Lately, I'm finding I'm pretty much totally captivated by The Problem With Me by Seam. Man. Parts of it remind me of Loveless by My Bloody Valentine, only this, this is just, a lot sadder. And approachable. If that makes any sense. In fact, if I were to describe the album, I would probably just say that it's sad.

Not that that's a bad thing. Because it's not.
posted 4:07 PM | link

Okay, I'm not just doing this to be vulgar, but why, when I go to http://www.fuck-you.com, do I find myself at the website for the International Trademark Association? Weird.

Okay, so maybe I did it to be a little vulgar.
posted 9:02 PM | link

For every "Them" theory, there should be a good "Us" theory to counter it.
posted 2:54 PM | link

"Look in the tunk."

He must mean "trunk."
posted 10:18 PM | link

Oh, I made a new banner image, which you can see up there at the top.

It's from Vermont.
posted 5:04 PM | link

Not that you should at all care, but tomorrow I'm going to Madison. While there I'll be doing work for a power company. Specifically, It looks like I'll be doing research that will help with the development and implementation of a corporate intranet. Ever since I read Cluetrain, I've been sort of (well, actually really) antsy about trying to build one myself. Hopefully, this will be my chance

But whatever happens, it should prove interesting. It almost always does.

On a completely separate note, it's sort of funny, how sometimes I go back and forth about how I feel about this site. Like I get stressed over whether or not how I'm using it is okay. I probably shouldn't worry about it all that much, given how hard life can be as it is. But I do.
posted 4:58 PM | link

Well, if I hadn't spent the last hour trying to get the archives working, I'd post something funny.
posted 1:55 PM | link

Men Without Hats are soooo cool.
posted 1:13 PM | link

And a question to myself: how do I sync up my Windows 2000 clock with the standard atomic one the military uses?

I think there's like a simple command I can execute or something. Do you know?
posted 11:00 AM | link

Hmm... looks like Buffalo's been hit again. Yikes.

I know, typically I hate talking about the weather, too. But then, I mean, two feet of snow. In November. That's a bit crazy.

Right now, I'm listening to The Talking Heads' Remain In Light. So. Damn. Good.
posted 10:48 AM | link

Okay, this is a reminder to myself. I need to get the archives up and running on this thing.

Maybe this weekend.
posted 10:48 AM | link

Hmm... if you're working in Mozilla, don't bother using underscores in your ID's or CLASS's. The browser doesn't like them.
posted 10:32 AM | link

Jeremy pointed out to me that Richard Price also wrote the novel Clockers, on which he most likely based his screenplay. I guess I already knew that. Thanks, Jeremy.

The word lunch.
posted 12:26 PM | link

If you were to ask me what I thought was the scariest movie ever made, I'd probably have to say it was Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer. Although I haven't seen it for a while (since college, actually).

John McNaughton, who directed Henry, also directed Mad Dog and Glory, which I've never seen, but which I noticed was written by Richard Price, who has also done The Color of Money and Clockers (sorry no links to these titles - I'm trying to be efficient). Now, Richard Price also writes novels. He wrote this kick-ass book (which I read in college): Ladies Man.

I think pretty highly of that book, and I might read it again.

If I can find it.
posted 9:48 AM | link

Ha.

I've been listening to the Hey Mercedes EP quite a bit lately, which I learned about through Jack Saturn's Rockin Song of the Moment. As it turns out, the band's members are all from the Milwaukee/Chicago area, and a few of them actually played in bands that I used to see when I was in high school.

So what does it mean when a really good local(-ish) band starts up, puts out an EP, and I learn about it from a guy out of San Francisco I don't even know?

It probably means I'm a big dork.

Oh yeah. There's also the weblog
posted 8:44 AM | link

From one of my mailing lists: Perpetual Election. Read about and discuss the only perpetual election ever in U.S. history.
posted 1:31 PM | link

Next time anyone suggests we do away with the electoral college, either because it takes power away from individual voters or because it's not Mathematically Sound, send him here.
posted 10:22 AM | link

First off, thanks to Jeremy for sending me this link yesterday. Also, shame on me for not reading it till this morning.

Christopher Locke, who co-authored The Cluetrain Manifesto, and who has his own weblog, has written an article calledMicromedia. A short, yet very worthwhile read.
posted 9:40 AM | link

Yes. Greg Knauss has written an article at Stating The Obvious about famed Nescape hacker Jamie Zawinski, who is apparently (or has apparently? The article takes place in early 1999) starting a new SF nightclub called DNA. And of course, he's doing it for all the right reasons.
posted 10:03 AM | link

Hmm. I just installed Microsoft Reader, and although I've yet to buy any ebooks, I have found that there are at least a few fonts included with the program that I didn't have before. Namely, it included Georgia, which makes at least one site look much better.

Maybe I should start caring about such things a bit more?
posted 9:08 AM | link

Vote today.
posted 8:58 AM | link

Well, I think it was like three weeks ago that I got the Wired issue, but I finally read this article by John Heilemann. Overall, I found it comprehensive, colorful, and as emotionally taxing as a small Russian novel. Definitely worth one's time.
posted 12:21 PM | link

Isn't it the least bit ironic that the success of such a smart little virus is dependent on the absolute stupidity of the unsuspecting user?

I mean, what would be on your mind as you're double-clicking the attachment named GIRLS.EXE?
posted 2:51 PM | link

Here is an interesting reaction to Amazon.com's (relatively) recent update to their privacy policy.

It's is always fun to see how businesses respond (either by squirming, avoiding questions, or simply ignoring you) when you begin really asking questions about whether they actually care as much about you, the Valued Customer, as their marketing materials suggest.

It always seems to come to the question: why should they care? To which the answer always seems to be: they shouldn't.

Caring about customers simply does not make good business sense.
posted 1:15 PM | link

Okay, now I'm just showing off.
posted 10:06 AM | link

I think I just made a web application. For the sake of brevity, I'll call it that. It's a little thing that runs on an intranet server here at work, and it provides customized news reports from moreover.

It's really probably no big deal, but still, I'm so proud.

Here's a scaled down screen shot:

And yes, it is sort of like newsblogger, only with much less functionality.

But still, I'm going to try to use it every day.

Did I mention how proud I was?
posted 10:01 AM | link