Rick KeirRick Keir - LiveJournal.comoverheard - movie panel- May 26, 2008 the midnight movie panel:"Then all the soldiers start to get killed off one by one, while the women start to lose their clothes....""Spoiler alert!"http://rdkeir.livejournal.com/141028.html overheard- May 24, 2008 In the hallway: "Torchwood slash fiction But that would have to be hetero-normative!"http://rdkeir.livejournal.com/140678.html overheard- May 23, 2008 At breakfast: "I'm going to go check my email, but all I'm gonna have is spam, because everyone I know is here."At the Gathering: "Don't inhale the balloons."http://rdkeir.livejournal.com/140448.html what happens when you hurry- May 22, 2008 I just closed a document and said "no" to "Save Changes". It wasn't the window I thought it was. Next year, I take off TWO days before Wiscon, in hopes of getting there ontime and unfrazzled.http://rdkeir.livejournal.com/140087.html Wiscon - see you there - someday- May 22, 2008 currently I'm still trying to dig out from work stuff. Our yearly cycle seems to dump a lot of things into this week! I'll be down there late today and looking for my LJ friends who have already arrived.One medical note: if I seem to be ignoring you in the hallway, be aware that my eyesight has gotten really poor due to cataracts, especially in low light conditions, and I often don't recognize faces at a distance anymore. It's not you, it's my eyesight!This is not a long term thing, as my eye...http://rdkeir.livejournal.com/139926.html "look on my works, and despair"- May 15, 2008 From a technical list I'm on:product name was not stable, but is better now as it was sold off to a company that pretty much stopped development , which did make it more stable.http://rdkeir.livejournal.com/139693.html Victory in California- May 15, 2008 Tears of joy as same-sex marriage advocates get the wordMy first thoughts were an old Violet Blue column from the SF Chronicle:Pundits and politicians want to scare people with San Francisco values because they don't fundamentally believe sex is healthy. They're the dinosaurs, and we're the meteor.http://rdkeir.livejournal.com/139506.html "I thought this day would never come..."- May 9, 2008 the other night, my mother said "Oh, I have a question about how the TiVo works."I was starting to think that she would never actually use it, but now that baseball season is here, and the writer's strike is over, she's gotten more interested in being able to control the TV than this winter, when she was watching whatever rerun happened to be on when she decided to take a break and watch some TV.http://rdkeir.livejournal.com/139088.html Brieflings - some unrelated notes- May 6, 2008 Thing that made me happy: Apple has a nationwide tour running this Spring, with professional photographers demoing Aperture. UW Madison had Steve Simon, a photojournalist, for our speaker. At the start, he was talking about how important it was to a journalist to always be ready for something to happen. "In fact, this is so important that I have a prize for the first shutter I hear..." Click, as my Nikon went off. "I think that's the fastest that's happened so far." Because I've known for a...http://rdkeir.livejournal.com/138948.html overheard- May 2, 2008 Six year old and his parent, while I was having coffee yesterday:"I didn't DO it! And if I did, I FORGOT!"http://rdkeir.livejournal.com/138713.html |