I've been reading a bit of Allison Margolin, and a bit about her. She seems successful at what she does, so I can't rag on her too much. Still, I'm weirded out by such characters.

I don't much like servers knowing me. It's super efficient when the comic store (okay, not server exactly) guy has my pull bag ready for me as I open the door, but creepy. The Coffee Bean people know me well enough to greet me by my (last) name, but I alternate orders often enough that the only thing the assume is that "medium in a large cup" means extra room, not extra milk.

And they're right.

I've had many friendships with bartenders and some with waiters and waitresses at my regular spots. Baristas too. Once you start bringing your servers mixed tapes, it starts the ball rolling.

Plus, weatherbug sends severe weather alerts for things like yellow child-alert warnings.

Which I find annoying.

Okay, so, skimmy, I realize, but -- anybody else get very far into this discussion thinking it was a conversation about one's close personal relationship with one's tower of internet data storage and processing capacity?

Just me then.

Not just you. Points back upthread.

mac will not have to be tested for school enrollment. YAY! full language assistance integration into regular kindergarten classes. YAY! YAY!

Okay, I was reading the bon bon story and I still thought "network" when "server" was mentioned downthread from the original story.

Ah. Bloglines has suddenly gone wonky on me. All of a sudded I have 11,432 unread posts.

Yay mac!

You people are crazy, thinking about your relationship with your computer server. IJS.

My department is 12 people in theory, ten in NYC, two in CA. We have some open positions. But it still seems crazy that there are just two of us here today!

thinking about your relationship with your computer server.

No kidding. I have a crush on my photo iPod, it's true, but a server? They're so boring and you'd never get to go anywhere together.

No one's accepted my 9:30 meeting invite. I itch to cancel it, but I'll wait until 9:30 and see how flaky they were being. I need to run through all my other meeting invites and see if I have responses.

full language assistance integration into regular kindergarten classes. YAY! YAY!

Oh, that's good. Do you know what school, or is that further down the line, depending on other stuff?