28 Feb 2001
Librarian Trades Places With Vegas Showgirl For A Night. And she’s a fellow graduate of IU’s Library Science program. Small world.
So when do I get to go and trade places with a male stripper in New Orleans?
28 Feb 2001
To do list:
1. Learn how to freaking administer a linux server.
This is about the 3rd or 4th time that I’ve royally screwed up my server and had to wipe the drive clean and reinstall Linux again. Fortunately I managed to restore all my webpages and MySQL databases, but I lost all my email again. Living without my weblog for a few days didn’t kill me, but my staff of student advisors were unable to use all the nifty little scripts I’d written for them to send out duty logs, etc. I think I’ll be moving all those over to the university server…
Everytime I reinstall Linux, I do learn a little bit more about system administration (this time I learned that I should create separate patitions for /, /home, /var/, and /usr).
24 Feb 2001
Bem Sex Role Inventory
Bem Sex Role Inventory. My results? “Your Femininity Score is 3.8. Your Masculinity Score is 3.55. You are sex-typed in neither direction. You are androgynous.” (via plasticbag.org)
24 Feb 2001
“Remember those games we used to play?” I rented Chuck and Buck the other day, but couldn’t get past the first 10 or 15 minutes of the film. It’s been characterized as a “gay stalker” movie — Buck has never grown up or shaken his fixation on his former next-door-neighbor and friend Chuck, now engaged and a record producer in L.A. From what I’ve seen in the trailer, Buck moves to L.A. and tries to rekindle their old friendship and break up Chuck’s impending marriage.
Just seeing the first little bit of the film touched off some powerful memories that I’m not entirely comfortable in revisiting. All my life, I’ve had irrational obsessions over straight male friends, a pattern that continued all the way through to grad school. None of them were as severe as Buck’s fixation on Chuck, but in their own way they all still impeed my emotional development. I still continue to deliberately place myself in self-defeating contexts and environments (like living in rural Missouri) that block any chance of my forming an adult romantic realtionship with another man, but at least I recognize that fact now.
21 Feb 2001
Tit for tat.
Yeah! The Naked News is auditioning male newcasters for their website. Let’s hear it for gender parity!
Okay, you’re right. I just want to see naked guys read the news (via Evhead).
21 Feb 2001
Random question:
Sometime during the 80′s, Rue McClanahan (The Golden Girls) appeared in a TV version of a play about a research lab and a talking dolphin. It doesn’t appear in the IMDB. Anybody remember what it was called?
21 Feb 2001
<nelson>Ha ha</nelson>
<nelson>Ha ha</nelson>. I now have the new 2.0 version of the Tivo software and you don’t. Using it, so far so good.
20 Feb 2001
What I’ve been up to the past few days… After searching over a year for a way to do it, I’ve finally finagled a way to pull the appointments out of my Palm‘s backup files and display them on the web (I used this tutorial to get started). After I clean up the code, I’ll fashion it into another tutorial.
