MemeMachineGo!

Haven’t been blogging much lately. Here are some things I have been doing:

I trashed my system hard drive, and started over from scratch with an Ubuntu 8.04 installation. Still have to see what, if anything, I can recover from the old drive.

New job! I transferred to a new department with my employer. I’ll have to learn Java, which will beat all heck out of Progress 4GL. My commute is a little longer, and almost all of the longer part is uphill, but I can still bike to work in under a half hour, and don’t expect much sympathy.

Visited my parents in New York for my mother’s birthday. Ever since we saw Rivers and Tides, a documentary about Andy Goldsworthy’s art, Pocahontas and I have wanted to visit the Storm King Art Center, to see the Storm King Wall (which may have been featured only in an extra on the DVD instead of the documentary itself — I don’t recall.) We finally made it — it’s a great place and I’d like to go back when we have more time. They also had three George Rickey kinetic sculptures. And we saw Spamalot on Broadway. Sure enough, the geeks have won.

We watched Jekyll on DVD. On his blog, screenwriter John Rogers said:

[…] The easiest way to start a conversation in Hollywood right now is to simply ask “So, favorite bit in Jekyll?” The love is universal.

And it was really good. James Nesbitt’s Mr. Hyde was a better Joker than any actual portrayal of the Joker I’ve seen.

The same week more current geeks were standing in line for a new iPhone, I bought a used Nokia n800 “Internet Tablet”, sort of a laptop for someone with a very, very small lap. I wrote almost three years ago about my lust for its predessor, the Nokia 770. If I write up my thoughts on the device, I’ll post them to Strange Loopiness.

Read lots of books and comics, but if I say anything about them, I’ll save it for another entry.