Monochromatic Outlook

I’m about to see DEVO live for the first time.

I fin­ished the 10K in under 60 minutes.

There are FIREFLIES here. I for­got how cool fire­flies are.… Read the rest

Fly­ing Jet­Blue to my Run­Hit­Won­der 10K I get to watch TV, and the flight just hap­pened to coin­cide with the cov­er­age of the Tour de France Stage 17. I won’t spoil the results or details for those of you who are wait­ing to see it on Tivo, but Lance kicked some seri­ous ass, both with some of the moves he made and the moves he did­n’t. It was a great stage.

Of course, this evening I’m not going to … Read the rest

If you can read this, I’ve land­ed safely.… Read the rest

I woke this morn­ing at 4:30 with the feel­ing that I was already behind. I was right. With a 7:00am flight I should be at the air­port by 5:00am in order to get through secu­ri­ty. Of course at that point I had­n’t seen my itin­er­ary in quite some time and I did­n’t real­ly know how late I was.

I packed my bags last night, so all I need­ed do was get dressed, feed … Read the rest

Today (oops, I mean last night) I moved the last truck­load of belong­ings from my old apart­ment to my new one. I no longer need run across town drag­ging box­es and equip­ment and whatnot.

And not a moment too soon, since in about 30 hours I’ll be board­ing a plane for NYC to see xris3 and van­dana­zoe and, I hope, meet jen­ny­bloog (psst! Are we still on for Run Hit Wonder?)

I’ve been wag­ing a war here against my … Read the rest

So I have DSL, I have my block of sta­t­ic IP address­es, and I have the serv­er set up. Now if I could just find the pow­er sup­ply for the net­work hub, I’d have email again.

I do have a ser­i­al con­nec­tion to the serv­er, so I’ve been able to read some of the emails folks sent to me before the whole damn thing col­lapsed. I will reply, real­ly. Give me a lit­tle time to get all this set back up. … Read the rest

Stu­pid thing num­ber one: my broad­band provider could­n’t even put in an order with­out an installed phone line. I had my new num­ber and the phone set up over a month in advance but until the line is actu­al­ly active there’s noth­ing any­one can do, apparently.

Stu­pid thing num­ber two: The line does­n’t need to just be in and work­ing. SBC takes their own sweet time after the line is installed mak­ing the news of the exis­tence of the line … Read the rest

So as it turns out, both my desk and my show­er are shaped like Super­man’s “cut dia­mond” shaped symbol.… Read the rest

So now that SBC admits that I have a phone line (a week after dial tone) they will gra­cious­ly allow the DSL instal­la­tion as ear­ly as the TWENTIETH.

I don’t remem­ber broad­band instal­la­tion tak­ing this long since the days of ISDN, and that required a team of spe­cial­ists to show up onsite.

All my email is stream­ing into the void, all my mail­ing lists are dead and down, it’s all fuxx0red. Don’t both­er email­ing me unless you know … Read the rest

Best laid plans of mice and men, I guess.

I had it all worked out, or so I thought. The prob­lem: I’m mov­ing and I have a mailserv­er at home. How to move it with min­i­mum downtime?

Well, The nice folks at SBC would­n’t let me keep my old phone num­ber any­way, but they were hap­py to pro­vide me with over­lap, mean­ing they would start ser­vice at the new loca­tion before stop­ping ser­vice at the old loca­tion. So this became a … Read the rest