So, today has been relatively quiet. I started off the day by successfully using my PowerBook as an alarm clock, set to play some music in iTunes. For tomorrow morning, I'm going to try having it open a stream from the local public radio station, WAMU. Assuming it all works, I can unplug the clock radio and toss it in the closet.
I downloaded the next email client that I'm going to test, PowerMail, but haven't looked at it yet -- I'm going to wait another a day or two, until I'm finished dissecting Apple Mail.
Ran to the bank today and deposited my unemployment check and payment from my mother -- I'm doing some miscellaneous research and clerical/administrative type stuff for her. I then came straight back to the house because the weather around here is absolutely miserable right now.
Amazon reports that my fifth season Babylon 5 DVDs have been shipped and should be here on Wednesday. *hop hop* I also find, in looking at Amazon, that they're selling two different "bundles": the first four seasons, and all five seasons. For some weird reason, it actually costs a dollar less to buy all five seasons than it does just to buy the first four. Whatever... it's obviously no concern to me.
So... after all these years of patiently waiting, I'm finally going to have the complete Babylon 5 collection (well, except for some of the made-for-tv movies). What else is there to say? Actually, I think I'll quote a haiku that a certain someone (nudge, nudge, wink) made up about me and Denise in the Fall of 2002...
guns are good weapons
in the babylon five suite
wedded bliss back east
(Hmm... I'm actually not sure about this. Are there formal rules on capitalization in haiku? I'd assume there isn't, since it's a Japanese form, but I think it looks better in all lower case and with no punctuation.)
Posted by Zathras at April 12, 2004 07:22 PMvogon poetry lives . . . ;)
Posted by: Shaw at April 12, 2004 11:11 PMSaid "Vogon" has no trouble at all getting laid, finding relationship partners (real rather than imaginary), earning advanced degrees, or obtaining extremely good jobs that he enjoys. So logically, that means the above speaker is more revolting and pathetic than the most despicable, disgusting creature in the universe.
Posted by: Moggy at April 20, 2004 01:24 PMHey Shaw - did you actually mean to imply the writer of that haiku was a Vogon (and mean, nasty, smelly, and ugly), or just that the haiku was some of 'the third worst poetry in the known universe'?
Some people are disagreeing about that. My opinion (bolstered by your winkey-smiley) was that it was a joke, and not intended as a serious insult. The future integrity of your gluteus maximus depends on your answer. :)
Posted by: Matt at April 21, 2004 01:27 AM