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Saturday, September 16, 2000
5:39:00 PM by mark *
Sandia's New supercomputer is way cool, but this quote is the best justification for OpenSource I've ever read.
“But not that ahead — only a year or two. Eventually, other people will get there too. People all over the world are already using Beowulf. We are hoping to release our software to the general public soon. Then everyone in the world will help us improve it. Otherwise we will have this proprietary code that no one knows about, and something else that may not be as good will become the standard to be improved; and when we hire people, they won’t have experience with the systems we’re running.”
5:36:00 PM by mark *
I read this from beginning to end. Teensy executables under Linux. I remember playing games like this with Doc but wow! The whole progam hidden in the exec header? Wow!
5:17:00 PM by mark *
Oh man where did Ken find this? McHawking Rapping at ya with a fresh big bang!
Friday, September 15, 2000
5:53:00 PM by mark *
Meta I still can't decide whether I want a journal, a link-elephant, a commentary site, a rant's system, a link blurb site or what. I tend to mix it up but I keep thinking a few changes to Blogger could really let people tune this stuff better to their tastes. *Sigh* I need to write my own I think and grow up from Blogger.
5:46:00 PM by mark *
BTW, I forgot to post this last night, I was nearly killed! Yay! Stupid drivers.

I was driving thru a dark neighbor hood on a 35mph road that is crossed by lots of 25mph roads with stop signs. No stops on my road till you hit the big one. Dark, 1am and I'm heading uphill. From my left comes this stupid woman, blazes thru the stop sigh at over 35mph and I'm heading for a perfect T-bar on her. =) I lock brakes, the antilock on my new car kicks in and jutters me to about 5mph, letting her slip on by and not quite get hit. She never brakes and gives me a dirty look. Stupid.

The worst thing is, I wasn't even angry. All I could think of was, "Oh man, I haven't even gotten a license-plate yet." Every car has it's dent "virginity" and like most teens, they lose it early, often in a parking lot. If I'd de-cherried my car in a T-bar accident, before getting plates, that would have been like child-molesting. Just all kinds of pure wrong.

5:24:00 PM by mark *
My turn for a Dream:

I'm on a corner of a plains city, real flat, low buildings, wide streets and sidwalks. It's that weird early morning time when it is light out but still seems dark. A witch is chasing a friend of mine. Not your basic pointy-head witch, more of the model-of-a-modern-major-sorceress. Mean and cruel, she has tagged them with a spell that leaves behind little globes of light that drift slowly in the direction they were heading. The glow a reddish-orange and bob up and down a little as they drift. Hunting her, I have become attuned to what she is following, so even tho I have lost track of her, I can still follow the twinkling lights.

The lights don't glow with an evil tho. They have a purity to them that suggests that she has tapped something good for her evil purposes. Tho the tiny globes of light are invisible to others I notice that some people are catching them out of the corner of their eyes. One person is even trying to touch it. Like stuff floating in the current of a river, they push away from your hands if you reach for them too quickly.

I stop in front of the person and cup one in my hand, softly moving to pinch it top and bottom with my thumb and finger. I raise it up in front of my eye and hold it up for both of us to see. Inside is a swirling glowing smoke. Opalescent and spinning, I know instinctively that it will clear if I focus my thoughts on what is inside. As the fog clears, I see within a bit of purity, in a form of an angel, wings half lifted, arms raised straight up, head lifted to the sky. Just observing brings a tear to our eyes and the bubble is pierced by the raised hands of the statue inside, causing me to break the angel, before it all disappears like dust from my hand.

The person and I, who have shared this moment as strangers, whisper together:
...
...
and what you see inside this circlet of light
is but a glimpse at his great master work.

What those first two lines of that lyric were will haunt me for a while. At least, faintly, I can still hear the music. That is something. At least.

BTW, later there was a bit with a large talking pig on top of a bean and white pea salad, all on a bed of lettuce, resting on the back of a headless horse. And we were in a dining hall on a steam boat, sitting at a picnic table, me and the evil pirate version of Capt'n Crunch, getting yelled at by the elders for talking to the pig. Not really connected with the other bit but this one followed the previous one. My brain is so weird. I never remember dreams.

Thursday, September 14, 2000
10:51:00 PM by mark *
Do not Hubble away so fast...
10:47:00 PM by mark *
New word: Skepticist: One with a scientific approach to skepticism, as opposed to merely being skepticious.
8:15:00 PM by mark *
Fibbonacci and Lucas series plus golden section stuff!
3:10:00 PM by mark *
New word of the day: cargument, aka vehicular dispute. Can be applied to: road rage situations with two assholes (the usual case -- btw), "sheet-metal testing", and red necks with dueling pee'ing calvin stickers.
Wednesday, September 13, 2000
10:51:00 PM by mark *
Links from other blogs:
8:35:00 PM by mark *
You know what reviews of Perl books need? Guns. Seriously, if you read it on The Monastery it MUST be true =)
1:49:00 AM by sklutch *
More dreams from the left side of the brain [hmmm, I think I got that right....*grin*]

High IQ Kudzu ... Episode I

or Rise of the D-Vine

BACKGROUND: After the heyday of the 90s megacorp econowars, when even minority shareholders found themselves in the upper tax brackets, came the ecology backlash of the cost-cutting measures as the forests shrank, water tables became contaminated by polysyllabic manmade substances, and the very air itself gained an unhealthy texture. Hardest hit were the so-called Third World areas, countries willing to accept short-term profits at the expense of the land on which they lived. Over 90% of these became uninhabitable by even the traditional nomadic cultures which had survived for millenia, forcing their populations to immigrate to new lands. In most cases, these immigrants chose to move to First World countries where they believed a new, better life awaited them.

In the continental US, pressure was brought to bear on the government by the new elite to repair the damages to the environment, prompting the creation of the Reclamation Corps. This organization, funded by gov't and corp interests, became the primary force for expanding the livable lands with research stations scattered throughout the American southwest...lands largely unspoiled since they had little to offer to companies looking for easily exploitable resources. I'll get back to this later...promise.

Tuesday, September 12, 2000
11:55:00 PM by mark *
Quesion, a word looking for a meaning: Is it the fundamental particle of sea-sickness? Quesion bombs, non-lethal except to aging rockstars. =) hehe. Or is it the question you try and ask right before puking? Oh no! Yack attack. UN Grade weapons for preventing violence? Quesion drives for spaceships. You get there, barely...David Banner, bombarded by Quesions turns into the Unsteady Hulk. =)
Monday, September 11, 2000
3:05:00 PM by mark *
DNS tunnel for IP traffic! Holycow what were these people on?
Sunday, September 10, 2000
7:54:00 PM by mark *
People in Bellevue are just that stupid or they think you are...
5:09:00 PM by mark *
hmm new comic to watch for me: MegaTokyo Mmm Anime style and American gaming news.
and a new ?comic? or whatever you would call this new form of boxlor humor.
3:55:00 PM by mark *
OK, my hatred for the web grows by the day. Try these links and see what I mean:

Hyphens are so deadly, I didn't find any good variations...

3:26:00 PM by mark *
We have a TV in our NOC that runs CNN Headline News full screen and the Weather Channel in Picture in Picture. With the sound down I rarely watch it. today, while munching on horrific fast food (fuck you Ronald, and your damn dancing foodstuff friends!) I happened to lookup just in time to catch the end of a "vasectomy clinic" ad on CNN. The words A safe, painless office procedure: Vasectomy float on the screen. Meanwhile in the PIP there is that stupid leg pillow commercial (straightens the spine, stays between your legs all night long!) showing the woman rolling around in bed with this huge tan pillow between her legs.

Now in the first few seconds, before what I'm watching registers completely, I get this vasectomy + writhing in pain with a huge swelling down there mental picture.

I may be scarred for life.