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Do it yourself, with shredded foam!
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11.30.2000 |
I thought South Park was real horrorshow last night. |
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11.29.2000 |
Busy busy busy.... Gots to find me a job. Time
for a quick update though. |
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11.24.2000 |
I've been down most of the day trying to compile MySQL, then working
on mod_perl. MySQL is a no-go. I'll get mod_perl going, I think,
but it's going to take a while to compile, and I'll probably be
down for an extended period again. |
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11.23.2000 |
No update for a while. Gimpysoft received a generous donation of
memory today, so the server is going down for maintenance for while
today. Basically, I have a big box of unlabeled SIMMS, and I'm going
to spend the next 2-3 hours randomly inserting sticks of RAM trying
to find which pairs match, and then trying to find the largest ones
that will work in this machine. Before I take the machine down,
I wanted to record my uptime of 46 days. Not too shabby, and I'm
guessing that record won't be broken anytime soon for this machine
because, God willing, I'll be moving within the next 46 days. |
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11.20.2000 |
If you're bored, you can always listen to Gimpysoft
Radio, my silly little Shoutcast
stream. Lots of Blues Traveller, Cracker,
Radiohead,
Big Smith,
various electronic music, and other stuff that I like. Requires
Winamp. |
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11.18.2000 |
I'm listening to Dublab. |
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11.19.2000 |
Ah yes... 3am, drunk on Busch and time to update the web page.
A pal just came over to watch some movies. I rented Magnolia, Ghost
Dog: The Way of the Samurai, Fight Club and The Professional. We
watched Ghost Dog first. It's the most recent movie by Jim
Jarmusch. He's directed a couple other movies, more
than I thought, actually... I'm a big fan of Night
on Earth. Anyway... Ghost Dog was a pretty decent movie. It's
about a modern-day hitman following the code of the Samurai. I think
Bill would like it... |
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11.18.2000 |
I just saw this,
and it frightened me. Please make that thing stay away from me. |
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11.17.2000 |
Raj has contributed comments to the Episode
1 and Episode
3 Episode Guides. Hooray for free content! |
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11.16.2000 |
Ideas to End The Election Controversy:
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11.16.2000 |
Didn't finish up the Episode guide for episode 4. I got sleepy,
and MTV was playing some live Radiohead. Thanks to whoever kept
turning my TV off during that, but it didn't work that time. I was
quick on the draw, and didn't miss more than about 15 seconds each
time. |
| 11.15.2000 | The
job search ramps up again. I'm starting to make some phone calls,
and telephone interviews are beginning to come in again. I'm talking
with a couple of recruiters out of New York,and I had a phone interview
with a bank yesterday. The position sounded mainly like a support
position, but it would be actually working on the trading floor. Sound's
interesting, but I'd really like to stay on the development side.
I just got a call from another recruiter who is going to run my by
a couple other financial firms in the New York area. I guess people
really do use Perl in the real world. :) In addition to the New York area, I've started to get in touch with some people in the Boston and Austin areas. Most interestingly, I applied for a job with Bose in Framingham, MA. I do hope to hear back from them... that would just be too sweet. Tomorrow is Chicago and California day, but my main focus is still mainly on the New York area. But I suppose living in LA wouldn't be the worst thing in the world. Excellent Onion yesterday. You guys rule. |
| 11.14.2000 |
I was just watching a bit of Billy Madison, on USA. It's edited oddly. In the scene where Billy calls Steve Buscemi to apologize, when Mr. Pink goes to cross Billy's name off the list of people to kill, the words "People to Kill" are edited out. Weird. OK, I'm going to stop watching TV now. Has anybody seen Little Nicky yet? Is it any good? The word of the day: Arbitrary.
Please, either let the election be over, or kill me in my sleep. |
| 11.13.2000 |
Late Evening Update: The Episode Guide for Episode 3 is now posted. I've also added a Young Pups FAQ. Your submissions are welcome. Boy howdy... I sure can't wait for the new upcoming game Evil Dead: Hail to the King. Voiceovers by Bruce Campbell himself. Hell, if you're bored, you can always see what he's up to at his official site. |
| 11.12.2000 |
Early
Evening Update: Well, I guess that little work on the site turned
into a major revision. Still nothing too terribly original, but
at least I'm no longer completely ripping off memepool.
Hope you like the new layout, all five of you... |
| 11.11.2000 |
Well, I've finished up the Episode
guide for Young Pups Episode 1. Hooray for Photoshop filter effects.
This website now has 266.67% more graphics than it did before. Eventually,
all the links on the left will be to episode guides, but I am worn
out after doing that one. Dear lord... worn out after working on a
web page. I guess I need to exercise
more. Well, I apparently can't read. That clearly states that Big Smith are in Tahlequah, OK this weekend, not last weekend. So I'm heading out tonight to see them. Should be fun. I really will ask about mp3s on the website this time. If they're there. |
| 11.10.2000 |
 I'm sick of this.
Next Friday, all the overseas ballots will be in in Florida. If this
damn election isn't over by then, I'm going to be very upset. It's bad enough that the presidential campaign starts two years before the election. It used to be that you could count on at least one year of the normal posturing, infighting, and lack of action on the part of the government before the next campaign began, but now it doesn't look like this one is ever going to end. I guess my biggest problem is that I consume too much news. I listen to NPR all day at work, then I come home and watch Fox News all night. (Hey, turn my TV off, will you?) And it doesn't do anything but piss me off. Taxes keep going up, more people get put in prison, and all the two big parties will do is fight over minutiae. I almost wonder if either party would know what to do if they actually got voted into power. I guess I'm hoping that when this whole thing is over, Bush ends up winning. We'll have a (admittedly by a slim margin) Republican congress, and a Republican president. We'll probably end up with a tax cut, and I don't really think that's a bad thing. If we allocate all the money we have in the surplus to new programs, the next time they decide we have another crisis, they'll have to raise taxes again. I'd like to see it swing the other way for a bit. But on the other hand, Republicans scare me. The thought of Roe v. Wade actually being overturned is a bit frightening. But I guess I don't actually think that that would ever happen. I certainly hope that Bush doesn't decide that the only reason drugs are still around is that we don't have enough people in prison. Innocent people are starting to be killed in drug raids. And nobody in government is willing to say that maybe, just maybe, we ought to start spending more money on treatment and less on law enforcement. Blah... I'm going to stop talking about politics now. I finally bought myself a webcam. Along with the camera, I bought myself two wall switches, so as soon as this stuff is in, not only will you be able to turn my TV off and my living room lamp on and off, you will be able to control two other switches in my house. I'm thinking they're going to be the overhead lamp in the living room, and the kitchen light. Other options are the bathroom light, my computer room light, and my bedroom lamp. Email me if you have a preference. And finally, you will be able to see that yes, when you click on those links, it does actually make the stuff in my house turn on and off. It is Friday now. As of tonight, three out of three of the plans I've made with people this week have fallen through. What I am going to do now is go to George's, watch some bluegrass, drink some beer, and look at cute hippy-chicks. See you there. For the linguist/perlmongers among us, a case for a more Latin-like syntax in Perl. While you're at it, it's always fun to check out the winners of the Obfuscated Perl Contest. |
| 11.9.2000 |
I guess it is technically past midnight. I need to learn style sheets
so I can get those links for Young Pups to be the right color. I've always been a big fan of The CIA's Home Page for Kids. I'm looking at the stats, and I really need some .orgs to visit. It's snowing in Arkansas... This rules. There are problems with the Young Pups box on the right in Netscape... One of these days I'm going to have to learn how to design web pages. I need Therapy. |
| 11.8.2000 |
Late Evening Update! I just encoded Young
Pups Episode 1. Watch Young Pups in all its primitive glory. This
show was edited on a primitive linear editing system, and we didn't
know the first thing about sound levels, apparently. As far as copies
of Episode 1 go, I think this is a pretty good copy. The sound in
the intro is horrible, but it gets slightly better after the opening
credits. This episode includes the first appearance of Dr. Science,
Glaii the Ramen Monster, and one of my favorites, X-Schlager... Plus,
and perhaps more scary than anything else, me without facial hair.
Check it out... If you dare!!! Ummm... yeah... *cough* Later Evening Update. I got ambitious and decided to capture the rest of the shows. Episode 2 and Episode 5 are now available. I'm capturing some stills from the shows to hopefully make an episode guide one of these days. I would be most appreciative of any text that any former cast members would like to post describing shows, behind the scenes action, descriptions of inside jokes, etc. If you're bored. Anyway, I think it's getting to be bedtime for me. Happy President Day tomorrow everybody! Further mindlessness!!! Check out the statistics on Gimpysoft.com. Thrill to the three unique hits per day! Get yourself in the top 25 unique visitors! Hit the website with lynx and help it get to #1 in the "Used Browsers" section! Crash my machine by getting a friend to request stats at the same time as you! The possibilities are endless... Sweet baby jebus... I am quivering with distrustful anticipation of finding out whether we get a moron or a liar as our next president. Unfortunately, Nader didn't make 5%. No legal weed in Alaska. I'm tired. I'm going to head in to work now. OK, I just got in to work, but I'm early, so I think I need to post some further election tidbits. In the reasons I need to move out of the south department, Alabama had a law on the books banning interracial marriage. They voted in this election on a constitutional amendment which would repeal this law. Granted, it did win. But it did win in a disgustingly close race. Morning Edition gave it a 60%-40% win this morning, and CNN was calling it at 59-41. One of the drawbacks of the secret ballot is that you can't figure out who to shoot coming out of the polling place. 40% of the state still thinks that interracial marriage should remain illegal? Can we build a wall around that state? I've given this some thought, and I don't think anybody should be able to run unopposed. Put a yes/no item on the ballot, and if no wins, eliminate the guy and hold an all new election. Well, time to get to work. |
| 11.7.2000 |
Late Afternoon Update: I just got back from voting. Probably
the race that had me most excited about voting was Arkansas District
3, where I had hoped to be able to vote against Asa
Hutchinson, the homophobic religious-right wacko congressman that
currently represents me in the House. Unfortunately, he was running
unopposed. I wish I had known that... If I had, I would have made
sure my name was on the ballot opposing him. Why didn't anybody ever tell me about this? I just found out my intern is a Minnesota Vikings fan. Poor bastard. But Jesse is too, so I guess I can't hold it against him. Go Vote. I had a lazy boring weekend. On Saturday, I woke up at 6am and played Age Of Empires against folks in Europe. I won a couple of games. I got tired of playing, so I set out to do something that I haven't done in quite a while. I went shopping for clothes. Now, I know it's a big stereotype that guys don't like shopping, but I hate it with a passion. But I'm still wearing the same clothes I've had for years, and it's just time. We have a fairly new Old Navy in town, and all I needed was a couple new long sleeve shirts, and some boxers. Everything seemed fine as I was pulling into the parking lot, but I could feel my blood pressure rising as I approached the door. Once the door opened, and I was assaulted by that sub-Spice Girls dance crap the panic rose to a fever pitch. I went in, and fortunately didn't have to look long before I found the boxers. Plenty in my size, so I grabbed a handful. Unfortunately, I couldn't figure out if the section I was in was womens or mens as far as shirts go. All their crap looks the same. After wandering around for as long as I could stand it (it must have been at least three minutes) I decided that Old Navy didn't have any shirts that I'd want to wear. So I got in line (never enough checkout lanes open here) and waited to check out. I then headed over to the mall... There was a Razorback game going on in town, and I'm not sure if the mall was busy because of all the extra people in town, or if it's just always this busy at 2:00 on a Saturday. Normally I'm just crawling out of bed around that time. Anyway, it was quite busy at the mall. I don't know how often this happens to anybody out there, but sometimes I'm just out doing whatever the hell it is I'm doing, and I see people and want to punch them in the face. This seems to occur more often when I'm trying to work my way around a crowded JC Penney with little kids running under my feet and Christmas music on already... But I did manage to find a nice shirt. I should have bought some more (I wish it was easier to find straight black button up shirts), but I just knew that if I spent another five minutes in that store I would have a complete mental breakdown. So I went to Hooters, had a beer, had some wings, and listened to Arkansas get stomped by Old Miss. I then went home, refreshed and renewed, and ready to take on the challenges of the day. I made some last ditch efforts to get someone to join me for the Big Smith show in Tahlequah, OK, but no progress was made. So at around 6:00 I headed out. The drive to Tahlequah is really pretty nice. During a nice dark, curvy section of the road I found a Tulsa classic rock station that played the last three songs of Dark Side of the Moon, followed by Comfortably Numb. By the time I pulled into town, I was all ready for a show. It took me a bit to find the place, but I did find it at around 8:30. It wasn't open yet, but I had gotten there earlier than I had expected to, so I had some dinner at the diner across the street. I then commenced to walk up and down the street in Historic Downtown Tahlequah. There really isn't much to this city. At about 9:30, Granny's Attic finally opened, but the two extremely cute bartendresses said they didn't know anything about a show tonight. Well, I was perplexed. So I drove around for a while looking for any other clubs that they might be playing at, but there really are only three clubs in the whole town. Before giving up, I headed back to Granny's Attic just in case the cute bartendresses were wrong about there not being a show, but I walked in on a bar full of frat boys singing along to The Devil Went Down to Georgia. I went home. Saturday night I had a strange dream. I had moved to New York, and was in a candy shop down the street from my apartment. There were a lot of women my age in the store buying candy. A large man came in and began going through the women's purses and taking their candy. I asked him to stop, and when he ignored me, I sucker punched him. The owner of the candy store spoke in a Maine-old-man-in-a-Stephen-King-movie accent and said, "Son, that's not how we do things around here... Do you challenge him formally?" "I do," I replied. He then told me to return to the store on the following Saturday for the trivia contest and the fight. All the girls were hanging out with me by now, mostly to tell me to call it off because I was going to get killed in the fight. And I was, there was no doubt about that. While I was walking around terrified of this coming Saturday, the guy kept finding me and telling me just how he was going to hurt me before he killed me. I remember talking to friends out of state on the phone, and them reminding me that people just aren't very nice in New York City, and I should have known that when I moved up there. Finally, saturday arrived. Before the fight, we played NTN trivia. I stomped him at that, but it didn't change the fact that he was about to tear me limb from limb. As a matter of fact, I really don't know why we were playing trivia at all. But after that was finished up, we went out into the yard behind the candy shop. About 60 people formed a circle, and the large man and I were put into it. Then I woke up. Dammit... how fucking anti-climactic... Sunday I watched some movies and the Simpsons. My god!!! Did you see that catch at the end of the Green Bay - Minnesota game last night? Amazing. Favre is looking a lot better than earlier in the season, too. Go Pack... And Go Vote. |
| 11.3.2000 |
Big Smith
is in Talequah, OK this Saturday. See you there. If I get a chance,
I'm going to ask the band if they mind me posting some mp3s to the
website. If they're game, I'll put some of my favorites up here. Also coming soon, Young Pups Episodes 1 and 2. If I don't end up going out tonight I'll do them up this evening. Hopefully I'll have all the shows up by this Sunday. George W. got busted for DUI. I have no comment. I'm still not voting for him. Disinformation recently did up a nice dossier on Radiohead. It includes links to all my favorite fanboy sites and some reviews of Kid A. Kid A definitely is different from what the band has done in the past, but I'm kind of getting tired of the descriptions of the album as either revolutionary or career suicide. For god's sake people, using some systhesizers is just not bold and shocking anymore. All four of Radiohead's albums so far have had their own distinctive sounds. Umm... I was trying to make a point, but I've forgotten what it is. Oh yeah.... It's just a fucking CD. A pretty good one, and different, but please... Anyway, I guess I'd better get to work... I'm wasting all the extra time I earned for myself by getting up early this morning. Enjoy your respective days and thanks to all the folks who have been turning my TV off. |
| 11.1.2000 |
I guess October was actually a somewhat productive month, at least
as far as this website goes. I'll get more shows up this weekend,
and hopefully make some changes that will make things more consistent
across the multiple pages that this site is now starting to include.
Since it is a Wednesday, and her column was pretty good today, I'd like to point any bored readers of my site to my favorite thing on the web... If anybody's ever followed my links to Suck.com, you may have seen their daily essays. These essays can be sometimes excellent, sometimes mediocre, and lately I haven't even finished reading some. However, on Wednesdays they run a comic called Filler, which I have never missed a single instance of. (I started reading it about a year after it started up, and have since read all the archives.) If you've checked out Suck and aren't into the essays, check out Filler. I rather liked today's, especially with the gratuitous Radiohead reference. |