Monthly Archives: November 2009

Thanksgiving Weekend

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I give thanks for my family. I give thanks for my ability to support them in this ridiculous economy. I give thanks that I still have my health and my sanity. I give thanks for the opportunities that I have had, continue to have, and that my family has. I give thanks for a wife who supports me, thinks of me, and cares about me. I give thanks for three sons, all of whom likely see me as a better man than I am. I give thanks for two parents who still see me for all that I can be, and a brother who is, as Hunter put it, awesome.

I give thanks for everyone and everything in my life. Also, for leftovers.

Aside from a ridiculous amount of delicious homemade food, including a deep fried turkey, much nerdery was had on Turkey-day. I learned about the differences between .dmg and .iso (not much) and between compressed and uncompressed .dmg (quite a bit). I helped to pull a shaved kitten worth of cat hair and dust out of a laptop. Never got around to working on the server, but that’s fine. I was shown a Linux distro that’s meant to be a router/firewall combo. Just all kinds of geekishness going on.

I am -so- close to having the Todd story go to print. SO CLOSE, I tells ya. I’m on pins and needles just thinking about it.

I’m trying out EVE Online, and am finding myself just as frustrated with the crashing and lagging as I was with Myst Online. Being immersed in the story will make up for a lot. So far, the technical difficulties have outweighed the benefits. So, I unpacked Myst IV and Myst V, set them on the shelf next to Nikki’s Everquest II box, and popped Myst III: Exile into the PS2.

If I’m going to start gaming again, why would I ignore the ones I’ve already purchased?

Horoscope

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Your story is taking a hotter and wetter and more cosmically comical turn. The splendor and the rot are all mixed up. The line between your strengths and liabilities are hair thin. But have no fear. One of your dormant talents will activate in the nick of time. Your wild guesses will shed bright light whenever the darkness creeps in. And you’ll have even more emotional intelligence than usual. P.S. If your psyche tingles like a funny bone that has been tapped, it means that unanticipated help or useful information will arrive within 12 hours.

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First Round Table, Second Generation

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I feel like a Star Trek series.

Anyway, the first Round Table gathering will be held this Saturday evening. The Round Table is a gathering to relax, catch up, shoot the proverbial poop, etc. It’s meant as a time to get away from the ridiculous pace of daily life. You can bring stuff to do, if you’d like. Inappropriate jokes and tall tales are more than welcome.

Why is it called the Round Table? My late Grandpa Crampton used to gather with his buddies at nonsensical times in the morning to do this very thing. The name, the jokes, and the tall tales are in remembrance of him.

Since Gone Wired closes early on Saturday nights, we’ll meet at Theio’s to start out. It’s got food (of a sort), coffee, and a wifi connection. (802.11 b/g) I know that there are some people that dislike Theio’s, so suggestions for future meeting places are welcome.

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28 Days Later

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I’ve watched this one before. I couldn’t remember if I’d seen just part of it, or all of it. I’m pretty sure, now, that it was all of it. Doesn’t matter, though, because it’s a really enjoyable flick. I’m not the biggest zombie movie fan in the world, but I love post-apocalyptic settings. I felt the desperation, the loneliness and grasping for fellow humanity, and I felt the twinge when that drop of blood hit that guy’s eye. *shudder* Four stars, and looking forward to the sequel.

Thoughts from Work

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Feeling very twitchy and anxious. Dunno if it’s the antibiotics that I’m on, a symptom of the upper respiratory infection, or something else entirely. Yay doxycycline!

Stargate Universe is pulling zero punches when it comes to flaws in the characters. Wow. Also, old-school version of “the chair” looks creepy and intimidating. The reference to a dentist’s chair was spot on in so many ways.

Twitchiness and anxiousness have faded. Think it might be related to the brain fogs that were coming with that whole being sick thing. GO TEAM DOXYCYCLINE!

Enjoying the hell out of the newest Ubuntu version on my work laptop. It’s actually using the proprietary ATI driver, and using it well. Methinks it’s a good thing that ATI is now part of AMD.

scp is my friend.

As Aidan prepares to transition from Terrible Twos into Tantrum Threes, he’s ramping up his attempts to verbally control his universe. Now, many religious traditions ranging from Shamanism to modern day monotheisms(msmsmsmsms) have attempted to change and/or improve the world around them by putting voice and will into speech and thereby giving definition to the change that they want.

It’s not working so well for Aidan. He’s got the focus and the determination, that’s for sure. “I not in time-out, Daddy!” while sitting in the time-out chair may be a difficult approach to take, is all I’m sayin’. :)

Caffeine cat is caffeinated. Unreasonable deadlines are unreasonable. “It is what it is.”

Stargate Atlantis – Season 5

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I was hoping that they’d spend the entire season wrapping up the show. Not meant to be, I suppose. Just the last few episodes. I wonder if they were told late in the season’s production that there would be no season six. Parallel dimensions, replicators (srsly, they keep coming back), and Wraith leveling up. Also, last-minute propulsion craziness. I want to bitch about the very end, I really do, but I don’t want to post spoilers.

The stories were solid, the actors were talented, special effects were top notch, and adding makeup to remove makeup… four stars out of five.


Thoughts from Work

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Wordy wordy word words.

Now that I’m feeling more coherent, I’m having a harder time dealing with words. Strange.

Yesterday, I put The Remembrance up for free download. Instead of hosting it myself, I decided to do it through Lulu, since they offer that service free of charge. Don’t know yet how I’ll end up tracking the downloads, since I’m pretty sure that they don’t count “$0.00” downloads as sales. You can find the link here.

If words start coming to me over lunch, I’ll be writing them down on paper. If not, I’ll be fixing dead links in the writery web site.

So, yeah, the dead links are all fixed, as far as I can see. If you find any, feel free to drop me a line and let me know.

After spending some of my lunch hour pondering why environment (both time and place) seem to impact my creativity so much, I shouldn’t really be surprised at my horoscope.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): In the beginning of his career, poet Linh Dinh loved to stay up late and write, sometimes riding a creative surge till dawn. The power of the darkness unleashed a stark fertility. He was free to think thoughts that were harder to invoke during the bright hours when hordes of wide-awake people were pouring their chattering thoughts out into the soup. Dinh’s habits changed as he aged, though, in part because he got married and chose to keep more regular hours. But his early imprint has stayed alive inside him. “Now I can write at any time of the day,” he says, “because I always carry the night inside of me.” In accordance with your astrological omens, Taurus, I’m making that your prescription for the coming week: Carry the night inside you during the day.

“I am no destination, I am just a journey.” – Sage Francis, Keep Moving

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