pseydtonne | Blah blah blah Zeiss swords

First off, a moment of silence for Spalding Gray. If anyone led the charge for diary entries as a way of life, he was it. He is a reminder that none of us should be alone too long. He may have fucked up a few things along the way and left children behind, but he was always somewhere worth seeing. He sounded his barbaric yawp and all of us heard it.

I'm back at the desktop this week. Technically, this should be a better machine than my laptop -- a Tualatin Celeron 1.3Ghz on a 100 MHz bus versus a G3 500 MHz on a 66 MHz bus, each with an L2 cache of 256 kB. However, it feels odd. It feels weird because I've been away from my own creation. This has my fingerprints all over it, while the iBook has this other culture with it.

Anyway, I can't get AIM to work on my Red Hat side. It worked last night. It's not working now. Why? Dunno. Pain, man. My IRC client (Xchat) wasn't working last night but I was able to upgrade it. Gaim, my Linux AIM client, has some warning but no upgrade available.

Shouldn't I be cool with my own crap? I built it, after all. Maybe I'm tired of having to rebuild everything. Perhaps it's that I'm seeing all the stuff I've avoided fixing by working solely with the laptop. I can see the drive that has Maggie's old files I keep forgetting to transfer. Once I do that, I can clear the drive and make it a big file server. Then a billion other things happen, most of which seem to center on during this box from a desktop to a server.

Work was a lot better today -- some nice folks, some freaks. It didn't feel monotonous, although it was ridiculously quiet. I still sold as much as any day. I'm looking forward to my road trip to Long Island because it'll be something unrelated to work.

I should get the garbage out. I should be talking about something more interesting but I think I'm just enjoying the motions of my fingers.

Guilty pleasure of the evening: I watched Highlander 2: The Quickening. Rotten movie? completely. The greatest sin of moviemaking is to have a premise you never really explain. The Shield is never explained. If you're going to get the funding for a movie, get some people to watch each edit with fresh eyes. When you hear someone say "wait, why is the sky orange?", make a note. "Wait, how the fuck are these people going to eat if there's neither sunlight nor rain to grow food?" "Why should we believe a subway train would have a mesh cage instead of a front windshield?" "Why can't anyone finish a sentence?" "Sean Connery... ah, never mind." Is Highlander 2 worse than Eddie and the Cruisers 2? Yes, because at least Cruisers 2 solves more than it ruins.