April 2003 – Page 2 – Petroglyphs

A familiar pattern

I did something Sunday that was at once completely true to form and entirely out of character. Thirty-six hours later there’s been no reaction, and I’m beginning to think said action was also incredibly foolish… which would also be just like me….

Mrmee mrmee mrmee

My sister gave me a Smoking E Wall Clock for my last birthday. The face has a clever design created by one of the posters on Ellison Webderland‘s bulletin board; twelve o’clock features the smoking e, then the hours are marked with tick, tock, tick, and so forth, until ten o’clock when they change to a wave pattern reading mrmee mrmee mrmee. It’s cute, and is highly appropriate if you’ve ever read Repent, Harlequin! Said the Ticktockman.

I find it more than slightly amusing that the clock has never kept proper time.

Monitoring the situation

My monitor has started to lose it in the last week or so. It started with a bright line near the bottom of the screen that I eventually realized was a wrapping of the bottom few pixels. Slowly it’s worked its way up the screen, to the point where as I began typing this message the entire bottom half was rolled up into a centimetre-wide band of white, and no amount of degaussing or power-cycling will fix it.

So now I have a problem: do I go geeky (and expensive) and go for an LCD screen, or stick with the tried-and-(mostly)-true CRT?