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Friday, June 29, 2001

Kindred Spirits.

How many advertsing executives does it take to change a light bulb? What shouldn't you say at client meetings? Want to play Fashion Police Bingo? Lots of fun and humor at TikiFish. (Davey's been bad.)

05:07 PM PST (link)

Thursday, June 28, 2001

Daze of our Lives.

I've had slight insomnia lately, my usual "not-tired, can't-fall-asleep" variety; this morning I got up extra early too, and got ready for work earlier than usual (i.e., before 9AM). But because the power was out yesterday and the clocks got reset, or because I pressed a bunch of buttons on my various time devices to make the bad morning noise stop!, I was completely unable to parse what time it was this morning, though I think only one clock had the wrong time. This sort of mental fog has followed me throughout my day, though, as evidenced by the following:

I just used correction tape for the first time; I thought it was neat, rolling the thing on my document like packing tape from a dispenser. I thought to myself, "I wish I made more mistakes so I could use it more often." I'm glad I thought about how that sounded before I said it out loud to someone.
It's been a week now since they've rearranged our work mailboxes alphabetically (instead of using the "no particular" order, one of my favorites) and I still reach for the box where my mail was, somewhere in the "L"s. (Memory is a funny thing.)
For an earlier paragraph just in this entry, I wrote that the time was out, not the power. Someone forgot to pay the Time bill?

06:49 PM PST (link)

Unusual Sounds.

My friend Sherilyn pointed me towards a downloadable Virtual Theramin from the BBC. Much fun. Such a serene and haunted instrument .

Not to be outdone, I counter with the Electronic Sackbut, considered the first modern synthesizer, invented in 1945 in Canada by Hugh Le Caine. While its sound was a little more variable, it wasn't necessarily as portable, either. As far as I know, despite its fans, it has yet to return with a similar popularity.

01:29 AM PST (link)

Tuesday, June 26, 2001

Version Hell.

Five people have three different versions of what is supposed to be the same Word document. These are all different than either the version we have on the staging server, or on the live server. These are similar to the versions we have in the development server which are being developed in a new template, but which we know is based on the incorrect version.

Furthermore, the major difference between the Word documents and the HTML documents is the presence of HTML code within the document and corrections to the HTML specifications portions of the document. So the HTML is in the HTML section, but not in the HTML. Except in that version of the document, which does not have the HTML section or the HTML. Did I mention that the HTML documents link to the Word documents which have the HTML inside of them?

If that's all clear I'm going for lunch. The menu today: Lox in Box with Fox in Socks.

02:13 PM PST (link)

Monday, June 25, 2001

It's a secret to everybody.

I have a suspicion who it was, but my thanks to the mysterious baker who left a bag of chocolate chip cookies on my desk with a couple of Powerpuff Girl keychains. I'll wait until tomorrow to find out if the cookies are laced with anything. Today, I'm not so sure I'd notice, given that caffeine is the only thing keeping me from falling over.

twitch! twitch! t-t-t-twitch! (yikes!)

(Bonus URL: Jack Chick illustrates how Halloween is a Satanic/Druidic plot. Chick Tracts are frightening but fun; Read 'em online, don't purchase them!)

07:02 PM PST (link)

God, that moon is bright.

I didn't even go to the SF Queer Pride celebration yesterday, and this morning I've woken up with someone else's hangover. Well, I suppose half a bottle of Champagne could be a culprit, but I'm more inclined to suspect the local olive trees. C'mon, Ibuprophen.

09:54 AM PST (link)