And here's the blog version: Hi there, You've seen out-of-office emails, I'm sure. This is a variant on the theme: an out-of-my-mind, stupidly-busy post. Between my immanent move, Comic-Con, and other deadlines, I can't predict when I'll be able to sit down and eat, much less post here.
Read Morea great day for this geek grrl
Some days in a geek grrl's life are what you'd call red-letter days.
- The day you first get your own server up and running.
- The day you compile a kernel for the first time.
- The day you learn hex.
- The day you save the day by recovering data long since thought gone forever.
- The day you bludgeon the printer into printing.
Well, I have a new red-letter day:
The day one of the Geek Pantheon unexpectedly emails you to ask if you're going to Nerd Prom. And then you trade emails about meeting up to talk about working on a project together.
Why yes, I am grinning ear-to-ear right now, as it happens. And I now have one deadline that just skyrocketed up to Friday.
I hate being cryptic, which is happening more and more on this blog, I know. I suck for not telling all the details. But, because of who is involved with the projects I'm being oblique about, and some problems the people in question have had in the past, I feel like I should keep the specifics of the projects quiet until they're ready to be seen.
But still, I wanted to share my excitement with you all. Excitement which is doing a bang-up job of combining with my usual pre-Comic-Con jitters to make me extremely jittery.
Send coffee.
good times
Me, and the Fabulous Lorraine: And the bat cookies we ate: I'm hugely tardy, I know. I'll finish this later… or, I'll just keep the mystery.
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This particular example is all about an international package that had too many adventures: Dear Mr. [Muckety-muck], While I am quite appreciative of your staff's well-intentioned attempts at assisting me with locating a wayward package, my gratitude is, at the moment, overshadowed by my ire at the gross incompetence shown by your company in its attempts to deliver my package.... Now, while British Airways might have indeed sent the package back from Toronto, in their supposed role as colluders in this scenario; the fault cannot be entirely theirs, as British Airways does manage to send planes to Los Angeles International Airport on occasion.... But in the manifest's alternate reality, my package arrived in Los Angeles, scant miles away from its destination, only to then be sent to The Great White North of Canada, and then back to the UK.
Read Morefrom today's "since you asked"
If you have a piece of marble ready to work on in the basement, and you have your tools, then go to the basement and start working on the sculpture.... If you have tubes of acrylic paint in your taboret, and there is good light, and you have a canvas stretched on your easel, then paint.... So be careful not to misinterpret your exhaustion as an indicator of your talent or lack of it, or of an innate disposition toward this or that medium, or as a mystical sign.
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