Skype? No. Gizmo. Open standards. Interoperability. AIM or Yahoo or MSN? None. Jabber. Google Talk. Open standards. Interoperability.

Skype only talks to Skype. Gizmo Project talks to itself and Google Talk and everybody else using the same standards. In fact, you can call my home phone with the Gizmo Project without paying a cent! SIP calls. Very cool. Skype can’t do that.

AIM/YIM/MSN only talk to themselves. Google Talk talks to itself and any number of thousands of other Jabber IM servers on the planet! I have my own. It works fine. Open standards. Open source. Imagine that.

If tin whistles are made of tin, what do they make fog horns out of?

Would somebody ask Lonnie Donegan?

I just got the call five minutes ago: I’m cast as Andrew in the Evergreen Players’ production of I Hate Hamlet. We open the day before the Ides of March. Come see it! It will be a funny show—Sarah Roshan and Bernie Cardell are directing!

Which one is it? Although the first rendition is the most common I ask you to ponder the latter. Let’s not put Descartes before de horse.

I got a Canon Digital Rebel XTi DSLR camera for Christmas. Here are a couple photos, sized down, of course. I don’t feel it’s necessary to post the original 10-megapixel pictures here.

Why can’t I be like everyone else? I want to be able to go to noisy, crowded bars and have fun. I want to enjoy… you know… people. Why can’t I be like other people who like to laugh and drink and dance and rock out to very very very loud music?

Why do I have to be the loneliest in a crowd?  ☹️

What an absolutely beautiful day today. I wish I could spend it with my love. Perhaps I am, wherever she is. Oh well, there will be other beautiful days. But not like this one.

There will never be another today.

Right away, I knew it was going to be a difficult drive. People were driving like maniacs. What’s wrong with these people? It’s like Boyle’s Law for automobiles: as density increases, so does pressure.

I managed to make it to the shoe store, the bank, and the fuel station without incident. It was after leaving the biodiesel pump when things got interesting. A guy making a right turn after me honked at me for coming to a complete stop before making my right turn. ACTUALLY HONKED AT ME for obeying the traffic laws! What a FUCKER! I immediately flipped him off. This was the first time I’d ever done that. He of course did not stop, overtook me on the left, and crossed in front of me without signaling. I laid on him for a good two seconds with 100 watts of air horn. But I soon forgot about him because I spotted an accident ahead. I hit my amber lights and protected what turned out to be the scene of a rear-end collision between a dump truck hauling a small front-end loader (rear ender) and a black VW Passat wagon (rear endee). Fortunately the VW’s driver, a nice lady named Jane, wasn’t hurt. It took Colorado State Patrol a good 20 minutes to get there, then I took off.