Done yesterday (20110418 Mo)

[mdlbear]

0418 Mo
  * up 6:30; W=196.4; drugs, nose, teeth, dishes, coffee, laundry, light
  * tax:  federal form ok; state form rejected for wrong AGI; 
    	  re-sent w. signature form (which one prints, signs, and keeps)
  @ esr - The Smartphone Wars: The Stages of Apple-Cultist Denial
  @ APOD: 2011 April 18 - Visual Effects: Wonders of the Universe
  * 20min walk by the airport weather a bit dicey
  * buy:  pantsu
  * Tools is in CVS as starport/Web/Public/Steve_Savitzky/Tools - can be
    removed from repo now that it's in git.
  @ Zen and the Art of Ninja Productivity - Goodlife Zen 
    Want to Make Friends and Feel Happier? Try Kindness!
  = psa: IBF -> UBF.  More appropriate references.  (ambiguity intended)
  % (21:37:06) ***mdlbear is somewhat surprised to discover that he still
    hasn't fully recovered from the stress of last week. 
  * imported LJ (everything but profile and friends) into DW

Not a whole lot to report -- a day of catching up at work after last week's hard push. (Some other people on the team still had some heaving lifting to do, but there wasn't much I could do directly to help.)

The state tax form had to be re-sent, because the AGI's didn't match. Weird, but it's possible that I sent it on paper. Which I can't find a copy of, now. Live and learn. I need to remember to buy the version that comes with a free state download, next year.

A nice IM conversation with N., after discovering that Skype video wasn't working properly for us :-(. I noted that I was somewhat surprised to find that I'm still not fully recovered from the stress of the last couple of weeks. Maybe it shouldn't be all that surprising.

Oh, and I imported my LJ into Dreamwidth. More on that later -- no, I'm not abandoning LJ, I have a permanent account. But there are features about DW I like a lot, and with importing and automatic crossposting I can have them both.

The coolest thing out in linkspace was APOD: 2011 April 18 - Visual Effects: Wonders of the Universe. Very cool video. Wish I could get hold of the series on DVD, but it seems to be available only in the UK at the moment. And of course it would be region-locked.

Comments

[jcbemis.livejournal.com]

don't know if you'd seen this before - a friend just posted about it on her LJ

Alexithymia quiz:

http://oaq.blogspot.com/

What the fuck does that mean? Wikipedia defines it thusly:

Alexithymia: from the Ancient Greek words λέξις (lexis, "diction", "word") and θυμός (thumos, "soul, as the seat of emotion, feeling, and thought") modified by an alpha-privative—literally "without words for emotions"—is a term coined by psychotherapist Peter Sifneos in 1973[1][2] to describe a state of deficiency in understanding, processing, or describing emotions.

[mdlbear]

Hadn't seen the quiz, but I'm familiar with the Wikipedia page.

Unfortunately, the "evaluate results" button doesn't work (and the "automated scoring" links don't work either), so it's going to be painful to score. I'm pretty sure I come out somewhere in the 100-120 range.

ETA: ok, the automated version works if you view it after it's been download.
-> 145. Oh.

[jilara.livejournal.com]

I've got a Dreamwidth account, but I haven't done much with it. Like you, I have a permanent account on LJ, so I'm not abandoning it, either.

[mdlbear]

I'm still mulling over the details, but what's likely to happen is that I'll post to DW and let it auto-crosspost to LJ. I'm also hoping to land one of the next round of seed accounts that DW will be selling next month.

I expect to change some of my posting habits, too, especially cutting back on the birthday posts.