Monochromatic Outlook

For about the fourth time since 1994 I’m dip­ping my toes in the waters of learn­ing Java. I have it in my head that I may be able to mar­ket myself more effec­tive­ly with Java expe­ri­ence than with Perl. Yes, I believe every­thing I’ve heard about Python being The Best Lan­guage Ev4R, but I’m pret­ty much con­vinced that it being so good is its death knell. The endorse­ment of so many savvy peo­ple puts Python in a won­der­ful … Read the rest

Mak­ing some small progress in the War On Clut­ter. I have a big box of unsort­ed papers that is near­ly fall­en apart because its con­tents were too heavy for it in the move. Now I have a sec­ond box, which is the new home of the con­tents of the first box.

Even­tu­al­ly what I need is a sys­tem for fil­ing the things that I intend to keep. But for right now I’m set­tling for just get­ting the stuff I think I … Read the rest

Last night talk­ing with my house­mate on the sub­ject of Every­one Thinks I’m Gay, it was sug­gest­ed to me that maybe I should­n’t wear my ear­rings. I have two pierc­ings in my left ear­lobe. For the last few years I’ve worn one small stud and a small ring.

So I took my ear­rings out, did­n’t think much of it until this morn­ing. I was get­ting ready to go out to the store, and I put my sun­glass­es on and checked myself … Read the rest

Does­n’t this look like fun?

http://www.anacablecarchase.com/2004/… Read the rest

OK, at my com­pa­ny we have five employ­ees. That’s total, includ­ing the owner.

We have some­where around a hun­dred Inter­net domains.

So why do we have to have dif­fer­ent rules for EVERY DOMAIN????

My tourcorp.com address is “steve” and my mapwest.com address is “s” and my gotoalcatraz.com address is “splicer.”

I’m cool with that and cool with hav­ing mul­ti­ple alias­es for the same mail­box. What I don’t under­stand is hav­ing to main­tain one hun­dred mail­box­es or even one hun­dred sep­a­rate alias­es … Read the rest

My clos­et lightswitch has been upside-down since I moved in.

No longer.… Read the rest

The box­es are los­ing and the piles are winning.

I broke down a cou­ple more box­es. Most of these are going right to recy­cling, as they’ve been in enough moves that I don’t think they’ll sur­vive anoth­er. There’s also the issue of space and I don’t real­ly have any place to store card­board, even fold­ed up. That’s kind of scary.

But with the help of The Con­tain­er Store and Elfa stuff, I’ve now got most of my CDs stored under my … Read the rest

Today I went to my Triathlon Club run­ning work­out. Coach seems real good, and allayed my fears about my heartrate by refer­ring me to an arti­cle on his web­site. But I have real­ly jumped into the deep end here. I’m train­ing with ath­letes who are way above my lev­el, and that’s good. I have room to grow and these are all peo­ple that can help me along. Every­one’s a begin­ner at some point.

I kind of wish my high school … Read the rest

Dra­cun­cu­lus recent­ly gave me the advice to find a social cir­cle where I can climb to the top and attract the female of the species with my dom­i­nant social sta­tus and power.

Well, just to be ornery, I’m join­ing the Gold­en Gate Triathlon Club. I showed up for the meet­ing tonight and there were some tru­ly gor­geous women there. I am WAY out of my class.

Of course, the pur­pose of being a mem­ber of this club is to get sup­port … Read the rest

I’ve looked at near­ly 6500 pho­tos from Run Hit Won­der try­ing to find one where I can be seen. Appar­ent­ly there aren’t any with my race num­ber vis­i­ble, as search­ing on my race num­ber does­n’t help. But I’m still look­ing, hop­ing that I’ll show up in the back­ground of some­one else’s photo.

There’s only one pic­ture I found so far. At the begin­ning of the race I set the timer on my phone so that I would have some idea … Read the rest