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Because malevolent is too hard to say!
And you can't tell me the alien ain't CUTE!
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furtive explorations
"How stupid do you want them to think you are?"
Seek the power, find the Sock of Destiny!
The hostile team now consists of scads of
people hardly ever posting to this site! Of course that doesn't actually
equate to any more posts, it just ups the brownian motion of the
system a bit more.
Earth First! Make Mars Our Bitch!
Saturday, September 29, 2001
- 10:50:00 PM by mark
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- If you flip somebody off sideways, is that still considered "gangsta-style"?
And yeah I should have put this down with the other "thoughts" but I thing this one stands on it's own. After a day of reading webcomics, it is pretty cool to have original humorous thoughts...
See, because you are "shooting" them the bird? Get it now? *Sheesh*
- 5:26:00 PM by mark
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- Some thoughts I've had in the past week:
- Why would a resturant put up permanent "Caution Wet Floor" signs on both their bathrooms? If the floor is constantly wett shouldn't you get a plummer, or at least better patrons?
- Profina, how the hell do they make money preying exclusively on people who fucked up their credit?
- Why is it the first thing that starts rusting in my car trunk is WD-40? If you were selling a product where one of your main claims to fame was preventing rust, would you ship it in a plain steel can that rusts? Is this some sort of plan to sell you two cans so you can dose each of them up from time to time?
- Steak Tar-tar and Sushi, two great tastes that go great together? You got blood on my rice! You got Wasabi in my blood!
- Never trust a psychic that pays for Caller-ID
- Klingon Kama Sutra Not really my idea but so wonderful I had to share
- Why would the world need a WD-40 fanclub?
Friday, September 28, 2001
- 3:34:00 PM by mark
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- I spent way too much of my time reading Brunching Shuttlecocks today. And honestly, if you haven't already, go read The Onion this week. Even if you don't normally, go now and be wowwed at their ability to find humor in the worst of times. Seriously, how many times do we need to tell you before you go?
- 1:12:00 PM by mark
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- Note To Self:
I have got to start a band, make cool t-shirts, and get hot chicks in Canada to wear them.
Also, I should learn to sing, how to play an instrument in such a way that it doesn't sound like an atonal cow dying, and how to be vaguely attractive to the opposite sex. Damnit. Maybe I should skip the band part and just ship t-shirts to Canada...
Thursday, September 27, 2001
- 3:33:00 PM by Webhamster
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For once I have to post. Yes, it's political. Yes, it's religious.
Today we saw irrefutable proof that the Taliban- misogynistic hardliners that they are- watch Chris Rock. There is a wonderful bit from Chris Rock's special Bigger and Blacker where he explains how Jesse Jackson got the American hostages back a few years ago. He simply said, "You wanna really piss them off? Give the hostages to me!" This week saw the Taliban blowing a big phat raspberry right at Bush and crew. They called Jesse to help solve the problem. That is what being a terrorist "mastermind" is all about, folks.
- 2:09:00 PM by mark
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- In the AORTAL spirit I'm backlinking Surreally since eeth was nice enough to mail me let me know I was hooked up. I really should get out and explore the blogsphere again. Honestly I had more fun just taking some of the links from their blog favorites list than I have had since I got hooked on that damn Spaced Penguin game. =) Oh, and their purple and green style thing is pretty darn hip, too.
- 1:45:00 PM by mark
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- Thought of the day:
Some days I just look in the mirror and spend hours admiring myself. One of these days I should get it off the floor back on the wall. Not today though, my daughter left some Barbies on it so I'm taking my pants off and playing valley of the dolls again.
- 9:28:00 AM by mark
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- So the new StarTrek TV show Enterprise finally aired. Scott Bakula was pretty darn good, the writing didn't make me cringe, the chicks were hot, the technology was retro, the show quite sentimental about the ST history overall, and for the first time in like 10 years, no orchestral music for the opening. They actually got a theme song. I almost cried. Maybe this show will actually be a bit more approachable and not so full of itself. All in all, damn good. I laughed, I cheered, and the Vulcans are practically bad-guys.
Of course, our local UPN affiliate (Big 58) is run by cave monkeys and people who smell their own fingers after sex. That means we suffered multiple satellite dropouts including a 10 second interruption so bad the station's decoder switched to a computer screen. Lovely thing to have videotaped, with random squares of encoded video dropping out here and there, streaked screens of static, and more making it a real pleasure to view. Ahh, to be the fifth best local station out of six. That is their goal!
While you are poking around on the net, drop in on the Star Trek Series V website and discover web design from 1996. They made images entirely of text, including bright yellow underlined 'links'. *snort* There are only 47 actual text words on the entire page. How sad is that? Why not go Flash or Shockwave at that point, eh? It would actually be simpler and look better and be easier to maintain. And I hate Flash...
Wednesday, September 26, 2001
- 5:38:00 PM by mark
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- It is ok for me to be a little smug since I helped birth the webcast system for WLCV Radio, right? Now we have to figure out WTF is wrong with the 24kb stream but at least the damnable thing works!
- 11:09:00 AM by mark
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- So I didn't post anything yesterday because I was dealing with "hemorhagic cystitis" which means "swollen bumps" in Latin, "bladder infection" in Doctor and "holy fucking hell, ohcrapohcrapohcrap, oh oh oh auuuuuugh" in Pain.
It is a scary thing to drop trou and have bloody undies. Of course, a few hours in the Emergency room getting vampired, stunt-peeing (hello pain!) in a cup, and generally being abandoned in the cold alone quickly makes you pine for the happier times when you were at home -- near fainting -- and wondering if you were dying. And after all that, the doctor asked 5 questions at the beginning that convinced him I had this but made me stay for 4 hours of tests and seat warming.
The best part of all of this? I didn't get tested for the clap. You know they stick a q-tip up your willie for that? One major indignity avoided. *whew*
After it was all over you know what the worst part of my visit to the hospital was? The doctor stole my fucking pen. =)
Monday, September 24, 2001
- 10:50:00 PM by mark
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- So I'm poking around the harddrive on hostile doing my check the corners for dust routine and and I notice that the webserver logs are really really huge. Suprisingly, the logs for one of my other sites is also huge. Just for a moment my heart swelled with joy that I might be loved beyond compare, that the adoring audience I'd always hoped for had finally found me, that the few original fans would finally be forced off the site by the "wannabe pretenders" all claiming to be my oldest reader. But then I noticed it was all traffic from the stupid Nimda worm and I returned to the earth, my heart heavier but my head firmly screwed on tight. Ah well... =)
- 10:33:00 PM by Dodd
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- How you're raised influences how likely you are to be a tight ass.
- 2:50:00 PM by mark
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- Mr. Zimmerman sets the world straight on his feelings about encryption. And he was waaaaay to charitable to the authors of this piece.
As with digital music, digital video, gun powder, plastic explosives, fuel bombs, fertilizer bombs, abortion, sex, nakedness and all the other scary things in the world, the encryption cat has been let completely out of the bag. Do you seriously think they don't have mathematics or programming in other countries? Do you really think Phil making it free and easy did anything other than get it in everyone's hands faster than it might have otherwise? Do you think you can stuff all the cats back into bags? Folks, once something is out it is out, and no number of king's men and horses can do anything other than make scrambled eggs.
- 11:18:00 AM by mark
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- Now that is science! Booyah!
Sunday, September 23, 2001
- 9:48:00 PM by mark
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- I've been pondering and musing over the new purple ketchup that the *snort* experts are lauding and I've come to the realization that the trend is now inevitable.

Heinz is going to have to get together with Crayola. It is just that simple. =) The link above leads to a nice large sized version. There is a smaller one here. I'm quite proud of this so be nice. =)
Slogans:
- Make every hamburger a masterpiece!
- A full palette for your palette!
- Mood Food!
- 6:58:00 PM by mark
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- If for no other reason that to see what 2,200 CDs look like, you should drop in on No More AOL CDs. =)
- 2:00:00 PM by mark
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- Ooo, fractals! Dig around on her site... way worth it.
- 1:19:00 PM by mark
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- Yesterday I got my regular letter from World Wide Words. I do really enjoy that newsletter and I recommend it to anyone who loves words. These two links from a site he mentioned may see wider use than just word lovers. The first is Collective Terms for Animals which should end a few arguments and surprise a few people. The other link you'll have to hunt for when the site comes back because they broke their cache server over the weekend and now I can't get anywhere on the site. =)