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Administrative, Technology and Society

Rough Night

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So, after being up for about twenty-two hours, I got to bed about 11 Pacific. I got a call about quarter after one informing me that my luggage had arrived at LAX (no mention of where it had arrived from). I said, yes, please deliver it.

A while later, I got another call telling me that they were at the condo. I got the luggage (I thought) after a long and unnecessary dispute over the proper amount of the tip to the delivery guy, who (at the risk of seeming racist) seemed to be in both accent and appearance Middle Eastern. I ended up giving him more than I should have from cash that I hadn’t realized I had. Then (at least so I thought) back to bed.

About 2:40 AM, there was a knocking on the door downstairs. I thought “now what?” and ignored it, hoping that it was one of the other doors. But it persisted. I got up, and there was a guy claiming to be delivering my luggage. He said he would have just left it outside, but didn’t know if it was a good neighborhood for that.

He was right. He did have my luggage. The other delivery had apparently been an annoying dream. I took delivery (with no tip) and went back to bed, hoping that it had been real this time. In the morning, it turned out to have been.

And note, I really couldn’t have twattweeted this:

Lugj l8t to LA. Got urly morn call to delivr from LAX. Got nther call was here. Rgu bout tip. Was dream. Real dlvry l8tr. Finely got sleep LOL.

See, it’s just not the same.

Administrative

Off To CA

I have a 6:15 AM flight to LA in the morning, and am packing. I’ll have to deal with my computer problem when I get back. For now, I grabbed some data off the drives and put it on my file server so I could transfer it to my laptop, which will get me through the trip, which will be for the whole month of February (though I may come back for a weekend). Anyway, blogging may be light until tomorrow night.

Administrative

Insane Commenters

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Robert Oler has attempted to comment a few times over the past few weeks, but Word Press seems to be smart enough to not allow them through. I thought that I’d note this latest attempt, on this post, though:

well Rand ….you are the guy who believes in the Falwell theory of HRC murdering people…

Note first that it is a complete non sequitur in the context of the post.

Note second that this is nutty. I don’t even know what the “Fallwell theory of HRC murdering people” is, let alone believe in it. Robert apparently bought a copy of The Clinton Chronicles and then somehow has projected his fascination with it on to me (someone who has never even seen it).

I’m not sure why he engages in this kind of lunacy, but it is nice to have blog software that is smarter than him, so in general we don’t have to view it.

Administrative

Thank You, Redmond

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I just did a Microsoft security update on my Windows 2000 machine, and now it bluescreens (something I hadn’t seen on this machine in years) when it reboots. I booted into safe mode, and removed the update (I think I removed the right one — I’m assuming that the latest one would be highest number, but that might not be right). It still won’t boot. I’m posting this from my Fedora box.

Any ideas?

[Late afternoon update]

Great. Now it blue screens going into Safe Mode.

I’ll have to find my setup disk, but I doubt if I’ll have time before I go to CA on Monday.

Administrative

Light Blogging

I’m still in Savannah. The wireless doesn’t seem to be working in my room. It connects, but doesn’t provide an actual Internet connection. It was working yesterday, as long as there weren’t too many others sharing, but I haven’t been able to get it all day, even though the signal is strong. I’m posting this from the lobby, where it seems to be better. I’ll be driving back down to Boca tomorrow via Orlando, so probably not much until the evening. It’s still overcast, and there was a thick fog this morning. I took a nice buccaneery picture of the bark in the fog, but I probably won’t upload it until I get home.

Administrative, History

Old And New

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Here’s a picture from the balcony of my room overlooking the Savannah River, of a South Korean container ship heading downriver toward the ocean (to the right in this image — the view is toward the northeast), with an old barquentine in the foreground. Well, actually, not so old. It was actually built a couple decades ago, based on concepts from the eighteenth century.

Note that it’s still overcast. Since leaving the Sunshine State a couple days ago, I haven’t seen the sun. I’m not complaining, though. Florida sun has the same depressing effect on me that rain in Seattle has on others. It would be nice to get some nice light for a few shots of the town before we leave, though.

Administrative, History

It’s Alive

Yes, we drove up to Savannah on Saturday, and spent yesterday poking around. The weather’s been ugly (literally — overcast) so I haven’t bothered to take pics, though I may have some later if it clears up. It’s actually a more interesting place than I expected (not that I had low expectations). A lot of interesting history here. I had been unaware that it was where the Georgia colony was established. I was also unaware that it was the major port of departure, and home of the global exchange, for cotton for decades. There are ships moving up and down the river outside my hotel room window as I type, but I’m seeing a lot more containers than cotton bails.