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An Anniversary
Tomorrow is my sixth wedding anniversary. The Wife and I met in the fall of 1990 during my first semester in college. After ten years of school and career pursuit we tied the knot and got ourselves hitched. There were lots of reasons why we waited but mostly it was just waiting for a time that felt like we could tackle the marriage process. Weddings are expensive and require considerable planning.
Everybody says it, but it really does seem like yesterday. Some things seem like they happened aeons ago, other things like it was last week. Time is funny as you pass through more and more of it.
So what am I doing for our anniversay? Well, the Wife is enjoying herself at a scrap book convention this weekend. Once a year her and a good friend from college attend a weekend workshop (put on by another friend) wherein a large number of women get together and “scrap”. That is they spend the weekend cutting colored paper and stickers and pictures and organizing them carefully into pages with annotations whereby they become family photo albums chronicaling events from their own or another’s life. The Wife puts a lot of work and thought into this weekend and has goals for what she wants to get done. So when she was planning the weekend outting this year she noticed it fell on our Anniversary. She approached the Husband carefully as to how to proceed. I’m like, “of course you go…you only do this one a year!”. She is only a town away at a hotel/convention center where there is a pool and hot tub. I’ll go over there tomorrow and take her to dinner…maybe hang out and go swimming. It’ll be fun.
Sorry I haven’t posted for a few days. Between work, school, and domestica, I hardly have a spare minute. Things are going well though and I shouldn’t be complaining. I have problems that aren’t critical but require time and attention. The challenges are a plenty. It helps keep me aware.
The slipperious world of copying…and pasting.
Okay, I might have made up that word, ’slipperious’. I was thinking slippery with mysterious…
Yesterday I went to paste a stack trace into a group chat for peer review and I accidentally pasted a quote I had just highlighted from a famous quotes portlet on my google home page. I’m not sure why I highlighted and copied it into my clipboard memory buffer…I guess I thought I might private message it to someone because I thought it bore some resemblence to certain aspects of shared situations. But then I decided against it andwent back to scanning the log files I was tailing at the time looking for stack traces or weird error messages. I saw one, highlighted it’s key part then *thought I hit copy* but I must not have.
No harm in this one, but I’ve seen people paste things they didn’t want others to see thinking there was one thing in their buffer when there was really something else.
Kind of funny to think about…all the bazillions of words, files, pictures, memories, etc. that pass invisibly through the clipboards of computers on every tick of their internal clocks.
School has the Scholar studying, writing, thinking and reading virtually every spare moment of his time. This brain is getting some exercise. It’s cool.
Current Operating State COS
Almost 7am on a Friday. I just organized my folders, sifted and sorted class papers and notes. Which reminds me…I need to aggregate the notes I’ve taken on various computers and locations. If I’m going to use WebDAV I might just have to commit myself and automate the backups from here to there.
Must hit the showers and be off.
Scope of authority
Just sipping some coffee at a coffee house near where a discussion section is soon to be held. I’m thinking about the scope of authority and how it applies to the internet, to programmers, to roles designated within the workplace. Certainly authority and the power to make decisions represents a complex subject.
As it pertains to information and the availability of it, who owns it really? Are our ideas our own even if they result from pondering something that may not accurately represent the original source or context of the subject? Are we authors of our own ignorance?
Just rambling. I’ve been on a rant the last few days…
Another example of information use/reuse and direction for the future
This was a reply to a couple questions posted prior to a discussion session.
An example where these factors come into play are accounting records and tax returns. A growing number of laws are attempting to address these issues relative to personal financial information. It’s looking like the entity responsible is the forward thinking accountant embracing the digital age.
As for balancing the interests at stake…that is a more difficult problem. If circumstances represent data and collections of these circumstances information, then continued analysis of this information affords a chance at knowledge from which balancing can follow. So the best way to balance the interests at stake is to pay attention to such matters (flow of information) and continue to study what has happened and the information you have (reuse).