I just felt like writing on Gopher today.

I bounced between books some last night after the last minute update of books.html.

This morning I decided to browse gopherspace. I also visited macos9lives both there
and on the web, plus sent its owner an e-mail.

The whole OCC world seems quiet today. IRC's active but not so much as usual, no
posts on the forum, etc. It's shaping up to be a pretty quiet one overall.

I'm supposed to hang out with a friend later, though. Plus maybe I'll watch a movie
or two: I've got a Jet Li tape with my name on it just sitting on the shelf.

It also seems I have a TTGS bug at the buffer boundary. I thought I fixed that...

Well that's fixed now, ttgs 1.3 is out, though I regret not making it 1.2.1.

Later today I'm going to run some Labyrinth Lord for friends, we'll see how it goes.
I'm gonna be pretty rusty, but the game's good at killing people off no matter what,
so I'll probably 'win' by some sadistic definition.

I spent more time than I liked on my modern computer today, though for OCC-serving
reasons. I have no way of getting into my VPS from the macbook and I've volunteered
to run Quake servers for the OCC group. We now have both quake 1 and 2 available at
yeens.gay . For some reason the quake 2 server I was using didn't like being fed its
map list via the config file so I had to pass it by the command line, before it would
crash every time a match ended. At least it's fixed now.

Oh! Another neat UX thing in MacOS. Not every app, but many apps have the ability to
bookmark things (wait! Wait! I'm going somewhere with this!) and the bookmark is
basically a full application state. I'm used to ftp clients letting me create
bookmarks for certain sites, for example, but Fetch will do the site and the path as
a link on your desk. You just click on it and Fetch restores its full state to right
where you were. This is really good, but it could be better: what if I could just drop
files onto those shortcuts and have them automatically uploaded to that folder? I'm
just saying that MacOS is probably about as good as we ever got with an OS, but that's
not because it was perfect: everything later has just been worse.

There's also a lot of options for saving as "stationary," essentially
as templates. That's in the text editors, in the word processors, etc. I haven't used
it yet, but easy templating is always neat.

They were too damn lucky in Labyrinth Lord. They came out of it with like 700 gold each,
not inflicted on anyone. Needless to say it was a fun time.

By the way: that e-mail to the guy who runs macos9lives bounced. I guess I'm not getting
any hints for drawing programs soon.

Finally, I roped my sister into playing quake 2 on the community server. It was really
nice, I don't get to spend all that much time with her and we used to play quake 2
together in LAN matches when we were kids.
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