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[prillalar]

Last night, I got home from work with half an hour before I was supposed to meet kestrelsan on AIM. And my cable was down. I have a dial-up account for emergencies, like when my cable is down and I can't check my email and LJ every five minutes, but it's not great for chatting.

So I grabbed my laptop, walked half a block, bought a coffee, and used the free wireless at the café.

It was great, but it left me with a bit of materialistic guilt over owning so many computers: one desktop, Markus, one laptop, Kaoru-chan, one desktop and one laptop for the boy, an anime/TV file server, and a guest computer since we don't like anyone to touch our computers. And that's just what's set up and on the network.

Do I really need that many computers? Do I really need to be online every minute of the day? (Answer: yes.)

On the other hand, I'm in my thirties and I've never owned a car. (Nor has the Boy.) So maybe that will help my consumption-karma.

In other news, I am slowly getting back into the request stories, after my post-Not the Triumph break. I seem to have lost the knack of knocking off short, fast bits of fic, though. I think, write some porn, Hal,, and when I sit down to do it, I start thinking too much and next thing I know, I have to figure out this whole background, even if the reader will never see it. (Well, except for MomoKai -- they just get it on because they're young and horny.) It makes for better stories, but they take a lot longer.

In other, other news, I downloaded Advent Children from Shinsen, since everyone was going on about it. I did go see The Spirits Within in 2001, but that's the sum total of my FF involvement. Advent Children seems good, but it's hitting the Uncanny Valley pretty hard for me, so I'm not sure if I'll be able finish it.

And that's it for now. Further bulletins as events warrant.

Comments

[laylah.livejournal.com]

...Mmm, thank you for that Wiki link -- I was familiar with the concept, but I didn't know it had a name (and such a cool one!).

Have also DL'ed AC, but not yet tried to watch it. I didn't have the uncanny response to Spirits Within -- hmm, I'd guess I felt more fascination than anything -- though I found myself a little frustrated by the tiny inaccuracies of FFX's fmv bits (mouths, mostly -- they never looked quite right to me).

Good luck with the request stories, also.

[prillalar]

The first human I saw in AC -- I saw his hand and I thought, OMG, a zombie! It's just a bit too creepy for me.

It's really interesting how our brains work. I suppose this is related to pattern recognition and how if things are odd or different, they stand out.

[merith.livejournal.com]

you know what's funny about your post? I've got several computers in my house as well. no (working) laptops, but many desktops.

mine, my son's, my daughter's, the 'adopted kid', the spare, the other spare and a couple of cannibilized ones waiting for someone to junk them or take more parts from them. (my son's the hardware nut)

and i'm with you... cable goes out, and i'm twitching.

[prillalar]

I have friends who still share email accounts with their spouse! I can't fathom that at all. A computer is, for a lot of people, really an extension of yourself. It's where you keep a lot of your information and memory, it's your voice, it's a very personal space. I can't imagine having to share ever again.

[helgaleenas.livejournal.com]

Hook up a computer, save a tree from becoming newsprint. You are being virtuous.

[prillalar]

With all the energy we're using running all the computers? I don't think so. *g*

[helgaleenas.livejournal.com]

You never know- that could be solar or wind power. it is wind-farmed where I live.