Take That, You Brute!
19 January 2000
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Take That, You Brute!
19 January 2000
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5:10 PM: Wheeee! Well, that was fun. Nothing like a good session of snapping at an asshole who theoretically outranks me, for continually chattering while everyone else was trying to have a meeting. If I coulda reached the dry eraser I would have thrown it at him. Snapping three or four times, even! Aaagh. I can still feel my nervous system quivering.
The thing I hate about scenes like that most is that I usually don't show that kind of irritation - or don't show it explicitly, anyway. So when it does burst out, I'm so ill-practiced at it that I end up sounding like the worst kind of 3rd-grade teacher priss. "Will you please stop that???!! It is so annoying, I just can't take it anymore!" Flounce, flounce. Yeesh.
More interestingly, it wasn't officially Snack®, but I got a big oatmeal cookie from a box that someone left on the SnackCounter®. Mmm. Cookie.
This story about the alcohol-based fuel cells that could act as a battery for a laptop or such is pretty good, but I think those Los Alamos guys are missing the point. They've got it so you have to replace the whole battery when the alcohol runs out. No no no no! We must be able to refuel the battery. Which will, of course, necessitate a visit to an alcohol vending establishment. Purely for work-related reasons, of course.
I read all the hoopla about the new Crusoe chip from Transmeta. Um, I guess, yeah, neat. Linux on a cell phone, one watt of power, runs at half the temperature. But I was more amazed to read that the late Hedy Lamarr helped invent spread-spectrum radio, which is basically what cell phones use. And was a famous strange looking babe. Cool. That beats heck out of Linus Torvalds playing Quake, I'm sorry.
8:50:
From: Amelia
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 22:29:30 EST
Subject: More factoids about Hedy Lamarr
To: MeI was glad to read your comments on what it was that Hedy Lamarr actually invented, because I had another techno-gossip item about her that I had been unable to place properly.
Apparently, she is the glamorous forties vamp depicted on the packaging for Corel Draw. However, that image was the fruit of a contest for Corel users, and the company selected the image without realizing that it depicted a real person. The urban legend goes on to say something about Lamarr being very tech-savvy, seeing the box, and demanding all kinds of royalties from Corel for the use of the image. At least now I know why she was supposed to be so clever.
Thanks!
A
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 20:38:37 -0800
From: Me
To: Amelia
Subject: Re: More factoids about Hedy Lamarrwow, it is!
http://www.corel.com/draw8mac_le/index.htm
let's start a cult!
Willfully blind self-indulgent nebbish or amusingly quirky old coot? And how bout that local sports team? Discuss among yourselves.
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