00:19: #(2002 8 31 0 15)

Nobody ever gets my jokes.

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11:45: #(2002 8 19 11 41)

It's really disturbing that most people edit text character-by-character and are unaware that there are more effective ways to do it. Why do people accept such stupid text-editors?

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00:39: #(2002 8 18 23 54)

I went to the Pheasant-Lane Mall, with Chris, today (I should be able to attach a semantic link to Chris' name, so that it'd point to whatever his current web-page is.... Hm. Maybe it'd be in bad form to do such a thing, though...). I had a half-desire to buy an air-conditioner. He wanted sandals, pants, and satin bedding. I didn't get my air-conditioner (oh-well), and he didn't get his bedding, but he did get pants at Target, and I did buy a spiderman-tie at Sears (the only decent tie there, except for the ones made of the magical colour-changing fabrics..., which had ugly patterns sewn into them, and were thusly in-decent.)

When checking out of Target, the guykid behind the register asked Chris (ah--I've got #{it:}# the name should link to a history of sites, should be a history of links, centred on whatever one was current at the time of writing), "Is that all?". Chris said, "Yes.". I think that the appropriate response was "No, I'd like fries with that.". In retrospect, Chris thought that the appropriate response was "Can I supersize that?".

I bought an Icee, in Target, while waiting for Chris to evaluate the fit of his potential pants. A guy standing next to the counter (in response to my shirt) asked me "What's gee-en-yoo" (er. OK, I'm mildly #{annoyed:}# I wanted to link the last word in that quote to www.gnu.org. No spans. Note to #{self:}# fix it.), and I told him that it was the operating-system at the front of the Free-Software Movement (Freedom-in-Software Movement? How does that sound?) and directed him to gnu.org and debian.org.

I feel like I should carry around some sort of little documentation-pointer-thingies that I can hand out. Maybe not pamphlets..., though..., maybe. I wasn't bothered when I received a falun-dafa pamphlet (surprised, yes--I had been staring at the words, "falun dafa", on the woman's shirt, wondering what they meant.), but I have this feeling that something like business-cards would be better--would work better, maybe. I think it's because the subject is software, and there's such a wealth of interconnected, relevant information on the Internet--it'd be best for the recipient of the card/whatever to be motivated to go visit some key web-sites and go `ah!' and follow links. Being able to handle people little business-card-sized CD-ROMs that they could boot from, into a demo-system..., that'd be nice..., but it's not practical. Hm. Maybe it is. I'll have to see....

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19:08: #(2002 8 17 18 52)

It'd be nice to have an emacs-hook so that it'd automagically place things into the correct directories, based upon pattern-matching on file-names, or the content of the file at the first write. So, I wouldn't have to tell it where to put my POV-scenes, or my journal-entries; I shouldn't have to--they always go in the same place.

Teaching emacs how to figure out where things like Python-files go would be harder.... Maybe not. They exist, arbitrarily-arranged, in a hierarchical name-space, but the name-space is always rooted at the same place in the unix directory-hierarchy, so, I should, at least, not have to re-communicate that root every time I add a Python-file. For languages/formats handled by the OO-browser, I suppose that the problem is some-what already solved--code-space is reduced to a flat name-space consisting of project-names.

Hrm. I suppose that I could just reduce the amount of hierarchy in my directory-tree--rather than placing POV-scenes in \~/graphics/3-D/POV-Ray/scenes/still/, I could just put them in \~/graphics/, and change the way that I access them. I could use `find -name \*.pov | grep clock', when I want to list the animated ones, for example.

I could write a Hurd-translator to provide me with automated directories, or I could write a cron-job (iew), or I could make an interface that I can use from Koyemsi....

Hm.

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21:56: #(x7d2 7 17)

I wish that Jay would be more like a human being and less like a thing.

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It's interesting..., I've seen two people, recently, use "You obviously don't know me very well." as an escape-tactic. How revolting.

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