sj's Longest Now [v.1]

As SCO prepares to be delisted, the rest of the world (at least those of them who give a damn) wonder idly what will happen to their IP.

Our sitting President gets frisky with his media support before an interview, and clearly the person behind the camera can’t stand to see such glorious footage brushed away on the cutting room floor.  So, instead of being incinerated, the clipped vulgarity ends up afloat in everyone’s favorite cesspool, Al Gore’s InterNet. 

Bush shoots the birdie like a no-nonsense expert, but giggles afterwards like an amateur…  this short has been posted all over the place, but I like the simple humanity of the clip.  Fwiw, I like the Bush in this clip a lot better than the Edwards foppery making the rounds.

Or a protagonist that looks surprisingly like him. An old housemate left me a copy of Daikatana, in its original box… the orange color perfectly matches my title, and a certain banner-message I can think of. I haven’t opened it yet, but just having the ION STORM logo on my desk makes it seem heavier, somehow.

That’s the kind of ranting I like to hear. University professors beware, we’re watching how you spend your minutes… and ours. Now if only that would extend to other teachers, and other seminal professions (such as filmmakers).

So, there are hours and days and weeks and months where nothing happens. Or where things endeavour to happen but never in any sharply time-delimited fashion. And there are weekends when fifteen different crucial things happen, all magically fitting together, and 90-hour stretches when there isn’t enough time to catch a breath or sleep. And sometimes there are four-hour periods during which five or six different unreschedulable nonrefundable irreplaceable events take place — in the middle of a week in which no others do. Is this a natural property of life? A quality of certain environments? A taste of karmic circumstance? I can’t be the only one to whom this happens; fess up.

“no space available.”

BC calc alums fight ‘55 alums in Ultimate tourney. News on the 11th.

Pretty hilarious. ~ ~ killer app || postal job ||
the cult (1, 2) ||
too late… ||
eternal elementary school ||
masculinity ||
truth (in advertising) ||
sad (1, 2, 3, 4!…) ||
vegans ||
linux ||
end guy
right ||
timeless

I love Brother Blue and was sorry to miss this event.  If you hear about other events of his around town, especially ones including his wife, please let me know.

I like the fact that a totally open informational site, with an active community of thousands, and hundreds of introductory pages, can continue to surprise me two weeks after I became an active community member myself and started reading whatever I could about the site.

For instance, Wikipedia supports TeX fontification.  Hello?  What?  My copy of Office XP can’t manage that, but you’re giving me ~real-time equation rendering as I preview updates to any old wikipedia article? 

Yep. 

Glorious list of questions. Hosted just down the river, too… A good place to find the right person to chat with about any really important ideas you might have.