Author: Elaine

okay, so it’s really dorky. no one can say I didn’t try.

I’m really enjoying the Linus Torvalds book. damn, that man is strange, but in a terribly happy way. it just makes me laugh.

(courtesy, of course, of everyone’s favorite library system. libraries rock.)

2 great MeFi posts, which also make life worth living…Wil Wheaton’s website (say that 5 times fast) & the metametameta post. I did get into the Wil discussion (Edith would kill me!), but I just can’t think of anything good enough to add to the metametameta. hmmm.

and for some reason, the cd drive is spinning really loudly again. which just means that I turn up the music louder (again, tunes courtesy of pierce co. library).

I fear that next week is going to be more cleaning, organizing, and doing things long put-off than anything else. but hey – I’ve got loads of vacation time, even after taking a week off. the last time I looked, I had something like 13 days – which is 2 1/2 weeks, in workdays. still, I do find the prospect a little daunting…I hate putting things off, and yet I do it all the time.

today’s weird tech ideas:

1. everything is alive. or so it would seem to Aila.
2. computers as wall hangings/tapestries. perhaps this would be a high-status thing?

fall is rolling in with a vengance. rain, rain, rain. I’m crossing my fingers for some nice weather next week (vacation), so I can do stuff outside. at the same time, I’m enjoying the semi-tropical feeling. it’s not yet cold – tho my toes are chilly – but the air is wet, and there’s something exhilarating about walking in a sudden downpour.

yeah, I’m taking a break from the writers’ group. I don’t think it’s forever. I just need a breather, for my own mental health. I’m gonna send the guys an email in the next couple of days, so I won’t post any of my thoughts about it here.

this afternoon’s project: Zografis (Paula’s site) updates. man, that thing is a hopeless bandwidth hog. I really don’t know what to do about it either. all those jpgs…. maybe I’ll back off of the Flash solution again, see if my new-found PHP skills can help. I don’t know. (of course, I’d need to see if her host supports PHP, which means I’d need to remember who the heck her host is.)

a new design is kicking around in my head. something more…professional? I’m thinking of getting back into some kind of freelancing. yeah, yeah, I know, I barely have time to work on the few (unpaid) projects I do have. but if I could get a couple of cash-paying gigs, say $200/month, that would help out a lot with this next year. and maybe I could figure out how to sell some jewelry, too, or a couple of short fantasy/scifi stories or something.

metablogging.

Ten Tips for Building a Bionic Weblog

a discussion about the rules of weblogs (scroll down – somebody likes what I said. <grin>

deep thoughts about the web. I am fascinated by the possibility.

question to self: what is the role of electronic intelligence in the “outer world”? (having given up my original names for those places.)

how I feel about writing exercises, quoted from an interview with Derek Powazek ({fray}):

I had this teacher at Claremont High. Madam Adam. She was this tidal wave of a woman, who really nurtured me. And she took no shit. When I came in empty-handed, she’d say, “Where’s your story?”

“Oh, I couldn’t finish it, I was overwhelmed. I had this horrible day, and…”

“Then write about that,” she’d say, handing me a pen.

It just resonated with things I’ve been thinking about lately.

you are getting very sleepy….

trying to keep him away from the chocolate…

okay, yeah, now I remember that blogging in opera is a dismal experience. (ev, if you’re out there…why is this so?!)

I know how it ends now. Which just means that I need to start writing it down. Thank you so much, Kat, as always, for your thoughtful insight. I’d so missed her input & our conversations about our stories. she said it felt like getting a letter from an old friend…I felt much the same about reading the latest revision of her dragon story (the beginning of it, anyway).