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A-Typical male's journal. |
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| Triskaedekaphiles Unite! |
For me, Friday the 13th is a day of change. It's a day when God (or Life, or Whatever) plays 52 card pickup with your life. Not always. Not always in ways you notice. Sometimes it's clear as day. Sometimes it's something you want. Like today, or this time in my life. What has changed lately? Well, a lot. Azura and I are still together and still in love. We're still out there looking for things, but that's most of the certainty. In the interim we placed an ad on usenet. I've gotten about 5 responses ranging from the interesting to the clueless. I even asked one guy if he even read the ad. Or just responded in hormonal lust to the subject line. Oh well. I guess AOL doesn't have all the idiots (Bad Joe Bad!) My buddy Ozzymandias called me this week, actually last Thursday, with an offer. The company he works for needs a windows programmer to delve into some code and make some mods to an existing program for their business. I thought, ok, sounds interesting, but I've got a job. Then he told me what he wanted. I can add Visual C++ to my official resume (Stuff I've done recently enough to actually know, and I've used professionally.) And. And (this is the important part) the "existing program" is Netscape. Yaaay!! Of course I'm going to do this.
Do I look like an idiot???Don't answer that...
And while we're talking about it, there are 3 Friday the Thirteenths this year. One in March, and then another in November. Change normally brings me to the idea of confusion, and how I like it in general principle. Especially in my public life. The more confusion I can generate for business, government, marketroids, and so on, the better I like it. Contrast that with the honesty of something like this journal, and the way I live my normal life and you can see I don't always feel that way. When I can I give the wrong address. Or 2927 instead of 2729, or some such. I like to transpose digits, or give my old phone number. If I don't think you really need my social security number, I'll change it. I try to pick random things on a list of preferences that, well, just aren't true. Like on Hotmail's site, I gave my yearly income as 100000+, and my occupation as student. Good thing now that Micros$lut has bought them now. Now, I didn't intentionally confuse Amazon.com. I really wanted to get a list of books I would like. I've just bought a few outliers from Amazon, and those in quantity. Here's the book list I got from them today, when I asked them to suggest:
Ok, that leaves us with The Practice Effect and The Callahan Chronicals, both of which I've read before, and will again. {Well, Callahan Chronicals is a compendium of the first three Callahan books, which i bought, and all of which are out of print now.} The one remaining book, Number 24, and the only one I might actually buy is Things That Make Us Smart by the same guy who wrote The Design of Everyday Things, a must read for anyone that designs any kind of user interface be it graphical, text, or part of a real device. See Ya! Generic Joe's A Typical Male
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