"I'm looking for a travel

“I’m looking for a travel charger that plugs into the wall for my touchpoint phone.”

“We don’t have any of those up here. Let me check in back” came the perfunctory response from the Sprint PCS accessory guy. Leia and I waited patiently. This was the fifth store I had tried and I was getting desperate as I had no way to charge my phone for the next couple of days. The sales rep came back empty handed.

Life and Debt update

The multi-talented and wonderful Leia clued me into an event going on at the Angelika this coming Saturday. Check out this excerpt from their email:

The Angelika Film Center and the Sierra Club would like to invite you to join us for a discussion immediately following the 7:00 pm show on Saturday, December 29.

This film provides an incredible opportunity to raise global awareness and deepen our understanding of the impacts of globalization and free trade on countries like Jamaica. The reggae soundtrack and entertaining storytelling brings a powerful spirit to the film as well.

While searching for the gods

While searching for the gods of capitalism on google I found a good, short article asking the question is capitalism compatible with Asian philosophy? The guy who wrote it is Enzio von Pfeil the chief economist at Clarion Securities Asia in Hong Kong. This reminds me that I’ve been wanting to watch Life and Debt at the Dallas Angelika which is about globalization, or perhaps more appropriately, economic imperialism.

Recently Observed

Being without car I decided to take a walk over to Wendys. This is the closest fast food place to where I work so it’s not surprising that a lot of SBC/Cingular employees were there. (It’s fascinating how corporate name badges strip away anonymity in public) Two of them were talking at the table next to mine.

“I don’t want to take anything away from Sean’s accomplishment but he used the GUI.”

Okay here's a challenge. I

Okay here’s a challenge. I want a platform that J2SE 1.3.1 runs on but it can’t be Linux or Windows based, and it needs to run on x86 hardware. I’ve tried the Java 2 stuff in the FreeBSD ports collection on FreeBSD 4.3 but I must be missing something because they all have serious problems, however I think I’m just missing a kernel patch. I know that the Java I want is on OS X but that isn’t available for x86. Did I hear you say use Darwin since they have an x86 image now? That was my thought too, but I can’t find Java stuff that runs on x86 Darwin.

It's gotten easier to not

It’s gotten easier to not worry (as much) about what others think as I’ve gotten older. Is that just an age thing? I tend to think it got easier after I did my solo drive to Fairbanks, Alaska. I had put myself in a situation where I had to interact with other people to get food and shelter. At first I was still scared enough of people to not bathe, sleep or eat for extended periods of time. Eventually those needs overcame my concerns that I would be impolitely disturbing people if I talked to them.

I remember traveling for hours

I remember traveling for hours looking for some place new to be. I would get so restless in my apartment doing the routine. I had to get out. I needed to be in an entirely new city before I felt better. Whenever I saw a place that looked worthy of visiting I was too scared to stop by. Sometimes, I even turned my car around thinking I might screw up the courage the second time around. No luck. I always made up excuses in my head about why I didn’t belong in the buildings I went past. Mostly it was variations on “They aren’t like me inside there. I’ll feel every minute difference reflected back at me a thousand fold.”

What a great idea. I

What a great idea. I get stuck seeing things dead on sometimes. It’s a good idea to have tricks like this to stimulate new ways of seeing the same thing.

Kathy was in another dream

Kathy was in another dream last night. We were sitting in a grassy field during the day. It was particularly odd because I was wearing blue pants and not jeans. I don’t remember looking at Kathy but I can remember every detail about the hem of the pants and each individual blade of grass around my shoes and pants. People were walking by us in both directions. In the dream we weren’t dating but I felt very strongly that I wanted to be with her. However, I stood up and thought “I want to be with someone else” and told her “It can’t work out.” Then I walked off.

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Did you know that works? I did not know that you could have multiple stylesheet classes in a class attribute.