furtive explorations

Our ancestors crawled out of trees onto a semi-arid savannah and made their way about the planet. They discovered fire. They invented tools to do things they couldn't do before. They smelted metals. They invented tools for making better tools. They learned the planet is round, built boats, and sailed the world. They crushed entire ecosytems, founded empires, domesticated animals and generally whupped ass. They tied the world together with gravel, steel, asphalt, concrete, copper, and laser saturated glass. And all so that I could mention that I think a Lego-activated automatic "Magic 8-Ball" internet site amused me for 15 minutes. And it is possible I'm wrong and I still posted it.

Oh yeah, we invented black lights, glowsticks, lasers, mirror balls, motorized lights, movie-smoke, bowling alleys and dance music but it took years for someone to add it all up to GlowBowl! Which is where I'm off to so have a good night!

• You know, the difference between armor and fetish-wear is as thin as a razor. =)
• You know you are in a place meant for kids when you have to crouch to use the urinals.
• It hasn't even been a year, are we completely out of Bush/Dick/Colin jokes? What is this country coming to? Other than interns, that is.
• The way I figure it, this is my last chance to make Mom and Dad proud. I just hope they wake from the comas before the cops televise my prison break. All that work on pipe bombs is going to pay off, I'm coming home for Christmas!

I'll try and move the whole saga of these people off to it's own page. It deserves it now. Plus maybe the catalog hell rants deserve a page too... Hmmm. Once I start making pages for all my major topics, I'll wind up with no blog other than just page updates... Eh, oh well. We'll see...

As an aside a friend of mine sent me a fond memory of his days of dealing with the same foolish impulse to type in an organization. And with a name like Michael Jackson putting in "The King of Pop" is a purely defensive move. Till the whole "letterhead" issue crops up. Sez he:

However, getting mail addressed to:

Michael Jackson
The King of Pop

made it all VERY worth it.

Side note: When he first started working in my tech support group, I made his first password "Thriller" because I thought it was funny. Everyone else thought it was funny. The look of infinite suffering on his face made it just that much better. =]

So I try it with hostile so I can visit my internet "neighbor" over at the .coms. And much to my suprise, my site is there! A quick look tells me that someone has setup hostile.com with a frame document that has only the title "Welcome to hostile.com" and the meta-tag that blocks MicroSoft SmartTags. The only frame that it loads is my page.

I'm taking that as a feature request and adding the anti-smart-tags (dumb-tag?) meta to my pages tonite. =) I wonder if he'll sell me the domain? Cheap?

Within a month and a half, they had added minor features I had requested, as well as squashed at least four bugs I found for them. I'm now testing their latest alpha for SCRT and it rocks. When 3.4 comes out, buy it.

"[T]he Web represents a small world, i.e. the typical number of clicks between two Web pages is about 19, despite the fact that there are now over one billion pages out there."

And remember: Vac-U-Snap(tm) is a simple, patented vapor-lock prevention system that depends on the micropore shells of Rectaltronics butt-plugs to allow a gentle release via introduction of filtered outside air. A safety check valve prevents embarrassing mishaps due to accidental blow-back. *whew* Thank goodness they thought of that!

• The Reg keeps bouncing up and down which is seriously interferring with my re-reading of the recent BOFH 2K+ stuff. And, yes, at work, it is BOFH you know, geek law requires you to read it at work!
• Bruce on Dimitry clears the air on just how horrific Sklylarov's crimes were. *snort* Bruce sez: "It's ironic that a Russian had to come to the U.S. to be arrested for what are essentially thought-crimes: allowing people access to books, and exercising his free-speech right by blowing the whistle on inferior products."
• CRT is worth the money. I rarely say that about software anymore so take note. =)
• Vim 6 is coming. I'm tingling. NTK is excited too.
• SciAm Exposes "Crossing Over" Tricks. Seriously, read this and try, try to understand it well enough to explain it to the really stupid people you know who don't understand how a cold-read works. Please?

I had no idea they would come to mean as much to me as they do. Amazing how much I crave whacking out crappy prose into this stupid electronic box. I may peel off the update project and work *gasp* on another page for a while. I need to get some stuff set up for my sister and I think it will force me to tinker with W3ME to get it done. Or maybe not. Dunno yet.

You got your Porn into my Shakespeare! You got your Shakespeare into my Porn!

Is NOTHING sacred?