| Thursday, February 28, 2002. |
8:43 PM - Oh, a boating we will go, a boating we will go !! High ho, the derry oh, a... blub blub blub... gah !!
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1:19 PM - Last night I watched the latest from Kevin Smith, "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back" and today my vocabulary is down the tubes. It is a movie for which you have to lower the volume for fear of offending your neighbours. My favourite parts are Banky dressed as Kevin Matchstick and Harley Quinn's cameo.
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1:08 PM - MACs even make software piracy cool. I soooo want an iPod; does anyone know if they have been modded to work with PCs? (fr. MuTex8)
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| Wednesday, February 27, 2002. |
11:59 AM - Fuck. This is the third time I have heard about being canned for your blog in the past 6 months. I can understand if you are nasty and there is some obvious connection of your blog identity to your company identity; there are certain amounts of decorum that should be exercised. But, she did none of the above, perhaps being a bit specific of the people she was ranting about. Fucking sucks. When will the first employer who does so be brought before a Labour Board?
I am now wondering when this will be latched onto by the media, will be read by CEOs and VPs and other acronymed ninnies and will lead to a statement to the HR of their company:
"Please check if the person you are hiring has a personal weblog or website; if they do, refrain from hiring them as we do not wish a forum in which to be seen in a bad light."
(fr. bill, who will never be fired because she glows about her job, her company and her bosses)
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11:27 AM - Gahhh, spurred on by today's DorkTower I search and find out that it will March 22 for my next viewing of the LOTR. Warning, the article has spoilers for both the upcoming movies and the DVD. And from what I heard, they are going to make a 3-space DVD box with the first release, so as to not repeat the StarWars idea of making your buy one, then buy a boxed-set of two, and then a combo box of all three.
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| Tuesday, February 26, 2002. |
11:33 PM - *frowns mightily*
OK, what the frick is THIS meme about ?!?
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11:30 PM - OK, now I am considering how to stick my hairy belly onto the scanner. And I don't know why. (also from harrumph)
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11:26 PM - No XP. Its self booting CD would not self boot. If I was forced to re-install Win98SE, then I might as well stick with it. Install, install, install later... the new HD seems to has solved the foibles the other drive was causing. The Tablet works fine with the two NICs, the network was up without a pain, the internet connection as well and the reboot phase is no longer a "go get a coffee" experience. Now to get a HD removable-chasis and have one less-than-reliable space for games and MP3s.
P.S. Weeeeee, another mail project - postcardX. I have decided that, low self-esteem problems or not, I am bombarding people with my postcards and CDs. If only to get other schtuff in the mail. (fr. heather, whom I balk at about aging woes -- divas do not age, their beauty only becomes more refined)
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2:16 PM - XP arrived today and its time to try it out on the new HD. I hate the whole "create a computer from fresh" experience. The first few times it was refreshing to have a clean clean HD but now with all that has to be done, its just irritating. This time I remembered to find out how to back-up my email. This tutorial is handy.
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12:59 PM - Make a note of this next time the CMS debate and comparison goes around. Make sure that the escaping of HTML tags is properly handled. Notice the missing <FORM> tag in the first sentence. Note, this is a bad excuse to bookmark that link.
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11:27 AM - OK, the wormy dude here is just disturbing as I drag him all about the screen by his silver cord. (via milov)
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11:15 AM - Woo hoo !! Its National Toast Week !! Well across the water it is. But I see a major discrepancy in their menus. Everything has too much other food associating with the toast. Hrrrrmph.
Breakfast: Toast & Milk
Lunch: Toast & apple
Supper: Toast & green salad & toasted croutons
Now those are the meals for the ages !! (fr. Lisa, and Steve its called an improbability engine)
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11:04 AM - Heeeeey, Firda (feeer-dah, feeer-dah !!) has new, ultraclean digs that smack of something familiar.
*view source*
Ahah!! Another casualty in the CSS Wars. Boxes inside of boxes inside of boxes. I may become bored of CSS quicker than I became bored with Flash.
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11:01 AM - MP3 Files Not Always Safe. Nope they aren't. Occasionally you may download some malicious code all locked up inside an MP3... like a tune that won't fricking go away. (fr. Brian, who made contact but it was probably an email distribution list)
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2:19 AM - Three newly posted CD Covers over at print. In doing these three quick ones, and a few more coming up, I notice that all too often I am somewhat lazy about design. Rather than creating my own image from scratch, or from collaged images, I borrow images from people I like. I hope the originators do not mind.
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| Monday, February 25, 2002. |
4:24 PM - I came here to send a resume their direction but spent longer than I intended clicking the lil flash/origami hello guy. The rest of the pages have other such cute useful navigation features. I probably shouldn't say that if I would like a job there, right? That said, can anyone guess what he might be? Is he a headless green ape balanced on some broken pencils? Oh I know you might try and tell me he is two parrots squawking away but I won't believe you.
On a tangent... Time alloted to find and send resumes to 25 companies, 3 hours. Number of actual resumes sent after 2 computer crashes (wiping my Excel sheet for HRDC twice), a rescued cat (from other meanie cat) and constantly clicking through ICQ spam (yeah yeah, so i like to talk to the bots -- i'm lonely): 5. Bleah. Now I have other chores to get to.
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2:14 PM - Hmmm, is work not boring enough for you. Leave this up and running and just go to sleep, you lil baby.
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12:25 PM - Tee hee hee, I should have lifted the chair myself the first time I noticed the GoogleBot come wandering around and indexing my "this is a text page" into its everlasting cache. (noticed by cam)
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12:04 PM - Rawr !! CSS Wars !! Brought to you by Acts of Volition.
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12:18 AM - New desktop wallpaper from version_three.
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| Sunday, February 24, 2002. |
5:59 PM - There are horns honking and people running past my window, wrapped in Canadian flags, hooting and howling. Did something happen that I should have been aware of ?
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4:42 PM - So, nowadays everyone is writing a weblog article. Heh heh heh, How to Write a Better Weblog would hate me. I write in the manner I babble, sitting around in coffee shops or pubs. I write as me, not as a journalist or a storyteller or a ... a whatever. I want to be pissed off by this article but I cannot. Some people cannot abide the terrible grammar, the boring rendition of recycled links and personal annecdotes that were as uninteresting when they happened to the person. For some, if it makes them grin weakly or nod in approval then its enough. My audience is small but they most likely would end up in the pub with me willing to rant about this article rather than write a Saturday Evening Post article about it.
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4:29 PM - Some of our comments conversations seem like a verrrrrry slow chatroom. But Brent Ashley now has BlogChat that can be installed on your robust server, i.e. it needs PHP and mySQL. It reminds me when I was running a little Humanclick link at the bottom and people would randomly chat with me. I liked it, as they always ended up chatting because of my webpage, not some random attack on my instant messengers. I wonder why I didn't reinstall it?
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4:25 PM - Buh-dee buh-dee buh-dee buh-dee, that's all folks. Seeya Chuck, at least I know that afterlife will be properly animated when I get there.
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12:23 PM - Since I stopped finding daily things to blab about to find friends on postcards, I have a box just sitting and doing nothing. Poor guy, xeresdotcom is going to get alot :)
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12:19 PM - This bloody webtest JavaScript is everywhere these days. Why oh why do we let the tools fall into the hands of the little people. And I will not admit that I did the test by placing a lil picture of Doug up on my page. Damn. (bevie's to blame)
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12:12 PM - I don't get the newspaper so the sunday funnies are out. So I thought I would read the entire webcomic list at Desertwolf's Journal instead. It made me think there is a place in this world for a comic strip called IRL No not "Real Life", i know that's already a strip but IRL, as in the three letter acronym for something I don't have right now.
BTW, that wasn't a joblessness-related moan, it was just a moan moan. No, not an upstairs-neighbour-at-3am moan, more like a desperately-needing-a-change-of-pace moan. OK, I suppose being jobless is one of those paces I would like to change. Quit arguing with me.
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| Friday, February 22, 2002. |
9:36 PM - Hey Mexico Ed, let's move this discussion here.
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1:36 PM - Can someone tell me what I am supposed to do with all the ICQ Spam I am getting. I understand the "Hi I am Candi and I suck... go to my webpage" spams but the "Hi, my name is Sarah !!" and that is all, I just don't get. There's no product no link no nothing. *bing* they are on my ignore list. Am I just being rude to friendly people or is there something I am missing?
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12:08 PM - What the hey, all my other longer posts seem to be coming from a mind doing absolutely nothing for far too long. Oh wait, they are..
1. Hey, baby, what's your sign? Do you think it fits you pretty well? Scorpio. Fits? I dunno, Cleo says it fits me perfectly but I am not sure I trust her after the Old Chinese Grandmother incident.
2. What's the worst birthday gift you've ever received? My mother forgetting it was my birthday. I kind of thought the day was imprinted in her mind but...
3. What's the best birthday gift you've ever received? Hrrrrm, that is definately difficult. So many grand things from J. So many. Well I will have to say the best were the Tom & Jerry Matchbox Racers when I was 5. I was unbelievably peeved that Scott, who's birthday was the day before mine, got them when I had begged and begged for them. Luckily his Mom talked to my Mom and we were both made happy, racing Tom against Tom and crashing the Jerrys into each other.
4. What's the best way you've celebrated your birthday thus far? It has to be the surprise party J threw for me in Halifax in which Colin had to find ways to occupy my time while J hid all the guests behind the furniture. Ten minutes previous I had been walking in my apartment door when J said, "Colin says he has to talk to you about something..." and ushered me out the door very quickly. I didn't notice my living room was full of surprised people. At Colin's, across the hall, I asked him what he wanted and he proceeded to adlib for the ten with me. I was oblivious to the subterfuge. MacKinnon was shaking his head when I was "surprised" knowing full well they could have had a sign on the door saying, "David's Surprise Party" and I would have missed it.
5. What are your plans for this weekend? I hate this question. I hate it, I hate it, I hate it and I have no life. There might be a party for Erin Selby, Trevor and the triplets who all move to Winnepeg this weekend but who knows if we will be informed in time.
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12:22 AM - Everybody has a story. And sometimes its not just a story. Eric Scott was murdered in his bed. He was a Denver Punk, street counselor, pot dealer and a friend to alot of people. The tale glamourizes the life of someone on the streets in a dangerous life. But not in the usual negative connotation, more in the manner that everyone's life deserves a bit of glamour-ing when death can be so fucking glamourless.
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| Thursday, February 21, 2002. |
10:53 PM - Good dear, good ! This lil use of PS Filters shows The Sluice and "Uncle" Charlie's Farm on Benacadie Pond in Cape Breton, NS. My parents' home is about a kilometer to the right.
The Sluice was the second choice for swimming when you were in the mood for a change. The kids would walk the short distance and some of the lazier parents would follow in a car laden with towels and beer in the trunk. On the pond side, you had fresh water, murky depths and a sheer drop-off that must have led to the Kracken's lair. On the lakeside you had ice cold salt water and constant waves. Under these waves were hundreds of fairy stones* and the occasional not-so-endangered codfish.
* Fairy Stones? No, not rocks with a natural hole bored through but small bits of 1940's glass bottles, ever so thick and hardy but polished round by decades of salt water and stone bottoms. Frosted or crystal, green or clear they were always treasures to be found.
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1:52 PM - "Oh, I am sorry sir, I didn't know. Go right ahead sir." There is a subtle meme going around the jetset. It is that particular Prada in NYC. Jason was there as was Aaron recently. I could not help but think, "Prada is just not part of my vocabulary since I stopped playing the nipple-shot drinking game to FT." But I am someone to appreciate interesting stabs at interior design having babbled far too much about the great displays at the Ottawa Fido store and still wondering why some financially focused spot on St. Catherine has a CHUM-like "environment".
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12:12 PM - Remind me to bookmark ThinkGeek and Errorwear.
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10:54 AM - David, just because you sent out a large batch of resumes in the wee hours of the morning and your email box is still empty, does not means its defective. Clicking send/receive 5 times in a row will not help.
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10:22 AM - For no other reasons than to help LightningField's David Gallagher get better ranking in Google, I link to him. Oh, I suppose there is another reason. I still have digicam envy and say to myself when I see photologs, "Y'know, if I only had a digicam I would be doing that as well. Hell knows I have the time to wander." Either that or you would get an entire photolog of angles of my computer room.
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10:17 AM - I always smile at that second or two of very basic looking text, until the page with the external style sheet loads. "Look ma, CSS magic."
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| Wednesday, February 20, 2002. |
3:07 PM - After spending an entire day playing the game, not noticing as daylight faded to pitch black, jumping at every sound in the apartment and being spooked for days following, I wonder if Resident Evil, the movie will be as much fun?
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1:24 PM - "Would you like fries with that?"
"Would you like fries with that?"
"Would you like fries with that?"
"Now, would you like fries with that?"
"Take the fucking fries, man."
Just practicing.
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10:50 AM - Geah !! And while I am doing my almost daily ritual of ranting incoherently at the monitor I will complain about that "20:02, 20/02, 2002" people are going on about. They say, "it will only happen once." Actually "20:04, 21/05, 2003" will only happen once as well because, y'know... unless time is cyclical, every fricking' minute only happens once !!! And if you are being so clever about the palindromic affect then see jason kottke's explanation and quit thinking yer so clever.
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| Tuesday, February 19, 2002. |
8:34 PM - I used to walk into record & CD stores, back when there were records, and blank out. All the many choices of music I had in my head would disappear and I was standing there looking like an idiot who would end up at the New Releases section completely baffled. I learned to make a list, sitting ever beside my KB, which I would take with me when I was near the store. I don't buy as many CDs as I used to, due to money constraints and being an un-hip old fart, and thus the list has been neglected.
But I do frequent Morpheus, who BTW are quite peeved about their security leak rumours, for MP3s and I am starting to suffer the same blank-out when I load up the software.
*blink blink*
"What the fuck did I want to DL again??"
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12:01 PM - The FBI should know better; less links more personal commentary is the best way to join the weblogger A-List. Oh, and link to the popular memes while not forgetting linky-love. Come on, just one lil mention of tbit on the FBI weblog... you can do it !!
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11:55 AM - Fashion yet not exactly looking fashionable, Thomas Schmidt Fotografie is a beautiful site. Clean, lovely euros in youth. The navigation is quite novel as well. In order to have you focus on the photos, they fade the incredibly simple image navigation (arrows) and the mouse pointer away so you are left looking at stark white space, grey border and colourful photo. Nice.
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11:24 AM - Is discounted VD chococlate for breakfast a bad thing or a good thing?
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| Monday, February 18, 2002. |
2:52 AM - Mukey is right; this is some fucking incredible artwork. Sam Hiti. I will let the nasty dark ink lines and grim looking characters do the talking for me...
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| Sunday, February 17, 2002. |
11:28 AM - From the referrers, and no they did not link to me:
"http://lesbo-tennie-girls.lesbian-hardcore-porn-teen-pics.com"
Quite the domain name.
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| Friday, February 15, 2002. |
10:55 AM - Ed's rebuttal to the Iceberg Document linked below. Valid points but I will have to dismiss them due to the lack of a bunny photo.
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12:56 AM - Oh gawd, this is just too geeky sweet. CmdrTaco proposed.
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12:53 AM - Heh heh heh, I chuckled at this edited Blogger Manifesto. I also tried to sit back and write a thought provoking commentary to bookend the link. Unfortunately I don't have any provocative thoughts.I have a life outside of blogging, but when I blog about it, I lie. (fr. dave winer)
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| Thursday, February 14, 2002. |
11:59 PM - New on the tbit desktop, by EMBRYO: RGB Edition RED.
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3:40 PM - I am constantly taking showers, hoping to wash away the old me. Scrubbing that part of my back I always miss, behind my ears where potatos could grow, staying under the hot hot water until it becomes cold. Come out, towel off and shave my mug in another shape...maybe longer sideburns today. This new guy is motivated and satisfied with his lot in life. He wears his shirts with confidence and has his denims smartly rolled at the cuff. But when the ritual ends, it is still just me pulling on socks with holes in them.
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2:30 PM - That's it, I don't want to be in WebDesign. I want to go back to Customer / Technical Support where I can be paid money to copy and paste support documentation into response emails. Where I can be paid money to not actually read customer's problems but make random suggestions based on non-connected pieces of hardware or software. Where I can make money to state, as first line support, "our software works, it must be Windows - reinstall it." I understand now why I no longer enjoyed CS; when the rule is now you have to stop actually helping the customer and success is measured in how quickly you make them go away.
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2:45 AM - Great article. What's with the rabbit? I thought he was talking about icebergs.
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| Wednesday, February 13, 2002. |
10:41 PM - You know, this Get Marc a job might sound ridiculous but it has its merit. Most recruiters get a stipend from the company that hires you and that is ignoring "job finding" services that charge you much more than $200. If anything its another step towards getting a job. Hmmmm... How about $200 and I buy you some poutine? Now to come up with strict criteria... (from Jason, down there in my comments)
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6:23 PM - Is it just me or do current American affairs remind you of the history chapter of a dark, urban "20 minutes into the future" role-playing game? Its probably only me as I am probably the only one who knows what I am talking about. Cyberpunk 2020, Underground and Shadowrun are just a few on my shelf that all have a section describing the US going from this fictional "pinacle of western civilization" to very scary nation of reduced personal freedoms and questionable military actions. To me, this seems to have started with Bush reducing his support for various green-policies, which were forgotten in the aftermath of 9-11, continued with the response to said event and now culminates with the take-down of Iraq. At least I hope it ony culminates here; my reading allows me to imagine much worse. If fact follows fiction I don't think that the changes below us will be worth cyber-jacks and amped-reflexes.
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11:13 AM - I remember why I stopped reading MeFi. The amount of arguing here at the unemployed woes thread reminds me of Usenet. It could have been a useful thread from both management viewpoints and the unemployed, to find out what it is REALLY like out there. But then it became, "you were laid off because you were overpaid and surfed all day" vs "you fired us because you spent the millions given to you on lattes and office furniture." I wonder if they Internet Bubble Burst could be described similarly in Canadian terms as American?
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10:49 AM - Every so often I imagine Ed climbing down a mountain with two Powerpoint projectors under his arms, trying to tell the heathens what they are missing.
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12:44 AM - You know, today felt like a fruitful day. I completed the fully-CSS transmogrification of "my other page" and learned a little. I pilfered the library for medieval town references in a nostalgic D&D info hunt. I re-wrote a much more positive and bold cover letter and cold-blasted my resume to a moderate number of found Montreal-based webshops; one of who almost immediately turned me down due to being a uni-lingual anglo. I made meatloaf for dinner and it was damn good. I designed a town for the new campaign world J is wandering through. I picked up the latest Canada Employment Weekly and gathered a list of names to cold-blast more resumes to. Compared to my usual days of screaming obscenities at the monitor, I almost felt employed today.
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12:23 AM - You know I read this article by Zeldman, who wasn't the guy I saw leaving Chapters last weekend though I could have sworn it was this guy, and I nod my head in some sort of agreement. But I also wanna smack the guy upside his head.
Its not as bad as it sounds out there and its worse. For the companies who did it well, who had good talking-monkeys who caught the clients with realistic measures, who found that saleable niche, who made Photoshop & Flash burn like habaneros -- its still good. The clients are their's and they have their pick and choose of the numerous web-monkeys available.
Its worse out there. Smaller clients, who kept smaller companies going, are frightened. They listen to pundits, they watch MSNBC and they talk over their Chai's. The Internet is not what it used to be, it won't give them the quick rush of moving into a new age that they wanted. In fact, it will drive them bankrupt. Or so the men in black tell them. Harder to find clients means freezing hiring and only job-posting in order to snatch up prize commodities like backenders who enjoy the buzz of 3:30am deadlines. It wasn't just the Boo's of the world that shrunk or died then, it was also realistic companies that just suffered the fallout.
I didn't believe in the Hype, I don't believe that it was a recession-based Collapse. I just want a job with a mid-level shop who trust experience as much as a list of 15 three-letter acronyms on the resume.
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| Tuesday, February 12, 2002. |
6:13 PM - Holy fricole, they live in a castle. Talk about a droolable pad. It may be a bit too rennovated for my tastes but still, the exterior is worth it. Good taste in reading and music as well; must have some goth leanings.
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6:00 PM - Obligatory medal-theft comment. Didn't watch it, probably won't watch anything, but its interesting to read about the opinions about the figure skating judgment. Everyone seems to have this definate understanding that something fishy went on behind the Russian's win. And as usual, the Canadian athletes (are skaters athletes?) take it all in stride trying to hide the urge to throw their gloves to the ground and pound those judges in a good free-for-all. OK, now I feel dirty. I commented on the Olympics and made a hockey metaphor.
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5:49 PM - Wow. I actually was turned down for a job today. Turned down, as in heard back from the potential employer who expressed their regrets that my qualifications were not as high as they needed. Out of a <insert number here> resumes I have sent out, I have heard back from a handful who pursued it further, only to end it for other understandable reasons: salary = peanuts, lack of bilingualism, not having seen Moulin Rouge yet, etc. This is the first to actually just say, "Nope, sorry." Appreciated actually.
Well ya said to remain positive, right ?!?!
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12:38 AM - Yay. And I say "yay!" because in all reality I have very few reasons to ever say "yay!" these days. Yay, my Palm Pilot is smiling right now. Why, pray tell? Because it got a mention in the Vancouver Sun. Its been hiding in the bedside table since it unfortunately crashed five times in one week, and I suppose its needs a "yay" as much as I do. It hides because it knows that if i actually take it out and rely on it for a few paragraphs of book-reading or plug a job interview (yeah yeah yeah, dreaming...) into it, it will become absent minded and in a fit of grief, crash once again. What it doesn't know is that I am actually in quite the snit over its behaviour and won't come after it until it apologizes. (from julian who is so so, being buried by school work)
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| Monday, February 11, 2002. |
1:53 PM - This one is for Mr. Tarponds. Toasted Palm. (from da zilla man)
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| Sunday, February 10, 2002. |
9:40 PM - This is a rather novel, excuse the rather bad pun, ideaTad Williams' SHADOWMARCH is a novel online, told chapterwise. What's novel? The support: images, character sketches and an interactive board. The problem? Its subscription based and fucking expensive. $17.99 a "season", which depending on the author's mood, could soak you for a pretty penny. Still, I like the idea and I suppose I will will sooner or later have to get over the idea of having to pay for the Web. (found by the cauldron of ceridwen, a new local blog)
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1:27 PM - Oh my. Last night, I had a most unfortunate dream about a sexual liasion with Joanie Laurer - the former Chyna. Then, after awaking in a sweat and returning to sleep with a, "whew, was only a dream," I had another dream about posting the rather explicit details of the dream, here to my Blog. I just sat down here with the browser and gave another, "whew, it was only a dream..." I tell you, my brain hates me.
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| Friday, February 08, 2002. |
1:05 PM - Yayyy!! On Monday, the zombies return.
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11:11 AM - Hey it got its own re-directing domain. Its my first try at the Friday Five. I will probably get bored very quickly; or you will. Oh great, i just happen to come along for the sex bunch. Hrrrmph.
1. What's the most romantic thing you've ever done for someone else? That is always a difficult answer for what you consider romantic might be considered tripe by the receiver. Without asking I would say it was a birthday gift I gathered for her during one of those short of cash periods. It was during her vampire phase, you know where she wore alot of black, listened to the the Sisters of Mercy and would get peeved when I said Lestat was a jerk. I built her a VanHelsing bag. I found an old doctor's bag at a garage sale and stuffed it with vampire killing paraphernalia: crosses, steaks, holy water along with some books she would like -- anything that would keep the LARP geeks at bay. Remember there is always someone geekier than you. I think it went over well.
2. [pardon the cosmo question] What are your erogenous zones? Gahhh. Currently? My body. I am more a visual person. Its visual cues that she knows alllll-too-well that stoke my furnace. One single distinctive raise of her eyebrow and I am grinning like a cheshire cat.
3. How old were you the first time you had sex? 21. Yeah yeah, geeks bloom late. Nuff said.
4. What's the most unusual place you've ever had sex? *dodges thrown book* Nope, not allowed to answer that one.
5. Do you have plans for Valentine's Day or is it just another Thursday? Depends. On her work schedule and our cashflow. We're pretty strapped right now. Which makes it pretty much another day with bright smiles and lil cards saying what we already know.
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12:15 AM - Every so often I do an Ego-Check just to see where I am out there. Having a somewhat unique name, I don't usually run across people with it. But alas, a cult child abuser and I share the same name. The usual NCF mentions (no luck in getting them to activate my long dead account, no matter how many Honourable Mentions lists I was on :) were around but I also found two amusing references, one from a mailing list in 1992 dealing with RPGs and another from a BBS posting by a music collective thanking me for supporting their first industrial/techno compilation. Talk about the past coming back to haunt you. At least the porn site memberships have expired... oh wait, I shouldn't admit that should I ?
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| Thursday, February 07, 2002. |
9:44 PM - Five recently wandered sites I really liked the content and/or design of and one I didn't; in no particular order: The Front, Cryptic Sugar, Technicality.ca, Lightningfield, Hope With No Pay, Smattering and Ferrousland. Oh, and I lied.
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12:54 AM - Because I am still humming this catchy lil remix thingy, you are now required to download "A Stroke of Genie(us)". Damn you Mooo.
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12:44 AM - Note. Even if it is 5 hours after your handled those jalapenos with bare hands, it is probably not wise to suck on your finger nail.
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12:40 AM - "Is there any reason why the Bank Desjardins would call you?" "Because we won a large sum of money and they have to contact us to collect it?" as she waves a contest slip mentioning a large sum of money. "Oh fuck, i deleted the message assuming that because it didn't mention you by name it was just 'call me back' telemarketer shite." "Oh well, if we won they will call back. I hope."
I was so meant to win vast amounts of money. Well, I like to claim I was because I have so many ways I want to live my life, that require non-income based money. You have heard of Twitch, the coffee shop made for Halifax; well another theme is art. I want to be a decadent patron, buying art i cannot talk intelligently about based entirely on my own tastes and being impressed with their assumed skill. One of my tastes is what I call "urban still life", like 'Vitrine' from The Front. I always stop at gallery windows and stair at street scenes in realism, from the quaint and typical victorian European shoppes to a local artists' work of popular corners of St. Laurent. I would buy art, hang it in my many apartments based in cities I would regularly visit, and hang out at gallery openings annoying the elite with my uncultured gushing. It 'twould be fun.
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| Wednesday, February 06, 2002. |
5:52 PM - Oh dear I just have to have one !!
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5:47 PM - How many times a day do you have a comment almost finished on someone's page and then realize how lame your banter is and just close the whole window and walk away with a sigh? Or is it just me?
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12:57 PM - Hrrrrm, this Movie88.com does not appear to be very legal. Streaming mainstream movies for a USB (U.S. Buck). I clicked their free one and just buffered and buffered until i was bored. Oh, and a Wired story on it. "Go ahead, tell us its illegal. We dare ya !!"
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12:51 PM - J mentioned this to me the other day. All I can say is that I hope I can pick up a few empty cases curbsite here in swanky Westmount once these shoes become popular. Hell knows I always like the packaging more than the product. When was the last time I wore a pair of sneakers? Probably when they were still called sneakers.
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12:40 PM - Kewl. Vicki schwag.
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11:21 AM - ShiftMag does the rock stars of the web. Yup, 25 people on the web who have reached rockstar-fandom !! Notice how they had to resort to one-shots or celebs like Mr.T or Mahir? And who can say they knew everyone/site on the list. Rockstars are just not what they used to be.. (fr. mikel, who deserves a rockstar bio of his own)
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10:45 AM - No its not a rubbish chute, its the baby hatch !! Tired of those unsightly newborns? Deposit here and never have to feed that hungry mouth again. Brought to you by your friendly neighbourhood hospital.
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1:19 AM - Oooooo yummy local Flash work(r) !! I am talking about the site, not the chik ! Well... er.. ok, maybe a little.
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| Tuesday, February 05, 2002. |
11:43 PM - Though not by me, bydavid shares some graphical collage interest with me. No, not the use of naughty girl pics but just an aesthetic in style.
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2:21 PM - *walk in door and look at phone*
"No blinkies, no one loves me."
*walk to computer and open Outlook Express*
"No email, nobody loves me."
*open NS Mail*
"No email, no job for YOU !!"
*sigh*
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11:56 AM - I am just going to yell unintelligible things at my monitor all day.
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| Monday, February 04, 2002. |
3:57 PM - Gleaned from Ed this afternoon, Lord Of the Games, about the creators of my favourite game -- DOOM. I quietly goggle at the workforce of 17 while shaking my head at the war perpetrated by the anit-social behaviour of this geekdom. Its a good read.
Also from Ed, something I probably should read, "What Should I Do With My LIfe?". Three years ago I picked myself up by my suspenders and decided I wanted to be in the Web -- wholeheartedly. The opportunity swept me up and dumped me off, leaving me disillusioned and thinking about the title of that book. Finances don't allow me to get off this ride.
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2:51 PM - This Wednesday is First Wednesday for all you YUL Bloggers and Friends. We need new blood. So that means YOU. You who have come before, you who have not. You employed in the wuh-wuh-wuh industry and especially you NOT. People with webpages, fans of people with webpages (if anyone wants to be my groupie, there is an opening) and even people with BlogSpots (*big not-too-serious evil grin*). Come to Nantha's, on Wednesday night around 8pm, and imbibe of alcoholic beverages and eat of the spicy chili. Or just sit and listen and talk. If you are not from Montreal, come anyway, I have given you two days to drive here. So. Be there :)
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2:17 PM - This Cheese Racing is just strange. (i have jish to blame)
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2:13 PM - I have just replaced my Google toolbar with the Nutshell Toolbar. Tis useful. (kudos to kottke)
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1:45 PM - Hrrrm, after twice having email bounced due to typos in job postings, 4 times yelling at the screen about ludicrous long lists of requirements for many jobs I decided today is not a day to send out resumes. I imagine I would soon boil down to sending emails stating, "Give me a fucking job, ya losers because anyone with those qualifications either has a job or wouldn't work for those peanuts you are offering." Hmmm, too much vitriol in the coffee this morning.
Now, I am off to FutureShop to yell at them about the incorrect "mail in rebate" value that they neglected to inform me about.
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12:19 PM - I saw this Froot in my weblog and I thought, "Ahhh, I haven't been here in quite sometime." Actually I have never been to this south african weblog before so there must have been some other strange froot out there.
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2:26 AM - Heeeeey, toilet brushes are never that white looking !!
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2:22 AM - Just for the heck of it, this evening we sat in the falling snow in Westmount Parc. I cleaned off a bench and we sat in the muffled sounds of silence... oh wait, that's not silence that is the white noise of distant traffic. Still, it was pleasant enough until my butt went numb.
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2:20 AM - I don't actually think that milov is bald but he codes a mean game of pong.
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| Sunday, February 03, 2002. |
1:50 PM - You know, I rarely if ever, trash sites via my weblog. But I have to give an honourable mention to BlogDesigns. At first glance, the idea is good. Get yourself off the ManilaSites or BlogSpot offered templates (wait, if i remember correctly, manilasite's were actually half decent) and find something not everyone will be using. But then I began browsing them. I don't wanna be mean but they just cry out to be sold from some kiosk in that mall that was popular in the eighties but has fallen on hard times. Floral prints and pastels galore. I am surprised I didn't see "footprints in the sand" as a design somewhere in there.
That said, if someone would like me, in all my bitchiness, to re-design them a template, just ask. I am not stating I have the inside track on weblog design and will win you a Bloggie next year but it will give me something to put in my portfolio :)
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1:28 PM - The other morning I didn't have any cream for my coffee but I didn't realize that as I reached in and grabbed the small 500ml box of cooking cream. Oh I noticed alright when i saw the stuff bloop into my coffee and curl up from the bottom of the black liquid like escaping snakes. Then I thought, "what the hey," stirred it in and have begun a process of shaving years off my life.
This link was inspired by those people who find me in their referrers but come and find no reverant words written about them.
Speaking of coffee, I have taken to drinking from the tall thin mug produced for J's morning show. I sip my strong black, fresh ground coffee and think, "The designer of the logo on this mug steals my pillow every night. I must be special."
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1:06 PM - Latest desktop (i change them like i change my undies; ok mebbe undies a lil more) from Looroll. (care of the lost harbour)
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| Saturday, February 02, 2002. |
5:02 PM - Derek has a San Fran story that reminds. Favourite clothes. We don't intentionally end up with them but I would say we all have them. Mine were a combat-green pair of denims, rolled up to accomodate my short legs and somewhat worn at the knees. They were accompanied by a faded open-necked shirt with a red wine stain down one side. They were my travelling clothes during that brief period in Ottawa where I did the "business trip". Of course, that can only be one way because very few people get the opportunity to wash said clothes for the trip back. I was on the way back from Etobicoke, another excursion into the dregs that are Toronto's industrial suburbia. The train back -- I had an attache in one hand, the bag with the clothes stowed overhead as I sat, head bobbing listening to the two mesh-backed, green-tattooed galoots talking about time served and "putting women to the rights", whatever that meant. I tried not to catch their eyes. When the late night train lurched into Ottawa, I hurried off seeking my own bed. But on the step I turned remembering the stowed bag. But it wasn't there. Neither were the galoots. Who cares that I had to replace an iron and a walkman; I was never as comfy on a business trip again.
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| Friday, February 01, 2002. |
11:26 PM - Tomorrow, just after midnight, Jin-Roh is playing at du Parc. It has been on my short list of movies that should be seen so I believe I will be there.
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5:54 PM - "Fucking A !!" in my best norse warrior imitation !! If you have the least interest in stories of axe-play and thor-swearing warriors, you should go read Matt's latest story, Fanthallavar. Excuse me while I go now to create some creatures for my own lil norse bladewoman to kill.
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5:29 PM - Y'know, instead of expending your brain energy on making a LEGO DAT Tape Loader, couldn't you do something useful like curing cancer or making the non-carcinogenic stogie? But no, just like the guy I knew in college who could solve any puzzle going, people will always use precious brain power for frivolous activities. Why? Because its alot of fun and neat as ol'hell !! (the moo man has been surfing /. again)
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5:20 PM - Glug. This video ad from xBox's Playmore is probably a good analogy for me having found what I wanted to do with my life. Time to go back to the drawring board. Warning: Highband download.
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2:55 PM - Oh great, now I am going to be singing Christina Arugula in my head all day. I just heard the popular remix "A Stroke of Genie". Look for it on Morpheus.
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2:24 PM - fricking technology. Neither the hosting or Sympatico are down. My connection problems are bounce-related, with a site (amusingly in the enron.net domain) somewhere out there, timing-out my connections. So, use a proxy, you say. Yeah I am now but its bloody slow. If anyone has a suggested proxy that is prolific and quick, send my way. at least this proxy lets me get my email...
Speaking of technical issues, I must say that Sympatico has never been anything but quick and helpful. My calls usually end up coming under 20mins wait included and the people have always been nice and technically capable. Yet, I constantly read online about how useless and stupid they are. Somehow I suspect belligerance on the caller's part creates the bad service.
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11:17 AM - Is it just me or, despite their cellphone solidarity, do japanese kids have an air of individuality that north american kids don't? This kind of image is what the tokyo cuties list at Shift used to be like, but seems to have exhausted itself.
BTW, my site seems to be down, at least to me, so i am blogging into the ether.
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