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i want this to be an interesting entry
Aug. 20th, 2003 09:50 amBut I've got nothing. Boring life. :P
I think the most interesting thing that happened to me in the last couple days was that I was spazzing about how this scanner at school didn't work, and downloading new software, and installing it, and rebooting, and installing something else, and... and I just couldn't get the computer to recognize it, even though it had worked before in July, so grrrargh. Then today finally one of the technicians looked at it and discovered the FireWire port on the computer was dead (mind you, this is a two-month-old eMac) so of course it couldn't connect that way. Bah. We hates it, yes we does. But I can't help being a little comforted that it wasn't just me doing something unbelievably stupid.
So I finally finished War of Honor, which I'd been reading for weeks. It's part of a military-sci-fi kinda series -- I want to say by David Weber but I'm not positive. I didn't like it quite as much as the others I'd read, but I couldn't figure out why, but I'm thinking now this one was less "lasers and grasers and grav beams, oh my!" and more space politics than the others. I still liked it though. And I feel a tiny bit guilty about finding fictional interstellar tiffs interesting and real-life politics yawnworthy. Maybe I need to find myself a novel-style summary of the middle east conflicts? Call them the Qari Empire, the Dukedom of Nari, and so on, and add a few lasers and I might actually get up to date on learning about current events for once...
That was really cynical and tasteless, wasn't it? Sorry. Please don't hate me.
I think the most interesting thing that happened to me in the last couple days was that I was spazzing about how this scanner at school didn't work, and downloading new software, and installing it, and rebooting, and installing something else, and... and I just couldn't get the computer to recognize it, even though it had worked before in July, so grrrargh. Then today finally one of the technicians looked at it and discovered the FireWire port on the computer was dead (mind you, this is a two-month-old eMac) so of course it couldn't connect that way. Bah. We hates it, yes we does. But I can't help being a little comforted that it wasn't just me doing something unbelievably stupid.
So I finally finished War of Honor, which I'd been reading for weeks. It's part of a military-sci-fi kinda series -- I want to say by David Weber but I'm not positive. I didn't like it quite as much as the others I'd read, but I couldn't figure out why, but I'm thinking now this one was less "lasers and grasers and grav beams, oh my!" and more space politics than the others. I still liked it though. And I feel a tiny bit guilty about finding fictional interstellar tiffs interesting and real-life politics yawnworthy. Maybe I need to find myself a novel-style summary of the middle east conflicts? Call them the Qari Empire, the Dukedom of Nari, and so on, and add a few lasers and I might actually get up to date on learning about current events for once...
That was really cynical and tasteless, wasn't it? Sorry. Please don't hate me.
