“The doctor said he’d have to cut it off if it didn’t stop oozing. Unbeknownst to him he had it for five years. But we all have do deal with Satan where we least expect him, it’s God’s way of testing us. He said if he lost another twenty pounds, he could go off the diabetes medicine. I pray to God he can do it, but I can’t know His plan.” - woman that works with me yakking on the phone for an hour with her door open
for the love of all that is holy, SHUT UP!
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So, dumb people never fail to amaze me. I was driving to work today (at exactly 65 miles per hour, of course) in the middle lane of a three-lane-each-way highway. A car comes up behind me, rides my tail for a while, and then flashes its lights at me. What do I do? Since I’m in a good mood today, I did nothing. There were about two other cars on the road, neither anywhere near me. So I started watching the guy in the car behind me. He began looking rather exasperated and then honked at me. Yes, honked at me. With an empty lane on either side of us. At this point I was just loving it too much to do anything but watch, and he tore around me, in the right lane, and flipped me off as he passed me. There’s someone that needs to chill out.
It’s always fun to poke around slashdot. Slashdot is a community forum for geeks with nowhere else to go during the day. Moderators post articles there and geeks from around the world discuss them and comment on them. It’s like a huge star trek convention without the costumes. Recently, an article was posted to the wolves regarding Sun Microsystems’ campaign to start putting ‘Powered by Java’ stickers on things that run Java. This inexplicably includes such appliances as microwaves. It was mentioned by many people that almost exactly no one cares what makes their microwave run, and I can’t see an older couple standing in a store looking at refrigerators trying fervently to decide between the Kenmore and the Maytag with Java(TM). They don’t care. No one cares. I don’t care that my mobile runs some lunatic flavor of the Symbian OS, my Powerbook doesn’t have a sticker that says ‘Power960 Inside!’, my mom’s computer has no sticker reading ‘Powered by x86 Assembly Language’. As I sit here staring at the Windows and Intel stickers on my work PC, it occurs to me that I haven’t owned a computer without an Intel Inside sticker (yes, I put one on my Athlon when I built it…) and the Windows sticker is kind of a joke, something that dates a computer more than illustrates what it has. I’ve seen servers with Windows NT stickers running Server 2003 and even Linux. Sun is just copying people, with the major exception that no one cares what runs Java. It too, shall pass. Which is good, considering Java was once considered the end-all and be-all of programming languages and operating systems. It somehow never became an OS standard in mobile devices like it promised to be. Which might be good.
So I register for classes today. Looks like it might be a fairly boring semester; I’m taking the History of Math to avoid taking Africana or Chicana Studies. Yes, I do think it’s more important.
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