my monitor problems

One of my co-workers had this to say about the problem with Hub's monitor:

So, although you believe that you solved the problem, this is not actually true (your doppleganger, existing on the far side of the sun, is now struggling to understand why her computer only works when the monitor is off).

The actual situation that you have described is the inverse schroedinger's win98 gambit (later prototyped in LINUX under the code name "cat in the Red Hat").

THe machine is neither on nor off until you monitor it. The observer effect of quantum physics was incorporated into microsofts code back in 1997 (although mostly to exploit the little documented "bill casimir" effect of grafting money out of what we call "vacuum energy", often left behind in your wallet or pocketbook after puchasing a pc).

And, although many believe that our mitochondrial dna map quantum tunneling/wormhole devices, do NOT let the cat, out of the proverbial (x)box or bag.

--Mickey McManus

Mickey is a twisted individual. Still, here's hoping that my doppleganger on the other side of the sun isn't able to read my email. :-)

misc

I talked with Rabbi Berkun (at Tree of Life) this morning. He's very happy with the job I did last Friday and wants me to do this again. (That had been my impression, but it's nice to have confirmation.) I'm next doing this at the end of September.

Dani and I are headed off to Worldcon. I don't know what there'll be in the way of net access; on the one hand, it's a con full of geeks, but on the other hand, more and more people have laptops and the like, and there are data ports in the hotel rooms. So the days of public clusters at large conventions may be past; I'm not sure.

Well, whatever. I'm not all that worried about it. After all, there are (gasp) more important things to do at a con than surf the net. :-)