Waiting for the beeper
Aug. 31st, 2002 09:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cdybedahlThis week I'm on call. Which means that I can't do anything that will bring me more than two hours away from either home, the office or one of our machine rooms. Or anything that I can't cancel as soon as the beeper starts going BEEP BEEP BEEP. Which it won't do until four o'clock in the morning, of course, when it'll be for something much more annoying than difficult, like yet another fucking spammer doing his damnedest to bring one of the mail frontends to its knees.
Which is pretty much why I've spent nearly all day in front of the computer.
And since my brain is all fried from a week with much interrupted sleep, I've been doing a bit of this and a bit of that and a lot of clicking around on LiveJournal instead of working on part five of the Librarian Attack Force series. Writing requires concentration, unfortunately.
So far, I'm finding LiveJournal a lot more interesting than I expected to. I've been walking links from someone's journal to their list of "friends" (which is a stunningly inappropriate term, BTW) to someone else's journal to their list of friends and so on. It's a chain of free associations, from someone interested in Buffy to someone interested in buffy and femslash to someone interested in femslash and Xena to someone interested in Xena and paganism to someone interested in paganism and FreeBSD to someone interested in FreeBSD and the books of Gene Wolfe to...
And by writing this, I add an element of introspection and self-reference. Spirits of Gödel and Hofstadter, I invoke thee!
Except that Hofstadter isn't dead yet. AFAIK. Never mind.
Which is pretty much why I've spent nearly all day in front of the computer.
And since my brain is all fried from a week with much interrupted sleep, I've been doing a bit of this and a bit of that and a lot of clicking around on LiveJournal instead of working on part five of the Librarian Attack Force series. Writing requires concentration, unfortunately.
So far, I'm finding LiveJournal a lot more interesting than I expected to. I've been walking links from someone's journal to their list of "friends" (which is a stunningly inappropriate term, BTW) to someone else's journal to their list of friends and so on. It's a chain of free associations, from someone interested in Buffy to someone interested in buffy and femslash to someone interested in femslash and Xena to someone interested in Xena and paganism to someone interested in paganism and FreeBSD to someone interested in FreeBSD and the books of Gene Wolfe to...
And by writing this, I add an element of introspection and self-reference. Spirits of Gödel and Hofstadter, I invoke thee!
Except that Hofstadter isn't dead yet. AFAIK. Never mind.
