ConChord, eventually

[mdlbear]

I'm writing this in the lobby, waiting for ConChord to start (or, alternatively, for somebody interesting to show up and be snared by the flower_cat, who is sitting next to me being even more bored.

Last night I built another 16 pre-order bundles -- I'm probably going to need more eventually. This morning I put the final touches on the Interfilk package: pre-order bundles 2B and D4. Before we left I printed up the songbook and the short fiction, and stuffed them into an old Zilog binder. It was big enough that I could keep the uLisp and Whitesmiths C manuals in. Surely somebody will want a piece of Silicon Valley history.

I brought two laptops this trip - the old Thinkpad doesn't do wireless particularly well, but it has a useable keyboard and runs Linux, so it's set up in the room. I'm roaming with the Mac, which has a crappy keyboard and weird key bindings, but it seems to have a better time running Audacity with my USB interface, which I'll need later.

The net connection in the hotel sucks; it's about the same speed as my DSL line was before I upgraded, and of course it wants you to authenticate every time you open a new browser session. Speedtest.net says the closest server is in Oklahoma, which may explain some things. Doesn't excuse not saving MAC addresses. Or charging for new in the first place. Come on, folks -- block port 25, open it up, and make your guests happy.

Comments

[kshandra]

I realized after we got home Wednesday that I should have asked you if bundle 4F was still available.

[mdlbear]

Damn, I should have noticed that one as an interesting number. It definitely went onto an envelope, but I don't see it in my box or on my list of delivered envelopes; it might be one of the ones still at work. I'll check when I get back.

[hms42]

4F? Why is that an interesting number?? The only thing I can think of is a comic book reference. (Fantastic 4)

Harold

[mdlbear]

You may be too young to remember the draft (or may have grown up outside the US). 4F was the classification that said you were disqualified because of physical or mental disability.

[mdlbear]

The other possible answer is that all numbers are interesting. You can prove this by induction: suppose that there was a smallest number that was not interesting. That's interesting...