Catch-up...
Oct. 17th, 2001 06:02 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpI dawdled on the way home yesterday morning, stopping at Baybrook to pick up a beard and mustache trimmer, which I will need soon to deal with my increasingly hirsute face. I also stopped by the Barnes & Noble to grab a cup of Starbucks coffee and browse among the cheap books while sipping my brew.
There was an interesting collection of Mark Twain essays, but not interesting enough for me to lay out nearly $10 for them. Most of the material is likely available on the Internet, anyhow. Another remaindered book, The Commissar Vanishes, traced how many, many middle- and high-echelon Soviet henchmen were erased (quite literally) from various official photographs after they were arrested and shot. Included is a reproduction of one of the pages of an article on the Bering Strait that was sent out to subscribers of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia, with instructions to cut out the article on Lavrenti Beria (member of the politburo and head of the NKVD under Stalin, executed in December 1953 for "conspiracy") and replace them with the enclosed new pages.
I also stopped by the Hong Kong Market on the way home and resupplied myself with udon noodles and Vietnamese beer (among other goodies). I got home around noon, cooked lunch, ate it, and went to sleep.
For the first time in several days, I got some sleep, waking up shortly after 8. A message on my cell phone informed me that tonight's shift start time had changed, from 11:30 pm to midnight. The office would have been SOL had the time shifted too far earlier, because I've learned through experience to turn off all phones and pagers if I want to get any sleep around here, and thus would not know about it. Had I been awakened at 3 pm with the news of tonight's time shift, it's doubtful I would have been able to get back to sleep.
There's one other change that I can see in the next few days. On Friday, instead of working here until 5:45 am, the end time has moved up to 4:45 am. Normally, I'd probably make some sort of sarcastic remark about that, but seeing as it comes at the end of another marathon session, I'll just say, "Thanks."
I'm finding it hard to get suitable Macintosh information on the Web. I've tried IRC, too, but the group on the openprojects net seem a bit mummified (okay, so it was 1 am... so?). Web searches provide marginal information on what I can do with my PowerMac 8100/100, but I still hold out hope that Feht will be able to shed some light on the mystery of what I can do with this box.
Cheers...
There was an interesting collection of Mark Twain essays, but not interesting enough for me to lay out nearly $10 for them. Most of the material is likely available on the Internet, anyhow. Another remaindered book, The Commissar Vanishes, traced how many, many middle- and high-echelon Soviet henchmen were erased (quite literally) from various official photographs after they were arrested and shot. Included is a reproduction of one of the pages of an article on the Bering Strait that was sent out to subscribers of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia, with instructions to cut out the article on Lavrenti Beria (member of the politburo and head of the NKVD under Stalin, executed in December 1953 for "conspiracy") and replace them with the enclosed new pages.
I also stopped by the Hong Kong Market on the way home and resupplied myself with udon noodles and Vietnamese beer (among other goodies). I got home around noon, cooked lunch, ate it, and went to sleep.
For the first time in several days, I got some sleep, waking up shortly after 8. A message on my cell phone informed me that tonight's shift start time had changed, from 11:30 pm to midnight. The office would have been SOL had the time shifted too far earlier, because I've learned through experience to turn off all phones and pagers if I want to get any sleep around here, and thus would not know about it. Had I been awakened at 3 pm with the news of tonight's time shift, it's doubtful I would have been able to get back to sleep.
There's one other change that I can see in the next few days. On Friday, instead of working here until 5:45 am, the end time has moved up to 4:45 am. Normally, I'd probably make some sort of sarcastic remark about that, but seeing as it comes at the end of another marathon session, I'll just say, "Thanks."
I'm finding it hard to get suitable Macintosh information on the Web. I've tried IRC, too, but the group on the openprojects net seem a bit mummified (okay, so it was 1 am... so?). Web searches provide marginal information on what I can do with my PowerMac 8100/100, but I still hold out hope that Feht will be able to shed some light on the mystery of what I can do with this box.
Cheers...
