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comments: 0Its no secret that things around here have changed, and I suppose you wouldn't know how much they've changed. I can't blame you though, as I've had a fairly poor record for updating this month. Hopefully that can all change.
So, what have I been up to? I could tell you what I've done since the 10th, but before that I have nary a clue. Last night, rather than sleeping in preperation for work or staying up the whole night so that work was possible, I stayed up most of the night, painstakingly modifying, tweaking, and enhancing my gnome-2.3.3 packages. And for what? For me to install and be fairly pleased with dropline gnome within a week's time. 2.3.3 looks like it will be rad, so keep reading footnotes, if you're into that sorta thing
If you're not, but you're reading this anyway, well then god bless you. Contrary to what others might tell you, the July 4th BBQ went pretty well; a good time was had by all (although admittedly few) in attendance, which of course did not include any naysayers. The lack of alcahol, stemming from no other reason save laziness, was in some ways mitigated by the abundance of misbehaving and aquatic horseplay. Somehow, I don't think that tom's plan for a pool on the porch will fan out, but it would be nice to jump out of my window after a soft day's work and make waves.
In the short period of time that has transpired since we last met, I have decided to cut back on dairy products and eliminate the consumption of milk from my radar entirely. Ironically, the celebration that met this decision was held at the korova milk bar; which isn't just a cute name. So I guess a modification to my no-milk ethic would have to be made: when the milk is ice cream, and is augmented with liquor, then its a-ok. The milk bar was a pretty hip place, and fun was had, but in all I'd have to say that more of said fun was expected; a failure that I have no doubt in my mind has beginnings that lie within myself, and not others. On the plus side, a goth Korean chick took a picture of me eating out a white plastic woman with green hair. You win some, you lose some.
Political activism just isn't what it used to be. I remember the glory days of ... February of this year, when people were in a tizzy. Its not as though I simply tire of these things, because shit like this still lights a fire under my ass. Its because I tire of not being effective. I tire of being effective but feeling boring, redundant, and monotonous. Fighting the good fight just isn't worth it to me when the fact that theres something to fight about isn't worth it to other people. The world might as well not exist for americans; it certainly doesn't for ellis. Unless the RIAA shoves a DMCA branded pole up his ass or his family becomes ill of SARS and dies, he's living in the land of the free, with tree farms and chocolate labs.
And why reason with that? I'd much rather code and drink soy milk; its what I do and hopefully what I will keep up. And because of this, this site has a backend again, and "any day now" I"ll get JTEX out of the way and start the interface design (and feasibility estimates) for my next project. It will probably be my last python project, as I feel that the backend and two visual projects is probably all I will need under my belt to attain "wizard" status with python. Well, I could write, or something, but my interests are and always have been purely academic.
I have some plans for new features for the site as well as some new projects. Supposedly, something of a joint venture with n3ko will happen soon. It'd be more than welcomed; as I've always respected him as a thinker and a designer. He's shown himself to be rather growing in the afore much lacking discipline department, and his experience and talent as a coder grows daily. But alas, teamups always sound good in theory, and hardly ever pan out to more than a mission statement. Here's to hoping that this goes against the odds. Hopefully, publication will help it along. Secrets die easy.