080305 today is meggie’s extended birthday, so i can spend some time with her between work and homework. The corny STNG episode where Data makes a child android and goes around teaching her things: he shows her a flower. “Inhale,” he commands. She complies, then in a suddenly elevated tone of android-voice, cries, “Smell! Show me more, father!” It brings tears to my fatigue-poisoned eyes. It’s corny, of course, ST is nothing if not corny. But it’s really like that. You feel like a creator sometimes when you least expect it, like, dare I say, a god--but an infinitely fallible one. No-one, least of all me, could possibly live up to the enormous expectations or potential of this office, and yet--we all, normal humans and androids alike, do our best. We do our best, and it is heartbreakingly worth every tiny, flower’d moment. 080505 Smoke, smoke. smoke / and lay the smoke across your tasty lips of minionette to mine Know what’s funny? I use a collection of anonymous, emptily pornographic images to construct a personally meaningful erotic narrative. 081705 Ok. After--how many years has it been now?--my ultimate conclusion about X vs 9 is: They both have strong and weak points. The most concise summation is that X sucks in the Finder, and 9 sucks for the Internet. 082905 tried 6.0.8 on the LCII. I COULDN’T HANDLE IT! Need 7! I think it is because 6 is pre-my-formative-mac-years. Yeah, Pam’s computer had it, but when I got my own (with 7) it was so much cooler, and I dug in so deep, well, you know.