Today I'm loading up on windows security updates, virus scanners, and firewall config knowledge. Reason: I'm going to turn off NAT, and my little network will go public (sorta). That is, once I get IP space issues straightened out with my ISP. The DSL is good. File transfers get up to around the theoretical max speed for this type of line, around 100 KB/sec. That means when I was putting IE5 on my laptop, it estimated that the 17 meg download would take 2 hours, 38 minutes, and it turned out between 2 and 6 minutes. I feel like I'm living a year or two in the future now. Spending lots of money can move your typical lifestyle a tiny bit ahead, technologically. From what I've seen of the future, that's definately where I want to live.

That's fortunate, because that's where all of us are gonna be spending the rest of our lives.

This is your future, you can never leave - Consolidated, _Friendly_Fascism_

As some people already know, I have a tendency to work up until the absolute last waking second I can. Some days I even work PAST my last waking second, or so it seems(tm gus). I found a page of notes I had been writing a few days ago while trying desperately to stay awake after days without sleep. They say this:

struct st_cell {
	int source_hub;
	int dest_hub;
	int min_late;
	int max_late;
	int ave_late;
	int min_thresh;
	int max_thresh;
	int med_thresh;

Jake - [jake's phone number]

[little diagram of a b-tree]

Orem, UT: Particle scientists have
discovered the first new elementary
particle in decades: the carton.
Best summarized as a kind of
"creamed proton", the carton
exhibits very energetic behaviours,
combined with a smooth, creamy
collision signature.

[at this point the lines of text are not straight and sometimes overlap, showing that I was writing without looking]

Lane told me you could mask
the sonic signature of a
gunboat with a boat boat


Concentrate on crunch crisp
as a metaphor for sleeping


Prepare number two for a
blue open of man jesus

Those were the last legible words on the page, after that it's just squiggles. I don't remember writing anything past the b-tree diagram, but it's coherent, in a sort of Autoglot way. It's as if my subconscious were writing directly, rather than getting the usual world/space/reality transform through cognition.

In other news - I can't send email through earthlink because I am no longer dialed in through them. Mailing support for help (through their web form - a good idea).

Time for sleep, though I'm sure this would be much mroe surreal if I only wrote when I was mostly asleep.