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roadrunnertwice) wrote2009-05-27 10:12 pm
- dump post,
- macs,
- meta,
- minneapolis,
- moving,
- music,
- portland,
- technobabble,
- web browsers,
- work,
- yarn
You be me for a while, and I'll be you
I'm testing out one of those new Mac builds of Chromium (via), and it is actually kind of awesome! Feels sleek.
Lately I haven't been posting as often as I otherwise might have, because it turns out that I'm actually kind of reliant on having a native-app LJ client. And they all suck right now.
Xjournal used to be awesome, but it doesn't work with Dreamwidth and is stagnant these days anyway. iJournal always kinda sucked, and now it hasn't been touched for three years. MarsEdit technically works, but its DW and LJ support is... lacking. asLJ is too new to trust, Deepest Sender kind of defeats the purpose of using a client in the first place, and nothing supports the DW crossposter. So I have to post via a web form, which shouldn't slow me down as much as it does, but it does, so.
I AM MOVING HOUSE. Gonna go live with Schwern in inner Northeast! It'll be rad. I have not even started packing yet. Expect me to become increasingly bugfuck insane until the 6th or so.
The place I'm moving into is a 2nd-floor apartment in a brick building that kind of reminds me of my digs in Minneapolis. Not anything close to identical, but familiar enough to immediately feel like home.
That is a rather large spider in the bathroom, isn't it? I have granted her Not My Problem status, on the condition that she gets off the counter within the next half hour.
Writing continues to be difficult. DON' WANNA TALK 'BOUT IT.
It's one of those nights where The Replacements are once again everything I could ever want from pop music.
So yeah, this is my new job. I likes it lots. Folks is cool. Things:
- The yarn world is far larger and stranger than I imagined.
- Indigo is awesome. No, seriously, it's the weirdest shit. Reacts on oxygen contact! Changes color as you watch!
- We get free coffee. My caffeine tolerance has shot through the roof.
- The shop runs on this app called POS·IM, which apparently has a 20-year lineage and is One Hairy-Ass Beast. It's got a majorly schizoid personality. On the one hand, it's been polished for 20 years to suit the needs of small-to-midsize retail outfits, and in general, the developers have thought of everything you will need to do with the thing. On the other hand, the interface seems to be held together with baling wire and fun-tak, the search capabilities are about the least sophisticated I've ever seen, and none of the features seem able to decide whether they're made for database-savvy power users or the technically-disinclined. The manual is written in at least two, probably more like three different voices, which switch off without discernible pattern and use distinctly different sets of vocabulary. It perversely re-invents every available wheel. It makes it frustratingly fidgety and tedious to make any large-scale changes to the inventory, and frighteningly easy to wreck vast havoc.
- I am absolutely confident in my ability to bend it to my will. JUST YOU WAIT.
- No, I don't know how to knit yet. Gimme another week or two.