Ever have something you always wonder in a situation, but your thoughts of it fade quickly when you're removed from said circumstance? I've broken the barrier on one instance of that -- the mystery of showers. I've noticed this for years -- that when one is in a shower, and has the temperature adjusted to one's liking, and it's been that way for awhile, and one gets a taste for more heat, adjusting the knobs in any way, even to turn up the heat or down the cold, will make the water overall colder, and you need to move the knobs quite a bit to reach or pass where you started. I find this odd. I know that shower knobs are by no means precision instruments where you get to set a temperature, or even a ballpark. Maybe if I had a digitally controlled shower (!), I'd expect it to be smart enough to hold temperature at where I like it despite a decreasing amount of hot water.. but this is analog here. So, I ask, why doesn't: 1) The phonomena not occur 2) The water get continually and slowly colder, if the setting of the knob continually gets less 'real'? Perhaps it's some strange, coincidental characteristic of water flow, or maybe there really is a lot more going on inside the faucet mechanism than I would think.

On the topic of heat, it's now deathly cold outside, the kind of cold where you don't want to leave bed. I'm finding myself spending considerably more time in bed, actually, snuggling with my cat. I hate the cold. I think I need to get a nicer pair of gloves, and dig out the heaviest of my clothes..

Yesterday's BLOG session was interesting -- it was actually being driven by some academics in the Human Computer Interaction group, but was an open forum. I hope they hold the future meetings at a time that's more doable for me..

I've decided that I really should decommission forrester, and possibly torgo too. Holly can stick around just as a backup system to connect to from outside or something. I just need to go through the pain of backing everything up to CD before I actually shut them down..

It always struck me as odd how a lot of people, when posting pictures of themselves somewhere (bulletin board, whatever) always seem to have a knack for finding the least attractive photos possible. I know that some people just don't look good on camera, for whatever reason (e.g. they dislike having their picture taken, or they always have incompetant people take their picture), but when I know that other pictures exist of them that are nice, or know them to actually be good looking, there's really no excuse for them not to have good pictures there. This is true for a number of situations I've noticed in the last 2 years. So many people..

I might visit Columbus this weekend, I'm not sure. I really want to go camping sometime around here too...

Oh, last friday, I did some tricks and telnetted into my linksys router, playing around on the little linux it's running. Really cool. A few hours later, it froze up, and I had to give it a hard reset. Not so cool. Oh well. I think I know of a way to rearrange my apartment so the router will provide better wireless coverage.

On topic of the journal, I'll have the topic pages more fleshed out soon. Tweaking the backup scripts to understand the recent changes takes priority though. :)