ahh, entertainment

Well, a friend got tired of waiting for me to buy a tv, so he lent me a little one with a vcr in it. For you young 'uns, a vcr plays things like dvds that are called "tapes".

I have a few boxes of videotapes, so tonight the first thing I did when I got home was to turn it on and put in an old Formula One race. Now I have David Hobbes and V12 engines doing 17,000 rpm in the background. Excellent.

I also found that someone hooked up a wireless access point nearby with a very strong signal, and no encryption. It's working much better than the one I was using, I think I may be able to sit on the couch and use the computer. Again, excellent.

Without a tv around, I've been playing guitar and singing again. It feels good. To my friend's dismay, I don't think I'll buy a new tube for a while.

finding peers on blogger

When putting a new photo in my Blogger profile, I noticed that the word "Telecommunications" was blue, like a hyperlink. I clicked on it, and got a list of bloggers that have their "Industry" set to "Telecommunications". Oh, cool! So, being single, I started looking through the list for women who work in telecom and are bloggers. Probably we might have something in common? Of course, there aren't many. So I thought it would be cool to search other industries for single women to talk to. Hey, I'm single, okay?

Where do you search for profiles with the "Industry" set to a certain field? You don't. Sounds like a little project for me, maybe I'll try to whip something up.

In the meanwhile, I did some playing around with web url's, and found that you can search different industries if you change the last number in the url. I.E.:

http://www.blogger.com/profile-find.g?t=j&ind=36

36 is Telecommunications, and the number seems to correspond with the alphabetical list of industry choices in the "Edit Profile" area of your blogger account. It's a drop-down list.

So if you want to get acquainted with fellow bloggers, try some other numbers there and see what you find.

Maybe I'll make a little search dropdown to make it easier, or maybe somebody already has...

And it's not stalking, I'm just trying to make friends!

maybe i am cool

I was thinking that I was pretty un-cool. I don't have a tv at the moment, I don't have cable, I don't have a motorcycle, I don't have a girl to ride behind me on the motorcycle...

But then again:
I have an iPod
I have a Mac
I can write code
I have a bicycle
I have a cool old Audi
I have a tan
I have a goatee
I have a pretty blue acoustic guitar
I play and sing
I plink around on the piano
I have a job
I listen to great music
I pay my bills (most of the time - all the time would be un-cool)
I can hold my drink
I love coffee

And the last reason I'm cool: I smoke cigarettes. Everybody knows smoking makes you look really cool.