boom boom
by jebni on January 30, 2006
I’ve named my new kitten “Boomer”. Since young cats’ genitalia are kinda obscure, at first I wasn’t sure if he was a boy or a girl. Ooh. Since the Battlestar Galactica character after which I named him is, for me, (…)
smooth text, with extra exotic anglo roasting
by jebni on January 20, 2006
You know you’re fully immersed in geek mode when you start fantasising about text editors. Honestly: code highlighting, code folding, code completion… I’m drooling. Moving right along… The other day I roasted an animal for the first time. When I (…)
voicebox
by jebni on January 13, 2006
When I was a teenager, my mother thought I spent too much time on the telephone — you know, talking to girls and stuff. This was over and above the hours I spent on bulletin boards online. So when she (…)
electronic labours of sexuality
by jebni on January 12, 2006
I’ve been watching Jason Scott’s huge and excellently nerdy BBS documentary, and besides taking me back to my own bulletin board childhood, I picked up some more subtle clues about the relationship between the pre-Web hobbyist computer networking of the (…)
self determination
by jebni on January 6, 2006
I’m always impressed when children calmly decide when stuff might be “too much” for them. Over the holidays, I made a little horror film with some young kids. We were just getting ready for the bit where the monster rises (…)
icy
by jebni on January 1, 2006
.flickr-photo { border: 0 } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } I’m in a cafe. It’s forty-five degrees centigrade. Fuck.