| dec | 1999 |
| 31
friday |
Gina and I are lying close together in bed, she's stroking my beard. |
| 30
thursday |
"You gonna poopy in your pants?"
"Poopy in your pants?!" "Not again." -
Gina, Kory, and Koralleen
|
| 29
wednesday |
"John wiped his
butt at Hooters! John wiped his butt at Hooters!"
-
Gina
|
| 28
tuesday |
"aaaAAAAAAAGH!"
"There's only plastic between us." -
a parrot and Gina
|
| 27
monday |
"Three, two, one, fly."
"He forgot --" -
Skycoaster announcer and me
|
| 26
sunday |
"I might as well get rid of this now."
"Get rid of it now?" -
me and DennDad
|
| 25
saturday |
"You lost?!"
"Well -" "Hey, we were way up." -
Grant and me
|
| 24
friday |
I'm walking through the grocery store looking down each aisle for a hint of phyllo dough. |
| 23
thursday |
"Bahks, Bahks."
"It really hurts..." "Coulda been like a..." "Bahks! A Bahks! -
Gina, Lori, me, and Gina
|
| 22
wednesday |
"They know each other very well and they've
been hanging out and talking a lot for months."
-
Gina
|
| 21
tuesday |
"It takes a long time at two hours a week,
doesn't it?"
-
Peter Abel
|
| 20
monday |
'A winding stair leads to the crypt, where
ghastly, mummified remains are placed in a ghostly row, grinning resentment
at the curious.'
-
Frank H. Probert, National Geographic July 1916
|
| 19
sunday |
"It's not like just an Ultima Online where
you're running around in real time going into towns and chatting with other
characters..."
-
Kory Heath
|
| 18
saturday |
"Said I tried to make a man-made flood
and everything else."
-
President Johnson, taped telephone conversation
|
| 17
friday |
'The object, for some people, is to get
in touch with spirits (whatever they are) by relinquishing conscious
control of motor nerves.'
-
me
|
| 16
thursday |
'Payloads included the Developmental Flight Instrumentation (DFI) and the Aerodynamic Coefficient Identifications Package (ACIP) pallet...' |
| 15
wednesday |
(I always forget, that place closes at four.) |
| 14
tuesday |
'Re: mom's poetry'
-
subject in email In box
|
| 13
monday |
I'm ambling down the empty hallway toward my office, hands in my pockets, humming. |
| 12
sunday |
"Is it good?"
"Mm hmm." "I like these onions." -
me and Gina
|
| 11
saturday |
'They stayed there for about 19 years
gathering dust, but occasionally one of the balls would roll its way to
a more frontal portion of my conscious mind.'
-
me
|
| 10
friday |
"With a difference that for gamma ray bursts we are only recently getting reasonable data..." |
| 9
thursday |
I lock the key box and put key number six into my pocket. |
| 8
wednesday |
"Along with the typical 'put together'
crafts, Christmas ornaments, you know, that kind of stuff."
-
me to Peter Abel
|
| 7
tuesday |
'R NEUTRALIZE
Y TAKE PROGRAMMED G GIVE ANY B PROGRAM' -
my Wetware notes
|
| 6
monday |
'hieroglyphics john coleman alphabet'
-
search entered in Google
|
| 5
sunday |
"I thought I've seen bikers up there quite
a bit."
-
Rich
|
| 4
saturday |
"That if you started with a game that
has one master you can come up with a variation where everyone is a master."
"Right -- the problem with that is..." -
me and Kory
|
| 3
friday |
'Utilities & Games' |
| 2
thursday |
"F on one side, and G on the other..."
-
me (to myself)
|
| 1
wednesday |
"Um, you might have to remove that...
shim."
-
John Marketon
|
| nov | 1999 |
| 30
tuesday |
"Actually, to the left just a little bit
more - "
"Yeah, I still have a bit of garbage up there." -
John Marketon and Peter Abel
|
| 29
monday |
"The second round of grantees is yet to
be decided."
-
unknown woman on CNN radio
|
| 28
sunday |
"All right! Drum solo!"
-
Andrew Looney
|
| 27
saturday |
"Well who? There was nobody else."
-
George McBeal on Ally McBeal
|
| 26
friday |
("Any X?")
-
unknown man in a dream
|
| 25
thursday thxindians |
"Whoa! Whoa,
that's a hawk. You can't eat a hawk."
-
Thom Cooper
|
| 24
wednesday |
'The argument that Shakespeare couldn't have written a play like Romeo and Juliet without being in touch with his emotional side and experiencing similar events in life at that point deserves some consideration.' |
| 23
tuesday |
"What if you're pointing a flashlight
right at the detector? What if you're shining it around the chopper?"
-
me
|
| 22
monday |
'I whose mere name has kept this country
safe,
I that in early days have driven out Maeve of Cruachan and the northern pirates...' -
W. B. Yeats On Baile's Strand
|
| 21
sunday |
"Oh, there was a space."
"Oh. Really?" "Yeah." -
me and Kory Heath
|
| 20
saturday |
"Whose sailboat was it? Who'd you go with?"
"Oh, well, I was in this Explorer Post." -
Gina and me
|
| 19
friday [odd day] |
'...when the story proper resumes, CuChulain
is married to Emer instead of to Eithne Ingubai, and Loeg is making a second
trip to the otherworld with Li Ban.'
-
Encyclopaedia of the Celts: Cuchulain
|
| 18
thursday |
I dip my broccoli spinach stuffed pizza into marinara sauce and look across the almost empty fast food restaurant while another lousy soft rock love song starts playing. |
| 17
wednesday |
I'm turning a little knob, zeroing the automatic ranging feature for my spectrometer. |
| 16
tuesday |
"It's unfortunate that you won't do the
things that you want to do..."
-
Leo D. P.
|
| 15
monday |
"How's the beer situation there?"
"Pretty bleak, but I found the only bar in town." -
me and Jim Butler
|
| 14
sunday |
"Well you owe me some cash, as I recall--"
"Oh damn!" -
Kory Heath and me
|
| 13
saturday |
I close the refrigerator and say "OK -- water." |
| 12
friday |
I look at the four quarters in my hand, and then at the soda machine. |
| 11
thursday [vet's day] |
'...greasy-haired guys with goatees and
an ability to instantly calculate the odds of any occurence rolling 325.456-sided
dice and shouting "Yes! I rolled 234. That gives me 3412 points, so I seduced
her!...'
-
Lord [INSERT NAME HERE] on alt.discordia
|
| 10
wednesday |
'Much more is described about "citizenship"
later, and in other reports and articles available elsewhere - such as
the many undesired, and usually unrealised consequences of being a "citizen".'
-
David T. Freeman
|
| 9
tuesday |
I'm taking the last bite out of my apple. |
| 8
monday |
Switching to G-20-1200 grating during six-foot sphere calibration. |
| 7
sunday |
"I have castanets!"
-
Izolda
|
| 6
saturday |
I'm washing my hands and wondering if Booda is stealing a cupcake. |
| 5
friday |
'jodi.org is being escorted out of the building' |
| 4
thursday |
"That's the sort of attitude that I
might have. You can't come around here with an attitude like that."
-
Peter Abel
|
| 3
wednesday |
"We were both asleep."
"Heh! Yeah." -
Gil Smith and me
|
| 2
tuesday |
"Oh, what are we opening now?"
"The Ames thing." -
me and Peter Abel
|
| 1
monday |
(One free draw, and then an action; the pieces in the center might have to be stacked.) |
| oct | 1999 |
| 31
sunday |
As I cross Roosevelt Center toward Generous Joe's, a persistent burglar alarm from an unknown direction suddenly stops. |
| 30
saturday |
"The game ends when the last card is drawn
and then everyone else completes their turn..."
-
Joan Wendland describing Showbiz Shuffle
|
| 29
friday |
"Right. So... chart, add data."
-
Peter Abel talking to his computer
|
| 28
thursday |
"So they're done."
"Actually I think they're pretty good." -
me and John Marketon in his office
|
| 27
wednesday |
'R 3
Y 1 G 2 B 2' -
me designing glotz
|
| 26
tuesday |
"Love of money is the root of all evil."
-
me to Jim Butler
|
| 25
monday |
Entering the six foot sphere calibration lab while stuffing a bunch of keys into my pocket. |
| 24
sunday |
"I don't think the -- I mean the character,
what's her name, was good..."
-
me in the car
|
| 23
saturday |
"It's just because his stuff to me is
very uneven."
-
Andy
Looney at Wunderland.Earth
|
| 22
friday |
"AAaAaAaAaagh..."
"Jiminy Crickets, man." -
me and Michael Sonesen (via telephone)
|
| 21
thursday |
'I recently found out that I had been
charged $876.86 for a phone number that I never authorized, for a place
that I had not ever lived at.'
-
me, fax to AT&T collections
|
| 20
wednesday |
'Tatooine orbits a binary star system.
Yet in all the scenes we only see single shadows.'
-
Phil
Plait, Bad Astronomy Reviews
|
| 19
tuesday |
"In fact I just turned it around, so you
can use that."
-
Peter Abel, GSFC bldg. 33, 3rd floor hall
|
| 18
monday |
"Now -- name three teachers who have had
a profound and lasting influence on your life."
-
Clifford
Stoll, GSFC
|
| 17
sunday |
'Besides, she preferred even bratty children
to adults.'
-
Neal Stephenson, The Diamond Age
|
| 16
saturday |
"Yeah, I like Royal Mile too."
-
Thom Cooper
|
| 15
friday |
"And if I can justify it --"
"Yeah, if that's the direction of the calibration..." -
me and Jim Butler
|
| 14
thursday |
"I can tell this
is going to be a problem."
-
me
|
| 13
wednesday |
"Oops."
"Oh my God. Look out, it's going crazy." -
me and Jim Butler
|
| 12
tuesday |
Pacing while listening to the approaching service elevator and thinking about carpentry. |
| 11
monday |
(Maybe I should get Gina a hobbit present; she's been so nice to me.) |
| 10
sunday |
'"I was just doing my job, man," she says.
"This Enki dude wanted to get a message to Hiro, and I delivered it."'
-
Snow
Crash by Neal Stephenson
|
| 9
saturday |
"I could've counted something wrong here
--"
"It doesn't look very long." -
me and Gina
|
| 8
friday |
'the man whom nature self had made
To mock herself, and truth to imitate... under mimic shade, Our pleasant Willy, ah! is dead of late.' -
Edmund Spenser (1590)
|
| 7
thursday |
"Oh. Well, we won't turn down any time
to go to the Vegetable Garden... I think."
- me |
| 6
wednesday |
(Maybe it should say 19990920 [txt] [gif]) |
| 5
tuesday |
"You like my solution? A-ha! Time to leave."
-
John Marketon
|
| 4
monday |
"Oh, you mean this? This is Spectral."
-
Peter Abel
|
| 3
sunday |
"When he first started that band he was
playing drums... and he was terrible."
-
me
|
| 2
saturday |
Playing Javaquarius; it's my turn and my goal is still fishies. |
| 1
friday |
"Everywhere else you go gravity's not
much of a variable but you go to NASA and gravity's a variable."
-
Steven Vogel
|
| sep | 1999 |
| 30
thursday |
'I would like to see an idea first, along
with some terms.'
-
Martin Streicher
|
| 29
wednesday |
"67 grams of sugar in every Dr Pepper."
-
me
|
| 28
tuesday |
(repeat delete) |
| 27
monday |
"Turns out a really neat property of this,
if you have negative dispersion..."
-
Duncan Moore
|
| 26
sunday |
"Then I came back here to look for you,
but you weren't here."
-
me
|
| 25
saturday |
A fool named "O" is balancing a hoop on a horn on his chin. |
| 24
friday |
"...and the whole question was whether
this 'T odd' angle leads to time reversal."
-
Bradley Cox
|
| 23
thursday |
'16:11 H990923F 4 LAMPS'
-
calibration log
|
| 22
wednesday |
"Which is strange because I didn't really
think that."
-
me
|
| 21
tuesday |
(Is that supposed to read millivolts?) |
| 20
monday |
'There are no words for how much he will be missed.' |
| 19
sunday |
"She probably won't want to go unless
Leo can get her to go."
-
me
|
| 18
saturday |
'Floyd the Storm left our woods "looking like the day after Christmas, with wrappings strewn about," as our friend Rich put it.' |
| 17
friday |
"So, the big thing is to prevent infection early in life. And for that reason many babies are vaccinated shortly after birth." |
| 16
thursday |
'My hair is big as a galaxy
Cause I attain greater technology' -
Sushi K from Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
|
| 15
wednesday |
'Taboo'
-
HotBot religion
and sex
|
| 14
tuesday |
(I'll have to get Gina to turn it over while I look at the injector thingy.) |
| 13
monday |
"It marks the place on the scale where
these dashes show."
-
Jim Butler
|
| 12
sunday |
"Oh yeah, the Little Cat likes to drink
it too."
-
Alison
|
| 11
saturday |
"Somewhere between ten and fifteen, right?"
"Mmm, might be less than ten." -
me and Gina
|
| 10
friday |
"He didn't want
the gunmetal gray furniture. Because he thought it was covered in
germs..."
-
Jim Butler
|
| 9
thursday |
I'm spellchecking "ineffable" in an e-mail to Stacy. |
| 8
wednesday |
'Jesus said, "I am not your master. Because you have drunk, you have become drunk from the bubbling stream which I have measured out..."' |
| 7
tuesday |
'Having written that, I had the idea to
use Nanofiction to fill out the empty space on the inside back covers of
the 3 books, since I already have one that relates to Zarcana...'
-
Andy
|
| 6
monday |
"And here are the articles about Julia
Butterfly."
-
me
|
| 5
sunday |
"Hey look at that gate."
"Oh yeah..." "Pretty cool." -
Koralleen
and me
|
| 4
saturday |
Koralleen and I are listening intently to the garbled PA system at the Winchester House in San Jose. |
| 3
friday |
(It can probably go in that box without crushing anything.) |
| 2
thursday |
"I'm done."
"I'm gonna do that. I'm gonna do that." -
Carol Johnson & Jim Butler
|
| 1
wednesday |
"Yeah, they've been there already."
-
Mike Fitzgerald
|
| aug | 1999 |
| 31
tuesday |
(Amazing how stable these detectors have been.) |
| 30
monday |
"Throw the quarterback out."
-
Carol Johnson
|
| 29
sunday |
"Yeah, she'll get me back."
-
me
|
| 28
saturday |
"Mrs. Shimfestle, just how far can you
see at a distance?"
-
Welcome
to the World, Baby Girl by Fannie Flagg (audio book)
|
| 27
friday |
"You know -- instead of saying 'FREZ',
'fraEZZa'."
-
Jenny
|
| 26
thursday |
Looking at Tom Waits' Foreign Affairs CD in Archambault, Quebec City. |
| 25
wednesday |
"What's that over there?"
-
me
|
| 24
tuesday |
I'm cinching a leg strap on Gina's safety floatation suit. |
| 23
monday |
"She was almost complaining that they
were there after she left."
-
Jenny
|
| 22
sunday |
"39, 40, 41 42 43..."
-
Gina counting cars coming off a ferry
|
| 21
saturday |
"Better stay
in the slow lane in Quebec."
"I know!" -
Jenny and me
|
| 20
friday |
"Well, I think I'll go home anyway. I'll
go home early."
-
anonymous
|
| 19
thursday |
"And what car did you get?"
"Oh, I'm getting a, um... rental." -
Leo and me
|
| 18
wednesday |
"If I were Diaz I'd have a picture in
every building."
-
Gil Smith
|
| 17
tuesday |
(Getting to know you, getting to know
all about you.)
-
line from an old song briefly going through my head
|
| 16
monday |
'The positional accuracy of information
on digitally-produced maps is equal to that of an analog map.'
-
USGS report
|
| 15
sunday |
'F9) Return to previous menu'
-
process.exe interpolating program
|
| 14
saturday |
"Alright, so you've got X squared plus
Z squared equals 55 squared."
-
Jake
|
| 13
friday |
"Have a good weekend."
"See ya, take care." -
Gil Smith and me
|
| 12
thursday |
'"Quiet, you guys!" Stacey hissed, cupping
the phone against her shoulder.'
-
Herb Childress, Slumber
Party
|
| 11
wednesday |
"I was too busy to deal with it."
-
Jim Butler
|
| 10
tuesday |
'Press a function key to choose the noise
threshold (usually [F4] for .5%).'
-
me
|
| 9
monday |
"It's just weird that a Saturday night
stay-over would do that."
-
me
|
| 8
sunday |
"Bawitdaba-da bang-da bang-diggy-diggy-diggy
said the boogie-said up jump the boogie"
-
Kid
Rock on my car radio
|
| 7
saturday |
(So, do I want a compass with a sighting mirror or not?) |
| 6
friday |
"'Calibrate' -- 'Complete' --"
"OK, the first one's done..." -
Gil Smith and
me
|
| 5
thursday |
I'm walking out of the men's room whistling The World I Know (by Collective Soul). |
| 4
wednesday |
"Right. Next Thursday other people may
be using that room, but nobody will be using the table that's in there."
-
me
|
| 3
tuesday |
'Subject: Hemisphere radiance data 7/99
(from code 920.1)'
-
me
|
| 2
monday |
'Check and adjust zero for autorange feature:'
-
me
|
| 1
sunday |
"Hogarth!!!"
-
Annie Hughes, from The Iron Giant
|
| jul | 1999 |
| 31
saturday |
"The Cheapass Starbase Jeff."
"Never played it." |
| 30
friday |
"He should have said 'right when you turn
on Hobart...'"
-
me
|
| 29
thursday |
'Keyboard.....Detected
Mouse........Detected' -
computer display
|
| 28
wednesday |
'Mended the machine and got it ready to
fly as a kite on the plain when a threatening squall at 2 P.M. determined
taking it down the hill to the tent.'
-
Octave
Chanute's Diary: Wednesday, September 16, 1896
|
| 27
tuesday |
'Furthermore, the Freudian model often assumes that childhood sexual abuse is usually unconsciously repressed...' |
| 26 | Pushed the G6-200 computer's power button to turn it on. |
| 25 | "Why else would you have human-brained dolphins? I mean sharks." |
| 24 | |
| 23 | "Oh! OK..."
-
me (to Peter Abel)
|
| 22 | Redialing Gina (busy again, darn it). |
| 21 | "...and then there's 'inspect and adjust
emission level.'"
-
Gina
(over phone)
|
| 20 | "Hi."
"Hi." -
conversation in snack room with unknown woman.
|
| 19 | Listening to Hooked on Classics outside of a restroom at Busch Gardens amusement park. |
| 18 | "Do me a favor, tell Ishikawa not to go
crazy, OK?"
-
Tosuga, Ghost in the
Shell
|
| 17 | "Oh, there was a really good one, it was...
Ha ha! There it is now! Four
eleven!" -
me
|
| 16 | 'To start measurement press the space
bar.'
-
746sig-c.exe program
|
| 15 | '...returned in early June in a new novel, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.' |
| 14 | (Imagine this little thinky balloon shape showing up in a flowchart.) |
| 13 | 'the world surrounding fills my every
breath'
-
me
|
| 12 | (Well, nothing worth proving was proven there...) |
| 11 | "Sweeeeeety...!"
-
me to Booda
|
| 10 | "No, that was my excuse."
-
Gina
|
| 9 | Paging through an XTC discography. |
| 8 | "The way I figure, the guy must've been
no more than a foot tall."
-
Jim Butler
|
| 7 | 'Unfortunately, my "laser" is a silent weapon. I would have to add the sound effects myself.' |
| 6 | '...she has been known to make someones
test messages get through and fnord none of their other ones.'
-
Ho
Chi Ho Chi Zen from alt.discordia
|
| 5 | I'm in bed with Gina. |
| 4 |
BALTIMORE ON TIME ** HAPPY BIRTHDAY, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA! ***' -
America West Gate B6 Marquee
|
| 3 | "In the morning, when my hands are warm
from the shower, I have to put it on my pinkie."
-
Eeyore
|
| 2 | Sipping coffee while walking toward Origins convention area. |
| 1 | '...and because the biggest driver of
the temperature instability is often the sphere source itself,...'
-
me
|
| jun | 1999 |
| 30 | 'Edit [click] Paste Special... [click]
Values [click] OK [click]'
-
Excel menu selections [and mouse clicks]
|
| 29 | Opening door to exit main sensor calibration lab. |
| 28 | 'Source: GSFC 42-inch Sphere (Spike)'
-
calibration report
|
| 27 | "How is the neighbor downstairs?" |
| 26 | I am washing and tearing up spinach leaves for a salad. |
| 25 | "I have the key; actually John's not coming
in... hold on a second."
-
Me
|
| 24 | "It's the amount of beer Jim Butler can
drink in a weekend, or, one hectoliter."
-
Peter Abel
|
| 23 | "Dr. Granite should be in in just a moment."
-
a nurse
|
| 22 | Drawing a small rectangle. |
|
21
|
Fumbling to install a detector in a monochromator in the dark. |
|
20
|
"Oh, beer... fridge... here!"
-
Maren Mayhew
|
|
19
|
"That's not necessarily a trait."
-
Stacy Marders
|
|
18
|
...searching E-bay for an old wooden Go board... |
|
17
|
"God has a blank card."
-
Me
|
|
16
|
"Personalized settings for volume control."
-
Peter Abel
|
|
15
|
"All it carries
is a penis enlarger, right?"
-
Me
|
|
14
|
'What do you want to wear?'
-
NetHack
|
|
13
|
"I hate my job and I want to be a housewife."
-
Anon.
|