02 Oct 2002
I took a political test (my exact results if you really must know) which has me has a left leaning Libertarian. Libertarian I know, but left leaning? Holy Dittos, Batman! Where did that come from. The only answer I had that was left leaning was a vote for living wages, something have put much thought into. It’s funny, I grew up on a missionary base, listening to Rush Limbaugh, hung out with the College Republicans, a bunch of factors that I would think would result in a party line Republican, but now I think I care far more that many people vote and vote intelligently than I care if they vote right or left. And that we ask lots and lots of questions.
Ted Rawl is very cool. He claims he’s way over on the left, but I don’t care: he ask very good questions and researches them. Thus My Government Went to Afghanistan and All I Got Was This Stupid Pipeline. I can’t say that I’ve read it all but I’m going to.
02 Oct 2002
Yes a wreck. We are midway thru packing and unpacking at the new house. We’ll hopefully be out of the apt by Monday.
So many things I’ve packed I realized I never even once looked at in the year and 2 months we’ve lived at this apt. That’s ok for pictures/scrapbooks (or maybe not. perhaps I should be reenforcing my memory by looking at pictures from high school so that I can remember more about my life), but really, am I ever going to read all these Dr. Dobbs’ Journals? (but their covers promise so many intersting subjects! I can’t throw them away! Valuable information!) Or my Wired collection, from all the way back to Issue 1.2 (I tried to get 1.1 but very hard to come) to when it got really boring (unsure where that was, but on a bright note the last few issues have been great).
Also Adelphia hasn’t gotten back to me on how much it would be or even if they’ll run a cable to my house and Sprint hasn’t called back to say if they’ll run new phone lines in for DSL (fat chance, but traim tasol (that Melanesian pidgin for “no harm asking”), so it’s off to dialup hell for me for a while.
02 Oct 2002
… and I sit here reading about the Danger Hiptop. I was disappointed that T-Mobil doesn’t have coverage in C’ville, so I’ll have to wait for the CDMA2k version and Sprint PCS to license it. All I know is that if they get a ssh client I’m sold. And that should be too hard has you should only have to port MindTerm to the mutant version of Java that the Hiptop runs. Actually the only think wrong with the Hiptop is the closed platform, but perhaps that’s what it takes to get the big stupid phone co’s to spring for it.
28 Sep 2002
So the first plans for today were to start packing. We get the house Tuesday, and loose the apt on next Monday, giving us a week to move out and clean up the apt. And maybe I could have looked in on the Mnet hack day event that is supposed to happen every Saturday.
Then Jason called and said that he was closing on a house and wanted to move this weekend and only had the weekend to get it all done before he started his next rotation that was a lot more hellish than the current (he is a resident in Norfolk, VA. The pain hospitals put medical residents thru should be illegal).
THEN my grandparent’s plans to visit Charlottesville and go to a football game at VMI, where my cousin, David Latimer (link to his teams roster on ESPN) would be playing for Furman against VMI, worked out and we chose that.
Laura and I had a lot of fun. David made some great tackles and a interception. I greatly enjoyed being with both my grandparents and my great aunt and uncle.
I brought my cell and a prepaid calling card with the thought of maybe calling zooko and saying hey, but I got pretty into the game. Even ignored a paper on Tarzan, the anonymoizing p2p IP layer.
What I really need is a cellphone/pda that can send and receive packets. :)
28 Sep 2002
Reading Martin Peck’s blog tonight. I must say he’s hit the nail on the head in this entry about what I am trying to do with my own work in p2p networks. It’s all about building Doc Searl’s favorite word: infrastructure.
Hopefully we can get “Mnet Roadmap” out soon so I can outline where I want to go building infrastructure with Mnet.