It’s video, so don’t bother, on a slow connection.

Update:

The file at the original location was moved, so this Youtube link has it. If I find the better version again, I’ll upload it and host it here.

Justice vs. Simian: We Are Your Friends

Update again

The link is fixed, it’s a local file now. Will work ‘til doomsday.

This is a bit like coming home after a long voyage, or finding a friend long thought lost.

I’m an emotional geek, I know.

This isn’t, obviously, a constructive sentiment.

Still, it’s nice to be in the visible homestretch. I have eight months of part time coming up, four months of the real world in the summer again, and then one last, lazy semester to nail down the last of my requirements, and then, in January 2008, at the age of 30, I’ll get to graduate.

2008.

Damn me.

W: Found a nifty site called Luxist that blogs the things of the rich and famous. I smack my lips in consumerist glee at some of them, and shake my head in vague discomfort at others.

S: Against all odds, my iPod works again!

If you could see me, I couldn’t claim to be dancing a merry jig. Since you can’t, I am.

I hurt in ways I didn’t know were possible. It’s better today, but yesterday evening I could barely hold the shopping basket. That being said, it was fun, and I think I’ll do it again.

In (m)other news, it’s Mothers’ day. Which means I’m feeding her, not the other way around. I’m making a dinner as I write this, which is… weird. I’m still not a cook, even at the most desperate of times. I hope this works out.

According to my spell checker, “undermotivated” is not a word.

I really should be working on homework, doing laundry, or maybe even just calling a friend and having lunch. Why I’m not doing this is a bit of a mystery. I shouldn’t lack energy, but I sure do.

Maybe I’ll read some more. I finally picked up The Da Vinci Code, since Char bought herself a copy of the paperback a week ago, and just finished it.

See? This is the kind of thing of which blogging nightmares are made.

I could follow Simon’s advice, but I suspect that if I started talking about how frustrating it was trying to implement a custom SAML assertion verification using open-source solutions in a WebSphere app serving environment, and how I find myself staring at code samples until my eyes feel like they’re going to start bleeding, while the deadlines that we have for delivering this solution creep up on us quickly…

Runon sentences cannot do it justice.

It’s increasingly obvious to me that I need to find something that I’m passionate about to write about. The “Here’s what’s new in my life” format has its place, and will never truly leave these pages, but I don’t know that it has the mileage to make it.

At any rate, this is more of a “ping” to let you all know I’m not dead, I haven’t forgotten the blog, and I plan to write more, soon.

Oh…

And Apple just released a mechanism whereby my MacBook will be able to run Windows. Games, games, games!

Heh. That one was for Char.

And it’s so, SO pretty.

From the FCC to the MPAA, with stops at high schools and the Republican/Democrat conventions in between. It’d be funny if it weren’t true. As it is, it makes me want to cry.

So close…

I wish they had known sooner, so that I could have built up a bit less excitement.

Faugh.

Well, some of it is.

Anyway, neat noise. I recommend it.

This makes me oh, so happy!

It’s very pretty, and now I have all four.