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Current reading: just starting on Kage Baker's "In The Garden of Iden".

Current listening: Jello Biafra's "High Priest of Harmful Matter".

If I ever happen to listen to Jello Biafra in the same week as reading Pat Califia's essays, watch out. I will probably turn into Hothead Paisan and go nuts or something. Give me some more of that mind-numbing television and vodka before I start thinking, because we all know how dangerous *that* could be.

Benno's in a machine-naming mood:

• disgruntled-postal-worker (mail server)
• frank-exchange-of-views (firewall)
• illudium-pu-36-explosive-space-modulator (external firewall)

We used to have all our machines named after Snow Crash stuff, but we ran out:

• hiro (main server)
• yt (laptop)
• juanita (desktop)
• rife (windoze box)
• rat-thing (laptop)
• sushik (laptop)
• vitaly (mp3 server)
• raft (loosely strapped together pile of shit)
• poor-impulse-control (morgan's machine)
• reason (firewall)
• rev-wayne (windows laptop)
• da5id (desktop)

My home machine is named laphroaig after what I was drinking when I set it up. I think my next one should be called tanqueray.

Jai: "So what exactly is wrong with meat-fucker as a machine name?"

mbp: Wow, I was drinking the same Hardy's Padthaway '98 cab sav tonight :) Synchronicity++

Randomness:

What does it mean when your grandmother says: "Feel free to visit anytime. And even if I have to... go somewhere... you can take care of the place for me. Do you understand what I mean?"

What would you wish for if an evil bastard legalistic genie gave you three wishes? I think I'd wish for something like this:

1. A good lawyer to assist me in phrasing the next two wishes, to my own specifications and my own benefit, at no inconvenience to me, to be paid from the proceeds of subsequent wishes.
2. Ten million Australian dollars, tax free, in a high yield investment account, with no legal complications or other complications, and generated from out of nowhere (i.e. not taken from anyone else)
3. To live in good health (as recognised by some standard medical benchmark) to a random age between 80 and 120 terran years and die without pain

I think I'm glad that I'm not likely to meet any genies. I would get my ass kicked.

Had a long chat to Dad tonight on the phone. I told him how traumatized I'd been when, at the age of 8, I learnt that there were no major land masses left to discover. I don't think he quite believed me when I told him I would seriously apply to colonise Mars if the opportunity presented itself, though. He also doesn't understand why having 10 acres of mostly bushland is an attractive prospect. All he can think of is the trouble it would be to keep it clear of noxious weeds. As far as I can see, that's the sort of thing you hire people to do for you.

The machine that infotrope runs on was down for a bit tonight, due to a fscked SCSI drive. It's back now, but I'm definitely looking forward to when it gets replaced by something a tad more stable.

My new CD drive is excellent. Well, it works. And it's fast. Which is better than the old one, which was only occasionally operational and bloody slow. I'm ripping some of my CDs to mp3 as I type, so that I can put them on random play. Hey, it was either that or get a decent stereo :)

Righto. I now have an automagic diary posting tool that posts my diary to both my infotrope homepage and to Advogato.

I am a happy Skud. Finally winning against LWP::UserAgent and HTTP::Cookie will do that.

Really must learn to get up and stretch a bit more though. My back is fscked.

Sorry about all those empty entries. I was testing a diary posting wossname that I wrote, and I wanted to delete the entries but it wouldn't let me... it just made them empty.