Non Sequitor Corp.

It's been a weird morning so far, but pretty good.

The cafe downstairs was playing "99 Luft Balloons" by Nina. There's a flashback. I get upstairs and wonder for a bit if I've accidentally come in on a weekend, although the lights are on. But it seems there was simply a lull in the usual level of background noise.

I've been reading through old /. articles. I signed up to have story summaries mailed to me because I can't be bothered going to the site on a regular basis. :-\ But I have to make time to read the e-mail and actually follow links and stuff.

So, weird picks for topics:

• a link about realistic portrayals of programmers in the media, as in "there aren't any"
• more interesting was a link to an article about nerds and popularity that had a very "nail::head" feel to it for me
• and following a link from that site, one about The Six-Lesson Schoolteacher
• then this yesterday: a link about banning model rocket engines. I haven't ignited one of those since grade 9

I'm also thinking about this since I'm not sure there actually is a client that does this for LJ. But there could be. And there's some other things I'd like as well. And it could be in Java. I spent my shower this morning puzzling over how I would safely store passwords for people if I was going to do this, which is an interesting sign I suppose. Should I start from scratch or see if the code for the other Java client is already open and start from there? And I've always wanted an excuse to use SourceForge.