It’s snowing. Big, fat flakes. It’s been 90 degrees, and now, it snows. Very strange.
Author Archives: Waldo Jaquith
Blinded by time.
Today is the first day of the year when the sun has peeked out from behind the Wachovia building to blind me in the evening. This is the third year running, and still, it surprises me. Time to start using the shades.
Getcher mailing lists.
I’ve got a new system set up, Rusty. (That’s its name.) Rusty is an old Dell P133, and its only purpose in life is to serve as a free mailing list server for local organizations. I’ve been trying to find similar projects around the country, but I haven’t tracked any down yet. Before I start …
The arrest.
Apparently, I did OK yesterday with the line up: they arrested the guy that hit me back in February. (Well, to be fair, they arrested the suspect. I don’t know that he’s the guy that hit me. But the officer in charge of the case says that he’s got no question that this is the …
Line up.
I looked at a photo line up at the police station today, hoping to identify the guy that hit me. I was shown six images, all obviously pictures from drivers’ licenses. I got to wondering — do they just pick random images? So, then have I been in a line up? Have you? Anyhow, I …
China situation is stupid.
I don’t get this hostage situation in China. (That’s not true. I’ve debated lots of conspiracy theories and such, but let’s pretend that I don’t get it.) For one, the press seems totally unwilling to acknowledge that this is a hostage situation. I’m yet to hear the word “hostage” on NPR or read it in …
Guilty smoker.
I had a dream a couple of years ago that I smoked. It was a very vivid dream, and I felt really quite guilty when I woke up. Although I have never smoked in my life, nor have I ever had any desire to, I knew exactly what it felt like to inhale, to have …
The best political system money can buy.
I got a letter today from my good buddy Senator Paul Wellstone today. Senator Wellstone (or “Paul,” as I call him) tells me that he wants to overhaul our political system, because of the problem of “money in politics.” More important, “money corrupts our political process — and our politicians.” Why, did you know that …
Charlottesville news.
I put up a new website, cvillenews.com. There’s so many good Charlottesville news sites, but they don’t communicate, there’s no connection between them. Hopefully this will provide a meta-view of these sites and, best of all, permit people to discuss the news. Alternately, I might get bored with the site in two weeks. I don’t …
Back to OS 9.
I upgraded to Mac OS X on Friday evening. I love it. It looks good, it’s fast, it’s Unix…it’s everything that I could want an operating system to be. Well, almost. I switched back to OS 9 this morning. For two reasons. The first, and most important, is that OS X won’t work with Netatalk …