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Cziltang wanders the trackless wastes in search of truth, beauty and personal enlightenment. He had tried to be self-sufficient, growing his own ideas, but they withered and died in the great intellectual drought that gripped the land in his youth. One day, as he gazed at the parched landscape around him, he realized that somewhere there must be ideas growing. Somewhere, rational discourse must still survive. Since that day, he has searched for a mythical land of fields and forests of living ideas. Now and again he finds a thought or two in the rubble of an occasional deserted outpost of civilization. Its a hard way to live and its not much of a life, but that's just how it is, out here in the Ratlands |
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A note in passing
link While I've been tinkering this evening, I went ahead and removed the link to Steven Den Beste's USS Clueless website. I (and I suspect a lot of other people) had been hoping that after a lengthy break, he might feel moved to start writing again. A few days ago, he posted a note to those of us who kept checking back regularly, to the effect that we might as well quit. Den Beste seems to be one of those people who makes a decision and sticks to it, so I removed the link. Thankfully, his old essays are still available, and as a sort of novice anime fan, I'm glad he's writing about anime now at Chizumatic. by CziltangPosted: Thursday, November 18 2004 11:04:55 PM
Just another tricky day...
link 'This is no social crisis, just another tricky day for you.' I'm not sure why this line from The Who popped into my mind this evening. I've actually been listening to Steely Dan, but there it is anyway. Perhaps it is this nonsense of getting used to a new computer. Or maybe it is the free-associative state I've drifted into after my last dose of cough syrup. I've been having a lot of computer problems that I just haven't been able to work around. Software upgrades that just eat up too much of the processing capacity of the computer, Anti-virus problems, and all of it at least partly due to a 500 mhz Pentium computer and a Windows 98 operating system that was beginning to get a bit glitchy. So, I finally broke down and bought a new computer. I knew my old one was an antique, but I didn't really realize just how out of date it really was. When I went into the store I was mildly amused to see that the cheapest one they had carried a 2.5 ghz processor. Anyway, so far I like my new computer. I'm having a bit of a problem getting used to Windows XP, and there is a bunch of software I don't have a clue about, and I'm having a heck of a time finding all the "automatic" features Gates & Co. have included. I'm a bit paranoid and don't like my computer connecting to the internet and downloading things without me at least pretending to know what it is doing. Now comes the process of moving all the stuff I want to keep from the old computer to the new one. At least now I can listen to music and work at the same time. On the old beast if I tried to listen to music while writing I got an instantaneous interruption with every keystroke (which can be kind of fun if you can type in a nice steady rhythm...). Now that I have working equipment again, and have at least some of my software transferred over, I should be able to get back to writing somewhat more regularly. I had some comments about the election lined out, but I don't really see a need to flesh them out at this point, so I guess I'll be going back to the more mundane. by CziltangPosted: Thursday, November 18 2004 10:27:42 PM |
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