Coming up to snuff
Jul. 6th, 2011 04:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
desperanceWe went to the Computer History Museum in Mountain View today, so I put on my geekiest T-shirt*. At the desk, we were in the process of paying when a voice cried "They don't pay! They're on me!" and Chris Garcia erupted from a back room. We didn't even know he was a curator there...
So we did the exhibition in stints, with lunch between, and intermittent cries of "Oh great Ghu, I had one of those!" - and then we went to see the Babbage Difference Engine being demonstrated. Turns out it is curiously like every Windows computer you've ever used: four cranks and it crashed. Brass screen of death.
Still, the crowds dissipated, and Karen got me to pose for a photo round the back of the beautiful beast. And then - because she's actually geekier than I am, and I couldn't think of anywhere better if I worked on it with both hands for a fortnight - I asked if she'd like to marry me.**
And now we're back home, she's writing job applications (or possibly playing WoW, I haven't peeked) and I'm writing a gay pirates story. Yo ho, Sebastian. Keep the aspidochelone floating.
*(black, with a Linux cheat-sheet inverted on the chest so that I can read it)
**EtA: she said yes. Yes, she said, she would. So that's okay.
So we did the exhibition in stints, with lunch between, and intermittent cries of "Oh great Ghu, I had one of those!" - and then we went to see the Babbage Difference Engine being demonstrated. Turns out it is curiously like every Windows computer you've ever used: four cranks and it crashed. Brass screen of death.
Still, the crowds dissipated, and Karen got me to pose for a photo round the back of the beautiful beast. And then - because she's actually geekier than I am, and I couldn't think of anywhere better if I worked on it with both hands for a fortnight - I asked if she'd like to marry me.**
And now we're back home, she's writing job applications (or possibly playing WoW, I haven't peeked) and I'm writing a gay pirates story. Yo ho, Sebastian. Keep the aspidochelone floating.
*(black, with a Linux cheat-sheet inverted on the chest so that I can read it)
**EtA: she said yes. Yes, she said, she would. So that's okay.