Spoke too soon.

The relative purposelessness of the 9:35 hour is now a wistful memory. I've been assigned to a new project and I'm worried that it assumes skills I don't have (yet). We meet this afternoon.

I will be "writing script" and designing a "flashy tour" through our software, marketing its usefulness to users.

Dreamweaver I can do, and editing code is getting common, but what exactly does "writing script" mean? Does it assume proficiency in HTML? Other languages?

What "tool" might I choose? How the heck do I know? Writing words and designing the feel and flow of this tour, I am the girl for. But the script writing --- I just need to get myself up to speed by this afternoon so I can talk intelligently about the project.

Argh.

Sitting in Cube #49

I can't figure out why I'm here.

Masturbation 'like Ferrari in 1st gear'

October 07 1999 at 04:45PM


Vatican City - Masturbation is like owning a Ferrari and driving only in first gear, a senior Catholic theologian said in an article published Wednesday.

"Driving only in first gear, not only do you prevent the Ferrari expressing its full power, but gradually you wear it out and thereby ruin a masterpiece of technology," Father Giordano Muraro wrote in the magazine Vita Pastorale.

Muraro was responding to a reader who asked whether it was sinful to masturbate in the absence of one's spouse in order to reduce sexual tension.

According to Muraro, while masturbation - the sin of onanism in the bible - is "objectively a serious act, circumstances must be taken into account".

He said it was up to the person involved to "judge the gravity of his deed, in the context of the couple's path to God". - Sapa-AFP

I am increasingly blown away by the number of actual banana peels I see lying on the ground these days.