furtive explorations

My basic plan so far is to go to Detroit. Why Detroit? I've never been to the great lakes or gone farther north than Chicago in this part of the country. And if I get excitable and can find my birth certificate I may press on to Toronto and loop around to Buffalo and come back by way of Columbus OH. OTOH I may not if I get sick of driving by Detroit.

I've been to quite a number of states but I've never hit either Michigan or New York, so that would be nice to check off two in one trip. And getting to dip my hands in a great lake would be nice, let alone making a trip to Canada. Though if I have to add all the Canadian provinces to my check of list that will actually set me back numbers-wise. =)

An alternate plan bounces me off of Grand Rapids and then Sault St. Marie and then west to Wisconsin and then back to Chicago by way of Green Bay and Milwaukee. Then I could tick off Wisconsin. Hmmm. But no _big_ city in Canada... hmmm.

I will make an effort to hit various libraries on the way up (Or maybe Kinko's) and post something If I can but expect me to be incommunicado for a while. And expect a shit-load of whinging when I get back about how full my mail boxen are if I don't make it to any computers for a week.

There will be more on this before I leave tomorrow...

You'd think they'd go back in time and grab a shorter fricking domain...

Those came from xone.net. xone.org is interesting in its own right. A nice spare design makes for a clean personal site with high weirdness only peeking out here and there. The .com never responded.

Cs 133 sounds like fun stuff. RFB on the other hand, doesn't.

Today a friend at work is tinkering with Windows XP and he discovers there is a "Remote Help" button. That leads to a menu where one of the options is "Ask a Friend". So, of course, I say "does it also have 50/50?" to which he replies, "Oh yeah... and the OK button is actually 'Is that your final answer?'".

I think this is a great idea. Whenever the GUI presents you with too many choices you can pick from "Ask a Friend", "Ask the Chat Room", and "50/50"; however you only get one each per day!

Speaking of humor, I may start peeking at Daily Probe... tho maybe not probing it daily.

You fucking moron, your fucking, fucking moron. If you aren't damn smart enough to find and read up on how the robots.txt file works on a server (mine) then why the fuck are you continually bothering me and whining about copyright theft when you can't even fucking prove they did anything other than look at 40 urls. You simpering, snivelling, libellous, whiny prick. You fatuous, gasbag, net-lawyer wannabe, useless webgrub pdf-using-pud! Jerk.

Phew, I feel better now, thanks...

And BTW, in this article about the old NYC wingdings font rumor that has cropped back up, the link to Penn Jillette's article should be this rather than a self referential jump link. =) Penn is a funny guy...

I understand the ironic or sarcastic nature of the statements and actually I usually agree with the sentiments expressed, even moreso than the speakers might guess. See, what they are really saying is "My imagination is weak so I must be right." or "I'm really stupid so you can't convince me I'm wrong." What they mean, of course, is that the probability is warped to one end of the scale or another. Most people have a good feel for likelyhood when they have the numbers in front of them. And so, I tend to agree with their postulate and with the sentiment. Yes, my friends, you are both right and feeble-minded. Enjoy!

I'd sure like to see him and his second taken alive. Then once the bleeding hearts in the U.N. demand that he not face the death penalty we get to watch him rot in prison, denied his martyr's death and ensured of having something to fondly recall once he arrives in the real hell of Na'ar once into feeble, forgotten old age.

Oh, 0.2.2 is out but has a nasty bug with your bookmarks, wait for 0.2.3 or better...