hey you kids, get off my lawn!

You probably don't read penguinparens, but I made a really beautiful post over there today. You might be interested.

Blah. Technology nostalgia. I got this sudden urge to go find old versions of Mac OS and install them, while I still have a PPC machine handy. Computers mostly Just Work these days, and it's fantastic and beautiful and we're living in the future, but I have this weird pining for clunky SCSI connectors and having to set IRQs and analog AV equipment and Netware and ethernet-over-coax and literal memory addresses in your BASIC code. With all the emulation efforts out there, I suppose this feeling isn't that rare.

The difference, I suppose, is that we're living in a world where computers are sort of everyday, homogenized, commodity items, not clunky fantastic black magic where you have to know the dark, specific secrets of every particular item. The machine itself matters less and less; everything is so abstract.

in which alexr expresses general contentment

Life things are going well. This has become more of a web-log and press-releases sort of blog, but the things, they're good!

I've been hanging out with an extra-cute girl :)

And wonderful entertaining things happened this weekend -- we saw The Books! And Nophest brought the ruckus -- big ups to the super-talented Graham cola_fan, Kelly kdgalla, Rob poodleface, Bill billings, John tricil and Mark (shared journal: yourusername), woo!

I have interesting projects to work on, and it looks like that's continuing into the future. It's even pretty likely I'll be teaching again over the summer! I'm going to make you all look at media-computation collages from high school students again! Oh man. And that job thing is coming up...

And as I type this, I'm enjoying the Extreme Delicious issuing forth from the Trader Joe's that just opened across the street. Can't complain!