Meh.

It appears that I have fried my wireless card, or the software for the wireless card, or something. So long as the computer doesn't look for it, it doesn't seem to crash? So yeah. Back up machine and see what we can do from there.

ninevrise -- if you want to hear the nerd rock I was mentioning, it's here.

Don't know if I'm going to be around much while computer flaky. Also expecting to have an extremely distracted weekend for some reason ....

Quickie thought for future reference

Preferring to run social interactions on gift economy should have an error-check mechanism dealing with cultural significances attached to gift transfer.