Q©: Another reboot? You already rebooted once!

sneaker: Q, all boots come in pairs!

:Q getting hassled while I keep rebooting his machine in order to pay homage to the piss-poor security considerations in Windows

NRN: Yeah, I’m not one for PDA

Q©: You can’t even say I love you on the phone while I’m around

sneaker: The only PDA I go for is the Palm 🙂

:conversation between Q, NRN and I regarding public display of affection

sneaker: Q, are you all rebooted? Should I come make sure you’re practicing safe browsing?

Q©: I am practicing safe browsing…I’m using NS [Netscape]

sneaker: ahh… but that’s equivalent to abstinence 😉

Q©: …makes the heart grow fonder

:ICQ conversation between Q and I while I was trying to secure all the machines from the the Nimda worm

karenika: you doing ok there? got people to hang out with?

reachmanu: I’ve decided to just hang with my computer. It’s the only logical thing I can find 🙂

:IM conversation with karen

Me: I want to do research on computing and emotion… maybe…

Gibson: You mean you enter data into Excel and it gets happy on you or you delete a file and it starts crying? Or is it that you do a search on Hedonism and the machine gets all excited?

:The witty Gibson humor gets me again…