head down -- look at him instead!

[trochee]

I'm on chapter two. I have a table of contents. I have an outline.

I've done a draft of chapter 1.

it's nearly 40 pages already, although that includes 8 pages of University-mandated cruft.

apologies to those of you (including Trey of SpecGram, who recently piped up) for not having more to say.

Perhaps later I'll share a draft abstract with you all.

in the mean time, my younger, better-looking brother (aka _dkg_) has some interesting writing about desktop publishing on Linux, computer security, politics, and being bitten by a snake in Shenandoah. And don't miss his group blog with two way-too-smart highschool classmates, which covers everything from cyborg humanity to alternative energy to guerilla art.

Comments

[boobirdsfly.livejournal.com]

You're lucky to have other computer geeks in your family.
My dad sent me an email in reply to me emailing him the link to my French Blog and said ( trans.) : "I read your... "what is it called?" Nice, but if you don't mind, there are some syntax and grammatical errors."
Thanks Dad. Have I told you I barely ever write in French anymore except to send you emails ? Why do I always have to be perfect ?

[trochee.livejournal.com]

oof. that must be frustrating.

yes, it's nice to have other geeks in the family. _dkg_ is my Linux sponsor, actually -- he's the reason I feel safe doing it, because I have him for support.

[boobirdsfly.livejournal.com]

I have been starting to see lately how it would be nice for me to learn about other operating systems but arg no time. I haven't even transferred my files from my computer to my laptop yet. One of this weekend's projects...
I wish I knew so much more about computers.
It really frustrates me when I can't figure out things that I know are simple like uploading sites and rss to my delic.io.us. account...

[trochee.livejournal.com]

hey look! you have a delicious account!

*adds to http://del.icio.us/inbox/trochee/*

I looked at the links and Pascal Riché's analysis of the Bush speech made me laugh, after I figured out what he was doing. It's a language geek/politics joke, my favorite!

[boobirdsfly.livejournal.com]

Yah. I was going to post about it but i am annoyed with my lj right now. Am resisting posting other people's words. How do I add you ?

[trochee.livejournal.com]

go to my bookmarks and you should be able to click "subscribe". Or you could just click here, if I understand their CGI/URL patterns correctly.

[boobirdsfly.livejournal.com]

uh thanks. i think.

[trochee.livejournal.com]

does that mean it didn't work?

[boobirdsfly.livejournal.com]

No i think it did.
It's just a strange site in that it doesn't confirm anything to you when you do something to it.

[xaosenkosmos.livejournal.com]

Looking at your links, and knowing that she's neither linguist nor computer nerd, it might very well mean that it worked perfectly ;^)

[trochee.livejournal.com]

are you, sir, impugning my interests? and to the lovely imtboo herself?

Of course, you know...

this means war! [/daffy]