at the downloads for Office 2000 SP1a Administrator update, and decided that 200Mb was a little too much for out ISDN line and we would wait until the next issue of TechNet.
BluePrintVert spent the day working on his website. He came up with a neat JavaScript `Ask the Mystic Monkey' that would pick a random answer to questions you ask it. It came up with some astonishingly accurate results:
Will dorward every work for Microsoft? That is a sinful question visit {a href="www.thepope.org"}this site{/a} for absolution.
Will dorward every shut up about linux? You may find this hard to believe, but YES! (I do find that hard to believe!)
Will k quit his job to become a full time DJ? No, unless today is a back holiday, in which case, Yes. (k is spending a couple of hours each morning presenting the breakfast show on a local charity radio station, starting Bank Holiday Monday.)
Will m ever get the pay rise he deserves? (The monkey avoided answering by asking m out on a date)
Will BluePrintVert ever move out and stop living with him Mummy? No, not a hope. (On going office joke, BPV is going to move out as soon as he has saved up enough money, but he keeps buying computer upgrades knocking his bank balance back down low.)
Having seen the results I promptly rewrote it in Perl, I need the practise, and uploaded it to http://dorward.netfirms.com. Please feel free to try it out, the site isn't quite finished but the script is going fine. BVTs original (and ruder) version should be on his website in the next few days, I'll announce it when the time comes.
Part way through the rewrite I went to the hairdressers and had about two thirds of it cut off. I was disappointed that it wasn't cut by `the girl without a bra and with a tight tee-shirt'. She is the Dimmock of the hairdressing world.
Finishing off the Perl Script kept me so busy I missed my bus, so having an extra hour I helped k build the new server. For some strange reason he wants to put Windows 2000 on it for testing. I doubt I will be able to talk him out of it as head office wants the entire company to migrate to it over the next year.
Not much else to report, watched half a movie then gave up as I remembered the ending. Sent a few files to Mike who had managed to lose his copies in a system crash. And I am now downloading skins for Licq.
What I meant to do:
Everything Day Logs Yesterday | Tomorrow
JeffMagnus node count: 3671 (1 new since May 23, 2000) JeffMagnus experience: 6107 (4 more since May 23, 2000) JeffMagnus experience to node ratio: 1.664 XP per node JeffMagnus nodeshare: 0.695% JeffMagnus node of the day: Everything 2 Civil War
<< week | May 22, 2000 | May 23, 2000 | May 24, 2000 | week >>
Users XP wa7 inc l_XP l_wa7 Pseudo_Intellectual 11931 188 163 11768 192 dem bones 10813 94 128 10685 88 jessicapierce 10651 84 29 10622 93 DMan 8243 161 153 8090 162 pukesick 8159 101 17 8142 115 Saige 7612 122 131 7481 121 ... EBU #50 2492 66 13 2479 75 EBU Aspirant 2313 60 87 2226 56 Server time: 02:42 Tue May 23 2000
l_ = last (previous) value; inc = increase in stats value wa7 = ((stats + (6 * l_wa7))/7) = weighted average with denominator 7
DMan zooms past pukesick who sportingly give way. I am quarter way through offline noding on a translation of the Quran, and uploaded first 40 chapters.
Server time: 23:45 Mon May 22 2000
I'm going for a coffee and smoke. Hopefully, I can vote when when I come back.
Perhaps the time thing is just another manifestation of the fact that today is going to go incredibly slow, one of those days that ends up being like two days long, at least in your perspective. You see, today I go, right after work, and get the keys to my new apartment. My new, nice apartment, two stories, washer/dryer, and all sorts of goodies, and it's nicer than where I am now. And I am so anxious to get over there that I'm going to watch time creep by like a snail, no matter what I do. I just sit and wait, wait for that clock to reach 5 pm, and get out of here.
I realize that I'm going to be next to useless here at work, which would be a problem if there were anything important that I were working on, but it seems that I'm not, at least at the moment. If it's like yesterday, nobody would even notice if I weren't here. It's got it's good points, and it's bad points, of being that way.
Well, I have a feeling I'm going to be pretty sparse around here for the next week, moving and all. At least I hope to have DSL in my new place, as soon as possible.
Not such an earth-shattering thing, I suppose. Ordinarily, I would put noding more or less at the center of my day--writing, posting, reading, voting.
So far today, I've gone shopping at the local Mall--and proved the genius of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.. A rule he made, or should have made:
If you are not in a hurry, there will be no lines; but if you're trying to get things done, there will be a line in front of you. You push them in front of you as you go
Now I'm back here, noding about my day not yet begun, and bugs on Everything
It seems that the iguana that ran away a while back has been living in my wall and has now resurfaced. I'm not sure what to do about this. He won't come out far enough for me to capture him but I can't just let him live in the wall. This is an odd situation indeed.
Grr, Dell's online store is down and I need to config/buy a laptop from them. How frustrating! This is how my entire day has been. However, I do not feel like bitching about the lunacy of my day right now.
Lately I have been walking to and from work and it's been treating me pretty good. Today I will take a detour from my normal path (directly up Main Street). Perhaps I will venture down Court Street and hang out in Piatt Park for a while.
Things to do today:
asamoth orders Cowbotneal to strangle nate. <p_i> CowbotNeal: nate? <CowbotNeal> nate is my primary target for strangulation.
Fitful sleep last night (er, yesterday afternoon) punctuated by a visit from zaykay! to the Casa Gelato; Spring Punch, Pear and Pina Colada. Later I somehow managed (because of fear of the clammy bug presently holding us in its thrall) to fill a night without the assistance of Everything, the way I used to... that's right, six hours of Sid Meier - Colonization in this case. It bothers me how that game rewards genocide of indigenous peoples as a playing strategy. My conscience would be much assuaged (?) if I could get a crack for Dungeon Hack working.
For today: proofreading for DiSCORDER, some Dance Dance Revolution while I'm at UBC, mail some stuffs internationally, Living Closet meeting and perhaps a reading at Bukowski's as the beginning of the polish movie marathon at crystallattice's new pad has been postponed until tomorrow night. Decalogue, mm. Red, White, Blue, mm. Girl with buttony backpack: aw bjyeah.
(Can you see my knees trembling from here?)
To finish, a couple of extemporal (extemporaneous?) bibs and bobs not fitting to today but to a few days ago and a month or so ago, respectively:
"All I ask of you / is forever to remember me / as loving you."
There are definitely worse ways to celebrate a funeral, but a part of me demands fire.
When I keeled over and fell asleep I had four candies in my pants pocket; upon waking I had only one. I found one more amongst the sheets and blankets, but what happened to the other two?
There are at least two candies (wrapped, thankfully) somewhere in my bed, and I know, I just know that they will suface only upon the most inopportune of moments.
Update!: I found one of them (well, the remnants of one of them) at the bottom of the washing machine, a faint toffyish residue in the wrapper, the rest... melted away? in the wash, coating all of my clothes in a very fine layer?
One remains at large.
Oh yes, also a line from Juxtsuppose I read while on the loo which I felt would be eminently sharable:
"There was a man sitting on the the sidewalk downtown. Spread out in front of him was an assortment of items for sale. As I passed, I noticed one book in particular, "How To Start Your Own Business."
in our last episode... | p_i-logs | and then, all of a sudden...
Today I started dissecting my first cat. Yup, that's right! A whole friggin dead cat, under my knife, mouth open, eyes closed for eternity. It looked so...peaceful. I almost didn't want to disturb the beautiful stillness of its fur. I named her Aphrodite. She is my new friend.
You may think this is cruel of me. You may think that I must have a certain degree of coldness about me to be able to cut into a dead living thing. This is not the case. I am learning from Aphrodite. She has many things to teach me and I feel much warmth towards her. Thank you, kitty. You are more than just another stray.
Monday was fruitful! I have read Howard's book and he was at the gym. For reasons discussed in the previous paragraph I prefer to remain anonymous in most places I go. Howard was there and his silly self leading the class when the teacher was late. I see a whole new side to this person. Here is a man who has kept Albert Camus' confidences for 40 years, who has visted the Polish Underground shortly after World War II. Marcel Dupré has played the organ at his sermons at the American Church in Paris....and I could go on. He has rubbed elbows with world leaders past and present. By the end of class I have decided to be venturesome and tell him I have read his book. His first question was where did I get it? (Barnes & Noble) The next one is What did you think? Startled by the question only one word comes to mind Facinating ! ,I stammer out(What would a man so great care what a mid aged housewife think ??). He tells me quietly that he plans to lecture this year around the world about his book. He said he will be there Friday for sure and would be more than happy to autograph his book. I'm looking forward to asking him Friday where he will be lecturing. I hope it will be nearby, because I would love to hear him speak.
Summer has definitely hit and we are adjusting to the change in routine. I came into the kitchen yesterday and asked Number Two Son why the dishwasher was only halfway unloaded. I'm unloading between battles. he rationalizes. Ever on the lookout to help my children, thinking quickly I roll his seat in front of the dishwasher and join his comrades in battle on Everquest while he finished up.
Number One Son has car fever so I have spent some time with him at dealerships looking at Camaros. Another lesson in life to walk through with him. Different ways to buy a car and finance it, as well as, looking for a good quality car. It has been an introduction for now because after some discussion, his father and I are recommending that he consider waiting until he has two years of college under his belt before he commits to taking on any more debt.
Paul said, "Demas, in love with this present world, has deserted me." - 2 Timothy 4:10 (NRSV)
The sin of putting ourselves in the place where God belongs not only begets estrangement from the divine presence, but causes trouble between other human beings and ourselves. I recall a wise man saying to a friend, 'The whole trouble in our world is the lack of an apostrophe.' When the friend wanted to know what he meant, he said, 'Well look at Adolph Hitler and at Mussolini and at Josef Stalin and at Hideki Tojo-Whatyou see is this: men trying to be gods instead of trying to be God's.'
Devotion
So here I am listening to The Cramps play wilder, wilder, faster, faster over and over again. Perhaps in an attempt to drive myself mad. I shall node it, by mere repetition alone. This is how I set my mind in motion.
So having spent a day playing poker on Mplayer, I have managed to loose 5000 in fake money. I don't know what to think of that, save that I'm glad it's not real money. Ack. Onward into the sun.
i need a haircut. i need to straighten out my taxes (oops). i need to find out what's up with my driver's license.
He's so puppyish now that i've told him it's over, now that the countdown is in full effect. He needs so much reassurance and i think maybe maybe it would be less cruel if i were just cruel and colder to him, instead of being half-kind, half-distant. Scott has called, and i stop by on the way downtown. I am dressed in Gauguin South Seas orange/pink/yellow/green, he wears a Hawaiian shirt, and i am glad for the simplicity of this affair. It's easy. It would be so honest and straightforward if it were not secret and convolute. It's true.
Ah, but i am agitated and confused, and i stop in the used record store and buy too many CDs: Legendary Pink Dots, lisahall, Julee Cruise, the amps .. i can't make decisions, everything is multiple. Why should i have to make decisions? Why can't i be infinite? I want to be infinite.
We go to see High Fidelity: Dan and I, my sister and her boyfriend. They are cute. The movie is - cute. Kinda sappy for my tastes. Dan tries to hold my hand. I, i don't know. He has no place to go and thinks he's ruined the best thing that will ever happen to him. I, i don't know. There are so many people out there.
But I'm not bitter. I like to be told to do things I already know I have to do. I especially like to be berated and questioned about things I did while he was off sleeping late and terrorizing his family. No, really, I like that sort of thing
The food was great. Rowan was freaking out over our everything obsession. I'm not - on everything we talk about everything but everything. Say that five times coherently!
Meow, meow, meow. I unintentionally fell asleep at 7 and got 11 hours of sleep.
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