Monochromatic Outlook

Can you offer me any advice on tun­ing the per­for­mance of my old RS/6000?

http://rs6k-users.p90.net/lists/displayarticle.shtml?msgid=15396

I’d sent you email, (and you can see in the link above that I sent mail to my RS/6000 user group) but this is my mailserv­er we’re talk­ing about and I can’t trust it with the way it’s behav­ing under the strain these days.… Read the rest

A friend dropped me off last night, and I make it my habit not to make my friends deal with the small maze of one-way streets that they have to deal with if they actu­al­ly turn on to my street. Instead he dropped me off in the bus stop on Mis­sion Street and I went around the cor­ner to my apart­ment entrance.

Com­ing up my to the door, there was a guy, lati­no, with fucked up hair in every direc­tion, … Read the rest

I can take a punch.

…get­ting kicked pret­ty well sucks, tho.

Cur­rent­ly play­ing: The Death & Res­ur­rec­tion Show—€”Killing Joke… Read the rest

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3551981.stm

Did any­one ever believe any­thing print­ed in USA Today in the first place? Almost not sure why this makes the news, except that the BBC News gets to dis the competition.

Just remem­ber that our sacred democ­ra­cy relies upon an informed elec­torate. Hehehehehe.…… Read the rest

I’m haunt­ed by the ghosts of three dead girls. Ban­co de Gaia seems to be chan­nel­ing their voices:

Can we stop now all our arguments?
Can we end now all our wars?
I think it's time we had a go/At finding out what's wrong.
Is there something that you don't like
In the way I seem to you? 
Please tell me, maybe I'll change it/Or explain it for you.
What would make you feel better 
Is there something I can 

I’ve been work­ing on get­ting my com­pa­ny’s web­site’s cred­it card proces­sor upgrad­ed to talk to mul­ti­ple trans­ac­tion ser­vices providers so that our cus­tomers can choose their own damn cred­it card proces­sors and still work with us. I’d hoped to get this fin­ished last week, and I left work Fri­day night at 5:30 think­ing, «just a cou­ple hours on Mon­day and it’ll be all done.» Well, I left Mon­day night and Tues­day night think­ing I had only a cou­ple … Read the rest

Yeah, I know, every­one’s sick and tired of hear­ing about it. Deal.

But it was one year ago today. 366 days because of the leap year, but it was one year ago today that I woke up and looked at the news to find that I had one few­er friend in the world.

I keep on think­ing, you know, stiff upper lip. Get over it. You did­n’t real­ly know her that well. Stop remind­ing every­one else about it. And then I imag­ine … Read the rest

I for­got to use the timer on my watch, but I added up the lengths of the songs I played plus the amount into the last song I was. Need to keep bet­ter track of this stuff.

My com­mute to work is the same as always, I think it’s just about 7 miles. The bike is a LOT heav­ier laden down with change of clothes etc in the pan­niers. Although nor­mal­ly I would have all that crap on my back, so … Read the rest

How did Microsoft Out­look get to be every­one in the world’s favorite email pro­gram with­out a “bounce” or “redi­rect” fea­ture? Now I have to explain what an email head­er is and how to see it to send it to me.

Igno­rant users I have no prob­lem with. Mali­cious devel­op­ers that try to make it more dif­fi­cult for us to deal with the igno­rant users, and CHARGE US FOR THE PRIVILEGE, those just piss me off.… Read the rest

I ought­ta have that tat­tooed on me. Like on the inside of my eye­lids. In glow-in-the-dark ink.

I’m glad that equal­i­ty and assign­ment aren’t the same oper­a­tor. It’s just such an easy mis­take to make. And a dif­fi­cult one to find. And a FRUSTRATING one to find at 11pm in the evening when one’s boss is won­der­ing why all the new orders are com­ing in as paid even though they haven’t been.… Read the rest