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22:23:34 Thursday January 01 2004 06:56:41 Sunday January 04 2004 Apparently the fine folks at ICS were doing something to expert which broke it most severely. It appears to be back online now, but I missed my journal entry last night as a result. Last night I spent a couple hours hanging out with Joel. He recently moved up here to manage a new bar in town. I have known Joel since he was born. He went to my church as a child. His family was (and is) very musically gifted and he took to that environment readily. I don't know him as well as I should. His brother Sean is much closer to my age and we were fairly tight when we were younger. However, last night when I was in Joel's apartment looking at all the weird music and all the interesting decor I made a startling realization. Joel is quite bright. He comes from a musical family. He is tall and likes eccentric stuff. Essentially I could be Joel or he could be me. If I had channeled my energies into music my life would probably be about the same as Joel's. Would I be happier? I guess I don't know him or his life well enough to make such a judgment. None the less it is a little spooky to see your life through a mirror darkly. Today was much less eventful. I slept too late again. It makes me wonder if I am well. Brad and I made potato soup. The recipe:
• 6 Large Potatoes
• 1 Medium Sized Onion Diced • 3 Stalks Celery Diced • 2 Cups Half & Half • 2 Tablespoons Butter • 1 Tablespoon Olive Oil • 2.5 Cups H2O • Salt & Pepper • Corn Starch (optional) • Shredded Cheddar Cheese (optional) Cut the potatoes into smallish chunks. Place them in a large pot. Add the water. If 2.5 cups is not sufficient to cover the potatoes add a bit more. Throw the onions and the celery into the pot as well. Bring the mixture to a boil. Then cover the pot and reduce the heat and allow it to simmer for 20 to 25 minutes. Add the Half & Half, Butter, and Olive Oil. Heat until it is simmering again. Smash a few of the potato chunks against the side of the pot with your spoon. This creates some nice starchy potato particles to thicken your soup. If it is still too runny then add a bit of corn starch to thicken it. Serve with salt and pepper and shredded cheddar cheese. Serves about 4 people (8 bowls). After dinner we went to John's for the traditional Saturday evening RPG. It was late and I know that he has been working a lot, but the game was lacking. He really was not into it and was much more interested in playing video games. We were supposed to be starting a Conspiracy X campaign. John has been starting a lot of campaigns lately. He can't seem to pick one, which is rare for John. He is normally a very stick to it kind of guy. I think the addition of myself as a competent and consistent GM has taken some of the pressure off of him. But I also get the feeling that there is something deeper leading to his writers block. Matt purchased a GameBoy Player for my GameCube so old video games have become a staple around the house lately.
07:50:06 Monday January 05 2004
06:36:48 Tuesday January 06 2004
03:27:04 Wednesday January 07 2004
03:10:16 Thursday January 08 2004 05:36:05 Friday January 09 2004 I had another productive day today. Went to work and got quite a bit accomplished before Rick (my office mate) got me involved in a discussion of weird science. First this wondrous machine was presented to me. Of course it is a free energy machine and thus very very unlikely to work. David (my boss) wants to build one. When I agreed Rick was shocked. He said "You, the ultimate skeptic, want to build one of these things?" I said "Of course. Being a skeptic means that you have to try things that you don't believe will work. If you just dismiss things because the current theory says they won't work then you aren't an empiricist. You are just accepting all that theory on blind faith." Rick finally admitted that all this weirdness had come about because in his usual perusal of the engineering library's new books section he had discovered The Hunt for Zero Point by Nick Cook (apparently an editor for Jane's Defense Weekly). Before I knew it we were talking about Edgar Cayce (who was probably a fake) and lifters (which do work). All in all a strange afternoon. The major accomplishment once I got home was recovering the genealogy stuff from my father's old IBM AT. It is all there, which is a small miracle in and of itself. However, all the data is stored in this bizarre format for this old program called Family Ties. The guy who wrote it wants about 50 USD for a registration key in order to use his conversion utility. It converts it to the GEDCOM format which has to be the only standard file format written by a religion. So right now I am weighing the benefits of:
Sara is back in town and as a result my house is more than full. They are all more than welcome in my house. It is just that every so often I need to hide from humans for a few hours in order to recharge my mental batteries. I have found myself staying in when large groups of people go out in order to find those few hours.
05:58:13 Saturday January 10 2004 07:30:33 Monday January 12 2004 Yesterday we made it up to Chicagoland to see Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind. There was a comedy of errors and as a result we were not able to queue up in time. Thus we were well behind when the line was cut. There had been much bickering and missing the show we drove 2.5 hours to see did not improve things one bit. Thankfully Sara jumped in at the last minute and suggested that we go take in a round of Improv Olympics. We did and it wasn't bad at all. What was quickly becoming an unmitigated failure became a worthwhile trip. This is not to say that some feelings weren't singed, but I don't regret making the trip. However, in the future all trips to Chicago will be made with not more people than can comfortably be fit in a single vehicle. I made it a point to slack off today. It was the last day before classes begin so sleeping in and doing nothing were the order of the day. I created a livejournal account today. I don't intend to ever post anything there, but it allows me to keep track of people and post comments should I ever be so inclined.
05:36:43 Tuesday January 13 2004 22:48:00 Tuesday January 13 2004 This whole getting up before noon thing is definitely not my style. My first class back behind the podium went well. I completed some more administrivia and worked on separating Professor Simonsen's tree-generator-mutation-injection thinger into a tree generator and a mutation injector thinger. Hooray for small single function utilities! It is the UNIX way. I have been reading Microserfs by Douglas Coupland. My favorite part so far:
"People tend to assume that as we get older, years naturally start
feeling shorter and shorter -- that this is nature's way. But this
is crap. Maybe what's really happening is that we have increased the
information density of our culture to the point where our perception
of time has become all screwy"
... "You know how somebody says, 'Remember that party at the beach last year?' and you say, 'Oh God, was that last year? It feels like last month'? If I am going to live a year, I want my whole year's worth of year. I don't want it feeling like only one month. Everything I do is an attempt to make time 'feel' like time again -- to make it feel longer. I get my time in bulk."
06:10:17 Thursday January 15 2004
02:19:29 Friday January 16 2004
07:35:28 Saturday January 17 2004
07:49:52 Sunday January 18 2004 06:45:40 Monday January 19 2004 I finally added a very simple counter to the site. You can see the output here. It has only been up for a day or two, but it more or less confirms my suspicions. No one reads the log. Several people use the various link and search pages. The only surprise was the number of hits the web cam page gets. Another Microserfs moment:
I guess supermodels are like geeks, but instead of winning the Punnett
Square of brains, they won the Punnett Square of looks. It must be
bizarre being fabulously good-looking. I mean, at least you can
disguise brains.
03:31:00 Tuesday January 20 2004
05:03:18 Wednesday January 21 2004
04:03:20 Friday January 23 2004
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04:11:18 Monday January 26 2004
05:00:48 Tuesday January 27 2004
02:16:12 Wednesday January 28 2004 23:08:56 Wednesday January 28 2004 There comes a time when you realize that you need to start budgeting your time. A quick analysis. Current Software Projects
Upcoming Software Projects
Other Time Commitments
The three software projects are probably enough to keep one busy, and they do not show any sign of going away except for the packet analyzer. The upcoming projects are not upcoming in the sense that they are months away. They are all upcoming within the next two weeks. I don't complain a lot. You will notice that most of these posts are made in the early hours of the AM. However I have started waking up tired without knowing when I will be able to get a good nights sleep again. The stress and the sleep deprivation start to build up. You can feel it right behind your eyes. There is a dull ache combined with a burning sensation every time you eyes swivel. I know the ticking is on its way. The ticking was first experienced when we (Brad, Terry, Aiello, Wamz, and I) started grad school. By the last few weeks of the first semester several of us developed muscle spasms in one eyelid or the other, which we lovingly dubbed "the ticking". Everyone thinks it is a joke on Loony Tunes when they portray a crazy character by having their eyelid spasm. Well I can tell you it is rooted in truth. Under enough stress your eyelid will also begin to spasm. That is if you don't have a nervous breakdown first.
00:27:47 Friday January 30 2004
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