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Peeve Farm
Breeding peeves for show, not just to keep as pets

  Blog \Blôg\, n. [Jrg, fr. Jrg. "Web-log".
     See {Blogger, BlogSpot, LiveJournal}.]
     A stream-of-consciousness Web journal, containing
     links, commentary, and pointless drivel.

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Tal G in Jerusalem
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Saturday, March 1, 2003
22:04 - Light Blogging	(top)
Yeah, it's another of those "Sorry I haven't written anything for the past couple of days" posts. And I'm afraid it's not going to get much better anytime in the very near future, either-- this weekend I'm not spending a whole helluva lot of time at home. Good for my sanity, bad for blog. That's life, I guess. Friday I spent largely in re-coding the image approval system for the Fan-Art Archive, so that now the "holding area" is a lot more tolerant of me stepping out of my duty for several days-- uploaded files have guaranteed unique filenames now, instead of the not-really-unique-but-close-enough scheme that cgi-lib uses (plus my half-assed extension to it that tries to avoid collisions). Now the info goes into an actual database table, too, instead of flat info files, so once again we're closer to sanity. Still not there yet, but every little bit helps. And I also spent the day thinking that well, y'know, we've just about got to the point where it's all been said. The troops are in place; war is a go/no-go decision and a phone call away, and everybody has said his or her piece. Everybody's opinions are known. From protesters to bloggers to heads of state, everybody's staked their claim to a particular piece of the moral riverbank, every conceivable opinion has been registered and rebutted and counterargued, and all that remains now is to fight or not fight. We've heard "Let's Roll" and its equivalent from Den Beste and Lileks and Reynolds and many others. The new moon is upon us. There's word of another big attack being planned for somewhere in Asia (probably Afghanistan, but you never know), to coincide with the Iraq invasion, and we've all braced for impact. We've stocked up our survival pantries. We've passed around essays explaining why not to panic in the event of an attack of any sort from chemical or biological all the way on up to a nuke. The initial cold pit-of-the-stomach dread has given way, at least among my friends and associates and myself, to a kind of grim que ser�, ser�. Bring it on. And for the love of God, let's get it over with. Anyway-- that's a major part of why I haven't felt much like writing lately. I'm mostly just holding my breath-- doing my best to enjoy a nice pleasant day like today, exploring the southern end of Almaden Expressway and Camden Avenue with my parents, having some great Teppan food cooked by a Benihana alum, and puttering about with plans for the new house and how the landscaping will work and where we can go for walks once we've moved and how to wire the TV cable. I find myself wanting to smirk wryly at how ".Hack" is an MMORPG in which you play an MMORPG-- isn't that like taking a drug which makes you hallucinate about taking drugs?-- than to speculate about whether we'll be at war in 24 hours or 48. It seems futile now. We've all spoken. The powers that be have heard everybody's voices and weighed them against their own data, and it's their decision to make now. It's out of our hands. So tomorrow I'll be getting up early to head over to Fresno with Lance; it'll be for a dog show, not for a lame excuse to get out of the Bay Area during a tense time or anything. I'm going to get up at 7:00 AM because it'll be a distraction, something I'm all too grateful for this weekend. UPDATE: Yes, yes, I know .Hack is actually an RPG about playing an MMORPG. But c'mon, it was funnier my way.