paperdol!

Every time I read about y'all reading the books slowly...well, I'm looking at you funny. I plowed through that thing, not even looking up to walk out on the balcony.

But I'm like that with books.

I work on a unix system at my job and I hate it.

See, I prefer the unix system. Much of my computering life has been lived on the command line. And the rest of it on macs. I've spent much of today trying to find some stupidly named copyrighted, trademarked,proprietary, licensed widgetx on the desktop that does the equivalent of 8 letter and a space on a command line. And dealing with my mail through an awkward web interface. And not being able to find folders on the network.

And freezing my ass off because I'm in the half of the computer room that doesn't have the bigass Space Odyssey (for 2007!) blinking boxes pouring out heat. I may have to resort to cuddling up to the 15K next door to defrost my appendages. Except I'm afraid a robotic arm would reach out and I'd be consumed by the sinister blinking box.

It isn't the unix system itself that I hate. It's that everyone else I deal with uses either mac or pc, and I have to use a special software suite to read Word docs and Excel files, and they never translate quite right, and when those special symbols make all the difference and I can't see them, well, that's a problem. Later this year they are switching us to PCs. It will be better because then I can work from home, but I expect it will come with its own set of problems. At least I'll be able to read a damn Word document without sacrificing a goat.

Timelies all!

Yay for Comicon reading paperdol!

(Yes, I'm at home. I went home "sick")

The problem with being bicomputeral is that your fingers get confused and go for the wrong bits at awkward moments.

I'm just enjoying the image of sarameg cuddling up to a big computer ...

The problem with being bicomputeral is that your fingers get confused and go for the wrong bits at awkward moments.

see, this is why I don't want to get a mac at home.

The problem with being bicomputeral is that your fingers get confused and go for the wrong bits at awkward moments.

see, this is why I don't want to get a mac at home.

In spite of this, I run OS X and Windows XP on my Mac at the same time. (And sometimes Linux.)

I'm doing a reading at Comicon. Whoot!

That's awesome! Man, I am so bummed about us not being able to go to Comicon this year. I'm missing everyone! Allyson, Neil Gaiman, Gerard Way ...

shrift, Erik Estrada is going to be at DragonCon. I have a third contestant in my Cheese-Off Death Match, also starring Kevin Sorbo and Marc Singer.

And OH, I forgot to tell you that the other night on the Hallmark Channel, after a rerun of the Tim Daly Amish movie, there was a movie with Kevin Sorbo! And first he was a preacher, but then bad guys killed his wife and child, and then he became Badass Desperado Guy!

The ten minutes I saw of it were really bad.

see, this is why I don't want to get a mac at home.

I've never accidentally done anything too catastrophic, although I've often had a computer raise its eyebrow and ask what I thought I was expecting to accomplish by touching it there.