Never been one to let the carrier drop

I wanted to express my thanks to all of you who offered listening-time, thoughts, sympathy, and whatnot at my last few upset/confused/etc journal entries.

it’s nice to know taht people care. Really.

I’m going to go spend about 20 minutes playing, then I’m out for tonight. More job interviews tomorrow. (Always strange to be the interviewer instead of the interviewee, although I think I do all right..)

Had some very good Pakistani food today, no one expressed displeasure at me for anything which is always nice, and got PHP and MS SQL and IIS all on speaking terms..

The other night, someone told me PHP was a ‘shit language’. Actually, I think this guy just enjoys messing with me – either that, or he hates every tool I like. I mean, he even proports to prefer cocaine over weed – maybe someone’s taking things a little far here. (I admit, I’ve never tried cocaine. Am not going to either – it’s soooo not my sort of recreational chemical. Sounds more like a exotic form of torture to me – I rev hard enough on my own, even caffine is a bit more stimulant than I can handle at times..)

Anyway, so, somewhere in the middle of my standard lecture about how php, vb, c++, c, assembly, ad nausium are all just tools, he started to try and out-geek me.

That’s always a fun feeling. Actually, it was very educational – I learned what ACID is (with respect to databases – bet you didn’t know your database had ACID..) and what MVCC is, and a bunch of other geeky stuff..

he did not, however, out geek me.

That generally only happens at DefCon.

Shortage of geeks as geeky as me? I don’t know. Probably just as well, really.

Other events in my life today.. hmm. I’ve been on a rereading kick – this week we’ve done most of the Heinlien cannon (who *bounce* has a new book *bounce* coming out! I can’t wait.. and not only that, it was apparently too racy to be published at the time. sounds interesting) and now I’m rereading the Phantom Tollbooth. Not sure what I’ll do after that one.. (did you know there’s a EV in the phantom tollbooth? The car Milo drives around throughout most of the story is electric. And apparently never needs to charge, either.. I wonder what kind of range it gets )

Sadly, I’ve exhausted harry potter 5 after a few rereadings.. I reread some Dianne Wynne Jones novels to make up for it (memo to Harry Potter fans: Dianne is at least as good a writer, and she’s got more books out. Feed your childrens-fantasy cravings! Go nuts!)

The focus motor on my right eye is going through underuse – which is a little alarming, partially because it means I haven’t been being my right side enough, and partially because, well, everything out of that eye is blurry now.

I guess I need to dig up a eyepatch and force myself to hang out on the right for a while.. I nearly always drift back over to the left when I’m reading as soon as I stop thinking about it.

On the other hand, maybe it’s handy. One eye for close up work, one eye for distance..

(This is waht we call making excuses)

Ah well. Probably better exercise that before it gets worse.

Reading with my right eye always feels so surreal – I mean, the fact that I can do it at all is odd, since I wasn’t using it at all when I learned to read. Really makes you wonder where words are stored. And I definately read slower with my right eye than my left.

Gives me the jitters to try and read two things at the same time, too, although I can sort of do it. (talk about your STupid Human Tricks)

Anyway, I’m rambling, but the basic upshot of all that is that I need to exercise my right eye before it flies south for the winter. Also need to visit a dentist – nothing hurts, but it’s been a while and I’d like to keep it that way. Was tlaking to a friend of mine today who had to have 7 bridges put in – of course, as I recall, this has something to do with him discovering the joys of meth, another drug that you couldn’t pay me enough to take.

[For that matter, you couldn’t pay me enough to take prozac..]

I always find the War On Drugs Kid Propiganda very amusing.. it’s like they completely forget, as they foist off Xanax, Prosc, and Rittilan on kids, that these are just as much drugs as the recreational kind.

The NWLNC broke up, which is sad.. I’ll miss the mini-raves in the middle of the westlake center. I keep wondering how one gets permission to do one of those – it occurs to me that with recent upgrades to my PA, it’s probably as many watts as the one they used.. of course, now that it’s getting into the colder months, it’d be a lot harder to get people interested in coming to a event.

They’re replacing the NWLNC for something that’s more anti-drug-war and pro-music – but I doubt if it’ll be as electronica-oriented..

[sigh] electronica is dying, I guess. And just as I was getting good at it, too.

Well, I see that I’ve rambled on for far longer than I intended to, so I’ll just leave it there

Fiction idea: It is discovered that the internet is ‘alive’ – in the process of waking up (I’ve talked about this one before) and all the spam we’re getting are the first thoughts of it – it’s reacting to what it’s been taught.

Hm.. I should explain that better, so that it’s funny to people other than me, but I can’t seem to be bothered.

Anyway, again, thanks to all my friends, especially those of you who actually read this tripe!

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