Life is pain, highness

Or "Existence is tragedy": http://www.partiallyclips.com/index.php?id=1546&b=1

Please don't tell me this is another Partially Clips that only I will laugh at. I still have a hardcopy of the last one in my cube.

Life is pain, highness

Or "Existence is tragedy": http://www.partiallyclips.com/index.php?id=1546&b=1

Please don't tell me this is another Partially Clips that only I will laugh at. I still have a hardcopy of the last one in my cube.

I keep having weekends and my life keeps not-sucking

This one was three days, due to Good Friday. I heard somewhere (NPR?) that this was the earliest Easter in over 40 years and another one won't come this early for a couple hundred more years. How weird is that.

Anyway, nobody took me up on my offer to do something Friday so I spent the day in pain and intense game geekery. A while back I did something to my back/shoulder and it hasn't properly healed up. Then I did something fun-but-not-good-for-my-back with Pygment and... um, owie. Sitting still at the computer was fine. Raising my arm over my head, no way. Shifting the gear lever so I could drive? You must be joking me.

Sorry for missing out on Friday evening plans folks :(

Much Vitamin I, heat, and massage made things better but I still made Pygment do the driving Saturday. And there was much driving. First to a baby shower where I sat in a chair that somehow set my back off again. Then to a kid-birthday party where I found various walls to lean myself against. AHF had kindly loaned me her camera but I wasn't able to hold it steady for many pictures. More Vitamin I seemed to do the trick so that by the time we got home to meet the sitter after dinner I was mostly functional. Which was good because the THIRD event Saturday was a dress-up party at which I had been specifically requested to take pix. It was a small party but many great people, much good drinking, and lots of laughter. I did take a goodly number of pictures, but have yet to upload them from the camera. And I think I can safely say that NOBODY's life was sucking at this party.

Unfortunately, somewhere around event #2 Pygment had a very bad allergy attack. This led to her having trouble breathing, being tired out, and generally not having the energy or wellness level to stay late at event #3. That was a bit sad-making, but *shrug* You do what you have to do.

Sunday was mostly R&R. Noodling on taxes. Right now it looks like we'll owe the Feds a large chunk of change, which is a strong motivation NOT to complete the taxes early. Outside was too frelling cold, which didn't seem to affect the kids' desire to be outside in the sunshine zooming up and down the street on their bikes. I think K is about ready to have the training wheels off his bike, which puts us on a slippery slope to taking them off L's bike, after which time Pygment has promised him that he can have a motorcycle.

THAT will be an interesting conversation...

EDIT: I am remembering that Sunday involved a major reminder that I am married to a hot seksay MAJOR GEEK. I love my geek, yes I do.

(I apologize for being somewhat cryptic with discussion of the events. I don't recall which of them were private invite and which were public and I don't wish to upset anyone.)

I keep having weekends and my life keeps not-sucking

This one was three days, due to Good Friday. I heard somewhere (NPR?) that this was the earliest Easter in over 40 years and another one won't come this early for a couple hundred more years. How weird is that.

Anyway, nobody took me up on my offer to do something Friday so I spent the day in pain and intense game geekery. A while back I did something to my back/shoulder and it hasn't properly healed up. Then I did something fun-but-not-good-for-my-back with Pygment and... um, owie. Sitting still at the computer was fine. Raising my arm over my head, no way. Shifting the gear lever so I could drive? You must be joking me.

Sorry for missing out on Friday evening plans folks :(

Much Vitamin I, heat, and massage made things better but I still made Pygment do the driving Saturday. And there was much driving. First to a baby shower where I sat in a chair that somehow set my back off again. Then to a kid-birthday party where I found various walls to lean myself against. AHF had kindly loaned me her camera but I wasn't able to hold it steady for many pictures. More Vitamin I seemed to do the trick so that by the time we got home to meet the sitter after dinner I was mostly functional. Which was good because the THIRD event Saturday was a dress-up party at which I had been specifically requested to take pix. It was a small party but many great people, much good drinking, and lots of laughter. I did take a goodly number of pictures, but have yet to upload them from the camera. And I think I can safely say that NOBODY's life was sucking at this party.

Unfortunately, somewhere around event #2 Pygment had a very bad allergy attack. This led to her having trouble breathing, being tired out, and generally not having the energy or wellness level to stay late at event #3. That was a bit sad-making, but *shrug* You do what you have to do.

Sunday was mostly R&R. Noodling on taxes. Right now it looks like we'll owe the Feds a large chunk of change, which is a strong motivation NOT to complete the taxes early. Outside was too frelling cold, which didn't seem to affect the kids' desire to be outside in the sunshine zooming up and down the street on their bikes. I think K is about ready to have the training wheels off his bike, which puts us on a slippery slope to taking them off L's bike, after which time Pygment has promised him that he can have a motorcycle.

THAT will be an interesting conversation...

EDIT: I am remembering that Sunday involved a major reminder that I am married to a hot seksay MAJOR GEEK. I love my geek, yes I do.

(I apologize for being somewhat cryptic with discussion of the events. I don't recall which of them were private invite and which were public and I don't wish to upset anyone.)

If the Net is my hard drive, who is in charge of backups?

In an essay last month for WIRED, Bruce Schneier wrote about the vandalism of the Wine Therapy blog archives. The vandals destroyed many years' worth of information and postings, much of which was not backed up.

The riff on this, of course, is how does such a risk play out in user-content-creation sites. Like, oh, I dunno, take LiveJournal as a totally random example. What if SUP decides that it needs to protect or remove postings tagged with labels it deems inappropriate for its business model?

Regardless of any Terms & Conditions document, I'm guessing most LJers are of the opinion that they own their own content, even though it's posted to someone else's site. Without reading the T&C closely I can't tell you if SUP or anyone else shares that opinion. If an authority figure, or maybe just a really pissed-off cracker, decides to do something nasty to the servers and their data, it's not inconceivable that peoples' LJ contents could vanish overnight.

If we accept that we'd like to retain our own material against both the corporate demons of stupidity and the evil malcontents it seems incumbent on us to take steps to protect that content in some way. At the very least, dumping it down and backing it up in a manner of our choosing, right?

Anyone got a solution handy for this?

(I'm aware that simply dumping down one journal won't provide complete backup, if only because journals are cross-linked and even if you capture all the comments on all the entries you can't capture the things that you've linked to either directly or through memories. But let's take it one step at a time.)

If the Net is my hard drive, who is in charge of backups?

In an essay last month for WIRED, Bruce Schneier wrote about the vandalism of the Wine Therapy blog archives. The vandals destroyed many years' worth of information and postings, much of which was not backed up.

The riff on this, of course, is how does such a risk play out in user-content-creation sites. Like, oh, I dunno, take LiveJournal as a totally random example. What if SUP decides that it needs to protect or remove postings tagged with labels it deems inappropriate for its business model?

Regardless of any Terms & Conditions document, I'm guessing most LJers are of the opinion that they own their own content, even though it's posted to someone else's site. Without reading the T&C closely I can't tell you if SUP or anyone else shares that opinion. If an authority figure, or maybe just a really pissed-off cracker, decides to do something nasty to the servers and their data, it's not inconceivable that peoples' LJ contents could vanish overnight.

If we accept that we'd like to retain our own material against both the corporate demons of stupidity and the evil malcontents it seems incumbent on us to take steps to protect that content in some way. At the very least, dumping it down and backing it up in a manner of our choosing, right?

Anyone got a solution handy for this?

(I'm aware that simply dumping down one journal won't provide complete backup, if only because journals are cross-linked and even if you capture all the comments on all the entries you can't capture the things that you've linked to either directly or through memories. But let's take it one step at a time.)