“Breakfast club; North overlook to the Quad. Toasters welcome.”
“So he was driving from McDonalds during lunch (½) hour and got in his car with his HiC® on top of the car. He proceeded to get in his car and drive. All his friends waved frantically in an effort to warn him of impending doom as his windows were open. In an effort to better understand his friend’s plea, the driver of the car stopped. In fact, he stopped suddenly enough to spill the red sticky liquid all over the outside of his car (luckily red) and the inside of his car (unluckily gray).”
“This is an electric spark timer. If you touch the airtrack, the timer may discharge through you. Some people enjoy this sensation and challenge the timer for more, shouting ‘is that all you got’ or ‘bring it on’, but discharging this many volts through one’s body is not recommended.”
“If drugs were legal, what would rappers rap about?”
The editor would like to mention that the ‘he’ at McDonalds is not the editor.
Simplification: Every computer on every network in the world has some way it is identified. When computers are online, whether dialed up, cabled in, behind a router, or otherwise, they are assigned an IP address. Servers have IP addresses. Google has an IP address. Your grandmother has an IP address (well, her computer does if it is online).
But seriously. Exageration-advertising scare tactic: Your computer ‘broadcasts’ its IP address. Definition of broadcast: “cast or scattered in all directions”. Now, your computer can’t hide its IP address, but it sure doesn’t attempt to deliver it to all computers that is connected through the internet.
Furthermore, IP ‘trapping’ occurs when a computer logs onto a website and it’s IP is captured and stored. It is true that this unique identifier can be used against your computer maliciously. The most aggravating aspect of this banner, however, is that it takes advantage of the average Windows users familiarity with the look of a window and capitalizes on that by making it’s exaggerated announcement appear a legitimate message customized to the computer that it is appearing on. Banner ads that look like windows should not be allowed. This regulation, however, would be impossible to enforce. In the end, these ads are the least of a person’s online worries.
A new car is desperately needed.
An Acura Integra is seeded
in the minds of the young
But teach them their tongue
Should be kept in rude mouths for feedin’
Everybody is truly Good at Something. Always remember this. Keep an open mind when you encounter strangers or even people you know well. Especially people you know well. It’s not possible to know everything about somebody. People will always surprise you.
Everything is falling into place, and the website should be done before school resumes. Left to do: meta tags so the site will be seen by search engine crawlers, a ‘fine tuning’ of the frontpage, one more feature on the administration file, and then grow it. Unfortunately, the redesign itch is happening again - the site will just have to stay ‘as is’ until enough free time is carved out for a re-design to take place. These designs turn over far too frequently - perhaps something can be mapped out on paper with the help of some design books and the resulting project would stick longer than this one has. Thanks for [your] patience.
‘man, humans are so damn strange sometimes.’ - from waferbaby.com. Maybe it’s cheating to use an excerpt from somebody else’s weblog, but the opportunity couldn’t be passed up.
Amazing, there’s a society for everything isn’t there. The Haiku Society of America has the winners of it’s annual haiku contest since 1976 posted. It’s surprising to see websites with a history. There are, of course, encyclopedias online that cover content over a huge span of years; but websites that post content gathered by an organization exisiting before the 90s still surprises a person. A leader of the internet design and standards community, Jeffrey Zeldman, has been running his site for sometime: “Web design information and entertainment since 1995”. 1995 being quite old in internet years, but still not particularly aged. After all, many of us drive cars older than that. The depth of content in small personal sites (that are maintained) will be interesting as decades start to pass. Additionally, the usefulness of databases and the languages used to extract content from them may be determined largely by their ability to stand the test of time, or at least their friendliness towards forward-compatibility. Finally, although content from the past can be interesting, nobody wishes to read about teen angst from some 10-year-old blog. Clean up when you are done with your website(s)! Oh, and do visit the Haiku website, bet you didn’t click it before!
John Mayer. Room for Squares. John Mayer.
Room for Squares.
Tracks:
1. No Such Thing 3:51
2. Why Georgia 4:28
3. My Stupid Mouth 3:45
4. Your Body Is A Wonderland 4:09
5. Neon 4:22
6. City Love 4:00
7. 83 4:50
8. 3x5 4:50
9. Love Song For No One 3:21
10. Back To You 4:01
11. Great Indoors 3:36
12. Not Myself 3:40
13. Unknown
14. St. Patrick’s Day 5:21
Hear it. Pop music that’s music. Pop music to cure teen angst. Pop music with soul.
Desperado, why don’t you come to your senses?
You been out ridin’ fences for so long now.
Oh, you’re a hard one,
but I know that you’ve got your reasons.
These things that are pleasin’ you
can hurt you somehow.
Don’t you draw the queen of diamonds, boy!
She’ll beat you, if she’s able.
You know the queen of hearts is always your best bet.
Now it seems to me some fine things
have been laid upon your table,
but you only want the ones that you can’t get.
Desperado, ah, you ain’t gettin’ no younger.
Your pain and your hunger, they’re drivin’ you home.
Freedom, oh, freedom. That’s just some people talkin’
You’re a prisoner walking through this world all alone.
Don’t your feet get cold in the wintertime?
The sky won’t snow and the sun won’t shine.
It’s hard to tell the nighttime from the day.
You’re losin’ all your highs and lows.
Ain’t it funny how the feeling goes away?
Desperado, why don’t you come to your senses?
Come down from your fences, open the gate.
It may be rainin’ , but there’s a rainbow above you.
You better let somebody love you
You better let somebody love you
before it’s too late.
Of course; Don’t you draw the queen of diamonds, boy! She’ll beat you, if she’s able. You know the queen of hearts is always your best bet. So true.
nickd - Nick Disabato has a site called nickd.org - to say he runs it would be inaccurate. He owns it, updates in spurts, and occasionally completely changes it. Nick was formerly the primary news updater on a site called ticalc.org; his profile at that sight linked to his personal webpage. I can tell you I remember my days of forays into the TI calculator world with great fondness. Many people from the ticalc.org community wandered to Nick’s website via his profile and perhaps this is how the webpage developed a large following; I honestly don’t know. Strangely enough, it seems as though the website’s near-exclusive purpose is to communicate with Mr. Disabato’s close friends and family. Nevertheless, it is consistently interesting. I especially liked nick’s post from August 13th, 2000:
“Today is the thirteenth. Since not everyone yet knows about my vehement superstition related to the number thirteen, let me tell you a few brief points:
My great-grandmother died thirteen days before I was born.
My grandmother died thirteen days after my thirteenth birthday, on the thirteenth.
Now I don’t usually believe in superstition, and there’s always the chance that all this is coincidental, but… DAMN.”
