Entries this day: letter_from_g today

letter from g

Date:     Fri, 3 Dec 1999 16:23:35 -0800 (PST)
From:     Fred Nugen
Subject:  not gettin' a bike
To:       thunderrabbitATcheerfulDOTcom

G -

It's becoming more apparent that I could greatly benefit from having a
bike here on campus.  Campus is 2-3 times bigger than that of UH's, and
I have to walk quite a bit to get from my dorm (thankfully not situated
along the perimiter of campus) to the engineering building (about a
12-minute walk across the center of campus) or the math building (about
4-5 minutes away from the eng building, and 8-10 from my dorm) or the
place where I eat dinner (about 7-9 minutes away from my dorm, 15-17
minutes from the eng building, and 18-20 minutes from the math building).
(Now draw a map.  Assume every path is a line segment; assume my walking
speed is a constant small enough that the curvature of the earth and
topography of ground level are negligible.)  

I had wanted to get a BMX bike I could do tricks on like I see some of the
neighborhood kids doing occasionally: hopping up onto two-foot benches,
hopping up onto them so that they land--stopped--on their back tire
perched on the corner of the thing and then bounce once or twice before
hopping backward off it again; hopping up, riding along the bench, then
flipping a 180 off the other end, riding backwards--and pedaling
backwards, just for effect; flatfoot bunnyhopping sideways up onto the
bench; fuckin' cool stuff.  

But I don't have time to teach myself those tricks.  I need something
cool that won't fall by the wayside: a unicycle.  Not a single one have I
seen yet.  There're characters riding all kinds of shit: bikes, concept
bikes, rollerblades, normal skateboards, big ol' long skateboards, tiny
two-wheeled contraptions that are crosses between skateboards and
scooters, but no unicycles.  That will all change.  

Hopefully it won't take long to learn to ride.  

Gotta go.  It's time to get back to work.

-g

today

late pm Friday 3 December 1999

Work was cool (and short) today. I worked some on my website and suddenly realized, "yipes!! We haven't given notice to our T1 line account!" Our account is supposed to expire on 31 December. In our contract it says that we have to give 30 days notice that we want it to expire, otherwise the account will be renewed. How about 28 days? I don't think they will have a problem with letting it expire; there is no real gain for them to be asses about it. Faxed a letter to them and I expect all will be good.

Dude IMed me and was all, "hey Amazon.com bought $10 million in shares of Ashford.com" Dude works at Ashford.com. "Really? brb," I said.

I bought 10 shares of Ashford.com at 19 7/16 per share plus $12 commission. We'll see what happens.

Left work early to work on the Techno Cosmic Mass Water Altar.. We had a meeting down at Ares Robotics, where most of the work is being done. Realistically, we are way behind schedule; the thing is happening this Thursday! I will build a mountain for my fountain this weekend. Gotta buy some rocks too.

Took Madeline home after the meeting and talked (listened) to her for an hour or two, including the drive to her house. Kept very clear sexual boundaries, with which I am pleased.

Home by about 8:30pm and worked on my site. I moved my Y2K survey here, and my novel The Past Is Now, and maybe something else..

Wende brought Taco Bell home for dinner and slept on the couch until I got off the computer at like 1am.

Truly I am a slave to my website! But I love it! permalink