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Saturday, July 15, 2000

1:55:00 PM by mark *

Are your kids GOTH? read on to find out about this serious issue. (or in this case, your not so serious issue.)

2:57:00 AM by mark *

The benefit to searching for stuff like the last post is obvious, it's amazing what you can learn. The drawback is what you wind up having stuck somewhere in your head for the rest of your life, obnoxious web design:

Crystal Castle be sure and see this keywords file while visiting.
Crow Enterprises A web site so obscure in it's message that I can't tell what bits are sarcasm and what are serious. I wonder if the author knows. You can tell it's important when it is all set to the largest font.
General Martial Arts ...Background...eating...eyes. The lead in quote on the page says it all, "This page has some stuff on it, but..." Also, this page teaches us that there is a Nebraska Hapkido Association.

2:29:00 AM by mark *

OK here is a weird one. At dinner tonite a friend of mine (Hi Kelli!) showed me a small slip of paper given to her by another friend of her's. The two quotes I got from it were "The perfection of the warrior's spirit is the only pusuit worthy of our manhood." and "circle of pressure" that seemed like they would lead to the whole body of text. The first quote was prefixed with a "VII" roman numeral.

The quote is attributed to "Carlos Castaneda" and the little passage that followed it seems to be a quote or a rephrasing from this book by Forrest Morgan. It seems to be a handbook to traditional Japanese warrior (Bushido warlord stuff, not ninja stuff or farmer-bred weaponless systems like most people think of when you say "martial arts" these days) Seems to be almost required reading for people interested in martial arts as a philosophy.

It made the Jedi Academy's list by acclaim. You can read some other warrior quotes or journey into the life of the author of the first quote with Carlos Casteneda quotes. The book that the first quote is from is by CC and is called "Journey to Ixtlan" and seems to have been narrated to Carlos by Don Juan, a mystical mexican wizard/shaman of great power.

Thursday, July 13, 2000

5:31:00 PM by mark *: This list of100 reasons people think Hollywood realy "is" crazy is simply bang on. It features Elizabeth Hurley multiple times but has no mention of Hugh Grant. That should tell you something right there.
2:06:00 AM by mark *: Oh yah, When he stumbles off the gay sex humor, he really shines at humor. Jerkcity This one is a T-shirt waitin ta happen. I put up with 20 Hghghulga jokes for these occasional gems.
1:44:00 AM by mark *: Ok I just don't know how to put this any other way. ClusterBall.com tag line Snatch, Score, Smile is simply WAY OVER THE LINE! Oh wait, its a sports game, never mind.
12:56:00 AM by mark *: Funny funny funny ! I am not kidding here. Getting sent a link to this site now that it has grown just made my day. Must sees include: Gerbils, Sex, Dan, I am Canadian, Flying Cars, and even Tattoo.

Monday, July 10, 2000

6:56:00 PM by mark *

I likey da menu. And the Time travel link from there ain't half bad either.

9:12:00 AM by mark *

Guess what is pissing me off today? Right! Roadsigns!

While driving to work this morning, our highway information signs had a big notice up:

Ozone Action Day
Please Do Your Part

And I think think to myself, well it's a bit late to tell me now.

The other one is a bill board with this that I will try to catch exactly:

"Which part of "Thou shalt not..."
"Didn't you understand?"
-- God

One, I think it's a bad sign, no, erm, a bad thing when god has shifted from loving to bitter and sarcastic. Two, does god need a new proofreader? There are five double quotes there. Three, I'm pretty sure god knows better than to use an ellipsis that way. A comma would have been sufficient. Really.

Sunday, July 09, 2000

3:32:00 AM by mark *: I almost feel bad about calling the Visor PDA a "gameboy for adults." Then something like this comes along and I just have to turn on smug mode. Gameboy for adults, baby!