Zzot!

I just skimmed the numerous drafts hanging around my blog, and none of them look like they’re cooked yet, so instead I’ll point out an event that seems significant — L L Cool J and Carol Channing appearing on the same stage at the same time, for any reason.

I would tell you which one was singing and which was dancing, but I’m trying to forget myself. Isn’t this about the time the captain is supposed to light the stick your head between your legs and kiss your ass goodbye sign because this aircraft will soon stop being an aircraft?

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So, my birthday is coming up, and that means that being pestered by friends and family for gift ideas will start soon. If you don’t know me personally (and are still reading this for some reason), you might think that posting a wishlist when your birthday is coming sounds needy or bossy or something — I can only say you’d have to meet my family to understand.

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I like the idea — really.

I’ve had good cameras off and on for much of my life, and I appreciate the difference between a good SLR and a cheap Point-and-Shoot. On the other hand, a good camera always separated me from whatever was going on around me so much that I generally didn’t want to use the thing whenever an occasion came along that called for taking pictures.

So, I guess the point of all this is that I like the spontaneous nature of having a camera handy most of the time. The problem, however, is that it is such a miserable camera — nevermind the open question of whether its qualities as a phone surpass my cat’s qualities as a grapefruit.

I dunno…maybe I carry enough inane devices with me everywhere that adding a pocket-sized digital camera wouldn’t be an imposition.

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I finally got my workroom to the point that I could move my computer to where I wanted it. At some point in the process, I realized that I was putting it back where it had been not so long ago. Looking around, however, it feels like I’ve at least got a much different set of blocks that I’m trying to stack than I used to have.

At least my printer is working again, after much upset, mostly related to installing Gentoo on Tom. Now if only I could conjour up some shelves that would just magically work well with how I have things arranged…

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