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I got a new laptop the other day. (I'll never buy a HP laptop again -- I am severely restricted on which operating systems I can install.)

So I'm thinking about a good name for it.

So far, I have computers and laptops named fido (foreign intruder defense organism) and fluffy (the three headed guard dog from Harry Potter) as firewalls (they run OpenBSD on normal servers); guardian and colossus (Forbin Project), multivac (Isaac Asimov), and excelsior (check out Jean Shepherd's radio shows) as servers, Hal9000 for my workstation, and diamondback and e2ipi10 (e^(2*pi*i)+1=0) as laptops.

I'm thinking of naming it huey, renaming diamondback to be dewey, and renaming e2ipi10 (when I get around to putting a new screen on it) to louie. Those sound rather trite, though.

So I'm thinking that what I really need is to write an animated wallpaper for a laptop (but I really don't have time to do it) of a rattlesnake that watches the mouse move around and also rattles when it detects motion via the camera.

I use diamondback almost entirely to test and reprogram equipment.

Until I used e2ipi10 when away from the office, often while eating at restaurants (yep, I'm one of those) to connect back to my office network. The new laptop is to take over that job. At one hamburger/pizza joint that I used to go to most, I would often sit in the first booth with my back to the cashier. Everyone standing in line to order could look at the laptop over my shoulder. I wonder what kind of reactions I'd get if there was what appeared to be a live rattlesnake on the screen and rattling when it detected motion.

I've already had about a dozen hallucinations so far this morning.
Maybe I should go back to bed.

Ferris recommends a day off. ^^^

Maybe he should stay home 9 times. ^

He's yet to arrive for tea, so either he's comatose at home or being breathed-on-to-death elsewhere.

The video game music that I've been enjoying, especially the Nintendo stuff.

My coworker gave me a piece of taro root and it was pretty good.

Don Henley is a terrible excuse for a human being.

I'm trying to figure out how to handle a situation. I'm not sure if my initial reaction to it is based in reality or me having issues. My solution was to call my dad and ask for his input. He doesn't pull his punches, but he's also thoughtful and diplomatic and I trust his judgement. He seems to think that it is me having issues and that I should go for it. I'm not convinced though. I mean, part of me accepts that he's probably right. But I think there's some stuff just under the surface here that I need to pick apart and figure out before I answer one way or the other. Luckily, I have some time to try to work it out.

If a person has even a slight hint of an English accent, they're expected to be cisgender and prim and proper on top of that. You can count me out. I sit on a pink throne for no one.

i'm not sure about giving wrong numbers at administrative papers because they said you had to do so


"institutional" isn't a person on the street, its the red tape