First, let me tell you that I sent some heated emails today, because I work in Linux Standards. Well, I can back up and say I work with Linux ANYTHING and you should figure that heated emails are probably par for the course. I had to get very blunt and rude because the German guy I was corresponding with just plain doesn’t get it, and if he keeps up his behavior while I expect him to be a normally functioning human being, I’m going to get fired. Anyway, he seems to like forwarding my emails around without thinking of how it would affect me, so I shouldn’t have said, “You’re annoying me to the point of wanting to give megacorp the middle finger and walking out.”

I felt much better after seeing the Schwag Storm and going to the gym. (The Schwag Storm occurs when the exhibit hall is being dismantled and everyone dumps all the goodies they don’t want to take home. Including books that people were selling!

Anyway, the new sign of geekdom is that after 20 years I got my membership card to the Tech Coop again, so I’m back getting discounts on things with the MIT (or, ugh, Harvard) logo! Membership costs $1/year, and there was a time after graduation where I told them I wanted nothing to do with MIT or The Coop. Now if I could only afford those things with logos from my alma mater. Right now I have to save up for my impending doom.