February 18th, 2005 §
My italk and isight arrived today; the former for podcasting and the latter for keeping up with friends and family while in Japan without the expensive phonebills (VOIP too). I’ve convinced kzi to do some podcasting about our travels with me, and I’m looking forward to experimenting with audio broadcasting.
But then I started to get worried. As the web evolves and broadband becomes ubiquitous (at least in Korea and Japan) the need for text-only disappears. People will move on to bigger and better… there are already thousands of podcasts and hundreds of video blogs available online right now. Throw in P2P and MMORPGS and suddenly the web becomes a cornucopia of moving images and blaring sound. I started to panic thinking about the possibility of losing, or having shoved to a small corner, the quiet library of text I’ve always enjoyed. That’s where the “realworld” is at now… libraries losing funding, Blockbuster on every other block, and 5000 channels available on television. Where is this paragraph going? I don’t know, but I don’t want to lose my textnet! Can I use aalib with links to render video in ascii? That might make me feel a little better.
February 17th, 2005 §
Will tech companies/organizations *please* make shirts in girly-tees as well (*ahem* gnu.org, firefox, most of thinkgeek)? I don’t like wearing boxy man-shirts.
February 14th, 2005 §
In a horrible sequence of errors, I moved an open blade resting on the bathroom tub to the counter so I could take a shower. Of course I didn’t think to close the blade and left it open on the bathroom counter, which is always a recipe for disaster. Post-shower I’m reaching for some hair product and I knock the blade off the counter and it stabs me between my toes. I for one do not know what the cut looks like since as soon as it started bleeding I started crying and kzi had to come take care of my foot. Needless to say, I can’t walk and am working at home today. I’ve never liked Valentine’s day much…
February 9th, 2005 §
Actions speak louder than words, so without further ado…
February 3rd, 2005 §
Kzi and I head to North Carolina tonight to celebrate my Grandmother’s 90th birthday. We won’t be staying at my mom or dad’s place, however, but rather a hotel so that the entire family can ostensibly be together since we all won’t fit in one house, but really I suspect so we can all drink and not worry about driving. I’m so full of grahm-cracker that I can’t think straight.
I am on and off again having anxiety attacks about moving to Japan, or more accurately anxiety attacks about taking care of everything here before we move to Japan. Logistics just aren’t my thing. The result is panicking about really small things (do I have enough socks? what kind of etiquette is required in a Japanese locker room (kzi and I have been going to the gym(!) in the mornings for cardio workouts and weight training)?) which inevitably drives kzi up the wall as I work myself into a hurricane-style panic state.
The last several days at the gym have ominously produced plane-crash related news every morning. Were I not flying this evening I wouldn’t have noticed it (as much, that is… it’s hard *not* to notice a plane that is crashed into a building on CNN news), but because I am I feel as if each piece of news is a ’sign’ telling me not to fly. Usually the xanax will counterbalance my instinct to flee, though I have been known to get off a plane 10 minutes prior to takeoff. Boy howdy wouldn’t my family be pleased.
As soon as we depart for the airport I get to play Super Mario 64 for the Nintendo DS I forgot to mention I obtained in December. I’m relying on my husband, the DS, and xanax to get me to North Carolina.
