Done yesterday (20091016)

[mdlbear]

1016 Fr
  * up 6:33; W=197.4; drugs; coffee; nose
  @ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disaffectation
    Fascinating, since it may describe exactly what's going on with me
  & made PJ/untwisting.html; put some psych links in PJ/topics.do
  | washing pots is not kind to my right shoulder.
  * I can haz cool tech But I can't talk about it much yet.
  * walk; twice around pond.  Some meditation (untimed)
    it's murky, but the koi are still visible near the steps.
    | very humid and a little too warm.
  @ http://gizmodo.com/5383243/wii-nunchuck+controlled-robotic-tail-is-the-ultimate-accessory-for-furry-fetishists
    http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/15/robotic-mood-tail-is-everything-you-hope-it-to-be-and-more/
  @ http://gizmodo.com/5382720/now-available Zoom Q3 Handy Video Recorder
    http://www.americanmusical.com/Item--i-ZOO-Q3-LIST
  @ http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/15/entelligence-clouds-illusions-i-recall/
    Good opinion piece on the Sidekick fiasco:
      Some argued with me last night that cloud computing is perfectly safe,
    it's the company deploying that you need to look to. OK. I accept
    that. Only thing is that Danger's been doing this pretty well since 2002
    and at no point did I ever see a single warning from anyone that dealing
    with T-Mobile, Danger or Microsoft might be a bad idea when it comes to
    personal data solely living in the cloud.
      My real question is how much is your data worth? Not the cost of the
    data streams you pay each month, but how much value does your data have to
    you personally? Recently, when I visited a client, I was asked to check my
    laptop at the door and I was asked how much my computer was worth. The
    guard was somewhat surprised at my stated value of my system. "Is this
    computer really worth a two million dollars?" he asked. "No," I
    replied. However, the information on it is worth that and perhaps more to
    me. Could you re-create every document or email you've ever written?
    Re-acquire every song in your collection or re-take every photograph in
    your catalog. Perhaps you could, but even if so, at what cost and what
    effort?
  @ http://gizmodo.com/5383188/walmarts-war-on-amazon-could-obliterate-the-publishing-industry-even-more
  @ http://techdirt.com/articles/20091014/0128436520.shtml
    File Sharing Sites Team Up To Help Promote Indie Films
  * buy 1.5TB drive at Central.  $110 (deductible as recording media)
    Justification: 1. less power (2-year payback)  2. frees up 3 500G drives
    (one of which goes immediately onto gc)  3. could move to MiniITX MB
  * Date night: Jasmine.  drive afterward
    pon-pon chicken, yu-shiang eggplant, szechuan beef, dry-braised green beans

Any day that ends with pon-pon chicken, yu-shiang eggplant, szechuan beef, dry-braised green beans, and an hour-long drive to noplace in particular with my lovely Cat has to be a good one, right? It was.

It also included a walk, with a little meditation and the koi emerging mysteriously out of the murky depths of the pond like gilded and silvered submarines.

And I got a new toy at work -- the next generation of the eWriter device we've been working on. The hardware is a bit ramshackle, and the software is still rather flaky, but Oh! it's sweet. (I can only say that much because a paper's been presented.) My demo, on the older hardware that went to Japan with $grandboss last week, will be going to New Orleans with $boss next week.

On the other hand (literally), washing dishes is not kind to my right shoulder: I tend to hold pots in my right hand and sponge them with my left. Oh. Right.

On the gripping hand, I finally talked myself into buying a new 1.5TB hard drive for the file server, instead of using the three existing .5GB drives in a RAID. Simpler, and much lower power. Between California's outrageous power rates and my current tax bracket, it has about a one-year payback.

And here's a fascinating wikipedia article on "disaffectation", which may be the best description yet of what "my main problem" is.

So, yeah. Good day.

Comments

[callibr8]

I'm both pleased for you that you had such a good day... and wistfully envious.

I thought we'd gotten as far in draining the swamp here as being only up to our ass(es) in alligators. Lately it's looking like it's back up to the shoulders, and mine aren't in much better shape than yours.

[mdlbear]

Hang in there. And remember, I don't mind taking calls where the only purpose is to winge at somebody safe.