My {office,home} is
{overflowing,drowning,brimming} in a
{sea,ocean,river,torrent} of {disused,rejected,ancient} {computers,monitors,printers}.
It dreams of {rest,death,collapse}
There is no love.
They are cast off, from a {corporate,greedy} world.
Rejected.
Torn.
Alone.
I just got off the phone with my old employer Aaron! Really good talk about the world and stuff… and wow.
The world is a really tiny place.
I remember after the sweat-lodge at Camp, coming out, and even though I was covered in dirt from sitting on damp ground for hours, looking up at the sky, and having a water-bottle dripped on my face, on my body, and the feeling was that of being utterly new, pure and clean inside, and the sensation so intense it was as if I’d never felt rain or water-drops or grass under my back before.
nightlarke pointed out that the Dragonsinger book by Anne McCaffery is a powerful coming-of-age piece. It influenced my life a lot, and even more so, Sassinak shaped a huge piece of my identity.
The dock now supports workspaces intelligently. This makes me pleased.
angry_otter mentioned this flash animation, and it made me happy too.
If I had a spare lifetime, I would save a bunch of money and put together a recording studio in a big warehouse building where you wouldn’t expect it at all. More likely, I’d take up the huge space with all sorts of projects: A recording studio, an art workshop, perhaps a wood and metals shop, too.
All the Rammstein in my music collection was given to me by anandabrat, whom I fell in love with talking about Classical music. Almost all the soft soothing music was given to me by a grouchy curmudgeon who I respect a lot. See a pattern here?
I got tagged by, surprise to me, tsunobrat. Here goes.
Two hundred or so — I’ve always been the sort to read things borrowed, rather than owning them. At age 13, though, the circulation count on one of eight stickers on my library card was 2,500.
“Programming Ruby”, by Andy Hunt, Dave Thomas, et al. At the same time, “The Deltoid Pumpkin Seed”, which I haven’t had a chance to read yet, and promptly loaned to a friend.
And had time to finish, “The Left Hand of Darkness”, by Ursula Leguin, I think.
I keep starting “Quicksilver”, but I keep getting distracted just before it gets good.
Also waiting for pseudomammal and julieclipse but I dun tag them because vruba already did. doni_dyke01 is also sure to have a good list.
I just read a very insightful article on statistics and programmers. Go Zedas.
This on AIM, via the Jabber gateway:
myfriend@mygateway: Hello. This is an Aim control setting. We’re sorry to bring to you that you have deleted from one of our clients buddy lists. We would like to being fact that we are now advertising new movies a music. Our website features all the latest artists. Have a wondeful day. http://www.aol.com
Has anyone ever seen this before?
When forced to use windows, at least it’s possible to make it look okay.
The Dock’s coming along.
It’s finding and (hackedly) focusing entire apps now, not windows. It skips things it should skip.
I would rather be guilty of caring too much than caring too little.