Tag: friends

Interesting people

Clarisa Doval leads the way: having your own interesting people mailing list, Dan Farber style, is worth the hassle, she tells me. Setting up a list will be very easy. More challenging: Selecting interesting people, and getting the list going.

serendip@abstrakt.ch it shall be. I’m thinking of starting with a group of maybe 5 persons. The timid state of blogs in .ch (20 and counting, out of which 4 are written by friends) doesn’t lend itself to lively stream of consciousness exchange, but what do I know.

thanks for hosting

we had some downtime here the last few days. turns out something ate away at the free space on the RAID. fixed now! simultaneously, a table of my database got corrupted, so i was curious how the backup would hold up. it did fine, and i’m now fairly confident we can master most disasters, with an ext3 journaling file system on top of a RAID 1 configuration. thank you andreas for hosting my (600 MB and growing) site. i really appreciate it.

Dear diary

It’s healthy to see some criticism on a friends blog. Discourse invariably involves dissent, and having friends take you up on your writings is a nice change from blogging into the void, “dear diary” style. I would expect to have more and more conversations over the blog instead of email. blog death matches as spectator sport? Deciding issues by a public poll? Spreading memes?
2002-12-20:

Quite a list for someone with major depression isn’t it. I missed out on a lot more than that party for someone who really wasn’t good for me! I read a lot more than I listen to music. I read a lot of diarists who also read my toothbrush chronicles and I find such comfort in that 😦 I didn’t want to do this because it seems to cut-and-dry but this is for people who don’t know me or haven’t read a lot of this diary so they know what’s going on : I didn’t want to give because it could all be taken. I didn’t want to buy any of them but that didn’t stop me from staring at em and wondering who the heck thought up this stuff. It didn’t stop me from getting this wacky record player.
There seems to be nothing that will stop me from protecting the earth and my furry friends. There seems to have been some confusion about my probation 😉 There’d have been some serious fisticuffs if he had done that. I’m so glad i wasn’t there i would have told her lady you have some serious issues and need help. But you didn’t and i would have rather you walked away than destroy every last memory even the good ones they’ll be tainted now like our marriage was it just this once dillon. Normally i would have felt really bad but he looked like he had been hit before.

2004-11-10:have your diary entry written

danger signs

it’s disheartening to see how many of my friends are oozing boredom these days. rather than being active, they fool around with their gf / bf most of their waking moments, rarely leave their home, and are generally hesitant to do anything outside their daily chores. with friends like that, no wonder zurich holds increasingly less appeal. time to meet some new faces. danger signs to watch out for if you want to detect calcification.

  • “i don’t know. i have to ask my bf / gf”
  • “oh, monday night i’m ALWAYS going to see xyz”
  • “i have to work tomorrow” (no shit!)
  • “we decided to move out in the green.”
  • “i’m so busy. maybe we can meet in 3 weeks.”