the bone conductor

i don’t know what this whole waking up angry every day thing is all about, but i think i’m getting dangerously close to becoming the guy that is loudly, angrily arguing with invisible people about ridiculous things.

also, i need to fix this link treatment. actually this whole layout is kind of lame, now that i’ve messed with it a little.

also also, as i’m not really into the whole online diary aspect of bloggerizing, i need to get some private posting thinger hooked up.

anyway. it’s 9:30 on a cold and foggy tuesday, i forgot my commitment to use punctualtion and caps, and i need more coffee. and these people and this kind of shit PISSES ME OFF, dammit. cut it out. when i’m president, boy… you wait.

hmmm…. that’s not a bad idea, really. i think i’d make the best president ever. of course, the ideas that corporations are NOT people and thus have NO rights; or that the very few who, statistically speaking, own everything, should, statistically speaking, pay for everything; or that maybe the elected officials who allegedly work for US should spend their time trying to solve that whole 20 million citizens in poverty, millions of hungry children in the richest country in the world, etc., etc. stuff, instead of fucking grandstanding over which god damn baseball players may or may not have “cheated” at their stupid GAME and then lied about it… i don’t know if people are ready for those ideas. it seems iffy, really.

yeah… i think i’d be a pretty good president… right up until the 3rd minute of my first term, by which time i’d almost certainly be dead for saying the above stuff out loud in public. Land of the FREE! Home of the BRAVE!

anyway… did i mention the angry thing?

switched wordpress templates, hacked the css a bit. Still not sure I like it, but I think it’s better than the previous attempt.

Being sick for weeks at a time is no fun. And yet, we soldier on! Maybe it’s this site design that is making me ill. As ever, Jon Carroll has an amusing take on this, but really I was just glad to see that someone else has had this stupid thing for a couple weeks now. Although I also managed to contract the stomach flu thing as well, which I am also still trying to get over. The fact that I just put a can of campbell’s “chicken” and “stars” “soup” on the stove should attest to the desperate straights we’re dealing with here.

Also, I’m hoping there are some more keyboard shortcuts for fooling around with this wordpad thing that i’m just not seeing right now. Teh clunky is not really optimal, at least so I hear.

So it looks like it’s time to start kicking out some web stuff again. Been a good, long while. Not exactly planned, but hey. Lately the focus has been on the RoR side of things, as I remain thoroughly unenthused with the .net world and can’t seem to make myself give a damn about php at all. Perl is fun, but the kind of work available seems to be less enticing at this point than some of the rails stuff that’s going on. The downside would seem to be that a good deal of the rails development i’ve been seeing has been startups trying to make the next social networking 2.0/3.0 (”gen y”, anyone?) thing so they can get aquired by google. And while I have no issue with the latter part of that scheme, social networking has never been really interesting to me. My distrust for the circle of self-perpetuating, socially-distributed naval gazing seems insurmountable. Plus, you know… friendster, anyone?

Although maybe that’s just an excuse for not bothering to update my linkedin connections. i wouldn’t put it past me.

I was looking at my friend Phil’s site earlier today, to see what he’s done with his resume, as mine is so pathetically out of date and inadequate at this point that it’s become the Jaz Drive of resumes. I don’t think anyone wants that. I couldn’t actually find his resume, although I think he’s working now, so there may be a connection, but I did see that once again, in his typical smart, thoughtful, intelligent way, he’s made me feel like a complete slacker dumbshit.

And, I suppose, if wordpress is good enough for Phil, it’s good enough for me. For now anyway. Although unlike Phil I am still thinking of rolling my own cms one of these days - one that actually does what I want it to do - for now I’ll settle for this, as a start. Because, remarkably enough, if you don’t actually start something, the chances of finishing it are very very small. Tiny, even.

And, it has finally occurred to me that all writing media and outlets are not, in fact, irc channels, so I’m going to start using caps and something approaching actual punctuation. I know, it sounds crazy, but I think I need the practice, and I need to start thinking like a writer again. SO… here we go.