five thousand shades of blue
Thursday, July 12, 2001
First I forgot to bring any form of payment with me on the way to the gas station -- then I drove a panicked four miles home and back hoping upon hope that I wouldn't end up completely running out, all systems freezing in place and there's me, unable to brake or steer, crashing off the side of the road and into a ditch in ... but I made it all right back to the pump, only to discover that a very enterprising group of yellowjackets had . Never have I been so grateful for Oregon's "no self serve" law, and the two Chevron attendants managed to get it out and step on it (exclaiming, "They were just about to hatch!").
Perhaps today will be the day when I get some good news. I have not yet heard back from the company I interviewed with last week (this is not unexpected). I am also awaiting word from another position I applied for, one I think I'm well suited for (though I can't decide if the error on the "test question" was intentionally "trick" or if it was just lack of knowledge about web programming). I addressed the error nonetheless, and damn the consequences, eh? Pulling all six numbers on
Megabucks would have been welcome good news, but alas, I am out of luck.
I was pondering late last week, as I backed ten mostly-full Zip disks onto hard drive, the currency of storage. I remember being awed at the thought of fitting nearly 100 floppies onto a single Zip disk. When I finished with the backing up, I looked at the size of the folder, and noticed that all of
that information didn't even fill up one CD-R. It kind of amazed me, actually. That's almost like a thousand floppies.
is
this just not enough…?
