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Hello reader! Be sure to look for a new stylesheet and design of iaatb.net as well as the usual semi-literate frivolity and perhaps even a comeback of the iaatb photodump as soon as they install wifi in the palace I’m living in here in Florence.
In like ten days.
Because they won’t install it right now because of “consctruction dust.” (Real sysadmins buy equipment that’s dustproof. The IT subcontractor is a weakling and is the opposite of hardcore. One of the other workers, though, was wearing german miliatary camo pants yesterday. That was pretty cool, but not as cool as the fluorescent orange ones the road construction guys– WUAGH MELLVILLE LEVEL OF DIGRESSION REACHED ABORTING PARENTHETICAL!)
 Oh yeah, did I mention I was living in a palace? With a big window that has a direct view of the best-looking basilica in Italy, because said basillica is right accross the street? Well, I know I didn’t mention the last part.
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GMT-0500 20:57:01 0709.9 (Sun)
Yeah, it’s bad when the parenthetical makes fifty-six sixty-sevenths of the paragraph. Also, have you found a Midnight Oil analogue that both you and Alex spend way too much time in yet?
GMT-0500 02:32:51 0709.10 (Mon)
Unfortunately, the initial prospective location (an open-air stage slash bar slash café slash caffè in the piazza right outside our window) is seasonal and the last night for it is tomorrow.
This is of course a mixed blessing because no open evening bar means no place for people to buy alcohol in Piazza Santo Spirito past 10 PM or so, and that hopefully means no drunken revelry outside my window until 2 in the freaking morning.
Oh, and remember, they use the metric system over here, so it’s not fifty-six sixty-sevenths, it’s .835821. But since we all know thanks to Mr Mullholland that people can’t eyeball past two significant digits, in reality the parenthetical was .84 ± .01 of the sentence. See, doesn’t SI make so much sense than dirty Customary and its nasty fractions?
GMT-0500 21:48:07 0709.16 (Sun)
“So, Jozef … did you enjoy Billy Budd?”
My memories of Mr. Melville are that as well as the whole “Ryan in senior citizen drag” that won our group 2nd best presentation of the class. I doubt Matt, Sean, Jozef, or I will ever forget that.
Anyway, cool to see the new layout, though I am still trying to decipher what “07.1616” could be, considering it doesn’t look like a familiar 23rd Century Starfleet date format but it also can’t be “military time as applied to the calendar” since that just doesn’t make any sense for months. 1616 … puzzling.