love my computer: May 2003 Archives

by the second reboot i had gone mad as a wet cat on a hot tin whistle, i tell you what. thirty seven megabytes of updates. took this snailbait pee-four a good three hours to run through it. you think pee-four, you think one point seven ghz chip & four hundred mhz frontside bus & you might think fast, but you'd be sadly misthinking with that. fuck expee the home version. fuck microsoft. fuck bill fucking gates & his little dog too. stupidass worthless piece of shit critical pack service upyours bullshit.

don't start on me with that mac crap either. you know what? there are no goddamn buttons on the mouse. which i happen to know for a fact is supposed to remind you of a smooth river bottom pebble rock or somesuch. excuse me? i'd like my mouse to remind me something that i can fucking right click with. it's a pointing device not a goddamn newage handpacifier.

if i hadn't killed my linux box for its hard drive, i'd be on a serious selfrighteous roll here, but as it is yes i am microsofted. 'cause free software rocks! um. anyway i have a cd of that expee pro that won't even worry about that product subjugation, but you know what? no thanks. win2k. win2k pro baby. my eight sixty six pee-three flies like time when you're having fun, hell i'll sit there burning cds & fireworking & photoshopping & kazaaing & ftping & seventeen damn browser windows open, got windowblinds with fish swimming in the title bar & cursors that pulsate & sixteen things in the systray & she just cruises.

i need to go home & cuddle my puter.

(deep breath) i feel much better now. um. and a little weird, i feel that too. but mostly better.

yes, the datacenter really did have a fire, with firemen & everything. no one was hurt &, more importantly, we are online, & no data was lost. downtime was reasonable & i for one find this to be quite comforting, that fancyass firesuppression technowhizzery did just what it was supposed to, by golly it passed this little test with flying colors. i'm as pleased about this as anyone who woke up too early to news that the server farm was on fire.

may i have some tequila now?

i have videos. excellent videos. i'm not linking them right out here, but they'll be uploaded before too long, & i'm happy to send a download link upon request.

the worst thing about programming, is people. look, the play on words involving 'misanthropy' is no joke folks, i can only handle so much of friggin' humans before i go ... oh, not mad or anything. but anyway. i have antisocial tendencies & i ended up, after a tangled mess of semi-careers, programming computers. go figure.

but the damn people always manage to creep into the equation somehow. and in my mind when i'm coding i see their quizzical expressions, their furrowed brows, their determination in matters involving 'what happens if i press the red button' even if everything they've ever been told involves not touching the goddamn red button. is it so hard to keep your their grubby paws off the red button? (don't worry. it's not you. it's them).

now you see, if all i had to do was write things to humor myself, i'd be so easy. i'd never make typos or trnaspose things or put the wrong bit of information in the wrong box. & if i did it would be easy to fix because there would be some logic to the errors. and i'd be done by now! instead of sitting here trying to think of what sorts of unthinkable things the end user might do. it's like studying murphy's unified quantum theory. for dummies. i didn't say that outloud. oh, no, i didn't.

[voiceover] . . . "questions regarding the fundamental structure of our universe, its origin, evolution and its age; the reconciliation of the mathematical concept of continuum and limitless continuity with the concept of space-time; the reductio ad absurdum; the concept of an acausal connection active in the spacetime continuum, where according to Carl Gustav Jung and Wolfgang Pauli, "our primary mathematical intuitions could be arranged before we become conscious of them" - with the number being primordial, pre-existent to our consciousness; the essence of the material body, that is extension itself and its universal non-local connections; the shortcoming of the Cartesian coordinate system with its patchwork of bounding surfaces and coordinates; the indeterminate notion of a point particle; the space composed of points; the relationship of space to matter and light to time; the res cogitans and the res extensa; the cosmological position of man and the inevitability of the weak anthropic principle, as demonstrated within a cycle-interval of 1-5-9-13 stem cells - an evolutionary cycle that is an integral, coherent, zusammenhangend part of the 27 stem cells of The Life Sequence."

so i suppose i shall simply go mad. or blonde. hmm. decisions.

in the time between my last domain spree & today, no less than two people have come to me needing new blogs. and i had not only domains, but wonderful wonderful domains for them. and they have blogs now. blogs that were ready more or less immediately, i just installed a copy of MT (complete with a nice set of plugins) & handed them the keys. you see? you see?

this is not the first time this has happened. the way i look at it is, if you buy them, they will come -- usually within a few days of me getting the domains set up. therefore when i am moved to type godaddy.com into the browser, i have a very good reason, i just don't know what it is. yet.

i have powers. i can not only sense domains being needed, but today? i fixed two server-y issues without even touching them - the mere intent on my part to go & fix, caused the problems to spontaneously fix themselves. problems fear me.

i've got the power. too bad it's not the mojo, i mean, i couldn't get laid to save my life, but that's beside my point, if i have one. ooh! i remember my point, i do have one! thing is, i'm almost out of domains. this must not be allowed to happen.

... i'll let you know how it goes with godaddy this evening. i'm working up to that inspired vibe zone place thing. the power. yeah.