wednesday, june 25, 2003
ask yourself a question, anyone but me
i was a computer nerd for so long without knowing it…those months of seventh and eighth grade absorbed in nethack (downloaded from some random free mac games site) were the first sign. i just thought it was a cool game, the best one i’ve ever played…the idea of obscure commands to do awesome & powerful stuff, the text-based complexity. i didn’t know that whole operating systems were nethack-like, that nethack was just a part of this unixy world…it was my introduction to usenet, too - rec.games.roguelike.nethack was my friend, for spoilers and in-jokes.
then, discovering wikipedia in eighth grade or so, actively participating and writing a few articles, reading endlessly, spell-checking and absorbing so much crazy stuff, developing a taste for npov (neutral point of view) and open source, indulging my pedanticness by correcting everyone’s grammar & spelling, and other deliciously geeky things. i sort of dropped off doing stuff when high school gave me too much homework. i should start contributing again.
and there’s that nagging voice inside my head, telling me i should be studying c++ more. gah. not to mention the ones guilty about not practicing my harp!
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tuesday, june 17, 2003
mmmice
hehe, with my new irc client, part of my dock looks like this:
itunes (mp3 player), limewire (gnutella filesharing), adium (aim client), irc (self-explanatory), netnewswire lite (rss aggregator), and camino (web browser).
how gorgeous is that. matching colors and a trio of globes. :)
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sunday, june 08, 2003
birthday
i’m sixteen today.
this year, i realized that:
i am not a musician
i have a sharp and unique sense of style
love is weird
irc is fun
the command line is awesome
people are drawn to confidence and strength and a little boldness
it might be interesting to design user interfaces
dairy products are gross
the interesting parts are where things collide.
i got a digital camera. much yay.
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saturday, june 07, 2003
fourth dimension
in nonrelativistic physics, time is not the fourth dimension…
a 4-d rubik’s cube and the good old rubik’s cube art.
A Discordian is Prohibited of Believing What he reads.
ah, i understand now.
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wednesday, june 04, 2003
mac os x = gap
the conclusions of an hour or so of heated discussion on irc:
mac os x = gap
mac os classic = eddie bauer
slackware = abercrombie & fitch
redhat = old navy
gentoo = target
knoppix = ?
mandrake = forever 21
debian = ?
linux in general = salvation army
*bsd = high fashion
windows xp = pac sun
windows 2000 = jc penney
windows 95 = kmart
windows me = hot topic
windows in general = walmart
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tuesday, june 03, 2003
books adolescence etc
yay, i love the books section of gnod (aka “a search-engine to find things you don’t know about”).
if you plug in china mieville (author of perdido street station, one of my favorite books), two of the closest matches are jhonen vasquez and larry wall. which is cool and i should have expected it. perdido street station is a crazy-cool scary dream-like steampunk book. jhonen vasquez does pop-goth comic books. larry wall created a programming language. hehe. i like all three. and gnod put them together. this is the beauty of gnod. :)
lovely adolescent days of utter confusion are only unpleasant from the wrong points of view
