Coming back to life
Mar. 5th, 2002 06:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
progToday I finished a draft of a column that I last week successfully pitched to an online publication (where I've appeared before) and asked some former cow orkers for a tech review. Got two responses, one helpful, one less so. Put it aside for now.
Fielded an idea from a couple of more recent ex-orkers regarding an online resource for all kinds of legislative tracking. I noted how it rekindled my ideas about a sort of IMDB for Congress, where bills and laws are like film titles and the congresspeople behind them are like the cast and crew, and everything is hyperlinked and automated. That would be kind of cool.
Picked up another Arcus contract. (Or got tossed one, rather.) It's a 20-hour job due in two weeks, but is most notable in that it requires me to get familiar with some software that I wrote two years ago, including a shopping cart Perl module that I was rather proud of at the time, and have since utterly forgotten about. It has lived on, in my wake. Nutty. Also, hmm. Despite Joe's feelings to the contrary, I still can't find anything like it on CPAN. This I will put on my list of things to revive.
Revive? I today found that O'Reilly.com has a link in their catalog page to P&X, so I really have to at least mention it on my own site. Haven't done this yet, but I did get bit by the desire to play with "corndog", my own weblog software. I got it running on my iBook with a little bit of struggle (more the fault of my not-quite-understanding of one aspect of HTML::Mason). It's ready for me to swoop in and add the glossary components that I've been wanting for many many months. That, sadly, may prove to be the end of my regular LJ postings. I think it will be for the best. We'll see what happens.
It's past 7 but I think I'll change my pants and head over to Denis' anyway.
Fielded an idea from a couple of more recent ex-orkers regarding an online resource for all kinds of legislative tracking. I noted how it rekindled my ideas about a sort of IMDB for Congress, where bills and laws are like film titles and the congresspeople behind them are like the cast and crew, and everything is hyperlinked and automated. That would be kind of cool.
Picked up another Arcus contract. (Or got tossed one, rather.) It's a 20-hour job due in two weeks, but is most notable in that it requires me to get familiar with some software that I wrote two years ago, including a shopping cart Perl module that I was rather proud of at the time, and have since utterly forgotten about. It has lived on, in my wake. Nutty. Also, hmm. Despite Joe's feelings to the contrary, I still can't find anything like it on CPAN. This I will put on my list of things to revive.
Revive? I today found that O'Reilly.com has a link in their catalog page to P&X, so I really have to at least mention it on my own site. Haven't done this yet, but I did get bit by the desire to play with "corndog", my own weblog software. I got it running on my iBook with a little bit of struggle (more the fault of my not-quite-understanding of one aspect of HTML::Mason). It's ready for me to swoop in and add the glossary components that I've been wanting for many many months. That, sadly, may prove to be the end of my regular LJ postings. I think it will be for the best. We'll see what happens.
It's past 7 but I think I'll change my pants and head over to Denis' anyway.
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Date: 2002-03-05 08:18 pm (UTC)then where will i go to read technogeeky things i know i don't understand (and therefore can interpret however i please)?
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Date: 2002-03-06 10:25 am (UTC)OTOH, LJ is migrating towards RSS, which, if they do it right, should let you build Friends pages out of any blogs anywhere on the Web that export RSS channels. LJ, in fact, can generate an RSS feed for any of its users; just tack an '/rss' onto the URL's path. Here's mine, for example. Not very interesting, but a RSS-eating computer program can build interesting things with it.
There, see, I can technogeek on demand. WHEE
changing pants
Date: 2002-03-06 09:38 am (UTC)(a lizard? a marshmallow sculpture? a book of matches from a 1950s drive-in?)
Re: changing pants
Date: 2002-03-06 10:10 am (UTC)The pants are nice black khakis that are a little too short but that is OK. Plans are afoot (or aknee) to patch the others, but now that I think of it, most of my jeans are pretty tattered all around, and it wouldn't be too wasteful to just buy a new pair.
Cthulhia will now come in to say, "OK, Bob,"
Re: changing pants
Date: 2002-03-06 12:15 pm (UTC)and if only one is still intact, perhaps splurging and buying 2 new pairs wouldn't be overly wasteful...
if cthulhia came in & said that, why would you need pants at all? (since you'd be armless & legless...)
Re: changing pants
Date: 2002-03-06 10:16 am (UTC)Re: changing pants
Date: 2002-03-06 10:37 am (UTC)My mom sometimes likes to interrupt her own sentences, thus: "On the other hand... she wore a glove. HAW HAW HAW!" (My mom always provides her own laugh track like this.)
Bonus tangential: I think about how my dad's pet name for me is "Beetle-bomb", based on a misinterpretation of the famous Spike Jones parody of the William Tell Overture.
Re: changing pants
Date: 2002-03-06 12:10 pm (UTC)makes me think of a high school social studies teacher, mr. tarkiainen (sp?), who used this all the time: "she was the farmer's daughter, outstanding in her field."
and his other favorite: "she was only the bootlegger's daughter, but they loved her still."
haven't thought about him in a long while...
changing pants, redux
Date: 2002-03-06 03:44 pm (UTC)