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I've heard people complain about this, but I don't think it's happened to me: "I wrote this nice little entry and then ... !" "Then" could be one of many things, usually the computer doing something inexplicable or at least bringing about some unforseen consequence to some innocuous action. Mine was actually kind of interesting, as I could say I'd never seen a computer do that before (and I have no idea what it did anyway, as I fixed it by logging out and then back in again). It's been a while since I could say that ... but then I have Linux now, so none of the rules apply. I said my computing life as I knew it would end; how true that is.

Incidentally, after I told her about this, Tess tried to show me how to install a Linux LJ client--woohoo, I say--but it only served to teach me more things I didn't know I didn't know. Now I at least know that I don't know them; progress is being made.

People as ignorant as me don't use Linux. That's what I think. Only through learning things about it would you want to use it anyway; Windows is fine for most people and they go on happily living their lives without even knowing Linux exists. People who have heard of Linux usually have a reason to--it means they have some context for it and know enough things that, were they going to use it, it would make sense to them at least some of the time.

But, Matthew said I'll never learn it if I don't try it. He also bought a new printer just so I could (so he could?) have Linux on this thing, and I really can't argue with that.

The whole experience has been a bit like going to another country whose language I do not speak and having to pick it up just by being immersed in it, and having no other choice. And hey, people have reached great ends from such humble beginnings as moving to a country whose language they do not know.

It's gonna be one of those kind of days ...

(That's not a prediction, just a warning.)

I slept really well last night and was still up by seven-thirty (well, I did go to bed at eleven). So natually I sat on the living room floor in my pajamas--I mean, my work clothes--eating Peanut Butter Cap'n Crunch and watching Spongebob.

Because I've inherited my dad's tendency to channel surf rather than watch commercials, I found myself doing that. Quickly flipping through the channels, I caught something that make me think, Wait a minute-- Did that say "poo devil"?! I was already a couple channels past that one, but I turned back to it and quickly realized (mostly because of the blue-green water in the background) that this had been the fault of a stylized L and it actually said Pool Devil.

Poo Devil. Jeez.