data malaise, a boot record

structured parity check will begin at next login,
cycling redundancy, each error processed with algorithmic accuracy;
last known good configuration has been invoked,
but integrity is uncertain and profile corruption may be imminent;
cascading failover, a catastrophic failure -
malformed data, a collection of unnamed and orphaned records.
directory structure awry and unreadable,
the partition's pattern, a jumble of chaotic bits;
lost files will not be recovered,
the boot record, unbroken, spins lazily on fluttering platters,
no log or trace of this indistinct sequence of events.

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Laura's birthday today. 31. Life is a beautiful thing and I am full to the brim with the sublime notion of living it. Perhaps I've been listening to too much Literary Criticism. It's a good lecture, by Louis Markos. I've actually picked up a version of Critical Theory Since Plato that I've not quite gotten around to reading. Must study for the MCSE upgrade test (wheee!). Must also create curriculum for Teya's classes over the summer - with any luck, she'll be inspired to want to learn again. The public school system in America is in a sad state... at least where I work and live it is. Welcome to the place where the intelligent are lumped in with the duds and are forced to drown in a sea of mediocrity. More decrying bureaucracy another time, since I'm on the compan dime right now. Back to work!

kafka-esque

it's the first book club today and we're all discussing "metamorphosis," from good ol' franz kafka. it's only the first part, so it's straightforward. book club consists of mainly pople from work... okay, only people from work, so it's an amalgamation of critters ranging from one-celled organisms to multi-cellular creatures that have what appear to be rational and/or cognizant thoughts.

which is a bonus for conversation.

no big a-bomb type insight into the book at this point, just the obvious and standard observations of Gregor Samsa turning into a big bug. Yeah, there's all kinds of subtext that can be found, as per the introductions, but I don't read introductions any more. Not since I read the intro to "Brave New World," by Aldous Huxley; just in passing rambles he says something to the effect of, "that's why he had to die in the end."

Fucker.

That's the equivalent of having "And he never knoiws he dead until the end!" in a trailer for The Sixth Sense.

At any rate, the book I got for Metamorphosis is pretty cool. I picked it up from www.abebooks.com for $30; it is a 1946 first edition in decent shape. I feel so special! I also saw on abebooks that the copy of Robotech Art I that I have sells for a couple of hundred dollars; I feel so Kewl! Just call me "L33t ßoOk D@Wg."

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