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Working Late
Thursday, January 28, 1999 Where is my mail today? A list that normally gets a fair amount of traffic is quiet. Even journal-l (or is it journals-l?) is dumbfounded. I've been at work, and thus on email, all day and I only have forty seven messages as of 6:45 in the evening! I've been deleting as I go, of course, but the total traffic is down, I swear! I've stayed late to force myself to dig through bugs and tasks assigned to me, since we will have an overall triage tomorrow and I don't want to look bad. This got a laugh at the meeting today, but it's true! I decided on this when I woke up, making up my mind to skip dance class and dancing afterwards. A real sacrifice! But I'm going to the "Women in Cinema" film festival this weekend and I want to get some of these things accomplished. Lots of small items. I did succeed in staying on task and getting through some things. Everyone was puzzled today, when a batchfile that copies some files to a server was subverted by a "ghost" batch file or process. No one knew who could be making it happen. I said, "It must be the Anti-Steve!" since it's Steve who takes care of the batchfile we do want. General laughter! I do enjoy it when I say something that gets a good reaction in our team meetings. I think I get that from my father. He tended to be quiet, almost sullen, at home. But every now and again he'd be with a group of neighbors and talk very entertainingly. I'd wonder if this was a side that he showed at work. I listened to some CDs that I hadn't heard for a while: Bryn Terfel, Cecilia Bartoli, and Steve Lucky and the Rhumba Bums.
My friend Jon Singer sent me a link to the world's smallest (currently) web server. (We had lunch yesterday on purpose, when he needed to borrow my camera, and today by accident.) I really can't wait until the wearables get beyond the hobby stage and reach the early adopters like me. I want to wear glasses with a heads-up display, and have an auto-responder of FAQs sent to people who ping me, and use a chording keyboard/mouse combo. I just think that would be a lot of fun!
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