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"The day begins with a morning meeting where material harvested from 15 TiVos and even more newspapers, magazines and Web sites is reviewed. That meeting, Mr. Stewart said, 'would be very unpleasant for most people to watch: its really a gathering of curmudgeons expressing frustration and upset, and the rest of the day is spent trying to mask or repress that through whatever creative devices we can find.'" -- from "Is Jon Stewart the Most Trusted Man in America?", by Michiko Kakutani, 2008-08-15 (quoted passage appears on page 2) [thanks to vvalkyri and osewalrus for pointing it out]

"The day begins with a morning meeting where material harvested from 15 TiVos and even more newspapers, magazines and Web sites is reviewed. That meeting, Mr. Stewart said, 'would be very unpleasant for most people to watch: its really a gathering of curmudgeons expressing frustration and upset, and the rest of the day is spent trying to mask or repress that through whatever creative devices we can find.'" -- from "Is Jon Stewart the Most Trusted Man in America?", by Michiko Kakutani, 2008-08-15 (quoted passage appears on page 2) [thanks to vvalkyri and osewalrus for pointing it out]

Ugh. More alert yet, but also in more pain, with hyperacute hearing to boot (had to sleep with earplugs in last night; would still have them in, but they start to hurt after a few hours -- will probably put them back in soon though; cars passing by no longer hurt terribly unless their stereos are cranked, but the sound of a passing truck or bus is pretty #$%^ing painful). Have somewhere I really ought to go tonight, somewhere it'd be fun to go tonight, and places it would be good to get to this afternoon ... and I think I'm not likely to get anywhere at all the way I feel this afternoon. (And I did remember to take pain meds; this is despite those.) Feh.

Made progress on mods to journal client, auto-QotD script, and auto-crossposting script, but still having problems deep in source code for Clive (rather decently commented in some aspects, effectively uncommented in others; suspect there's a few "if you're reading this then you will have already read such-and-such" assumptions in it). For a while I had a version that would only post to DeadJournal, and only if comments were disabled. Found out how to turn on debugging messages but find the choice of which bits get reported at which level of verbosity ... less than ideal for my purposes. (Tempted to rewrite the debugging code to display which function it's called from. Also tempted to use the Clive source mostly as examples/documentation, and hack a new client from scratch, but should probably resist. It's not broken, nor all that seriously mis-organized, just not architected quite the way I woulda done it and I'm having trouble following parts of it.) Part of my problem grokking the code is probably the effects of pain and hyperacusis on attention span. I know part is from the effects of fibromyalgia on short-term memory, and that's the really frustrating part: knowing how good at this I used to be.

Anywho, hope to have ability to specify tags on command line soon (the main reason I gave up on tags was the nuisance of having to go edit each mirrored copy of each entry to add tags after posting it), but can't find documentation for how to set "date out of order" flag on an entry via the LJ API (which will be important when a QotD entry fails to post to a site, and the next scheduled retry happens after I've posted something else). Found a property that sounded like it should do that, but it doesn't seem to. Trying to get it all sorted before LJ's changes on the 28th. Also plan to make site-to-post-to a command-line option (currently using separate copies of Clive executable, each compiled to post to a different site). Hmm. Guess I should've checked to see whether there's a more recent version to work from than the one I've been tinkering with, but haven't seen any signs of life on that front in a long time. (Checking now ... nope, 0.4.5 is still the most recent version I see at SourceForge.)

Acutely disheartened by what has become standard way of dealing with protesters in my country nowadays (restrict them to a spot so far away from what they're protesting that neither the media nor the folks they're trying to address can even see them, and arrest the ones who try to protest someplace effective). Even if they're protesting against something I support, freedoms of speech & assembly seem to demand better. (N.b.: picketing private events like funerals, and blockading abortion clinics, seem to be 'obvious' special cases to me, but haven't worked out how to articulate where the line should be drawn.)

Also perplexed by reading opinion of someone who supports McCain over Obama because he doesn't like Obama's attitudes towards our soldiers. WTF? Which one wants to keep sending 'em to the meat grinder yet opposes benefits or even decent medical treatment when they come home?

Ugh. Anyhow: body not working well, brain apparently not working great either despite feeling more alart, awfully tired, hating loud vehicles.

Ugh. More alert yet, but also in more pain, with hyperacute hearing to boot (had to sleep with earplugs in last night; would still have them in, but they start to hurt after a few hours -- will probably put them back in soon though; cars passing by no longer hurt terribly unless their stereos are cranked, but the sound of a passing truck or bus is pretty #$%^ing painful). Have somewhere I really ought to go tonight, somewhere it'd be fun to go tonight, and places it would be good to get to this afternoon ... and I think I'm not likely to get anywhere at all the way I feel this afternoon. (And I did remember to take pain meds; this is despite those.) Feh.

Made progress on mods to journal client, auto-QotD script, and auto-crossposting script, but still having problems deep in source code for Clive (rather decently commented in some aspects, effectively uncommented in others; suspect there's a few "if you're reading this then you will have already read such-and-such" assumptions in it). For a while I had a version that would only post to DeadJournal, and only if comments were disabled. Found out how to turn on debugging messages but find the choice of which bits get reported at which level of verbosity ... less than ideal for my purposes. (Tempted to rewrite the debugging code to display which function it's called from. Also tempted to use the Clive source mostly as examples/documentation, and hack a new client from scratch, but should probably resist. It's not broken, nor all that seriously mis-organized, just not architected quite the way I woulda done it and I'm having trouble following parts of it.) Part of my problem grokking the code is probably the effects of pain and hyperacusis on attention span. I know part is from the effects of fibromyalgia on short-term memory, and that's the really frustrating part: knowing how good at this I used to be.

Anywho, hope to have ability to specify tags on command line soon (the main reason I gave up on tags was the nuisance of having to go edit each mirrored copy of each entry to add tags after posting it), but can't find documentation for how to set "date out of order" flag on an entry via the LJ API (which will be important when a QotD entry fails to post to a site, and the next scheduled retry happens after I've posted something else). Found a property that sounded like it should do that, but it doesn't seem to. Trying to get it all sorted before LJ's changes on the 28th. Also plan to make site-to-post-to a command-line option (currently using separate copies of Clive executable, each compiled to post to a different site). Hmm. Guess I should've checked to see whether there's a more recent version to work from than the one I've been tinkering with, but haven't seen any signs of life on that front in a long time. (Checking now ... nope, 0.4.5 is still the most recent version I see at SourceForge.)

Acutely disheartened by what has become standard way of dealing with protesters in my country nowadays (restrict them to a spot so far away from what they're protesting that neither the media nor the folks they're trying to address can even see them, and arrest the ones who try to protest someplace effective). Even if they're protesting against something I support, freedoms of speech & assembly seem to demand better. (N.b.: picketing private events like funerals, and blockading abortion clinics, seem to be 'obvious' special cases to me, but haven't worked out how to articulate where the line should be drawn.)

Also perplexed by reading opinion of someone who supports McCain over Obama because he doesn't like Obama's attitudes towards our soldiers. WTF? Which one wants to keep sending 'em to the meat grinder yet opposes benefits or even decent medical treatment when they come home?

Ugh. Anyhow: body not working well, brain apparently not working great either despite feeling more alart, awfully tired, hating loud vehicles.