When I first began a serious study of Nietzsche, (view full entry for contents)

I was going to go out to get some Fondue tonight (and if anyone were to want to do half-price with me at that place in Oakland for that, I'd be game - call me), but I also picked up some Sauvignon Blanc and Brie so I can learn to cook it.

Largely unrelated, I remembered the name of the awesome French restaurant I went to some years back with Nicole and her father -- Laforet. They served some of the best french food I've had in my life (hard to compare it to the food my family had in Paris when I was 14 or so -- that was too long ago). People up for an excellent (albeit fairly expensive) french meal should check it out.

Perhaps someone can explain this to me - why are fuel cells for laptops and cellphones interesting? As I understand, they're not rechargable - they consume fuel and so either need to be refilled or replaced. Given that current laptop and cellphone batteries are rechargable, arn't fuel cells a step backwards for most people and purposes?

Related, I was very displeased the first time my Wii controller's battery pooped out and I needed to run out to the supermarket to get more AAs. It'd be nice if they used rechargable batteries..

First attempt at Fondue is a partial success. (view full entry for contents)

Yum.

I was recently a bit weirded out how much I repeat myself on my blog - reason why is that my blog usually skims the surface of what's on my mind at the moment, and I do tend to return to old topics every so often and, forgetting I already blogged them, don't go into the non-intro part of them. Still, it bugs me.

I've been in a vindictive, angry mood, (view full entry for contents)*mopes*

Spoke again with JasonM about SB - he pointed me at Craigslist there, and out of curiosity, I looked in the jobs section and immediately spotted two rather neat positions - will have to look more carefully at them and craigslist in general. I've never thought of craigslist as a place to find a job - perhaps I was too dismissive. (view full entry for contents)

Will make fondue again with different cheeses soon, given advice from a friend in Germany.

Expect a news/news-analysis post soon, for the world remains interesting in the chinese curse sense.

We define the role of the state: (view full entry for contents)

Picked up some Gruyère and Emmenthal cheeses as well as more bread for "Fondue Take 2", which may happen tonight. The smell of flowers and plants is in the air, and it is now very pleasant to be outdoors. I also spent a good deal of time at the 61c having some granola-in-milk (why don't more restaurants serve cereal-ish stuff as meals?) and tea and puzzling over why/how my OLPC got partially reset (the automatic updates occasionally nuke everything outside of /home - maybe that's what happened), both removing all the packages I added to have a more stock linux environment I could switch to as well as making the OLPC browser activity work again. Unfortunately, I can also no longer "su", so I may need to reflash the system to get back to tinkering.

I remember when I administered some SCO Openserver and Unixware systems some time back, scoadmin "impressed" me with its willingness to rebuild the kernel whenever a package needed some parameters tweaked or a new driver. (view full entry for contents)

I was doing some reading on the Parthenon, and recent reconstruction efforts, and came across mention of a "replica" in Nashville, Tennessee, USA that serves as an art museum. While I'm bothered that they're using it to showcase recent art (I'd rather see it decorated as closely as possible to how the original was as a temple to Athena), I want to make a trip to see it sometime soonish. Anyone who wants to make this happen (roadtrip?), please let me know.

With a building that's served so many purposes over the years, the original parthenon would be hard to reconstruct in a way that would serve every potential scholarly interest - I would love to see it as it was in most of those periods, with whatever decour and modifications it had as a church, mosque, etc. It'd be kind of silly to build 3 extra parthanons next to the original to provide this (disturbing the ruins might limit future research), but for a building that awesome, it'd be tempting.

Fondue 2.0: another qualified success(view full entry for contents)

Livejournal's random feed demonstrates that there is a mind-boggling amount of slash being written all the time.

Geek culture distribution: (view full entry for contents)

Onto news and thoughts daran: (view full entry for contents)

Strange daydream - really old butterflies with long beards. Do butterflies really get old?

I just installed Fedora 9 preview on my laptop. Initial impressions: (view full entry for contents)

My apologies for taking this advance idea for a topic from someone who hasn't yet posted on it (I won't name them because the post is friendlocked), but I think it's interesting and I haven't written except in brief on the matter before. Storytime.. which eventually will hopefully meander onto/through some conclusions, observations, and impressions.

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Summing up, I don't think poly relationships are things that people only experiment with in youth even if that's true for some people, nor do I think they're interently problematic for everyone. They may in fact be a better thing for some people, although finding out for whom that is true can be a painful process. I think but do not know that I could manage a sex/companionship-style involvement in a polyweb but not a love-style involvement, and while I do desire sex and companionship and would not object to having it through either something casual, I also want love and I suspect but do not know that I could not manage that in a poly relationship. The more people who are in poly relationships, the more people who I'd want to date otherwise become unavailable, and so in an indirect way, poly webs disadvantage me in a way that hurts more than many other types of systematic incompatibility/difficulty.