Geekiness outlasts love

Ex-hub called early this morning. We had an easy conversation. It involved Linux. Enough said.

Time for a change

I've just switched from AT&T to Helio. Over the phone. Swiftly. I could have done it on their webpage but the form required a Social Security Number, which I don't have. In lieu of the magic number I will be paying a deposit. A forced saving, that's how I see it. By Thursday I should be getting a shiny new Ocean phone. More importantly, by next week I should be enjoying a decent data plan. I hardly ever get to use my minutes on AT&T and I never use the Internet. I mostly text message but somehow I never pay less than $100 with 40ish bucks plan. With Helio I should be able to surf the web on the go. No need to open the laptop to google something. Happiness at last.

I am also planning big changes computerwise. The Ubuntu on a stick I got for myself for my birthday is a very cute gizmo indeed, but I haven't been able to use it with my MacBook. I've been reading just about everything that's out there on the subject and I am not very hopeful. I won't even bother trying it on my old iMac but I am bugging every person I know to lend me their old laptops and see if I can breath some new life into them. At work I might try with Wubi.

Mind you, I did not spend my whole weekend geeking (upon hearing my computer plans for the weekend my boss told me to get a life!). Saturday I chopped my hair off. By myself. I also colored it. And bleached chunks of it. I don't know what's with me and my hair but I can't leave it alone. After my self-styling I went over to a very hipstery party. Plenty of thick-rimmed Costello glasses, Vans and Chuck Taylors. Not to mention my manga-like hair. Music by obscure bands. One-of-a-kind messenger bags. Skinny jeans. Neuro scientists and conceptual artists. Blonde blue-eyed people who spoke fluent Chinese. Stories like the one about the daughter's boyfriend who has two mothers, a lesbian couple who had him with donor sperm. Delicious food. Talks about book and movies. For once I had seen a flick that I could mention to this sort of crowd: Teeth, the funny, campy, empowering vagina dentata story. I saw it a week ago, at an East Village movie theater, and loved it. I left the party at midnight and not because I did not want to stay. I was enjoying myself very much, the guests were interesting and the conversation was flowing. Unfortunately, I was falling asleep on my feet, with tears streaming down my face every time I yawned. That's how sleepy I was. I was and I am, ever since I arrived in Punta del Este. I blamed the weed. I guess it is just me.

Yesterday, movies again: Untraceable. Really just a TV movie, but enjoyable. And Diane Lane is gorgeous, as usual.

And now let's watch an episode of the Office ..

I wish I could stop

Nah. I don't really. I called it quits on my first public blog after I realizing that quite a few of my coworkers knew exactly what I had done the night before. I became acutely aware of this when somebody living in all together different continent told me about comments about my posts at a local office party. I didn't particularly care for the people at that party and I shut down my blog within hours, if not minutes, of having that information. I switched to a Moleskine diary and stayed away from the Net for a few days but I promptly came to the conclusion that I wanted to keep an on-line diary. It's easier to write, easier to search, it has links and pictures and audio and video (my Moleskine on the other hand has drawings, and scraps and it's way more convenient for spur of the moment thoughts, not to mention the very private stuff). All I really needed to do was to keep my confessions password protected. So I started my second Lunarpages-hosted WordPress blog. I also kept a secret blog for a very short time, during a family emergency. Now both my first and second blogs are too long to easily publish with Blurb (I want a hard copy just in case the Internet ceases to exist someday) but instead of stopping already I am starting a third one. Open. No password. Or no password yet. I might change my mind about this later but my blog has proved so far the best way to stay in touch with friends, better than Skype, better than e-mail, better than Facebook.

On a completely different subject: I got myself a nice little Linux pen drive for my birthday. The guys over at Zareason were very friendly and went out of their way to make sure I got it in less than 24 hours. I now want to try Ubuntu on my old iMac. If it works I'll use that machine for home automation. I also want to get back my very first iMac (which is now sitting in a friend's basement) and use it as an Internet terminal. That's the plan. Hope it works.