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Monday, 18 October, 2004
I am so tired. I am more tired than I ever have been in my life. Unfortunately, being tired makes you more whingey. The reason for being tired has to do with the heat wave last week (hence little sleep and hence tossing husband who woke me up several times during each night), no day off (Ben's birthday on Friday, band rehearsal and Supporters' Dinner on Saturday, and Sunday school stuff, The Page and housework on Sunday). In addition, Ben's computer has died again. Grr ... On a more positive note, Guan now has his own blog! Welcome to my blogroll, Guan! Guan is the famous younger brother of Haoran and I don't remember the first time I met him at all but I figure it was around the time when he started Uni at UNSW, doing what he liked to call a “glorified Arts degree” (Bachelor of Arts [Media and Communications]). Guan-burger works for Matthias Media, goes to church with Duncan (as well as Haoran) and loves Neil Gaiman almost as much as I do. His favourite book is The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson—or was it A Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin? (I introduced him to that! And he introduced me to Cryptonomicon. He will be forgiven for not coming to our Supporters' Dinner if I am allowed to have his job once he starts MTS. (Oh dear, I hope I don't regret writing all this tomorrow!!) Oh yeah, the other thing is I managed to fix the back button/javascript problem on the RAID site, thus teaching myself a little javascript in the process. And we now have money. God is good. Update: Guan says his favourite book is Snow Crash. Well, I knew it was a Neal Stephenson. And I reckon Cryptonomicon is stacks better than Snow Crash; it actually ends properly.Posted in:
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Thanks Karen! I’ll try not to make too much of a mess of your blogroll while I’m here (although I’m not sure I like being next to Haoran…).
And as fulfilling as it probably would have been, I didn’t do uni at Matthias Media, although I probably do about as much work here as I did at uni. (Ditto what you said about not hoping that I won’t regret writing.)
And I’m not sure about the famous bit…
Sorry, Guanburger—too tired to code straight. I left a quote tag out of the UNSW link and hence a whole heap of text got left out!!!
Yes, it is a worry that, alphabetically, you’ve wound up next to Haoran ... you too will just have to play nicely together.
What - you call Guan “Guan-burger”?? I call him Barney…Hmm…which sounds better?
Guan-burger of course.
All this commenting on one another’s blogs is like a much-slower-than-real-time chat.
To answer the questions:
a) Now all I have to do is invent someone to fill in the gap, like say, Gvig.
b) Gua-barn-urger-ator
c) I think I’m biased towards Snow Crash because it was the first Stephenson I read, and because it has a character called Hiro Protagonist.
Yes, it’s like chatting without really chatting but you’re still communicating words.
I like that you have the time and space to think about what you’re going to say.
Now I see why you want to post comments on my blog… so you can send lots of spam and keep me from working all day… well…
Anyway, now that I’ve discovered the joy of RSS feeds, I’m reading blogs slightly more regularly than before. Yay me.