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| Friday, February 21, 2003 |
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How many parents call their baby "it?" 
Perspective
Security you can hear at home
| | Number two complete and we are swapping raids. |
| | Thirtyfourfortyfive grwonswor five rrgon slowly please. |
| | Information window parameters. You're going to have to ree ... the background noise. |
| | What I have is about six x instrumentation window parameters appear to be over water. |
| | Fiveonefive ronseddiwood look attem. |
| | Confirm Ron. He's workin those parameters and is lookn ta fixem. |
| | Fourfivetwo disconnect. Five two would be out low to the south. |
| | Tooz um twentyone thousand. |
| | Yellowjackets twofour oh. |
| | Y'know they have the miniDVD players inna make me one of them so you can listen to your CDs while you play around. |
| | Steel flow guages and my eyeballs are getting fried cuz it's so late. |
| | Onefortytwo twothousand climbing to four thousand nnrndr roll. |
| | Makes me feel safer already. |
Who needs Alzheimer's when you're like this anyway?
| | Just before I got on the train to come here I realized I had forgotten the power adapter for my laptop. Fortunately, I had the one that went with the rental my friend was about to return for me. So I borrowed it. Then, five hours ago, as the Desktop Linux Summit was closing for the day, I forgot the borrowed adapter, the power bar I had also brought into the press room (just in case, which turned out to be a good idea) and the power adapter of the new MobilePC that the Lindows people had loaned me to review. I realized all this after dinner with a bunch of folks. Since I'm giving the opening keynote tomorrow and I'm using the laptop, and haven't finished preparing, and my batteries were dead, I needed that power adapter. So I spent several hours trying to find somebody with one that matched, or to get back into the building where I forgot the thing. Finally a security guy let me in. |
| | Now here I am, at almost midnight, getting ready to start what I was going to do at 7pm. |
| | Believe it or not, this is all after taking a number of measures to "simplify" things since my last misfortune with a laptop, which followed forgetting another power adapter at somebody's house in my last trip up to Palo Alto. |
| | Well, one small grace of aging is giving a much smaller shit about the faults that make me more human than I'd like. Ten or twenty years ago I would have been speeding around town and beating my head against the steering wheel along the way. This time I just punched up the jazz station and drove around practicing tomorrow's talk with a nice soundtrack. |
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