Archives for January, 2004

idiocy and sleeplessness

The Toyota Foundation stuff is piling up in the final mountain that editing work always forms right before it gets finished. I was at the office until past midnight last night . . . the last person here, of course. I switched off the printers and turned out the lights and locked the doors, and then I stuck the one and only key to the company in my pocket and took it home to Koganei rather than stick it in the little key box on the office building’s first floor. Oops.

Naturally there were no trains back to the center of town by the time I figured out I had the thing, so I had only one option: to be the first one here this morning. The woman who cleans up the place comes in at a little after eight, and I was here before her, with four hours of sleep behind me and a big cup of Tully’s coffee in my hand. My timecard is depressing. Punched out last night at maybe 12:20 and punched back in at 7:56 . . . Aren’t people supposed to work for about eight hours a day?

01/29/2004 | work | 1 Comment

old stuff now new

All right. I got all the posts from the Greymatter chunk of my site and fed them into the MT machine, and now you can read them all here. Sorry to the people whose comments I threw away in the process!

Next step: Figure out how to apply my CSS and page formats to this new stuff. The subdued tones are nice and soothing, but they aren’t my site.

01/28/2004 | web | Comments Off

yet more time a-wasted

Well, here’s yet another tool to play with on the site . . . Movable Type is now in effect. Took me long enough to get around to installing it, I guess. Up next: Figure out how to mess with the code it spits out so it looks like my site, rather than a vanilla MT installation!

01/27/2004 | web | 1 Comment

Poet in the family

I was chatting with Jes, and I went away to proofread things, and in my absence she festooned my computer screen with verse. I present to you the poetry of J. Durfee.

jes_poem (3k image)

01/20/2004 | family | Comments Off

Headphone thoughts

I recently (well, almost half a year ago) got myself a big pair of Sony studio headphones. I listen to my iPod with these things when I have a backpack on me–the things are too huge to carry around otherwise. They are also not much good to me during the summer, when the closed spaces make my ears sweat. (!)

I also have a little pair of Sony earbud things that come with a rubber cover sort of like the nipple on a baby bottle. This pokes into my ear and deadens outside noise, making the music sound that much louder and clearer. These are what I use in the summer, and when I want to be able to wind up the gear and stick it in a pocket. I like the sound of them, but recently I have learned about new options out there . . .
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01/13/2004 | tech | Comments Off