Thursday, March 9, 2000
Heard about something interesting this morning: PayPal, a system which serves as a proxy for money, with this twist: you can send and receive money in many forms, and the other side is notified via e-mail. You sign up for a PayPal account, then you can use a credit card to “send” an amount to anybody; if they’re not on PayPal, they get a temporary account. They are then notified by e-mail, […]
Wednesday, March 8, 2000
I woke up this morning with an upset stomach and sore throat, so I stayed home and relaxed. Not surprisingly, I enjoyed myself a lot; it’s great to have a day with no worries, so to speak. The Hauppauge WinTV card that I ordered came today. It came out of my About.com check, mainly because the cel that I mentioned yesterday was sold before I could get a chance to grab it. I was extremely […]
Tuesday, March 7, 2000
Not too much to report. I finally got my Weather Tracker fully installed. It’s great, except that the monitor is slowly but surely freaking out on me. I’ll post more on that soon. Now, as some of you might be able to guess from reading this diary, anime is one of my passions. As such, over the past few months I’ve been collecting anime cels, or the actual original artwork […]
Thursday, March 2, 2000
Ugh. I lost yesterday’s update due to a random lock-up in Windows NT. I normally save pretty early and pretty often, but this one caught me unawares. Fox Trot (the website for the comic strip) is running a terrific faux advertising campaign spoofing the new iMac. The strip had a series that followed the launch of the “iFruit,” a computer that’s so trendy it causes Beanie Baby-style fanaticism in adults, and changes wallpaper to be […]
Wednesday, March 1, 2000
Well, I’m an uncle again. Today, my sister gave birth to her third girl, Megan. Everyone is healthy and happy. My parents drove down to my sister’s for the birth, which meant that after a long day at work, I came home at 7:15 to an empty house. We’d had a neighbor come over to let the dogs out at 3:30 or so, who then locked them into one side of the house. Unfortunately, that particular neighbor […]
Tuesday, February 29, 2000
Wake from thy nest, robin-red-breast, Sing, birds, in every furrow;And from each hill, let music shrill Give my fair Love good-morrow!Blackbird and thrush in every bush, Stare, linnet, and cock-sparrow!You pretty elves, amongst yourselves Sing my fair Love good-morrow; To give my Love good-morrow Sing, birds, in every furrow!— T. Heywood, Pack, clouds, away, and welcome day It’s a beautiful day here around the nation’s capitol. […]
Monday, February 28, 2000
Give me a pen of steel! Away with the gray goose-quill!I will grave the thoughts I feel With a fiery heart and will:I will grave with the stubborn pen On the tablets of the heart,Words never to fade again And thoughts that shall ne’er depart.— George Pratt (1832
Monday, February 28, 2000
Give me a pen of steel! Away with the gray goose-quill!I will grave the thoughts I feel With a fiery heart and will:I will grave with the stubborn pen On the tablets of the heart,Words never to fade again And thoughts that shall ne’er depart.— George Pratt (1832
Tuesday, February 22, 2000
When to the sessions of sweet silent thoughtI summon up remembrance of things past,I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought,And with old woes new wail my dear time’s waste.— William Shakespeare (1564–1616), Remembrance As you can see in yesterday’s entry, we’ve been trying to install a network cable, so that it will run from my room, to the room above it. Both rooms share a cavity, so we thought we’d drill a hole […]
Monday, February 21, 2000
Ah! then let Misers bury thus their Gold, Who though they starve, no farthing will produce:But we lov’d to enjoy and to behold, And sure we cannot spend our stock by use.— Katherine (Orinda) Philips (1631–1664), To my Lucasia, in defence of declared Friendship I might have been done better for myself by burying my Gold today. More on that later. I spent much of the weekend working on an application that downloads a particular […]