ASD LOG FILE - thu Feb 26 10:39:03 PST 1998

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savoir faire=savvy

Devo's "Big Mess" is what Weird Al's "Dare to be Stupid" is mimicking. Dare to be stupid. It's kind of a life philosophy for some of us. If you can be stupid by yourself when you want to, that's individuality. The important parts of that idea are that "being stupid" is doing something that will not earn you respect (or any positive things), "by yourself" means without coercion (and most likely without company), and "when you want" means when it suits you to do so.

laissez faire=lassie?

I don't think it is necessary to do pointless things to express individuality. You could go through life without taking one pointless breath and be completely your own person. I find myself going back and forth between the completely practical and the opposite. I guess the conceptual opposite of practical is useless. I used the word "practical" in my cover letters for job applications. Normally I would think it was assumed that any knowledge I claim to have is practical. Are there any jobs that want someone with useless knowledge of something?

Spitting on a fish

One reason to learn all the keyboard shortcuts for your apps is so you can lean back in the couch and use your computer from the limits of the keyboard cable. This may only apply to people who have no desk, and use their computers while sitting on the floor. Actually, I have a desk. I just don't want to put it together until I have my own house. I'm gonna have to buy chairs when I do. The storage place in portland most likely dumped all the things I stored there. Ah, I never liked those chairs.

Barking up a tree

Ed will be living with me very soon. Perhaps tomorrow. Perhaps in a few hours. He left California today, in the morning. On the bus, it takes 21 hours to get to Portland from the bay area. Ed's driving the blue egg car, so he'll probably get here in less time. Eric (satanic sysadmin) estimates that it will take 12 hours. In 15 minutes, it will be 12 hours from noon today. Oh yeah, I think he's going to stop in Eugene, OR for a while and be disappointed in his hippie friends.

Make it fucked up

I was hungry all day. Then, right before 9, my Dad announced that he and Mary were going out to eat and that I should eat the leftover eggplant thing in the fridge. So I did. It is now expanding and gargling my innards. Whee!

The eggplant stuff isn't actually that bad. I think not eating anything substamtial for a while and then suddenly gorging on very dense food is bad. I am certain that eating multiple small meals results in more energy than eating one huge meal.

fact!

I write "Most likely" a lot but I don't say it.