Listening to Hawkwind’s “Space Ritual”. I originally lifted this from a friend in ’74 or so. I barely remember it-a fog of drugs blurs my memories of that past. No problem-I like it OK, but still prefer “Blows”-Hawkwind is a bit repetititititive-not as much as Glass, and it has that whole late 60’s-early 70’s English vibe. Not bad. I’m working on Section 508 accessibility, so I have the Narrator on-annoying, but instructive to see how blind people would hear things while using a computer.
OK, on to the last week: Sat was class, and we went to Long Beach to see the in-laws’ new place, and had dinner with friends. Church Sun., OWL, Matt scratched a neighbors’ car, and got in huge trouble for it. Picked up the kids on Weds., and worked late. Erika did some cleaning this week-good for her!
I read an interesting article by a right-leaning pundit-basically saying that the U.S. is heading towards fascism-something I’ve read elsewhere-hey, if Lemmy thinks so, there must be some grain of truth to it. The budget is DOA-Chimpy actually thought Congress would be OK with cutting a zillion programs…think again. And the new stuff from the 9/11 commission-that there was ample warning of what was going to happen-the foundation for many supports of the admin are crumbling before their eyes-no matter what the rightists say. And then there’s the Gannon/Guckert thing. I think what’s bothering me is that the White House doesn’t really care about the truth-only about what’s politically expedient. That’s what led Nixon down the primrose path to scandal and resignation. We’ll see over the next few months where this all leads-probably nowhere-the admin. has half the country brainwashed.
Fiorina left HP, IBM sold the PC unit to China, takeovers everywhere, oil going through the roof, interest rates slowly going up-guess it’s time to do my taxes. Picked up jBPM, Priado Blender, gsNotepad, AGC simulation software, IBM ability software. The agc stuff is pretty cool-basically the Apollo flight software. Some guy had built the actual hardware in his basement (took him 4 years!), which got me on the trail-it’s all in assembler. I also updated my website to have everything in Georgia, added a home link to the top toolbar, and made the index and toolbar images transparent. It looks nice. Now I have to switch to xHTML… Uck.
Valentine’s day is coming up-we’re going out to eat tonight.