Done recently (20100414-16 We-Fr)

[mdlbear]

0414 We
  * up 6:40; W=196.2!; drugs, nose, teeth
  * humira
  : $project -> $product approved.  Wild ride in the offing.
    ! some relief, some excitement, some anxiety.  Some hope.
    % chest tightness. "OK, that's fear.  I don't know what hope feels like."
    (08:26:03) ***mdlbear chuckles.  I didn't mean to sound surprised.  And
     I'm genuinely pleased that it passed the committee (on the second try).
     The committee that makes these decisions isn't a rubber stamp by any
     means.  Passing means that the top people in $company think that it has
     an excellent chance of success, and that's very encouraging.
    (08:26:33) mdlbear: Whether _I_ have an excellent chance of success is yet
     to be determined. 
  @ From haikujaguar yesterday: 
    Ten Secrets of Professional Book Cover Designers
    Six Things They Mean When They Say They Have No Money
  @ The 5 Best Open-Source Social Networking Software
  @ Japanese Porn Actress Entices Chinese Net Users To Scale Great Firewall
  @ John Scalzi is a Fuzzy
  @ GAO Concludes Piracy Stats Are Usually Junk, File Sharing Can Help Sales
  @ Original "Alice" manuscript - none compares!
  @ The Future Of Content: Protection Is In The Business Model -- Not In
    Technology
  @ Soundshapes: Amit Pitaru/Zach Gage bring Sonic Wire Sculptor to iPhone
    just... WOW
  @ Mathematician makes Mishima-inspired erotic film - Boing Boing
  @ RIAA Insists That Musicians Can't Make Money Without The RIAA
  @ Indian Scientists Refuse To Patent Tuberculosis Genome, Encourage Anyone
    To Make The Drugs 
  ->tax: Good news: Kat's 1040 was accepted by the IRS
  * walk: 2x around the pond, briskly
    ! positive.  optimistic??  Walking fast==good mood.  
  @ Frequently Asked Questions about Coffee
    Frequently Asked Questions about Caffeine
  : power failure.  :(  
    shutting down nova and dorsai.  Should have sync'ed first, obviously.
  * kaiser: balsalazide/colazal, fluticasone/flonase
  @ Family Skills: Cooperation
  & spent entire evening cleaning up after the power failure.  casualties: 
    8-port GigE switch (in rack), and the YD's motherboard (probably) Ouch!
  * bed ~11:30; emotionally drained.  snuggle.  
  % trembling:  more like relief, or feeling (needing to feel?) safe and loved.

0415 Th
  * awake 5ish
  * up 8ish; BPH?; W=196.2; drugs, nose, teeth.
  @ The single mother's manifesto | J.K. Rowling - Times Online
  @ The Three Micahs on: The Day Job
  @ FCC Slowly Realizing Science And Data Are Kind Of Important
  @ Photographer Makes One-Third Of His Living Expenses Off Only 94 Fans
    And it's someone I know -- Ctein!
  @ Infographic Does A Great Job Misrepresenting Opportunities Of The Digital Era
  @ Modest Success Is Still Success For Indie Bands
  @ Disabled Explorers
  @ Swedish Band Releases New Album As A Magazine
  @ Biodiversity open card game, like Pokemon for science
  * walk: once around pond; reasonably brisk.
  * working on "vision" document at $work.
    "Nothing more wonderfully concentrates a man's mind than the sure knowledge
    he is to be hanged in the morning."  -- Samuel Johnson
  @ 8 Things That Suck About the iPad
  * Walgreen's: pantsu
  * date: El Torito, as usual.  Drive: to Menlo Park.
    out via Central Expwy, back via Foothill.
    very sleepy on the way home
  * pay bills!!!  Colleen's transfer
  @ Why We Haven’t Met Any Aliens
    (from gmcdavid)
  * bed 10:15; snuggle

0416 Fr
  * up 7:45 (really needed the sleep!); W=197.2; drugs, nose, teeth
  @ Wanted: The Best Geek Girl Writers On The Web : Geek's Dream Girl
  @ This means war: Big Content's war on democracy - Boing Boing
  @ Video-game shoppers surrender their immortal souls - Boing Boing
  @ Has the New York Times Run Afoul of the FTC's Endorsement Guides?
  @ For Small Authors, eBooks Are Much Better Than Being Printed On Pulp
  @ Copying Is Not Theft - also linked from BoingBoing: 
    Copying is not theft: now with studio-recorded audio!
  @ What If The Very Theory That Underlies Why We Need Patents Is Wrong?
  @ Icelandic volcano no longer slacking off - Boing Boing -- good pix
  @ Big Content's dystopian wish-list for the US gov't: spyware, censorship,
    physical searches and SWAT teams - Boing Boing 
    There's a technical term for this in policy circles. I believe it's
    "Totally insane."  
  @ help.github.com -- lots of good docs
  @ What's the best lightweight Linux distro? | TuxRadar Linux
  : Jared helping YD with her crashed computer.  Will probably at least get
    her something usable for the weekend.
  * take home the Fry's machine I've had sitting at work for the last year.
  * copied YD's disk to her external drive using dorsai.  Why isn't there any
    way on Windows for an admin to change permissions on somebody else's files?
  * 10ish bath; bed ~11; snuggle

I'm not dead, just a combination busy and (involuntarily) catching up on sleep. So time and attention for posting has been pretty minimal. I'm seriously thinking of adding more automation, especially for links.

Speaking of links, their increased number and quality are due to my taking gizmodo and engadget out of my daily blog feed and substituting BoingBoing.

Anyway, it's been a strange week at $work because of major upheavals. Our sekrit project was approved Wednesday; the next year promises to be a wild ride. If it gets too wild, I can always go back to the safety of research, but I hope that's just my inner neophobe talking. I've never done well with change.

I found myself feeling tight across the chest and writing, "OK, that's fear. I don't know what hope feels like." I guess that says most of it.

ETA: as it turns out, later that day I found myself walking noticably faster than the days before; that usually indicates a positive mood of some sort.