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Well, I'm finally getting something done. Unfortunately it involves building DHTML pop up menus which I knew would be a pain. And I wasn't wrong. Seems to be working, but I'm sure there is some browser/OS combo out there that will break it. This kind of work is not very satisfying for me. The problem is too artificial (working around the various rendering bugs in all the different browsers.) But I do want to make these people happy. And it might be something I can repurpose for other uses.
Did you ever read something you knew was only mildly funny, yet it stuck in your head and made you laugh out loud on multiple occasions when, let's say, maybe you shouldn't have been laughing? Like, because it wasn't really that funny? Still, sometimes I can't help myself.
From defective yetti:
ConfessionI don't even have to finish the sentence. To my brain, that's funny.
Tonight for dinner I ate both pasta and antipasta...
David Weinberger has put together an excellent Open Specturm FAQ. You should read it.
Alex and I went to the Apple store yesterday. They didn't have the new powerbooks on display (real soon now they said.) I should have figured, since the ship dates are still a few weeks. But you'd think they'd have demo models at least. Oh well. Seems like those models won't be the right size anyway.
Had a mini college reunion last night with a friend visiting from Colorado. Great time. Makes me want to spend more time with the folks who are always here.
I couldn't possibly be in a worse mood.
Talk the talk - gamer style.
Your search - "exoatmospheric thrill vehicle" - did not match any documents.
I find that hard to believe.
I never told the story about Janet taking Theo to Mexico. When they tried to board the plane the airline wouldn't let them, saying Janet needed a notarized letter from Bruno, the father, stating that Janet could take her child out of the country! Needless to say they missed their flight.
Apparently this has something to do with entry into Mexico, rather than being an airline policy. Still, it's strange I had never heard of this. Seems like something the airlines might want to mention when you book the flight.
They eventually made it. I'll get the full story when they get home.
Occasionally in the morning we'll wake up and MB will open the laptop and surf the web some. This was one of the ideas behind getting that machine. She still uses OS 9 for working (thanks for nothing quark,) but this gives her a little time in OS X. And a little aimless surfing time which is what you need to really get comfortable on the web.
I think news.google.com convinced her that this all might turn out to be useful. I'll bet that's the case for a lot of people. Makes reading any one newspaper rather silly.
Anyway, when this happens I'm at a bit of a loss for what to do. Make the coffee. Clean up any leftover dishes. Maybe make the bed. I've gotten more conscientious about such things in my new homemaker phase. But still, it's hard for me not to check right in first thing.
Luckily I can fall back on my sidekick. I can't wait until the power of my laptop is the size of this phone. Shouldn't be too many years. Three? Keyboard and display (input and output) are going to become the real issues. How do we shrink these things?