swordfish

inspiration leads to SDL. and SDL is awesome.

most of yesterday was consumed by sleep and trawling the web. then we watched swordfish, and i immediately jumped online and discovered SDL...
and then late last night fn arrived...

after watching national geographic, the endings to both gulliver's travels and sonny and cher this morning, i went back to SDL hacking, having given fn terry pratchett - truckers to keep her occupied :)

SDL is impressive both in linux and windows (although the kid's working on something along different lines), and much amusement ensued when i managed to lose my mouse and scrunch up my resolution hopelessly - the code i tried to fix it with i ingeniously placed in a non-occurring condition. what an amateur!

the last thing i expected was a call from the mongoose to invite me to his new club. he actually bought the lizard, along with freshmeat and another friend of his, after years of managing the place - the first thing i did was tell him urgently "quick! give it back!" :P

the kid made dinner, and the three of us settled in to watch the golden child, which was great!

i walked fn to the bus, then took a different one to get to the lizard. i like what they've done to the place, they've got their shit together, a decent crowd and good music, a drop-dead gorgeous bartender and passion fruit available, so we made the new year official by bringing our suitcases.
well, it was whiskey and not jack, but close enough.

on the way back home i had plenty of time to think about what i'm doing with the swordfish-inspired work... i don't know how long it'll take because i simply can't prioritize it highly and it's a big project, but i have some styling ideas in the pipeline and i reckon i'll eventually get something useful out. heh, i'll call it f.

i'm not sure how wise it is to be sleeping with a seventeen year-old parolee with a body built for sin and a smile to match. i mean, i've been towing the line with everything else, should i really be indulging myself this much?

YES.

-- ooh! almost forgot all the links! --

does it matter if we're VR? yet another matrix theory, unless somebody has devised a method to exit to the "real" reality it would be wiser to direct our efforts to the problems at hand.

a healthy scientific retort, posted in the midst of a discussion of just how impressive it is that the rovers lasted so long.
and how silly it is that they don't have solar panel wipers.

the reconciliation of science and religion... is just as believable as pre-historic chariots of fire and flying mountains.

why - oh why - do we have to wait until next fall?!
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