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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 10:55am on 2005-08-27 under

I finally remembered what the fourth item in my "this and that" entry a couple of days ago was going to be:

I was given a machine with Debian Linux already installed on it, and instead of scrubbing it and installing from scratch I took advantage of the convenience of having an already-running box (and the fact that the version of Linux on it is more recent than anything I have install media for) and made it the bedroom X workstation. So it's got a bunch of screensavers that I didn't configure, and every so often I'll walk into the room and see it doing something really pretty that I hadn't seen before.

But this week I came into the bedroom and saw the computer playing Pong with itself. I found that a little disturbing.


In other randomness, I just Googled "ficton". Turns out that yet another of the words I've been using comes from a Heinlein novel that I haven't read. It figures. I suppose I should take the hint and read more Heinlein, huh?

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posted by [identity profile] hobbitblue.livejournal.com at 03:01pm on 2005-08-27
Eep, that disturbing! :>

Did you name the new machine HAL though?
 
posted by [identity profile] dglenn.livejournal.com at 11:15am on 2005-08-29
Nah, HAL doesn't fit my naming scheme. Well that HAL doesn't, but if you find me a famous and/or historical transgendered person named Hal, then I'll use that name. (Right now the machine is named "temp2", until I remember where I filed the list of potential machine names.)
 
posted by [identity profile] alyxyn.livejournal.com at 03:10pm on 2005-08-27
So, who was winning?
 
posted by [identity profile] dglenn.livejournal.com at 11:11am on 2005-08-29
Player Two.
 
posted by [identity profile] anniemal.livejournal.com at 05:19am on 2005-08-28
Rub her feet.
 
posted by [identity profile] dglenn.livejournal.com at 11:16am on 2005-08-29
Whose? The computer's?
 
posted by [identity profile] anniemal.livejournal.com at 12:22pm on 2005-08-29
Piece of general advice from Lazarus Long in "Time Enough For Love". Since by the end of the book one of the members of his family was a transplanted computer, maybe it does apply.
 
posted by [identity profile] juuro.livejournal.com at 11:49am on 2005-08-28
If I would have had to hazard a guess, I would have said that a ficton is the fundamental particle of fiction.
 
posted by [identity profile] dglenn.livejournal.com at 11:10am on 2005-08-29
I'm not sure why the "-on" ending didn't trigger the same meme in my head when I first encountered the word, since I have many of the same associations that would lead in that direction. Now you've got the language-geek part of my brain thinking about what paterns apply.

But now you've got me trying to figure out what the fundamental particle of fiction would be.
 
posted by [identity profile] juuro.livejournal.com at 11:47am on 2005-08-29
"Yarn" popped into my mind. But it sounds more like a unit than a particle.
 
posted by [identity profile] lonebear.livejournal.com at 03:17am on 2005-08-29
giggle.

will want to talk to you about help with my server(s)
 
posted by [identity profile] dglenn.livejournal.com at 11:03am on 2005-08-29
Oh yeah! Forgot about that in the dash to prepare for Pennsic. I'll send email later.

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