He forced shoes on me
Strange Email
Do you ever get utterly weird emails? I mean, inexplicably weird? I don’t have my email address on my web site in plain form, because I get enough spam already, thankyouverymuch. I have a form, and if someone REALLY wants…
First Draft of PGP Manual
Bah. I can’t find my keycaps font. And we have an entire box of paper that’s AWOL. But http://www.technomom.com/tcom/manual.doc is a draft of my project for class. It’s a tutorial on the current version of PGP Freeware for Windows. Sam…
Grrr
Dammit, I’ve been joe-jobbed for the second time in about a week. It’s starting to feel personal. Edit: Sorry, I should have explain. A “joe job” is when a spammer uses someone else’s address in a spam. I’m getting hundreds…
Nattering
Damn. I don’t think it’s possible for me to get caught up on LJ. And I hate not being able to read everybody’s entries. I feel like a bad friend. I wish they’d use some word other than “friend” for…
PC Talk
The color printer is dead. Boo. Our scanner died recently, too. The kids’ webcam absolutely will not talk to the kids’ computer. We haven’t been able to get Andre, one of the older PCs, to boot after he was on…
New Community: Geeks at Home
Following up on this post, I created LJ Community Geeks At Home. Please come join me 🙂
Geeks at Home
Hmm. If there were some sort of community for home/family-oriented geeks, would you participate? I’m talking about a place to discuss things like family groupware. Or how to sync multiple PDAs so that you share family calendars while maintaining personal…
The Geek Test/Rheumatologist
The Geek Test says that I’m “47.33728% – Super Geek” I have to disagree with some of its questions, but they do address a lot of the geek stereotypes. I still haven’t managed to reach my rheumatologist. They weren’t open…
Starting Classes!
So I’m all registered for classes and start tomorrow. I’m taking four classes, 12 hours—which my advisor warned me will feel like 18 due to the summer semester compression. Not fun. But I’m really excited. The next couple of weeks…