That the linux kernel 2.6.12 is in release candidate stage makes me very happy. I need inotify support, and I needed it years ago. I hope like crazy the thing is stable.

Things that make Ari happy:

• Painted toenails,
• shaved legs (her own),
• rain, rain most of all,
• good company,
• and good food.

Things that make Ari unhappy:

• Not eating right,
• getting up late,
• having a messy house and messy office,
• not taking breaks,
• and worry about friends.

Things Ari has in her life that help a lot:

• Talking with friends who will be honest,
• time to take a shower, eat some food, and come in to work late,
• her cello,
• and her huge music collection.

My ten favorite smells are:

• Cloves.
• Rain on field grass.
• Yerba maté.
• Roses.
• Green tea.
• Moss.
• Blankets dried in the sun.
• The back of girl necks.
• Lavender.
• Fresh bread.

A bizarre honorable mention now goes to stale cigarrette smoke after being up for 26 hours.

I actually have associations with all of these― Cloves: Carrie, sitting on top of the house. Rain on field grass: Being alone in the cool comforting dark. Yerba Maté: My father. Roses: Robyn, because I could smell them from a distance and she couldn’t. Green tea: The wondermill crowd, and Tessa, and time well spent in BC. Moss: Robyn, by the creek. Blankets dried in the sun: my sister. Girl necks: No comment. Fresh bread: Dawn.

Crosses fingers for a certain someone involved with the Judicial system today.

Thanks alot mossaia, now I am addicted to Belle and Sebastian.

Thanks to notnotrebecca and noam_rion, I’m making a list too.

1. Written system components for a unix operating system in an interpreted language.
2. Written three wikis (soon to be four) and worked on at least five more.
3. Biked sixteen hundred miles.
4. Loved more than one person romantically at once.
5. Lived without water for a month.
6. Ice skated at two in the morning, to the light of christmas lights.
7. Talked to people on six continents at once.
8. Fallen in love with someone without having ever seen them.
9. Sung the Beatles from sheet music before ever hearing a recording of them.
10. Happily woken up at 3 in the morning, and gotten to work.

You know what happens if you go to sleep at 21:30? You wake up at something like 3:45.

I accidentally just got drunk. I’ve never been drunk before… the liquor store was out of my usual (Samuel Smith Oatmeal Stout)… the beer I chose to try instead is 10% alchohol, not the usual 5%. I was tipsy in Victoria at the pub once, maybe even to this point. I didn’t enjoy it then, so I haven’t since.

I’m glad that typing is nearly entirely subconcious now, since I can manage to make this entire post without visible typos (rest assured that I am making them, though I do realize it and do care enough to not let them slip into LiveJournal).

I can’t believe I’ve never accidentally done this before. I got tipsy once with my coworkers in Victoria when I was hanging out with them on a friday. It’s totally not something my family would do — my father drinks a little wine before bed, and my mother doesn’t like any alchohol. I never saw it around when I grew up.

My first beer was when I was 19, legal age and in a pub in Victoria. Every friday, work would end at 14:00 instead of 17:00, and we’d go a few doors down toward the waterfront and spend a few hours in the pub. We called it “Beer O’ Clock”. I really liked hanging out there. I developed a taste for really good beer that way. I got tipsy once, and I didn’t particularly enjoy it, so I’ve always been really moderate in my drinking, almost entirely for flavor and social value.

This time, though, I accidentally bought something really strong. “The Reverend” beer is 10% ethanol, and since it comes in 22 ounce bottles, really surprised me. My usual is Samuel Smith Oatmeal Stout, a meagre 5% alchohol. This really caught me by surprise, doubly so because it tasted so good. My eyes aren’t tracking quite properly, and I am making more typos than I usually do. I can’t say this is entirely unpleasant though, since my tendonitis isn’t hurting at all, and I can play the cello much more accurately without my brain in the way. I have to hold the handrails going downstairs, but I do that anyway since my blood sugar gets wonky sometimes, and I’m liable to black out on occasion after standing up.

Music is much more musical this way. I feel it, rather than than thinking it. I really like that. I don’t want to have to subject my body to alchohol to get that, so I might have to train my mind to not censor so heavily without it. I could do that, I suppose…

I wish Jem were here. She’d have something insightful to say.

I’m really up and down today. I woke up really, really, really depressed. A decent breakfast smoothed me out for the morning, but I’ve been mopey all day. I wish I had an easy fix.

This is the first day I haven’t wanted to be in Ridgway at all in a long, long time.

On the upside, chewing on stick cinnamon makes me at least temporarily happy, and I might just go home in a few minutes and weed the garden.

What’s most important to me in a relationship?

• Honesty, most of all.
• Humour. I didn’t realize how much I cared about it, but I really do. Being able to joke is my favorite fun.
• Self-sufficiency. It’s so much better when you’re around each other because you mutually enjoy it, not because you’re supporting each other.

I don’t know why this crossed my mind this evening.

• GNOME menus that only contained relevant programs. No lftp, no bc nor dc, perhaps not even the standard X stuff like xterm, xeyes nor xcalc.
• An installer that doesn’t suck. All distro’s installers suck these days, PLD’s not the most, but still. I want something that lets me partition with fdisk, and then install some pre-set package lists. Being able to customize the installer disk with set listings would be nice.
• Metapackages for major stuff: a gnome metapackage that contains only but all of the main GNOME release. A KDE metapackage that installs the main KDE release, and a tetex metapackage that installs the whole tetex release. Sometimes I do want to test software as the authors intended it, after all.
• Theme metapackages.
• A different init system, preferably as an option. I’d love to see simpleinit coexist with SysV style. Some noop functions in combined scripts would rock.

An idea.

Live tagging of chat conversations. Imagine chatting with someone, and hitting a button, and flagging that spot in your talk with a tag. “To Do”, “Work”, whatever. Let it be indexed automatically by your favorite metadata search engine. When you pull it up in Spotlight or Beagle, your conversation is indexed along with the rest and easily findable.

More than that: transmit the tag over XMPP while you’re talking, and their client can suggest that tag, too.

wince

I think my hunch that drawers on the gnome panel are rarely used is correct. The UI is pretty horrible. It should pop open on mouse down like a menu, not on mouse up like a launcher icon.

[23:53:16] Colossus says “OK and Cancel are just so … ambiguous.”

[23:53:38] Vruba says “Colossus: you might like Apple’s HIGs.”

[23:53:41] Aredridel says “Not really. Cancel’s a pretty obvious “abort!”, which covers “none of the above” nicely.”

[23:53:48] Aredridel says “And yeah, buttons are Apple’s HIG style.”

[23:53:52] Aredridel says “GNOME’s HIG says radio buttons.”

[23:54:05] Colossus says “HIG?”

[23:54:10] Aredridel says “Human interface guidelines.”

[23:54:11] Vruba says “(I want [mu] [.].)”

[23:54:27] Aredridel says “(hah. You need a “flakey buddhist” l10n.)”

[23:54:35] Vruba says “(Totally. In fact….)”