{"id":250,"date":"2000-09-27T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2000-09-27T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2000\/09\/27\/turn_and_face_t\/"},"modified":"2024-11-28T01:19:14","modified_gmt":"2024-11-28T06:19:14","slug":"turn_and_face_t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2000\/09\/27\/turn_and_face_t\/","title":{"rendered":"Turn and Face the Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Change is afoot here in the Rumpus Room.<\/strong> You&#8217;ll notice that I didn\u2019t make that a link, because I\u2019m not talking about the web site. I\u2019m talking about my bacheloser pad, the <i>actual<\/i> Rumpus Room.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The most obvious change is the shocking drop in overall temperature. One of the nice side effects of living a large, damp, basement loft is that it\u2019s nice-n-cool all summer long. One of the bad side effects is that it\u2019s bone-chillingly icy during the winter (when the obnoxiously loud industrial heater isn\u2019t on to send the temperature skyrocketing all the way up to 60\u00b0F). Now is the start of the awkward in-between period when it doesn\u2019t make sense to turn the heat on yet, but I realize it\u2019s time to keep piles of sweatshirts lying around, and time to get the down comforter out its plastic bag. Geez, I was at the freaking beach last week.<\/li>\n<li>And even though it\u2019s time to break out the winter clothes, I\u2019m going to have to wait until they\u2019re sanitary enough to wear. I\u2019ve learned that old cardboard boxes tucked away in a forgotten corner do not make a good place to store leather jackets during the summer. I took out all my coats the other day and found all the leather coated in mold. Eeeeeeeeeeeew. And that stuff just ain\u2019t cheap to clean.<\/li>\n<li>On the lighter side, I finally ordered my new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/imac\/\">computer<\/a>. Yay! Treats! It will be a delight to do away with the old beast that can barely keep up with me anymore. And I\u2019m getting all the fixin\u2019s with the new machine, too: new scanner, new CD burner, new Zip drive, and \u2014 to my relief and yours, no doubt \u2014 a digital camera so I can finally add some more visual stimulation to the sites.<\/li>\n<li>And because I\u2019m a nerd who doesn\u2019t already have enough to do, I picked up the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linuxppc.com\">Linux distribution for Power PCs<\/a> so I can totally wipe the ol\u2019 6500 and turn her into a Linux box so I can play around with it. Thank you, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0380815931\/o\/qid=970054103\/sr=8-1\/ref=aps_sr_b_1_3\/002-2404660-4112001\">Neal Stephenson<\/a> for filling my head with such ideas. (Did I mention that I recently read <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0380788624\/o\/qid=970054103\/sr=8-2\/ref=aps_sr_b_1_4\/002-2404660-4112001\">Cryptonomicon<\/a><\/i> and got my world rocked?)<\/li>\n<li>I also unearthed so many tabletops while cleaning for my birthday party that the whole place looks organized, which makes it feel like I\u2019ve done a lot of redecorating. Most of the space is usually pretty orderly, but the small, tax-deductible corner where I sit and work most of the time usually looks like a twister hit it, so this is a pretty significant turnaround. It\u2019ll never last.<\/li>\n<li>I\u2019d love to say that the last change is that my DSL has finally been hooked up, but six months into the process and I\u2019m still waiting for the various vendors involved to coordinate and get their collective shit together.<\/li>\n<p><!-- \t\n\n<li>[Use of the unordered list is to make <a href=\"http:\/\/chromewaves.org\">P.J.<\/a> feel better about giving up blockquotes.]<\/li>\n\n -->\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Change is afoot here in the Rumpus Room. You&#8217;ll notice that I didn\u2019t make that a link, because I\u2019m not talking about the web site. I\u2019m talking about my bacheloser pad, the actual Rumpus Room. The most obvious change is the shocking drop in overall temperature. One of the nice side effects of living a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2000\/09\/27\/turn_and_face_t\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Turn and Face the Change&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ultranerdy","category-ultrapersonal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71600,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions\/71600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}