I should be on my way to see a client right now. Instead, I’m posting in LiveJournal, because I already know what the client’s problem is, and it’s user error, and we’ve been over this particular issue many times already, and the client can wait another five minutes ’cause I’m a bastard. 🙂
I am, however, a deliriously happy bastard.
For starters, smoocherie is going to be in town visiting us next weekend, and on top of that, I just got an email from an old friend I haven’t seen in about seven years saying that she’s in town as well and would like to get together some time this week. I’m really looking forward to spending more time with smoocherie, and the unexpected opportunity to see my friend is absolutely delightful.
And in two weeks, Necronomicon! It’s an annual science fiction convention, which means lots of cool people, drunken debauchery, strip “Are You a Werewolf?”, more freaks than you can shake a cat at (unless it’s a very patient cat indeed), and all the other con goodness that goes with science fiction conventions.
And feorlen is going to be in town in November. I haven’t seen her in forever, and I’m really looking forward to that, too… *bounce*
feorlen, you need to click this link. It’s…it’s…you just need to click it. Trust me.
On the financial front, there might actually be a light at the end of the tunnel for the electronics firm I’m associated with. For those of you not up on the ongoing saga there, I am a minority partner in a small, struggling electronics firm that makes storm detection gear, and has patents on the basic technology behind tornado detection equipment and bomb detection equipment. They’ve been searching for venture capital for quite a few years; the storm detection equipment is available and shipping, but the other gear is still in prototype form, and the company has been running on fumes for quite a while. This has had a disastrous effect on our financial situation, but as I type this, the principals of the company are working on a new source of venture capital that looks very promising indeed.
And if it doesn’t pan out, I may have a backup plan; a company that does high-end workflow and prepress software for the newspaper industry has expressed an interest in me, and is offering rather a good rate of pay.
And on top of all that, I’ve just been irrationally happy and exuberant the past several days.
I’m also sorting floppies.
I have a collection of about seven or eight hundred Mac floppies, some of whjich date back to the mid-1980s, containing software and archives of things I’ve worked on and old letters and images and everything else imaginable, but only have one computer left with a floppy drive that can read them. So I’ve been archiving stacks and stacks of floppies onto DVD. It’s been quite the trip down memory lane–letters I wrote to friends in 1989, scans of pictures of old friends, and an amazing collection of pre-PowerPC software and games and so on. (I have the original floppies of PageMaker 1.0, the first desktop publishing program; Photoshop 1.0, back when it was Mac-only and fit on a floppy; Microsoft Word’s first shipping release…we’re talking OLD stuff here!).
By the way, datan0de, I have a retardedly large stack of floppies of Amiga software, you interested?
And now off to see my client.
You still have floppies? I have lots… somewhere. Do you have a way to use them? I don’t have a floppy drive.
I’m throwing away hundreds and hundreds of them, so I don’t really need any more…but thanks!
You still have floppies? I have lots… somewhere. Do you have a way to use them? I don’t have a floppy drive.
Yeah for all the happy stuff!!! It’s good to be exuberant.
I’m keeping my fingers crossed that Wilma doesn’t interfere too much with our weekend. I’m looking forward to it as well.
Yeah for all the happy stuff!!! It’s good to be exuberant.
I’m keeping my fingers crossed that Wilma doesn’t interfere too much with our weekend. I’m looking forward to it as well.
By the way, datan0de, I have a retardedly large stack of floppies of Amiga software, you interested?
Hell yeah I am! 🙂 For that matter, I wouldn’t mind taking a gander at your pre-PPC Mac software if you happen to have a nifty game or two. Oh, and if by any chance you’ve got any C-64 software I’d be happy to steal^H^H^H^H^Hbuy it off of you…
PageMaker- ahh, the memories! Back when I was an advertising student and PageMaker was still owned by Aldus it was my hands-down favorite publishing program. It really had a big influence on my love of the Mac platform, primarily because the PC version was luh suh by comparison.
Off topic- we need to get together with you guys and watch Firefly soon!
Agreed wholeheartedly on the Firefly thing. Pick a date!
I happen to have found a bevy of old Mac games, including one of my all-time faves, Glider…have you ever played it? You’re a paper airplane trying to escape a house–you have to keep finding thermal updrafts to stay in the air while avoiding hazards like open flames, enemy paper airplanes that shoot rubber bands at you, and rogue staplers.
The Amiga software includes piles of games as well, including Shadow of the Beast I & II, R-Type, Lemmings (kickass Amiga game, but the Mac and PC versions sucked), and Oxyd.
OMGOMGOMGOMGOMG LEMMINGS ON THE AMIGA ROCKED!!! Now I’ll *need* to get a second Amiga mouse so we can play head-to-head? 2-player mode in that game is brutal!
I had Oxyd waaaay back when on the PC, and liked it very much. I can only imagine the Amiga version is better.
Haven’t heard of Glider, but it sounds like a blast. As far as Firefly goes, if nothing else I’ll always vote for it as a game night activity, though getting to see you guys more than once a month would definitely be a Good Thing.
By the way, datan0de, I have a retardedly large stack of floppies of Amiga software, you interested?
Hell yeah I am! 🙂 For that matter, I wouldn’t mind taking a gander at your pre-PPC Mac software if you happen to have a nifty game or two. Oh, and if by any chance you’ve got any C-64 software I’d be happy to steal^H^H^H^H^Hbuy it off of you…
PageMaker- ahh, the memories! Back when I was an advertising student and PageMaker was still owned by Aldus it was my hands-down favorite publishing program. It really had a big influence on my love of the Mac platform, primarily because the PC version was luh suh by comparison.
Off topic- we need to get together with you guys and watch Firefly soon!
Hmm…
You wouldn’t happen to know of a way to pull data off of old Mac floppies so I can read them on a PC, do you? I’ve got some stories that I did in high school on these things, but no access to a Mac anywhere. I might even have some imagery from an old Adobe program I did on an Apple II ‘something’. Anyway, if you have any suggestions in your spare time, send ’em my way, please. 🙂
Re: Hmm…
I have a Mac that’ll do it, so if the data are imprtant and you want to mail me the floppies, I can send you back a CD. Other than that…the USB floppies only read 1.44 MB disks and won’t read the earlier 800K or 400K disks, so if you don’t have an old Mac with a built-in floppy drive, you’re kinda screwed.
Hmm…
You wouldn’t happen to know of a way to pull data off of old Mac floppies so I can read them on a PC, do you? I’ve got some stories that I did in high school on these things, but no access to a Mac anywhere. I might even have some imagery from an old Adobe program I did on an Apple II ‘something’. Anyway, if you have any suggestions in your spare time, send ’em my way, please. 🙂
Beatles via Mozart? Why is it everybody picks on The Beatles?
Are you sure it’s not Mozart who’s being picked on?
Pop music is a funny thing–in one generation we’ve gone from “I want to hold your haaaaaand” to “I’d rather die than give you control.” 🙂
And I was telling somebody last night that I didn’t think Lady Marmalade would have been such a hit in the 70s if the chorus were in English.
Beatles via Mozart? Why is it everybody picks on The Beatles?
I’m throwing away hundreds and hundreds of them, so I don’t really need any more…but thanks!
Agreed wholeheartedly on the Firefly thing. Pick a date!
I happen to have found a bevy of old Mac games, including one of my all-time faves, Glider…have you ever played it? You’re a paper airplane trying to escape a house–you have to keep finding thermal updrafts to stay in the air while avoiding hazards like open flames, enemy paper airplanes that shoot rubber bands at you, and rogue staplers.
The Amiga software includes piles of games as well, including Shadow of the Beast I & II, R-Type, Lemmings (kickass Amiga game, but the Mac and PC versions sucked), and Oxyd.
Re: Hmm…
I have a Mac that’ll do it, so if the data are imprtant and you want to mail me the floppies, I can send you back a CD. Other than that…the USB floppies only read 1.44 MB disks and won’t read the earlier 800K or 400K disks, so if you don’t have an old Mac with a built-in floppy drive, you’re kinda screwed.
Are you sure it’s not Mozart who’s being picked on?
Pop music is a funny thing–in one generation we’ve gone from “I want to hold your haaaaaand” to “I’d rather die than give you control.” 🙂
And I was telling somebody last night that I didn’t think Lady Marmalade would have been such a hit in the 70s if the chorus were in English.
OMGOMGOMGOMGOMG LEMMINGS ON THE AMIGA ROCKED!!! Now I’ll *need* to get a second Amiga mouse so we can play head-to-head? 2-player mode in that game is brutal!
I had Oxyd waaaay back when on the PC, and liked it very much. I can only imagine the Amiga version is better.
Haven’t heard of Glider, but it sounds like a blast. As far as Firefly goes, if nothing else I’ll always vote for it as a game night activity, though getting to see you guys more than once a month would definitely be a Good Thing.