The guy with the crutches. (2003/11/20)
When I was younger, I used to go hiking with my father. We liked mountains, especially. We could never pass up a hikable mountain. I’m not talking mountain climbing here; just friendly, walkable, paths. When we were in Lassen Volcanic National Park (my favorite of the national parks), one of the trails available was on Mount Lassen itself. Well, we couldn’t pass that up. So, up we went. We brought snacks and drinking water, because it was a longish hike. We took a few rest breaks. We struggled to cross the one place where a snowfield covered the trail; my father’s balance wasn’t all that good.
[read more...]I'm getting old. (2003/11/18)
So, Sunday, I moved some furniture.
[read more...]He says he doesn't want to fight. (2003/11/16)
He says he doesn’t want to fight.
[read more...]More spam from people I once trusted. (2003/11/14)
It’s sort of becoming a recurring nightmare. Companies with whom I once had a happy relationship turn to spam. The latest victim is The Chip Merchant. These people used to be a good source for reasonably-priced computer parts. I bought a lot of stuff from them. My first order was probably in 1998, and they sent order confirmation to a tagged address in the domain “nospam.plethora.net”. As they should have.
[read more...]Creating worlds is always slow starting. (2003/11/13)
The problem with D&D is that it’s fun to have a good, detailed, world, but it’s a lot of work to make a world interesting enough to play in, without building into it The Conflict which, once resolved, leaves you with nowhere to go.
[read more...]200,000 pieces of spam. (2003/11/12)
Sometime this week, I got my 200,000th piece of spam. Actually, this is not precisely true. It’s my 200,000th piece of spam since I switched to the MH mailer in October of 1997. I’d gotten a bit before then.
[read more...]The design flaw with the GameCube. (2003/11/12)
I got a GameCube a while back. It was cheap, and it had neat games, but most importantly (for me), it lets me play GameBoy games on the Big Screen.
[read more...]And TechCentralStation is still spamming me. (2003/11/11)
Just for the record:
[read more...]They're not problems, they're tasks. (2003/11/10)
So, in an old version of IBM’s VisualAge Java development environment, there was a thing called a “Problem List”. This was, as the name suggests, a list of problems. When you typed in code, the list would be updated to reflect problems with the code. So, when you fixed the problems, the list got shorter.
[read more...]I cannot believe this. (2003/11/08)
It’s times like this when I wonder whether anyone with a soul is left in corporate America.
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