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Archive for February 2003 As you probably don't know, Melissa bought a 12" PowerBook, one of those new fancy ones with a built-in DVD burner and all that. I now own her cast-off older Mac. It has an AirPort card, and the unit is on the other side of the apartment. I'm posting this entry from the bathroom. Bush Does It Again How much more do we have to tolerate from this boob? Intelligent people everywhere roll their eyes at his latest foible Arianna Huffington: Go Ahead, Make My Duck A duck was found dead on a Texas farm road. What's Congress intend to do about it? Nothing Painfully Liberal Opinion Piece A guest columnist for Salon.com makes several good points that are buried somewhere in this article Real-Life Rock Top 10 Eddie Izzard's bowel movements, an injured donkey, Schwarzkopf in a G-string, and other things that have nothing to do with rock, culture, or anything Tom the Dancing Bug: Lucky Ducky in North Korea Gotcha! North Korea should do us a favor and blow up the US starting with the Republicans TV This Week: The Brilliant Shows That No One's Watching Audiences still haven't caught on to these three shows. What gives? Oh, right, Republicans Since You Asked: Should I Stay? I love a man who thinks sometimes Bush is not a complete corporate puppet loser "elected" by a corrupt government. What should I do? Robert Scheer: I Went Fishing This One Time I caught a fish that reminded me of a conservative. I started crying Salon.com Exclusive: Kill All the Republicans Right Now, Not Kidding, You Gotta Do It Buy a handgun, go to your office or university, and kill as many Republicans as you can before they arrest you hurry time is running out now now now now Salon.com exclusive content paid for by the Infiniti Q45. Gosh, I wonder what the mileage is? 50 MPG? Oh, certainly. Our home phone has been disconnected because for some reason they haven't been receiving our payments. I hope I can clear this up tomorrow, but until then, I don't have a home phone. Let's call it "Nigerian Mail Scam Pet." To play, you need to have received one of the zillions of "HI ,I AM BUSINESSFELLOW FROM NIGER, I WILL GIVE YOU $10,400,000 IN GOLD IF YOU HELP ME TRANSFER FUNDS TO AMERICAS" scam e-mails going around. You write them back saying you're interested, and then you stall him as long as possible on giving him your credit card or phone number. Then, you give him the wrong phone number. Then, you talk about how you've got trouble getting the money queued up, but when it gets through to him, it's gonna be a lot more than he requested, because you're generous and want this scheme to work, etc. The goal is to see how long you can keep the scammer on the hook, and never provide any real information about yourself. I'm not sure if it'd be dangerous, but it sounds like fun to me. Bastards. Not really about the forums. I like the Planters slogan "Relax. Go Nuts." because I have a hard time understanding how one can relax and go nuts at the same time. Yesterday was our huge global meeting where they connect all the offices in the world by phone/webcam and announce the last year's results. Dassault is doing really well, and I was moved to an important product for this year, which is kind of scary. I still haven't had my evaluation yet (two weeks late after today). Afterwards, there was bowling for two hours. We went to this rundown bowling alley near here (are any bowling alleys in good condition?). I was doing so bad the first game, but then in the second and third I was throwing rocks. (That translates to a 130.) But today I'm so tired, and my left leg is sore. Here's your acid test, folks. I've decided to bite the bullet and give forums a try. I'm pretty satisfied with what I've seen so far out of YaBB, and I'm hoping bandwidth won't become an issue, lest I need to change hosts. Give the forums a test drive: http://www.nightlightpress.com/forums Infiniti's slogan is "Accelerating the Future." I don't know if that's good or bad. "The Future Has No Brakes" is bad. "Accelerating Into the Future" would be a good thing (but not a very good slogan). I'm reminded of the old Mad Magazine schtick, with the AMC slogan "Meeting Our Competition Head-On." "Hershey's sweet chocolate is one of my favourite nibbles." -- H.P. Lovecraft Protected with ROT13. I'm not saying I'd ever want to create a porn site, but if I did, I'd call it "Nff-Fpncrf." I've mentioned it before, and it's a Googlewhack, as far as I know. And the googlewhack wasn't even the right context, so I got dibs. In that vein, and it struck me just now, if I were to produce a porn video, I'd have to call it -- this is brilliant -- "Fcrez haq Qenat." I googled that, and was shocked to find I'm apparently the first one. Come on, people, where's your culture? I couldn't bring myself to read the spam I received with the following subject line: From: The Comedy Train Subject: WHOO WHOO...all aboard The Comedy Train! jxkc I just started weeping. From how that subject line was executed, I can infer that these are the kind of people who think the funniest gags in the world involve falling down. I've been sort of neglecting my journal here, so let's wade right in. This weekend I was so tired, I basically... loafed. I slept a lot, which I guess is a good thing. I just got out of a meeting. They're reorganizing the group, and I'm being moved into a new area (not physically). I feel good about this, since it seemed like whenever I got handed a project, I'd start out with expectations of working with others on it, and then everybody would sort of evaporate and it was really just me working alone on it. The new organization will hopefully be more structured for me. What else... you know, I've had this affliction for so long, but I think it's irritable bowel syndrome. Oh, sorry, I didn't know you were eating. Seriously, I think it is. I have a constant dull, full feeling in my lower left abdomen. I don't think it can be much else. And I just realized I forgot to put the comic up today. I hate utilities/programs with built-in internet connectivity, the kind that assume a connection is there. Like QuickTime Player. When you load it, it doesn't just bring up a player. It brings up a screen of "What's Hot!" type of crap I could care less about. That drives me crazy! I didn't ask it to seek out anything on the net, so it shouldn't. It should stay right here, where it belongs! Also, I was gonna take a picture of a present I just got (Sumana I presume), but my webcam is making my image look all watery, so I can only assume I'll die in seven days. We have this running gag that Sean Connery is gonna end up pitching for McDonald's, reduced to slurping up Big Macs and talking about Happy Meal toys instead of being a respected actor. http://www.japander.com/japander/connery.htm The rabbit ad here is as close as we'll get, hopefully. |
