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Dream

9:08am JST Monday 30 August 2004

Fred and I had some bags that we needed to hide. We were in a building that was normally very quiet, but now was quite occupied. When I used to hide things in this building, there were very few people around, so I was able to explore the area carefully and figure out how to get into the most remote and obnoxiously difficult area to get to, where my stuff wouldn't be found by anyone else.

There were escalators where there had been a hallway, and there were people crawling all about the building; it was a YRUU rally, but no one was greeting me. I could basically walk around and be ignored. I had a bit of trouble remembering just where my secret location had been because of the reconstruction, and when I found it, Dream Keeper and Night Mage had made the room adjacent into their bedroom. And someone was awake in the bedroom, so I couldn't use that room to get into my secret room.

I remembered the last time I had been in this building, there had been a horse track, or a street for horses, and that area was now a large front lawn for a modern office building facade.

Fred headed quickly down that hall because he thought that would lead to a new secret area and he wanted to go down the escalators into a new open area below, and I wanted to go up and explore. We parted ways and I woke up.

GPS bike query

1:22pm JST Monday 30 August 2004

from Rob Nugen                                  1:18pm (1 minute ago)
to jeff, me    

HI Jeff

I have two questions:

1) Do you know of a PDA with collapsable keyboard that supports unix?
I write in my online journal daily, (*) and I'm planning to go on a
pretty long trip next year. I prefer to write my journal entries using
the text editor emacs, which runs well on unix.  I can just use my
PalmOS PDA and add html by hand though, so this is not a high priority
question.   BUT, it sets me up for my next question.

2) Do you know of a GPS system by which I can be tracked and have my
location published online?  This is the opposite question of "how do I
keep my spouse from knowing where I am?"  but I think it would be cool
for my readers to know the answer to "where's Rob???"  Ah - he's in the
middle of China!!   My vision is to have an image of a world map with a
little red line on it like in the movies.  The line would change really
slowly (!) in realtime.

3) oops another question: if this kind of GPS map system doesn't yet
exist, do you know anyone who could write it?  A clickable world map
with my little red line on it would be fantastic.

(*) I'm proud to say my journal (http://www.robnugen.com/cgi-local/journal.pl) 
has been around since before blogging was cool.

(!) The change would be slow because I plan to ride my bike across
China and Europe. (I'm living in Tokyo now)

        Thanks in advance for your thoughts!
        - Rob

Good things I think

12:16am JST Tuesday 31 August 2004

Today at work, of note:

(What is "of note" supposed to mean?)

1. I had a new student today and she was cool. It was our first time to meet and I was hesitant to give her my contact information. At the very end, I dropped some hints like I wanted to so I could get a sense of her interest in such an exchange. She didn't really respond, and at the very end, I was like, "I think you're cool." She goes, "you noticed just now? It's too late."

   Awesome snap back to reality for me. I'm glad I didn't violate my first meeting rule.

2. I got a call from e-Promotions; I am invited to an audition (it's for modeling, not speaking (I think) so is it an AUDition?) to see if they want me to pose for some car stereo company. Nice. If I get the job, it will be 150,000 yen for 2 days work. New bike.