I won my first junk fax case! (2003/07/23)
Today, in court, we reached a settlement in my case against Mobile Cellular Unlimited, who sent me 7 unsolicited faxes in 2002. So far as I’m concerned, we won. They have agreed to a court order prohibiting them from sending illegal unsolicited faxes; if the laws ever change, they can fax again, but right now, they can’t. They are paying me some money. The amount of money is confidential, so I can’t discuss it.
[read more...]METANOIA! (2003/07/22)
Well, it’s taken a while, but metanoia is officially live. There’s one small discontinuity; you can already get the cover for Issue #1, even though the Prologue isn’t all up yet.
[read more...]I do a cool scripty thing. (2003/07/16)
My spouse’s comic, Metanoia, is getting closer to being done. He designed a web page for it, which had the text “Here Peter does a cool scripty thing” on it. The idea is that I’m supposed to create the index pages the comic will use. So, I created a couple of scripts, and now, if his laptop hasn’t fallen asleep, I can read the comic. Well, the first five pages. A page of comic takes a long time to draw, ink, and shade. I think it’ll be a page or two a week… but it’s looking pretty cool, so far. In the first five pages, we have sodomy and at least one possible death. It’s sorta disturbing, but at least I don’t feel that the author is coddling me, or shielding me from the gritty realities of the setting.
[read more...]I hate computers. (2003/07/11)
In late May, the hard drive in my Thinkpad failed. So, I ran out and immediately bought a slightly smaller drive, and started copying data around and so on. The old drive could still be used, just only for about 20 minutes at a time, then it would overheat and stop working.
[read more...]I guess it <em>is</em> genetic. (2003/07/08)
So, I’ve always wondered which of my many traits are hereditary, and which are learned. I got a chance to explore these boundaries a bit over the last week, because my mom was in town. A few curious points:
[read more...]It's good to be known. (2003/07/03)
So, one of the points a lot of people miss in evaluating or choosing presents is that the point of a present is largely to express awareness of who, or what, someone is. Any idiot can buy you something expensive; the hard part is buying you something that makes you happy because of who you are.
[read more...]More Cranky User (2003/07/02)
It’s just a first draft, but there’s a book there now. The first Cranky User book is starting to look like an actual book; people have read it. There are gaps, there’s all sorts of revision needed, but it’s a book.
[read more...]I don't understand large numbers. (2003/06/29)
I’m a bit of a math geek by nature, so I use large numbers all the time. Just by squinting a bit and thinking, I was able to estimate the size of the sun within a factor of 2 the other day… Not that this is especially useful. But I’m comfortable with the way numbers stack and interact and modify each other.
[read more...]Mac is back! (2003/06/27)
Well, I can’t prove that all is well, because I’ve had one crash since it came back, but I think that was my own stupid fault. :)
[read more...]My Mac is dead. Again. (2003/06/17)
Every so often, this happens to me. My Mac will enter a state where it is unreliable, and I will be unable to use it for production work, but the reliability will be sporadic enough that it’s hard to diagnose. Yesterday, I brought my G4 tower in to a local repair place in the hopes that they can fix it up for me. I sure hope they can. The crashes it has are exceptionally strange, and I really don’t know what to make of them. All the normal steps have been taken; were it up to me, the next thing I’d do would be to swap the processor module out (it’s a dual-processor Mac, but there’s just a single “processor module”), and the thing after that would be swapping the motherboard.
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