Groovy

I got pterm working on FreeBSD. (utmp support doesn't work yet and I'm not certain what extra privilege it needs to allocate its pty securely though.)

My subconscious seems to think that invented mobile phone adverts and dry cleaners are sensible things to occupy my sleeping brain.

New hotness

I bought a new bike last week, my old one having become old and busted in one too many ways. TTTT it might well be repairable to provide a backup bike, but having got a new one I'm glad I did - it's much nicer. I had a little trouble getting used to having 3x6 derailleur gears at first (old bike has only 3-speed hub gears) but that seems to be largely sorted now.

What else has been going on lately? Watched Strange Days with lark_ascending and greatly enjoyed it. It sounds from the blurb a bit like a Greg Egan short story, and is set in the technological and social future but the numerical past (the climax of the plot centres around a huge Y2K party), which feels a little odd; I wonder if they had that in mind when they mind it (mid '90s). I might wibble about it some more when I have more time.