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i found information on how to bulk rename file extensions using ms dos here.

but i have a question for programmers.

RENAME [drive:][path][directoryname1 | filename1] [directoryname2 | filename2]

EXAMPLES

Rename all text files to files with .bak extension.

rename *.txt *.bak

does that mean you include the path to the directory you want in the command like

c:\documents\pictures\*.jpg *.bmp

?

geeks, geek subculture, geek interbreeding

i was thinking about a post kyuuketsukirui innocently made about her husband and their computers and game systems, and auctioning off tapes and games and stuff.  and i was thinking about it in connection with my own childhood, where it always seemed like a slight waste of money to buy books and i hardly ever took them from the library, because my parents own so much paperback science fiction that neither of them has even read half of it.  and about my dad's friend gary who owns the largest collection of print tolkein fanzines in the world, as far as he knows; and his wife and how their entire house is full of the accoutrements of SCA role-playing and sylvia's own artwork, which is all really good, and also all of fairies and dragons.

i was thinking about the changing image of geekdom in culture.

i think before the fifties or the sixties geeks were quite different.  we've been gradually growing into a sub-culture, especially since sf fandom and now the internet.  geeks used to be tolerated semi-anomalies.  now we have access to a culture that celebrates otherness and indulges our obsessions and gives us like-minded playmates, and we've logically taken advantage of that to interbreed.

and it seems to me that geeks interbreeding is becoming more and more common.  there are more and more second- and third-generation geeks and i think it's a good thing.  i wonder what we're selecting for?  OCD?  fangirling?  intelligence?  some combination of these and other things, probably. 

wee

we need a webcam so everyone can see a) how long and vaguely rock 'n' roll my hair has become, and b) the sexy movie star sunglasses i bought today.

wax downloaded some more eurythmics for me, but if anyone has some quantity of annie lennox and could share i'd be delighted.  i may have to give in and buy some.  five songs is just TOO LITTLE. 

oh, and i also bought empty dvd boxes so i can put the meantime perhael burned for me away in one... after i stop looking at it once a day.  it'd be a waste to remove it from the dvd drive at this point.