memories for Aug 21

2008

2008 Aug 21
in fits and starts

So I finally met my neighbors the other day, after living next to them for several months, and hearing all sorts of snippets of conversations as they smoked their cigarettes outside my open window. It's kind of funny that I plan on moving out at the end of the month, but, oh well. After four years of living in this pit, I'm about ready for a change.

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2008 Aug 21
dyssynchronous ventilation

Questions that had answer choices that all had something wrong with them, leaving me to pick the answer that seemed the least wrong.

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2007

2007 Aug 21
mephisto on Mac OS X

Currently, I am actually running a copy of Mephisto on my sister’s MacBook. Navigating the interface seems marginally faster than interacting with a remote copy on Dreamhost, but that could all be placebo effect. The main reason I wanted to do this is because I didn’t want to have to SSH into my shell account on Dreamhost for troubleshooting purposes. To be fair, it seems like they’ve taken care of their networking issues and the massive amounts of latency is now gone, but still.

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2003

2003 Aug 21
airport (802.11b/g)

Discovering the beginnings of pervasive/ubiquitous computing, and the wi-fi revolution.

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2003 Aug 21
something good is gonna happen

Finding mp3 blogs. Kate Bush “Cloudbusting”. Utah Saints “Something Good is Gonna Happen”

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1999

1999 Aug 21
The Economy as a Living Organism

All living organisms are dependent on steady states:

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