1. Written by Guest, on 28-03-2005 07:51
more, more 
 
//Erik Melander

2. Written by Guest, on 28-03-2005 09:34
Tell us your secrets. 
 
Btw You mentioned retaliation reviews in the past. It almost sounds like you're asking for a guest week somehow. (Not that I encourage the practice of "Guest Week" but it's a fun little institution none-the-less.) 
 
So what's going on with you? 
-Jared

3. Written by Guest, on 28-03-2005 12:47
Basically, I'm headed back to the classroom, I think. I have a job fair to attend this weekend and that is suppposed to be the end of the story, but in the process of sending my resume about, I accidentally sent it to the wrong person.  
 
Along with it was a description of a little invention /idea I've been working on during my year away from the classroom. The person liked what they read and offered me a chance to share it with/market it to a good chunk of the state's school administrators. Only I am not ready to market the thing yet. The opportunity is too big to pass up so I need to spend the next two weeks getting it as ready as possible for an audience I thought I wouldn't be approaching for around a year and adjusting the message from individual teachers who I am already working with to administrators, a much different audience.  
 
To start, it means getting servers installed on three laptops to serve as demos, one linux, two windows. Then I've got to install the software and databases on each along with all the custom hacks that make the stuff worthwhile. I'd love to do the whole thing live over an internet connection, but the hotel wants a ton of money for a DSL line and it's probably more risky. All that alone I can handle, but I've also got to change the target audience of the literature and work out some legal details.  
 
AAARGH. But it is an opportunity I don't think many small businesses get so I'm diving in. I think I have the only sales/vendor table at the conference and they're giving it to me for free. 
 
If anyone's interested in doing a retaliation review of this strip, kind of fan art with a potentially evil little twist to help me fill the week, I'd be glad to run one in place of the strip. I've kept it purposely vague so go where you want with it (please leave out the hardcore swearing though). Otherwise, I'll still try to get something up. 
 
Thanks, 
 
-Bob Stevenson

4. Written by Guest, on 29-03-2005 11:52
The Gates: Part Two 
 
Near the last day of the display, it snowed heavily in the area. Around 9:00pm, Stephanie and I decided to walk to the train station and head to the park, an adventure of sorts. 
 
There were a few young people in the park, mostly pelting each other with snow balls. We wandered through lines of gates and sometimes struck out between lines. Nothing was plowed so it was all white and orange and shadows. By 11:00, we had the park to almost to ourselves, beautiful. Around 11:30, we headed back to the train.  
 
The park would have been just as beautiful without the gates, and I'm sure we would have enjoyed it just as much, but it was, in the end, those damn gates that got me to walk for miles in the snow. 
 
Tech update:  
 
It took me more than 12 hours, but I managed to install Apache, PHP, MySQL and phpMyAdmin on my Slackware Linux box and get them all talking to each other. I've been told by other nerds that I have gone the tough route choosing Slackware, but I'm slowly coming around to it. I still have trouble finding files I need once in a while, important files like configuration files and I'm almost never confident about where to put things, but it all seems to work at the moment. 
 
I'm still scrambling to get ready for the end of next week's public airing of my work, but at least my path is a little more predictabe. I may even have time to work on a little art this afternoon. 
 
-Bob Stevenson

5. Speaking of secrets...
Written by Guest, on 30-03-2005 01:26
Have you yet checked out postsecret.com? I'm a tad addicted, and they're looking for optimistic secrets. Yours is the most optimistic I've seen in a while.

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