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This might be unpopular at the moment, but….

Regarding the Larry Craig thing… (because what self respecting queer doesn’t have an opinion on the subject?).

He’s an asshole, but then he’s a senator, so that’s not much of a surprise. If you want to put the fucker in jail, then by god do it for something important, not for trying to have sex in a bathroom, which when you think about it, is a really stupid thing to put something as dumb and as trivial as that. Really, frankly, dare I say it’s almost borderline homophobic?

That’s all I have to say. For more reading:

• Teresa Nielsen Hayden’s Reflections
• Report in the SF Chronicle

I need a better twitter client program.

I’ve lost some twitters with twitterific, as much as I want to like that program.

But I think the larger issue is that I need to consolidate the behemoth that is my IM list. It’s scary.

I haven’t been as productive this morning as I would have liked (but we have good metrics systems on the sites now), but I’m in good shape for the future, and this is in the end a good thing.

boing boing pushed a redesign today a few hours ago. for once I’m not wickedly behind the times on this.

It’s looking cool.

Cheers, sam

Bruce Springsteen’s Jungleland keeps coming up on my ipod’s random play. I’m not sure what it means. Until this started, I wasn’t a big fan of the song, but it’s grown on me.

I have a few more days of work, and I have a couple of weeks left of TealArt posts, more or less, but I changed my website on my twitter, and while I’d like to continue to have daily content on TealArt, I don’t think I can (or want) keep up the march that it’s going to be to keep the content in stock. I have a couple of weeks to figure things out.

Stay tuned, of course.

ps. I think I’m addicted to this Springsteen, I just hit replay on it.

I checked back on raverly, and there are 473 people in front of me. Depending on how tierlessly they work through the weekend… I’ll be in by next week. huzzah.

Guess I’m going to have to take the wireless router on vacation with me.

Still don’t have a plan for the future of TealArt/Tychoish/tycho on the internet.

Still haven’t finnished the paper on animal communication.

Back to the salt mines.

Cheers, sam

Slashdot | Laptop/Server Data Synchronization?:

I’ve been trying to automatically synchronize data between a laptop and a server. When the laptop is connected to the network, I want all writes to automatically propagate across to the server. When the laptop is disconnected I want the laptop user to continue working with the local data. When the laptop is reconnected, I want the data to automatically re-sync. The issue is, the data on the server may have changed as well, which needs to propagate back to the laptop.

(from Slashdot.)

It’s a good question. I think there needs to be more attention toward paid toward how computer users can seamlessly keep data in sync between multiple system. I think the best solution is to have some

…because what jews need to be doing at the end of august making a christmas list, I may never know. In the mean time, there are some things that I’m realizing that I need to look into obtaining that I wouldn’t in the normal course of events get for myself, but need desperately. (This is more for my own recolection than as suggestion to anyone):

• a new `goram <http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003235.html>`_ headphone cord
• a big, stoneware, or similarly constructed tea pot. (ie. not glass. and not a french press)

That is all

http://www.antonyjohnston.com/gtw/

At least I’m on the right track.

In other news, I’ve had a sort of organizational bankrupcy moment (where you just throw your hands up and try a new system, spured by a rather dumb use of the delete button.

On the upside, I’m not sure that I’ve lost anything, truly important.

I have got to get some sort of version control something working. I just need a good structure to start with.

I just check, on a whim, and I realized that I’m… 600 people away from the front of the line on Ravelry. There are 17,000+ behind me.

I think the appropraite word for the present moment is “squee”

And I really am going to have a TealArt entry today.

Cheers, sam

This week. This week has snuck up on me a bit, sorry for getting this post out later than we’ve become accustomed to. I liked having one project for all of last week on TealArt, but it means that I’m a bit behind the swing of things for this week. There will be posts this week. For sure.

I think That I’d like to repost installment #12 of season 1 of Station Keeping in one entry, to make for a better better reading experience. I might make a point of reposting all the entries that I split up as part of the ramp up to the end, but I might backdate those so that they don’t muck up the progression of TealArt as a blog such as it is. I’d also like to get a “Season 1 Roundup,” up at some point soon. As you can probably tell from my use of verb tenses here, I haven’t done this yet.

That’s because I was working on this “open source knitting” project that I’ve been milling over for a few days now. I wrote a series of five TealArt style posts, outlined here that I think lays down some good framework for my work in the future on creating some documentation for knitting in an open-source framework. The first of these essays will go up this week, but I don’t think it would be right to go full bore with them yet, but in the next couple of weeks I’ll get them all out, and hopefully by then I’ll have laid enough of the behind scenes groundwork laid to go forward with the project. It’s cool, so stay tuned.

The other thing I did this weekend, was to get some very good work done on my novella project. I was describing it to someone as sort of “enjoyably classic space opera, with a touch of cyber-punk” but then I realized that it wasn’t really classically style, nor was it in any way space opera, and the tone is rather upbeat for cyber-punk. So whatever; classifications are for weenies and people who have finished product, as I have neither this debate can wait. This means that I have drafts of the first two “chapters”, and a pretty good looking one-page outline of the third chapter. I really enjoy how this is panning out, and it remains a great deal of fun. I’ve never considered novellas before, but the pacing is really fun, and while I’ll be more comfortable when I cross the 10k word mark, I’m really pleased with how this is coming out. How does this relate to this week in TealArt? Well it does--in part--explain why I don’t have anything better to share with you right now, but I would expect that in addition to the knitting pieces, I’ll probably be writing a bit in the future about writing and science fiction related topics, because that’s on my mind.

I hope you all stay well. And I’ll see you throughout the week.

Cheers, tycho