A good day so far

Got a lot done this morning, work wise. (Home office payroll is cooperating, the guys aren't throwing too many fires at me and nobody has broken a phone yet today.)

Had a lovely lunch with Grace at Sushi Avenue - the local, family run joint up the street from work. Bento with gyoza and tuna sashimi, hold the rice, double salad, plus a freebie seaweed salad and freebie tuna in spicy sauce from the owner and mango mochi ice cream - because it's freaking hot today in the Bay Area.

Oh, and the State of California, which cannot fix our roads while charging us more gas tax than anyone else on the planet, did something righteous and civilized.

It is a good day indeed.

In Memoriam, Megan Meier

"Hey, hey, hey. Don't be mean. We don't have to be mean because, remember, no matter where you go, there you are." -  Buckaroo Banzai

You know, the LJ community dedicated to trashing people's makeup? The ones who got sloppy and left electronic footprints by hotlinking to my website? This is why I didn't just laugh it off. THIS is why I protested their bullshit idea of having fun at other people's expense.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/05/15/internet.suicide/index.html

This is about being deliberately cruel with impunity - it's the Internet, nobody can catch me, therefore I can get away with it. We've gotten jaded by daily deluges of spam and phishing emails. McAfee no longer bothers to send me alerts about every new virus - it's just assumed that they happen and that McAfee will try to defend me from them as long as I buy their services.

I'm a big girl. I can take care of myself. Not everyone can.

Megan couldn't.