Journal Glass of Water's Journal: bikes, rain, telnet
at least my roof is holding water. almost every roof in this city (except for the suburban areas) is flat. a flat tar paper roof will leak. my super says that they all do. why are they all flat? what was the thnking?
mine had a leak for years and no roofer could fix it. my brother found the leak in about 5 minutes. he did what nobody had done: looked at where the water was likely to be coming in and poured water around the area. he IS an engineer, though.
it took only a few minutes of caulking to fix it. i saw an interesting thing while my super was doing the caulking, though. he only caulked about half of the skylight that was letting in the water. then, when water still came in, he caulked up the rest. there is a lesson there for me. i guess that lesson is FINISH THE FUCKING JOB.
at least my bike is fairly dry. it's locked under one of those sidewalk scaffolds that is permanently attached to my neighbor's building.
this shitty weather will allow me some time to stay in and work on my winter break programming project, which is to modify Dieter Wimberger's java telnet daemon library so that it can work as a telnet animation server.
personally, i think telnet is cool. it can serve a shell, which is what it is usually thought of as doing, but it can really be the interfacce for any number of applications. it has advantages over a browser interface: it's faster, it's easier to redraw part of the screen, it can take keyboard commands better. the library linked above has methods to take input, give output to specific areas of the screen, even do title bars and stuff.
i justy need to figure out how Dieter expects me to write the underlying application. his java code is nice, though. very clear and well designed, in my amateurish opinion.
telnet clients come with all linux and windows (which is strange) boxes so a lot of users can access it. i use it to look up books on the nypl database. i use ssh to read my email on my server. i'd like to have a sort of telnet site, in the way that i would have a web or ftp site. i'd also like to just do a animation app, but better than the standard ASCII ones.
i'll also get to install linux on this laptop of mine, i hope, this weekend. i have a lot planned, but my palm pilot says that this activity is scheduled for sunday afternoon. i had some time this afternoon, because nobody wanted to go with me to the yayoi kusama show, so i downloaded all 5 redhat 8.0 disks and burned them to CD at my girlfriend's house (while also doing some video editing).
i'll install a dual win2k and linux system. usually win2k takes about 4 hours for me to remember how i want everything set up and to do it. the infinitely configurable linux, however, should keep me busy a lot longer than that.
my palm pilot (actually a sony clie running a palm OS) also said that i was to do some painting with the chroma key paint this afternoon, but it is a bit too moist out, as mentioned above. it is amazing, comforting, and scary all at the same time how much more i get done when i remember to put it all in that palm pilot. i have no fucking memory. that's why i have always kept journals (ever since i realized that i have no memory). that is why i can now not be efficient without the little computer.
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