does not drive a hummer. Domino's is apparently unaware of this; I was rather disturbed earlier this week to find myself biking behind what I assumed was a pizza delivery H2. Since then I have seen two other H2's painted with advertising, one for Verizon; the last company I failed to note. I suppose it's a reasonable place to advertise; the fuel ( Read more... )

I should write up a todo list or something, with dependencies. That might actually help with being depressed, knowing that I had things to do in the next couple of weeks, but only being able to focus on the ones that have some good reason not to proceed right now (such as not knowing where I am living, or leaving my credit cards in goddess32585's room). ( Read more... )

I'm having one of these days when I'd be happy to work (pretty sure that the work today is all coding, which is almost interesting), but I really don't want to go into the office. Calling in sick because breathing hurts was a good idea this morning. (Well, emailing in; talking hurts also.) Not having wireless under linux, and the complete ( Read more... )

This constitutes a good weekend. I went to the queer youth event in Boston Common on Saturday, heard Leslie Feinberg go all revolutionary-anarchist, punted out during the march (not having made plans to march with any particular group), then came back just in time to catch Girlyman, in the rain. Left as the next group came on, to pursue ( Read more... )

...kind of like a bizarre MOTD. Actually, I was talking with sondy yesterday about how liberal/fruity/leftist/your-adjective-here the SF Chronicle is, and then I got to reading some random columns, starting with a couple that were not at all. Not to criticize too much---there are at least two columns in the "most recent" category reminding us that ( Read more... )

I spent Thursday morning taking advantage of Barker and MIT net to provide myself with a slew of journal articles about extracting data fields from html or general text. The idea is that you have a bunch of pages that were generated from a template and a database, and want to reconstruct the database without access to the template. This is of ( Read more... )

There's a post saved on my computer somewhere titled "The Revolution is Quantum Tunneling," or something to that effect, but it desperately needs editing. Today has had mood swings between looking at the decisions that I am making and just feeling depressed at their aimlessness and being absurdly happy to have met the landlord at the space that I ( Read more... )

I had my last fiddle lesson of the season on Tuesday. Andy is graduating, and moving somewhere-or-other, and I don't actually have time to practice and take lessons anyway. I'm so glad to have started learning the instrument this year. After a decade of being pretty well tone deaf, and having music be the one thing that my friends do with which ( Read more... )

Oddly, Friday night is the part of Roast of which my memory is least clear. A night of wandering around being social with various people, in that aimless it's-too-{loud|crazy|hectic}-to-actually-talk fashion that happens at Senior Haus parties. I should get my handcuffs back from Gene at some point. Crashing out at 0230 was odd, but I got up ( Read more... )

I feel vaguely socially broken; I left for work Thursday morning and only made it home a couple of hours ago, mostly because I've been using dorm bandwidth to download Gentoo. It's going well, but I am ridiculously happy with absurd little things like figuring out how to set compiler flags through Gentoo's package manager, and being able to copy ( Read more... )