Amy

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Happy in Central ParkSo, there’s this girl I met while I was at MICA: art student, painter, smart, pretty, plays the flute, listens to Beethoven and U2, reads the classics, likes museums and plants and insects and CS Lewis. I first noticed her at Bible study; that first night, when she mentioned Beethoven, and again a few months later, at Sunday Art Group. And then again, in the library, working the desk, and reading John Donne between jobs at the copier.

I was smitten. We talked occasionally after bible study, and two weeks later, I asked her out right there and then, with as much grace and dignity as that of a teenage middle-schooler. She gently — and wisely — refused. We became good friends, though, and it turned out that it was exactly what we both needed.

Winter passed. Spring came. A week before I graduated, I told her that I had grown to love her, and asked her out again. She said yes.

That’s who the girl in the picture is. Her name’s Amy. We’ve been together almost half a year now, and I think we’re in for the long haul.

Mice, Mayhem, Fanfics

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Of Mice and Mayhem is a heavily involved Rescue Rangers fanfic. The art is superb, and the plot and writing are achingly campy — which is really half the fun. Have a fast net connection and lots of time; it’s over 200 pages long, and the JPEG filenames vary for each page to avoid automated hot linking. It’s especially appealing to my inner seventh-grader — the one with an enormous Gadget crush.

Link found via this MeFi thread, from which we find the Brunching Geek Hierarchy. Back in my role playing days, I probably would have been somewhere near the bottom of that chart, since I did write Trek-based furry fanfics. Featuring a Gadget-like character. (No, seriously. Just ask Antifaust. He still has the Wordstar files of my Next Generation novel about the psychic mutant rat.)

Going Beyond Default

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Build and install Apache 1.3.28 and PHP 4.3.3 on OS X. Quick and painless. My local development environment just got a bit nicer.

Skin01 has been redesigned, but IE5.x/Win continues to break the sidebar CSS spectacularly. I’m working on it, but Virtual PC does not share OS X’s Apache server, though it does share its internet connection. As a result, in Win/VPC, I can only view changes to projects after the files have been uploaded.

If I can manage to (1) get Apache/OSX to share local VirtualHosts with Win98, and/or (2) install Apache and PHP into Win98/VPC, then set up my VirtualHosts to point to my web projects directory on a shared drive, I should be able to view the site locally in both OS X and Win98. Coding and proofing should run a bit easier once that works.