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Background Pictures

I'm picky about desktop pictures, usually settling on plain grey. But reading Atlas Shrugged this evening, I noticed the moon behind a figurehead statue on a distant building, and after a lot of toying around in Photoshop, here's the result.

Background Pictures

Not a Workout

To the lady on the treadmill beside me: 3.5mph for five minutes is not actually working out in any meaningful sense. Your singing did make me want to go faster, in an effort to escape, but being on a treadmill myself, it didn't help.

Ender's Game

Having burned through Anthem in Anchorage, I picked up my first Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game. Highly entertaining. The very end got a bit too cheesy for me, but it's a quick read, so even if you disagree it won't cost you much time.

Bigger and Better

I registered whereiscurtis.com, though there's nothing there yet. Meanwhile, I made a trade: I agreed to read Sense and Sensibility. As payback I considered the cruelest books I know, but settled on Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury. We'll see.

Three Cheers for Gold Medallion Status

Delta confirmed my upgrade to Seattle, then it's back to the cattle car for Anchorage. I'm already on Alaska time, so staying up all night before a 4am ride makes a kind of sense. Also: ninety pounds up sixty-three flights of stairs, for the last time. Seventy-six hours.

Brevity

I ordered a burrito and the doorman's call went the long way around, as it always does, because they can't seem to hear me until they finish the whole greeting. Then I hauled my ninety-pound pack up fifty flights, and my legs threw me around like moon gravity afterward.

A Book

An iPod Nano is settled, but I still need a book for Alaska. Atlas Shrugged is too much beast to finish, and I won't tear off a third of it. I need something Animal Farm-sized and, since I'll be running at half brain capacity, not too challenging. Ideas welcome.

Mac vs PC

Is there a Mac Tax? Do Macs cost more than PCs? Like the can-you-prove-God-exists debate, it's the wrong question. If you're choosing a computer mainly on price, it hardly matters which you buy, because you'll just stare at it and think, what now?

Happy [Early] Birthday, GMail!

Five years ago Google's free 1GB email looked like an April Fool's joke. I did the math: in 1,738 days I've used 3,052MB, about 1.67MB a day (blame the Cocoa-Dev list). I plotted whether I run out of space in 2018 or capacity outpaces me. Attachment sizes are the wildcard.

Happy [Early] Birthday, GMail!

Motivation

The problem is that I enjoy my job. Stress and boredom once drove me to swim a mile every morning, but now tearing myself from my laptop is the hard part. The secret: work out before I sit down, because I'm incapable of quickly checking email. Also, a new WoD #1 record of 26:27.

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