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[cjsmith]

Found the problem in the latest sim run. Progress is slllloooooow but at least it's not absent altogether.

I read two newspaper-things that were not comics yesterday. They reminded me why I don't do that more often. One was a whiney column about how some building should be turned into art studios because it would otherwise house computer people, who are rich, boring, and lifeless and should therefore not occupy a desirable building. The other was a followup about a dancer who couldn't afford, on her own, to attend the prestigious chance-of-a-lifetime program she had been admitted to, but whose tuition was PAID IN FULL by a pair of strangers (venture capitalists - computer types) who heard her story and wanted to help. The two made an interesting juxtaposition. I can't help thinking that if the ballet student and the painter were to get together, they wouldn't like each other much. I know which one I'm cheering for. And in future I'll stick to the comics.

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[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Huh. I have just learned that if I don't end my LJ entry with a carriage return, LJ will delete the period at the end of my last sentence.

Odd.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

But not always. It's very repeatable using this entry as the test case, but an entry containing just the word "testing" (with and without a trailing period, no trailing CR) didn't show the behavior.

[joedecker.livejournal.com]

weird

[joedecker.livejournal.com]

computer people, who are rich, boring, and lifeless [emphasis mine] and should therefore not occupy a desirable building

Heh, they don't know you very well, do they. :)

Seriously, just a few days agao I was wondering when we'd start seeing more geek-bashing
again. It went out of style when dotcoms made geeks the millionaires
of the moment. Now that lots of folks lost their shirts in the
aftermath, there's a lot of angst to go around, and geeks seemed
the likely target.

[tytso.livejournal.com]

Well, obviously geeks were responsible for taking the baby boomers, tieing them down and beating them until they invested all of their retirement money into companies like "bulbs.com --- your source for light bulbs on the internet!"

[joedecker.livejournal.com]

:)

Suckahs. :) That'll teach them to taunt me in grade school.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Those geeks, they sure are good at tying people up and beating them.

Oh! Wait! That's not what you meant...

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Heh, they don't know you very well, do they. :)

Maybe she'd make the same judgment if she did know me. After all, I don't paint, and I do use computers! And if that's the way it'd be, hey, that's okay. We don't have to be friends. I'll probably never run into her at an orgy. :-)

Seriously, just a few days agao I was wondering when we'd start seeing more geek-bashing again. It went out of style when dotcoms made geeks the millionaires of the moment. Now that lots of folks lost their shirts in the aftermath, there's a lot of angst to go around, and geeks seemed the likely target.

Yup. Which is about as intelligent as blaming Enron's janitors for its collapse. There's a reason non-geeks aren't geeks. :-)