A Good Imagination and a Pile of Junk

So, with Teri’s book release the other day I’ve started noticing tendrils of my relatively recent past snaking around looking for connections. It’s tough to describe what that means.

But today I reconnected, via facebook, with one of the core crowd from Social Circles back in the early 2ks.  He was one of the good guys and sorta dropped off the face of the earth for a bit.

As I did.

But I did it for a bit of a different reason (not knowing what his was I know only that it wasn’t mine.)

I left largely because I had spent a lot of time conducting myself pretty badly and I needed to get away from the constant reminders of it.  The particulars are unimportant here and will almost certainly be addressed some place where I can actually give them some air.

So now the “recommended friends” list on facebook is starting to populate with familiar faces and names.  Some of them it’s nice to see are newly hyphenated.

But it’ll start happening over the next few days.  I can feel the gravity well starting to cause me to list off to one side.

Just you wait ‘enry ‘iggins.

Just you wait.

Just got into a couple parallel discussions on Twitter with Windows haters. The length people will go to in order to hate Microsoft is really quite impressive. I mentioned something about not switching to something else because of gaming and I was POUNCED upon. It was really really funny.

I am certainly NOT in the Gates fan club. But to trash what is almost certainly the most widely spread piece of software in the world because you’re a hipster jackass is really just humorous.

Let me be clear though. It’s a desktop operating system. It’s not up to the stability requirements of being a server OS, much less a “high availability” server system.

My primary box is a 2 year old gaming rig with a new vid card (I chronicled that escapade a couple weeks ago.) It handles everything I throw at it and does so with remarkable aplomb. I don’t get blue screens, it doesn’t spontaneously reboot. I don’t get bizarre crashing. It runs smoothly.

Every desktop OS has it’s annoyances.

When you get religious about it, you just sound like an asshole.

So apparently it’s entirely insufficient to buy the Gatorade for helping alleviate a hangover the next day.

Turns out you have to remember to drink it.

meh.