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I do not trust this weather. Surely something is afoot when one's Cambridge home is cooler than the air outside, by virtue of the shade -- in December.
Naturally my thoughts turn to worries about global warming, but I don't remember this past summer as particularly dreadful.
Several months ago I read articles on science websites about big ol' chunks of Antarctica breaking away from the mainland, detected by satellite imagery and such. I believe that mention of this got all the way up to cnn.com as far as mainstream media penetration, but it didn't rise above the bottommost headlines, under the 'SCIENCE' subheading. Not very good.
I told Cthulhia via email that I wouldn't mind accompanying her and queue on their road trip this weekend, but haven't heard back from her yet, and am not pressing the issue. On the one hand, I have a lot of work to do, and staying home would probably help me accomplish it. On the other, I have never been to NYC, let alone during these most interesting times, let alone in the company of cool people, and I think I'd net a tidy bundle of valuable XP from the experience. Plus: I do have a laptop, as I am so prone to forget. On the third hand, having friends like cthulhia means that these sorts of opportunities pop up not entirely infrequently, so I wouldn't weep to pass this one up. I shall do whatever.
Went to a most interesting lecture wednesday afternoon, Nadine Sorensen(?), president of the ACLU addressing an MIT crowd about U.S. government intrusion of its citizens' Internet usage. I wrote a report about it, but it's on the iBook, which is currently not on any network, alas: Rick came and took away the house firewall, and busy busy Charles, though he has toiled mightily upon it, has yet to properly set up the firewall rules of the replacement box we were able to scrounge. He has kindly given me an account on it, though, allowing me to LJ at you now by way of lynx. Not too bad, but I found yesterday that trying to do Web development with nothing but consoles is kinda painful. Despite this, my first contract job (what an awful-sounding phrase...) shall be completed this weekend, NYC or not.
Charles is one of these people who broadcasts their good moods by speaking in a silly accent. There ought to be a name for these people.
Naturally my thoughts turn to worries about global warming, but I don't remember this past summer as particularly dreadful.
Several months ago I read articles on science websites about big ol' chunks of Antarctica breaking away from the mainland, detected by satellite imagery and such. I believe that mention of this got all the way up to cnn.com as far as mainstream media penetration, but it didn't rise above the bottommost headlines, under the 'SCIENCE' subheading. Not very good.
I told Cthulhia via email that I wouldn't mind accompanying her and queue on their road trip this weekend, but haven't heard back from her yet, and am not pressing the issue. On the one hand, I have a lot of work to do, and staying home would probably help me accomplish it. On the other, I have never been to NYC, let alone during these most interesting times, let alone in the company of cool people, and I think I'd net a tidy bundle of valuable XP from the experience. Plus: I do have a laptop, as I am so prone to forget. On the third hand, having friends like cthulhia means that these sorts of opportunities pop up not entirely infrequently, so I wouldn't weep to pass this one up. I shall do whatever.
Went to a most interesting lecture wednesday afternoon, Nadine Sorensen(?), president of the ACLU addressing an MIT crowd about U.S. government intrusion of its citizens' Internet usage. I wrote a report about it, but it's on the iBook, which is currently not on any network, alas: Rick came and took away the house firewall, and busy busy Charles, though he has toiled mightily upon it, has yet to properly set up the firewall rules of the replacement box we were able to scrounge. He has kindly given me an account on it, though, allowing me to LJ at you now by way of lynx. Not too bad, but I found yesterday that trying to do Web development with nothing but consoles is kinda painful. Despite this, my first contract job (what an awful-sounding phrase...) shall be completed this weekend, NYC or not.
Charles is one of these people who broadcasts their good moods by speaking in a silly accent. There ought to be a name for these people.
