Tuesday-night randoms
Tuesday, August 31, 2004
If you go to a brew pub and order their “vegan mushroom” soup of the day, expect to receive a bowl of paste they claim at some point contained mushrooms, but which cannot be reliably identified so.
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It was warm today. We enjoyed high 60s and low 70s over the weekend in Denver, but today in SLC we hit the high 80s according to the thermometer readings on bank signs and such throughout the city. It’s 74° now, in fact. Supposed to be another warm day tomorrow before cooling off to the 70s Thursday.
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Flushless-urinal technology makes for fascinating reading while one is using the urinal to which it applies.
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The nearly full moon means my great room is brightly illuminated as midnight approaches. The nearest electrical light (apart from the computer screen) is the night light in the bathroom, the one intended to keep me from pitching headlong into the tub should I need to use the facility at 04:00.
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iChat has this annoying habit of resetting my away messages now and then, so for the last several hours I appeared available even though I was miles away from my computer.
IM forwarding is a handy thing sometimes, but when its proper function relies on an occasionally wonky away-message setup, it’s of no use whatsoever.
Of course by no means do I get any forwarded IMs that are of anything remotely approaching earth-shaking importance. It is nice to get replies to the messages you send, however, when you send them from your phone.
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I was registered under SETI@home from about five years back. Stopped using the software on all of my machines a year or so ago and then forgot what email address I’d used to register for it, so I started it up again a couple weeks ago. Processed 53 work units since, average of 11 hours and change per unit. Anyone got a SETI team to which they need contributing?
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It’s another night of crazy radio-waves-bouncing-everywhere, as I use my laptop to serve music from my desktop Mac through my stereo and control the whole setup with both my cell phone and my handheld computer via Bluetooth.
One of these days I’ll wake up with softly glowing letters spelling “RADIATION” across my forehead.