Worker

The writing is going well. I am under deadline right now for two articles and I probably shouldn’t be posting to my site. Instead, I should be ankle-deep in wonderful facts about prosaic compages and waxing philosophic about the price of rum, grinding my words out forcefully on the old Underwood and cursing when the whiskey blurs what is probably the best sentence I’ve ever written in my life. But who has time for such shenanigans? Things must be attended to.

Today was the first day of my new day job. I’m a something-or-other at a company downtown. I want to find out the company’s policy on bloggering things before I say more so I’ll leave the details sketchy at best. I feel that things went well and I’m very excited to be working with them, and I don’t think any company would object to my saying so. It was strange to be working on a Windows machine after a solid year of OS X, my fingers have adapted to the Mac shortcuts and I kept trying to hit my “command” key. Old habits die hard though and I found myself launching my apps with the “run” command. I took one look at the START menu and shuddered a tad before my pinky found the Window key and my index finger hopped to the “r” key faster than kudzu grows in Georgia. I may have just made that analogy up and if I did you can quote me, keeping the Creative Commons license of this site in mind…

I just learned how to count binary (base two) on my fingers from this and with that I thought I would post the national anthem in binary code:

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The binary code above was ripped off from BoingBoing.

3 Responses to “Worker”

  1. Barfly Says:

    I am glad that you are back in the blogosphere.

    But, I have to inform you that I am calling Homeland Security as I type. Yeah, that’s right, I am multi-talented.

    Don’t you know that the National Anthem can only be sung in English?!!! There is no place in America for a National Anthem in binary code! The next thing you know, people are going to want to sing it in imaginary languages, like Spanish.

    Well, young man, you just wait for that knock on your door and a one way ticket to Guantanamo!

  2. drew Says:

    You’re lucky I didn’t post it in Sanskrit…

  3. Barfly Says:

    By the way … congrats on the new job. It sounds like it is working out well for you. I hope that you keep busy stickin’ it to the Man.

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