May 30, 2004
I’m going away for a while. Not in a figurative; “I’m not posting on my web site” kind of going away. I mean, I’m leaving my house and going to visit someone that I haven’t been in touch with for a while. I’m turning off my cell phone and staying away from my email. If I get online, I will not read anything about politics. I will not check any job databases, and I will not read anything in an online forum. I will not return my voicemail. So if you have a burning desire to talk to me in the next few days, don’t take it personally when I don’t bother to get back to you.
After all, you should have just called me on my birthday, jerk.
I’m sorry; you know I didn’t mean it like that.
May 29, 2004
May 28, 1980. A date that will live in infamy. Well, maybe it will eventually. For now, it’s just the date that some random guy was born. That random guy? Yours truly.
“Happy birthday, and I lurve youuu.” Best message ever.
May 26, 2004
Thanks to Dean Allen, I’m set for life. Well, the life of his company, anyway. Being a happy user of Dean’s software, Textpattern, I knew I should jump when he offered 200 Textpattern users the chance to make a one-time investment in his new venture, TextDrive. Now my web hosting woes are gone for good. It sounds like a great deal, and it’ll be good to stop tempting fate by hosting my web site from the G4 Cube in my living room.
May 18, 2004
Something’s bothering me. “Tell me more,” you demand. Stop being so pushy. You know your attitude pushes people away.
It bothers me that NBC is advertising a “special Seinfeld surprise” next Thursday, sandwiched between two reruns of Friends. And it is true, showing two reruns of a show that I really thought I’d never have to hear about again would be enough to bother me. But no.
What really bothers me is that the “Seinfeld surprise” they’re advertising is actually just a five-minute-long advertisement for American Express that Seinfeld was hawking on The Daily Show over two weeks ago. I appreciate the effort and everything, but I don’t like that NBC is trying to trick people into watching two episodes of a cancelled not-particularly-funny TV show by offering them the opportunity to watch a really long commercial. I’m underwhelmed.
May 10, 2004
The best thing that ever happened at my school system job was the day the lights went out.
I walked into the office after school as usual, to find that all of the lights in the building had been turned off. Everyone was working normally, computers were humming along, and no one seemed to think anything of the fact that the only light in the building was emanating from the glow of computer screens and a few small windows. I settled into my cubicle, turned on the computer and got to work. I didn’t mind the oddity, just because it constituted a change of pace from the usual mundane existence at the office. After a few minutes, this nice lady in my department came through, so I asked her what was up with the lights. She laughed.
“Mr. Frasier thought it would make the computers run faster.”
I laughed.
“He says he’s pretty sure that it made them faster. But that’s not possible, is it?”
“No—no, it’s not.”
“I didn’t think so. What an idiot.”
Indeed.
May 2, 2004
Caught this entertaining article in The Guardian on the rapture today. Aside from the helpful insight into the reasoning behind the politics in Texas, they linked to raptureready.org, which provided the best quote I’ve seen in a long time:
“The rapture is going to be one of the most astonishing events to ever occur.”
One of? What has happened in our history that’s more astonishing than the idea of crazy religious people drifting nekkid up to the heavens? Even if you believe in it, that’s the understatement of a lifetime.
