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'Nother b-day rapidly approaching, gonna be 36 yrs. W00t! (sorta). There's _way_ too much shit going on; most of the guys at work are new now, but they might have to lay off again. I plan to be elsewhere by then cuz unemployed holidays suck. Thinking to go west or to the Pacific. It doesn't help that my entire industry got outsourced 20 yrs ago. getting older still: I remember when Dad was engineering prof. at the Uni Illinois, champaign-urbana. (bout 1972) He turned 36, and had time on the school's 4070 mainframe. I had a ball learning punch cards. the idea of abstraction to a series of symbols was fascinating. Cooking up a new version of SteigenLinux, the old site is just embarassing now. The landlord just asked me to leave, so that'll delay things a bit. Playing with the 2.6-test kernels lately, its gonna rock. No I don't care a hoot bout the SCO thing either. I read the stuff but I'm not worried.

Back from vacation, gotta go to work tomorrow. Weird how everybody I know has the same gripes about work, even in totally different fields.

Cool that 2.6 is in testing. I see AC has his own patch set started already. This should be good, if 2.5 was any indication. Makes me wonder where Con would go with it...

Cool, Linus and AKPM are at OSDL now. Also, the SGI stuff is giving me a serious hard-on. Now all I need is a few more $$$...

Called upon to moderate again, but kind of tired ATM. I'll prolly take it easy instead. Weird how vacations can wear you out; did you ever try to drive 1000 miles with a 4-year old? It sure makes work seem irrelevant...

slashcode frapped out again *sigh* gonna have to re-do it all...

Moderation is kinda weird; this group is a *lot* looser than the "traditional" Usenet groups I'm used to. For instance, *nothing* is assumed, not a common interest, background, or anything else. Hence, I take it seriously when I have to moderate, and I take it all with a grain of salt when I get moderated. Meta-moderation is even harder.

On a similar note, it's cool when I get a story accepted (rarely). Mainly, the context is all-important, and there are as many different contexts as there are slashdot users it seems.
Often the meaning that I intended gets mangled beyond recognition, and the follow-up posts are even more mangled. Once again, joy with a grain of salt. All of it is educational and enlightening; discretion and judgement are required tho; being dispassionate is the rule of the day.

Overall, I'd rather be editing (with maybe a script to catch dupes), but it's OK that maybe I should hold off on that kinda thing for now. Regardless, I'd *always* rather be posting and participating.

Wrote in a question to Kevin Mitnick today. Waited 8 years to see if there was a similar-thinking soul. I hope he gets it, it's not even close to all that I would ask in a similar vein, but I think it's the kind of thing he would go for. Everyone else seems to be asking "How do you hope to get up to speed?"

I'm asking "Do you think humanity is any different because of their technologies? Is it better? Worse? Why or why not?"