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[robinturner]

After watching Ghost in the Shell I commented to a fellow-geek, "There are no ghosts in my shell, but I've got plenty of daemons in my kernel." Some of these daemons seem to refuse signals like HUP or even KILL, and are continuing to drive me even when I'm on holiday. After a week of marking hell, what am I doing but working on Parts 2 and 3 of my series of papers on desire, and even trying to translate Part 1 into Turkish (almost impossible - my colloquial Turkish is fine, but I have problems with things like "descriptivist fallacy")?

I'm also trying to get some serious qigong started. I'm practicing the Chinese stuff I know from years back (mainly the baduanjin) plus some of the newer stuff from hapkido. It's good, but makes me aware of what a terrible state my body's in. An old taiji friend once said that my doing qigong was like taking a rickety old plumbing system and forcing water round it at high pressure - some creaking is to be expected.

Today I decided to avoid behaving in this compulsive, driven way, go down to the office and spend a totaly self-indulgent time online. However, I've spent quite of bit of this time trying unsuccessfully to upgrade LyX (new binary RPM has fake unsatisfied dependencies, source won't compile). Time to go home and watch Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Oh yes, and I need to wash my curtains. No! No!

>kill -s SIGINT
>kill -s SIGHUP
>kill -s SIGKILL
>kill -s SIGNUKE

(Will anyone other than Arya understand this post, I wonder?)

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[arya.livejournal.com]

Well, *I* was amused anyway. ;)