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Saturday, October 28, 2000
10:34:00 AM by mark *
This shiny image and the previous post, curtesy of Robot Wisdom.
10:20:00 AM by mark *
If you vote read about the math behind the electoral colege system. Cool info and well written too!
Friday, October 27, 2000
8:32:00 PM by mark *
Hmm, I've been reading stuff from The Brunching Shuttlecocks, which I haven't checked in on for quite a while. Either they have gotten better or I was in a shitty mood when last I visited. The Movie Reviewer is spot-on. Well, a little Breast-Obsessed and he missed a joke in the Erin Brockovich one, (Breast Costume would have been funnier), but all in all I laughed and agreed with most of his brutal, direct, and, above all, nut-kicking reviews.

There is quite a bit of pent-up humor there, waiting to explode on you like a legless family's dog. Go see...

"Filming some movie in Canada" and "Vanished off the face of the Earth" are, for all intents and purposes, the same thing.
7:03:00 PM by mark *
404 pages are just getting more and more stylish by the day, aren't they? Oh and in case you were wondering, 404.org is the only one that works. .com and .net were non-responders. If you pop in to .org, check out stair-diving for this years fucking-stupid x-game.
9:07:00 AM by Kim *
So, we're going out of town this weekend to stay in log cabins down near Mammoth Cave, and I am here packing and stuff. I'm soooooo glad I don't have to work today. Yesterday they announced that my department will be the fortunate group to move to the company's new space in another building and live in cubicles. And normally, I would be fine with this fact, except for the fact that one of the perks of being with this company is their belief that all employees deserve their own private office. So, while each other individual has their own office with a door, we're forced over to a separate building--away from everyone els--in cubicles. Money's tight right now, and we're overcrowded--people have been doubling up on office space, temporarily, until they could find more space for the over-crowded ones. And this is their solution??? This almost makes me as upset as the thought that I will miss my Saturday morning episode of SpongeBob Squarepants.
7:09:00 AM by mark *
You might have been wondering where I found all those comic links. Fleen you say? Nope, they did remind me of Waiting for Bob, though. Err, Big Panda you hazard? Nope. They reminded me how much I miss Space Moose, though. Umm, Yahoo? Nope, they suck ass. Do you click on those fricking KeenSpot ads? Nope but they have Lopow and that leads to stuff like KillerSissy so I forgive em. Oh well, you say, what about Cagle then? Shit no, he's on Slate and I don't like Salon.com enough to read it after it has passed thru George Will's colon. (thus, no links...) Well then, you slyly retort, what about 100TopCartoonSites.com? Uh, are you stupid? I like comics, not fucking ad banners.

Well crap, you scream, where do you find such delicious comic linkage as Random Comic Theatre?

Simple, my little metallic sponge, I pick a comic I already know and love and look at their favorite links. Look how many comics I read already! I'm a working stiff, I gots a job, baby. I don't have time to sift through thousands of shitty, did-4-of-em-and-bailed comic websites. Nooo, I get my linkage from the people who know better and who know art when they see it, other comic artists.

See, there is this thing called the internet some useless bozos actually use the thing to, wait for it, inter-net-work. They actually communicate over this thing! Amazing! It turns out that it takes a village to raise a child but all it takes is e-mail and http to get cartoonists in touch with each other.

And no, PlanetCartoonist (gah, banners again), Astro-nerdboy (hurry, I miss 1996 page design!), Mycomix aka Toonscape (nice layout tho...), and HumorLinks (auugh, my eyes, my eyes!) haven't helped me find a single good strip...

5:06:00 AM by mark *
ooof, finally remembered to add Kevin and Kell to the comics list. And I've been subtlely shifting them about as they fall on and off schedule. Many of them are just damn liars when it comes to posting regularly. Worse, many haven't even put up what days they TRY to post on. Of course, my "high horse" on this topic couldn't climb out of soup bowl so who am I to complain. =)
4:41:00 AM by sklutch *
Heh, seems that Micro$oft had a security breach. Full story on C|Net.
2:25:00 AM by mark *
Hehehe I love coming in to work and finding that my blog was active without me! Yeah! Even if it is veiled insults from DFA.

Quote of the day is from a slam on Esperanto.

"sock of destiny"

Wow I love that...

Thursday, October 26, 2000
11:11:00 AM by Kim *
I'm baaack. I'm sorry. Forgot to enter my nickname before. Fixed the problem. Must be those new blonde highlights I got last weekend. They've interfering with my thinking lately. Oh, yeah, here's another site for you. Now go send some voodoo to the ones you love to hate. Or hate to love.
10:57:00 AM by Kim *
Okay. Here I am. I'm supposed to be working. But I just got a link to the most bizarre site. Not sure, but some of the "movies" are kinda weird. It seems these guys stole these cell phone costumes and then went out bashing phones of people who are misusing them. Thanks for inviting me to post on the blog, Mark. I'm sure later I will come up with something more interesting to purge from my brain onto the page. But for now, i gotta go pretend to earn my paycheck.
10:52:00 AM by DFA *
A few other links...remember bloggophiles...DEEP breaths...people will post when they feel they must.
10:35:00 AM by DFA *
I WIN!!! At least I posted a link yesterday, and Mark got so caught up in the mud-slinging, he couldn't be bothered! The whiny-butt actually fell for the oldest trick in the book! WOO HOO!

Oh, and by the way, I own a PSX2 now. I call it the PSX2 because I refuse to call it the PS2 as Sony so stupidly labeled it. And this whole PS1 thing is just a nightmare...I keep wanting to take a baseball bat to it.

And it is indeed cool. As my main men would say...Aw yeah. Four hundred and fifty dollars...worth of puddin'.

Pardon me while I go play sweet video games on my puddin'...

6:57:00 AM by sklutch *
[Morning thoughts] Since last night was my night off, I spent the majority of it lying in bed listening to my new CD...Orgy - Vapor Transmission. The tunes themselves were quite satisfactory, but I was really thrilled to see Ryan Bliss had provided interior imagery. It immediately made me happy to see him getting more exposure, yet mildly angry that my first 'Net employer NTR.NET had passed on the chance to host the site. The Powers That Be were too fuckin' stupid to realize the advertising potential that existed at the time, and then sold the company to a collective of half-assed, brown-nosing, overpaid, back-stabbing, buzzword-ingesting, clueless middle managers who wouldn't be able to breed if it weren't programmed into the DNA of each of their cells. Gee, that seemed a little bitter, nyet? Must be the thought of what those bozos are doing to a fully functional system that requires something more than an MSCE drone...but I digress...

Once I'd listened to the CD for about two hours, I couldn't stand it anymore and had to leave my happy home and do some driving. I've loved to drive since I was 11, and driving does more to calm me down than Prozac (but less than receiving a well done blowjob...gotta get a girlfriend soon...might need to graph the expenses associated with girlfriends vs auto care, first). Anyway, I was traveling the streets of Our Fair City , when I noticed an interesting fact: At approx 0545hrs EST, there are an inordinate number of joggers out huffing and puffing their way to better fitness. What was even wierder was that the closer you were to one of the six/seven colleges, the higher the percentage appeared. Now the neighborhood in which I live has a school relatively close to it, and I enjoy driving through the campus late at night...something about my grinning face seems to make campus cops follow me like I'm a bitch in heat through the pound...like I'm a serial killer in training or something...but I hadn't been through the campus in the early morning hours before. It was fascinating...something like the Nike commercial . Here were all these well-formed, sweaty women running around getting all exhausted in the name of good health (or making the sacrifice to the god of sexiness, you pick). I must've cruised those streets for an hour, just grinning like a stereotypical Starvin' Marvin at a seafood buffet. I finally had to leave when I realized that I'd picked up TWO of the three cruisers active on campus. And to think that I wouldn't have known this if I didn't work the overnight shift and hadn't had a night off of work.

4:35:00 AM by mark *
Hey, how did I forget about SYNJ? Imagine you are this guy, sitting around and one day you just decide to make some amazing fucking animation. SYNJ gets that guy in the mirror every morning.
Wednesday, October 25, 2000
9:51:00 PM by mark *
Hmm. My turn for hitting the dictionary. Uhh. How about poseur? I'm not afraid to use my real name on here. Meanwhile Duck-Fucker-Alfresco there is embarassed to be called by his nickname in front of cow-orkers =) Oh yeah, monopsonist works too. The only one buying DFA's nonsense is him. =)

Summing up:

poseur
One who affects a particular attitude, character, or manner to impress others.
monopsonist
The single seeker of goods, the only buyer for which there exist many prospective sellers.
capable
Having capacity or ability; efficient and able
ataraxia
Peace of mind or emotional tranquillity; calmness.

While at work Mark is capable of pursuing many tasks without disturbing his ataraxia. DFA is a heaving, whiny poseur of a monopsonist. Mark is a word maven, DFA thinks grammar is the mother of his mom or dad. =)

2:01:00 PM by DFA *
Now, I understand that the whole point of creativity is to be...well...creative...but a glowing bunny? This world gets weirder and weirder every day.
11:33:00 AM by DFA *
To sum up:

assiduous adj. diligent and persevering.

slacker noun a person who shirks work or obligation.

While at work, Dark Father Amadeus assiduously attends to his duties. Mark, on the other hand, is a complete slacker and browses the web all day.
1:11:00 AM by mark *
New slogan thanks to Sklutch's Diet Coke ™ bottle.
Ice Cold Single
Tuesday, October 24, 2000
7:21:00 PM by mark *
Hey! Kim is back with another fine set of links. (Notice that she is now 100% more dependable than one of my 5 invited blogging guests and infinitely moreso than 2 of them. =)

First tho, two for her to enjoy since she sent the fantabulous Angry Bob's Rules for Punctuation. Spelling and punctuation is a helpful set of guides for the webbie, check all the links there. Another Angry Flower about "Plural's" and of course one that just kills me as a bonus.

the Barbie radio station for girls Hmm. this one knows I'm a boy. All I get is nice text scroller in NS4 and IE5 crashes on the page =) Girls only I guess

Kim's text really sums it all up: a picture of RuPaul as a man...ewww.

always a favorite of mine... "*AfroSquad does not oppose bush, but do oppose George W. Bush, the person. " Good quote but I like this one too: "Stop reaching for the stars...they are really really far away, and made of fire. Reach for a booty instead."

Emode.com personality tests...some goofy, some goofier. Heh see this? out of all those test, how many were prepared by Ph.D.s? BTW I'm only a little toward the evil side and the following relates well to the beginning of this whole post...

You're unrealized superpower is Super Speed! Do you sometimes feel like your life is a blur?

My bolding =) and tricky linkage there... (man I love it when a post comes together!) p.s this post sez 7pm but it's closer to 6am =)

4:01:00 AM by sklutch *
Okay,this frightens me...I had enough problems figuring out whether I was in danger of going to jail when I turned 18. I can't imagine the consequences of high school for these kids...
1:16:00 AM by mark *
Makambo sells fonts, scads of em. must... not... spend... money... ... must... stop talking... like... Kirk...

Also, bonus Goth linkage: Caoine's Emma is a quite the site designer. And breaking her site into four sections -- Exposition, Conflict, Resolution, and Denouement -- makes me weak-kneed with envy. Hit exposition and see the lovely nested shades of gray trick done right. She led me to this fine site, Gothflesh which I will say nothing more about...

1:10:00 AM by mark *
Haven't mentioned this before because I thought it was more obvious than I suppose it is but The Bench project that the guys at Penny Arcade set up is fascinating. There is some utter shit on there and some dang funny ones too. Who knew all these budding humorists out there just needed an art kit of pre-made and backgrounded characters to start being funny. Or not. Might be a good Psych project for a student out there. Moving towards 4000 strips there, that is a heck of a statistical sample...
Monday, October 23, 2000
10:00:00 PM by mark *
Seen in a chat window...
your boss seems dumb enough to lock himself in the utility room. Why not send him to get a new pen? :)

hehe.

10:16:00 AM by DFA *
So I spent weeks researching all kinds of phone and telecommunications issues, the most interesting of which was MOH/OHM. You know...Music On Hold and On Hold Messaging. You may hate it, but it keeps you on the phone, doesn't it? So I spent days looking for the Holy Grail of MOHOHM. And I found it. This is exactly what I was designing myself before I stumbled upon this goldmine product. Worship it. Love it. It is way too cool for its own good, despite using the Evil Redmond Operating System (EROS...as if Bill were cool enough to rate THAT kind of acronym...sheesh).
5:36:00 AM by mark *
quickhoney background... making... me... woozy... (nice art tho)
5:19:00 AM by mark *
note to self: learn to spell.
So I'm doing my "regular" rounds of blog'age and I finally get down to the "OZ" section of my bookmarks. Much to my surprise the first two links on his page have already been visited by me. So I figure I hit em elsewhere and scan on by. Welp not much there so right as I'm about to bail out I flip back up to those links to see what meme I've already gotten infected with.

Now, you have to understand, I rarely ego-surf and I don't look at the server logs except to make sure that it isn't zero'ed out (2.5 weeks my site was down, not one friend mentions it). Heck I don't even have "referer" logging turned on. The last time I searched for my own name or website for backlinks was before I started this blog.

So given that, you'll understand why my brain performed a full shut-down and restart when I noticed one of the links was to here. D'oh. Now I have to start looking at the dang logs before I whine about how even my friends wont come to the site. I had 101 unique visitors last week, not counting search engines -- D'oh, when did that start? -- or the regular probes from the robot at weblogs.com.

Basically I'm torn between a nice welcome note and asking you to F*ck off 'cause you are cramping my style. I loved the nobody reads this page schtick. Hey wait, I got it, I'll complain about how all the people reading this page... nah...

Anyway, do please drop in from time to time. Plus, my page isn't styled orange so that has got to count for something. =) I did however fall to the horizontal stripe-y background meme and the massive miniature links on one side meme so who am I to talk. =)

No Orange tho er, except for the new title image I put up on the main page.

12:52:00 AM by mark *
EQ art that makes you say wow! This guy needs a job doing art. He's wasting his time doing fan art...
D'oh, t'would appear he does have an art oriented job. Dig around his site and see the non-EQ stuff, some of his stuff is even better than what I linked!
Sunday, October 22, 2000
10:44:00 PM by mark *
Comics to keep an eye on: Bunnispace and Absurd Notions
10:35:00 PM by mark *
Ok, I'm REALLY sick of C and it's only been about 4 days... *whimper* My brain hurts and I miss Perl.
5:17:00 PM by mark *
Meta Fixed a link in the sidebar (CIDU) now points to where it should rather than where it was 3 years ago. oops. Also, I am going to mark what day the weeklies update, if I can suss it.
3:50:00 PM by mark *
Saw this on /. and found it worthy of taking up as a slogan on this site.
Diluting the ideology until it's nothing more than a new buzzword!

Of course, he was making an important point about Open Source vs. GNU's Free Software but it is just too fun on its own.