News after 65%
All the news that happened to be typed.
by K31, aka Lord Keinall "Granitor"
Caddle
Thursday, 14 September, 2000
Let's see... where should I start? How about with time... I
don't have enough of it. How about money? I don't have enough of
it. How about work? I do too much of it. How about fun? I don't
get to do enough fun stuff. How about love? It is usually
frustrated by random, uncontrollable things. Or by the things I
mentioned before.
Let's speak of fun stuff first.
- I finally got an adhesive CD label printed. (By using an
alternative software and sacrificing a few goats). This
means that all you folks who wanted me to do those CDs
can now get them with really kool labels, and stuff.
- I discovered a lot of video clips on an old backup CD of
mine. Unfortunately, most of the kool ones are in
quicktime format, and refuse to be converted to anything
else. Hence, quicktime is now on my evil list, even ahead
of microsoft and sony.
- I started koding again. Not enough, but, I don't have
enough time and... that's the main thing, actually.
- Dearth 2 seems to be relatively stable. It is running
windows exclusively now, so, it is also relatively
fragile. Such is life in the 0s.
- For many reasons, I decided to make this Keiz Love Month.
So far, that's going remarkably well.
- For reasons which I do not quite understand, I understand
business and accounting quite well, but really suck at it
so far. Perhaps it is simply that the environment does
not promote business for someone such as me, I will keep
trying and see.
- I "discovered" that environment accounts for
about 60% of a person, their "solid" side, 30%,
and, the components of Jehovah present in the natural
world, about 10%. This isn't quite right, because if the
environment is neutral, then it would be best to leave
out the negative 30%, won't it? Thus summing to 70 rather
than 100. Which is actually quite spiffy. But, I digress.
- The ratios come from the universal solid to fluid ratio
of 3:7. E.g. the earth is 70% water, the human body is
70% fluids.
- Conventional western medicine focuses on the solid 30%.
- Even with the perfect diet, a lack of subjective
prosperity will cause a ceiling to be placed on health,
perhaps even lead to detoration.
- Everything which I find fun is either illegal, immoral,
unnice, impossible, or unfathomable difficult.
- Allegro has the hiden feature of being able to reset my
box whilst attempting to set the video mode.
- PCs are so much of a tossed-together, inelegant, kludgy
design.
- In fact, all successful mainstream technologies are,
relatively, crap.
- Computerized games are not mainstream technologies.
However, they are few good games.
- I find it totally impossible to hate anything or anyone
anymore. The idea is quite laughable.
- For some reason, I seem unable to write a simple parser
in C++. Nevermind that I did it in C back in the M5 era.
- Using applications is a lot easier than programming. And
is actually much less stressful. This surprises me, as I
used to enjoy programming more than using applications.
But, then again, that was in 1995, on my C64.
- They are no contempories to Echelon, Project:Space
Station, Project Firestart, or Omega.
- Everything the Dreamcast is doing now, the PlayStation
could have done, esp. if sony had added an additional 4
megs of RAM to the retail system (the devel. system has 6
vs. 2 in the retail). Yet sony felt so successful that
they didn't bother, and thus, Sega now has a market and
mindshare that sony should have had from years ago.
- I have a lot to say, and like saying it.
- Chip has started back working on C99. Now download is
abailable, so it is a waste of time to go to c99.dyndns.org.
- I do a lot on any given day, yet I never seem to realise
it.
- It has taken about three years for me to recover from
being a social outcast within my own house... but less
than three weeks go go from less than 5% me to more than
65% me.
- Without the rest, though, I would have never have become
this stable.
- They are no words that can describe me accurately.
- Capieora is a lot of fun, but, it also leaves me a bit
sore... not as much as I would have thought, though. It
helps that I did nothing much but eat, sleep, and answer
the phone today.
- When you ask someone to send you a fax as a favor, they
do. When you ask someone to send you a fax so that you
can attend their $700 conference, they don't.
- When you want to concentrate on stuff like reading,
people call you asking who paged them. Nevermind that
you're home alone and did not page them. For that matter,
you don't know who they are... however, when you want to
attend a $700, 2-day conference, and you call the
conference centre, here's what happens:
- The phone rings at least sixteen (16) times
- You get transfered.
- Twice.
- Then they tell you to call another company, and
ask for one of two people.
- So you call this other company...
- And they transfer you.
- The phone rings for... a long time.
- They give you a number to call.
- You call it.
- They want to fax you information, as it's at
least six (6) seperate seminars, clearly too much
to talk about over the phone..
- You say, "I'll call back later with that
information"
- And you get a recording.
- So you leave your fax number (or, rather, the
number of the office you happen to be in at the
time).
- And you wait.
- And fall asleep.
- And wake up.
- And get no fax.
- So, um, I'm not going the the Entrepeneur of the Year
conference thingy this time.
- 90%, or more, of the website that I wanted to browse have
major problems that prevent me from doing so. They range
from missing graphics (on a site with screenshots) to
missing text (on a site with a review) to a mysterious
404 that goes away if I hit refresh.
- Despite the excellent postal system, they seem to be no
mail order businesses in Barbados.
- The sun is usually too hot to stand in, even for people
who practice martial arts, have two black belts and grew
up on a farm.
- Yet they are no electric solar panels here, either.
- However, solar water heaters are really popular.
- But not at my house, which insists on being, maybe the
only house in this parish without hot water.
Other places on the pages of K31:
The S+ Page, featuring my very own silly
little scripting engine.
My low-content introduction page .
This has been a production of K31.
This page has been revised circa 14 Sept., y.
The end... at least, for now.