spyrrl *out of control*

obsessions

infatuation junkie

there's nothing former about it

• the love poetry...i make no claims about quality by the way...you've been warned.
  
  
• Love Sonnets by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  This collection contains Sonnets from the Portuguese and some of her earlier works. I just can't get enough of it.
  
  
• And then there's my writing efforts. I wrote a couple of articles for my former employer's newsletter. One is on game consoles and the other is about being trapped in the buildings elevator.
  
  
• I finally broke down and bought a digital camera and well this is what I've done with it.

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current obsessions

yes, i'm obsessive...if only i was also compulsive maybe i could get even more done.

• Robotics has caught my fancy these days. I probably watched too much of those battle robot shows. I bought and assembled the BYO Robot kit. It was pretty easy to put together. It comes with pre-programmed actions but you can program it's actions if you add a Parallax BASIC Stamp 2 microcontroller. Of course since I'm more for software than hardware, I gotta get me one of those.
  
  
• coding the web
  I'm very interested in usability these days. I recently bought and read Don't Make Me Think by Steve Krug. A great read and highly recommended!
  I'm also trying out the .Net thing. I've been working on a test site using the ASP.NET Web Matrix software. It's been interesting.
  
  
• linux
  After having installed Debian on a laptop and Caldera on a Pentium, I'm now attempting an install of RedHat. The gods were not smiling on this endeavour! Aargh! I did finally get it up and running and it's cool. I'm dual booting it with W2K and WXP. Triple booting? Multi-booting! Whoo!
  
  
• i really should try to finish one of these rpg's but i'm easily distracted.
  final fantasy: I'm finally catching up on my final fantasy games. I still have ff8 and ff10 to play. I bought the PS1 so I could play ff7 and I plan to buy a PS2 so I can play ff10.
  baldur's gate: This is the first of the series of AD & D games based loosely on R.A. Salvatore's Drizzt books. My brother got me the next evolution of the games the Icewind Dale collection. I don't know when I'm going to play that since I got caught up in Disciples II. I think this officially makes me a game dabbler and not a game player.
  

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