In a weirdly great mood

To steal from an email I just sent Dee:

I'm in a weirdly great mood -- I slept in, so got here at about 9:30am... only to find our boss, Captain Kirk, is working from home! Oh, the perfection of my criminality is nothing short of elegance! Ergo, "woot". So I've not been working too hard, but really I'm waiting on Infrastructure to open up a firewall or three and allow SSH traffic between my build server and the hardware encryption module. Listening to an eclectic mix of pop-rocks and classical... no, I mean pop COMMA rock and classical. So it's a little Silverchair, a little Mozart and, of course, The Smiths. What auditory joy is pouring into my ears; its as if my headphones are a porn-star of noise and I'm the poor unsuspecting milk-maid/police officer/nurse/secretary lumberjack receiving his sonic load in my delicate ear-canals. Picturesque, non?

I've been having deep chats (oxymoron? Tone kept light, but concepts are deep) with the Heartless King about everything from software craftmanship to Android to the validity (or lack thereof) of virtual worlds. His view: why have a SecondLife? Get out and sort your first one! Mine: virtual worlds are another outlet for human creativity and ingenuity, which has an innate value, and therefore as such are perfectly normal.

I think there might be more to say about that, but it's not fully-formed in a mind currently filled with memetics and Engelbart's intelligence augmentation. A post for another day!