Asymptomatic

There must be intelligent life down here

Global Advantage
September 29, 2003

I got this message on the answering machine at home. It was some guy telling me that I had put my name into a drawing and that I had won a prize. It sounded conspicuously like some kind of advertising pitch for a three reasons: 1) He started talking before the beep and the beginning of the message was cut off, so he was probably a recording. 2) His voice sounded like it was coming through one of those lousy headsets with people in the background. 3) He didn't use my name. The whole thing sounded like a recording just meant to be dialled at random.

Anyway, I ignored it. He said something about winning a car or some nonsense, but if it was some marketing thing I didn't feel interested.

Old Pictures
September 25, 2003

I had to clean up my office this week because they're painting it while I'm on vacation, and I came across a strangely labeled CD.  The title said "Packard Bell P-75".  We didn't ever use a Packard Bell computer at work, so I knew it must be a disk from our old home computer.

I put the disk in the drive and looked through the directories.  On there, I found two directories full of pictures from our first digital camera, the Casio QV-11.  It's funny how all of that technology now fits into a watch.