The better portion of my night on Friday was spent creating some more of the Bitscape's Lounge v2 code. It's really starting to take shape. Well, some parts are. I swear I'll have something up and ready to go before too much longer.

Spent most of Saturday's daylight hours in deep sleep. Woke up around 1520, read a bit of Slashdot, showered, and tuned in to channel 2 all set to watch EFC. Guess what? They moved everything around again. I did get to see EFC later in its new slot, but completely missed the Cleo 2525 and Jack of all Trades premiers. :( Posted a rant about it here. I don't feel like repeating the whole thing again, so I'll just let that link suffice.

Did some more on the new Bitscape's Lounge code. Slept again. Ate.

Joined some festers in irc for a while. Watched Lyre Lyre, Hearts on Fire, which turned out to be, IMO, the worst episode of Xena so far this season. Later entered a netforum discussion about it, and found many other fans in agreement about its atypically inferior quality.

Also watched EFC, which was quite good, but I sometimes wonder if the writers have completely forgotten that Liam also has shakariva (sic?). You know, the glowing things in his hands we saw so much of during season 2? He's half kimera, right? Remember that, writers? Or did you just pull script ideas conceived in season 1 and do a quick s/William Boone/Liam Kinkaid/g, not even bothering to change the references to the lead male character being human (not in this particular episode, but some I've noticed that happen in some other places this season). Or maybe it was a wizard. Whatever.

Anyway, after EFC, I went back on irc for random discussion, and started figuring out how to go about processing users' handles and passwords into an md5 hash for use as a cookie. Fun fun. Also did a little playing with Jaeger's integration of my box code into the user preferences on x13. It's taking shape. So much so that I found myself getting sidetracked following the links to new CTP updates, one of which is still currently downloading.

Jaeger departed, and nemo and I stuck around discussing various issues such as methods of dealing with Microsoft's evilness (OS isolationism vs. trying to convert the ignorant masses), and got into other random topics like programming languages as well (in which I apprised him of bouncing, Jaeger, and my earlier debates about constriction verses flexibility of form and syntax, perl verses python, poetry verses functionalism, yadda yadda yadda.)

Nemo decided he needed sleep, so that concluded the irc discussion. It was then that I decided to wander over to nutforum and discuss the sorry excuse for an episode I had witnessed hours earlier. One went so far as to say (s)he was considering renouncing fanship after watching it. I wouldn't go that far, just cause of one crappy episode. (Especially considering the last week's episode, Seeds of Faith (which I didn't bother to mention here), was so amazingly excellent.)

I then remembered that I needed to grab the other patch for the Civ data files, and started that enormous download. This made it effectively impossible to carry on any further netforum discussion, given the rapid loading and reloading of pages that's necessary. Which is why I decided to start a rambling, which doesn't require so much constant bandwidth usage.

One of these days, I'm gonna do some more investigating into exactly what the kernel can do when it comes to prioritizing packets. I have a feeling that my formula would be rather complicated, perhaps moreso that what could be specified in current versions, but still... I'd like to see what it can do. (I think my ideal packet prioritizer would give lower priority to http sockets which have been open longer, so big downloads don't bog down web surfing, but stuff like ssh would get a consistently high priority regardless of time the socket has been open.)

Ok, that's basically it for now. Still keeping my fingers crossed about eSoft. I really hope I hear from them soon during the coming week, cause this anticipation is gonna drive me nuts if it continues much longer. I mean, really, how often does a job interviewer ask about your favorite distribution? A rare opportunity indeed.