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Creative Ways to Avoid Starvation
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I've read two of Coupland's books, Microserfs and Girlfriend in a Coma , and I loved 'em both, so you can imagine my dismay this afternoon when the library down the street wanted proof of residence before letting me borrow three more of his books. The nerve of some people. I have half a mind to go back there and pluck all the fruit from their citrus trees. I hear that the Rams won. Not owning a television, Joshua and I spent the evening drinking tea, playing chess, and discussing Christian fervor. What bohemian poverty.
In The Tiny, Tiny hour.
i finally finished that sitemap i've been promising. i decided to toss in an extra bit of self-indulgence as well, so see whacha think. i've been fooling around quite a bit over at Metababy a site where anyone is allowed to edit page content. it's great fun if you have at least a basic understanding of html. clicking on the edit button allows you to edit the code of an existing page directly, and linking to a non-existent local page causes a new page to spawn on the server. this is a great place to fool around and watch web-savy people goofing off. as you may have heard, all of the major record companies united with the RIAA to file suit against mp3.com for alleged copyright violations. My recent artist's newsletter included a link to mp3.com's reply to the RIAA, which raises some interesting questions. blah.. damn, boy i sure am am i ever tired gosh. What? mmm that was me shouldnt have dranken all that absynthe oh...
Way Across the Sea.
Is imagination dead? Find out for yourself by visiting imagination.com The answer will either make you laugh or cry, depending on your mood. My friend Andrew was hopping around the web using Etour and when he found The Unofficial Small Wonder Hompage he just couldn't resist sending me the link. I have forgiven him, however, because the site is comprehensive to the point of complete absurdity , as you will discover when you visit the Cabinet of Contents . We find this page title clever, of course, because the robotic Vicki, "played by a remarkably bright and plucky young lady, Tiffany Brissette," is kept in a cabinet when she/ it isn't causing trouble uprooting mailboxes and giving extra firm handshakes to unsuspecting family friends. Ahh, remember those innocent Saturday nights of yesteryear, as you sat staring at the television, slurping up spoonfuls of the Beefaroni your babysitter microwaved in a Tupperware bowl, wondering if the befreckled Harriet would ever discover the Lawson's horrible animatronic secret? If only we could turn back time... ...Well, we don't have to! Visit the frequently updated bulletin page and you'll learn about the current plan to create a new Small Wonder series that "will be far beyond what it used to be!" All right! Finally, good television is back! Ugh.
Other People's Lives.
I've been fooling around over at Blogger.com , trying to figure out if its worth the trouble to convert this page into a full-fleged automated web log that I can update from any browser window, anywhere. I was excited about the prospect for a while, but now I'm starting to think it just doesn't suit my needs at this point, since I make changes to the style of this page and to the links on the right so frequently. It might turn out to be a great resource for some kind of a music discussion forum, however, so I've been wrapping my head around that idea for a couple of days. It remains to be seen whether anything becomes of it, as is the way with all my crazy schemes. Thanks to Jack Saturn, who mentioned sixfoot6.com in a recent update to his weblog over at Saturn.org , another site I've been visiting frequently as of late. He suggested that I add a sitemap page to sixfoot6 with a break down of each section, so I've decided to start building one. It's something I had been considering doing anyway, since my friends keep telling me that they are getting lost in all the clicks. At some point the words Site Map that you see on the top of the sidebar will take you there. I'm also in the process of redesigning the WORDS section, so Aren't I Just The Busy Fellow? There should be a new text-rich journal entry tonight, as well. As usual, visit MetaFilter if you're interested in spending some time exploring some of the recently unearthed treasures the web has to offer.
Wanna
Be Startin' Somethin'.
We like the boys with the bulletproof vests. The internet has barely learned to walk. It has caught on and spread faster than any other technology earthlings have ever been presented with, and we're still in the terrible twos. Gone are the glory days of never-ending messy sites designed by college freshmen using Netscape Composer, cross-linked and full of pictures of friends, useless biographical information and a seldom updated Site of The Week. Some of that stuff still hides in the corners of the web. But the college students and the kids who used to champion their uninteresting pre-fabbed AOL homepages are growing up to become clever and artsy. And some of them are getting paid for being clever and artsy. I don't thing many people understand where this crazy-web-thing is headed. Part of me wants to rant on about the internet as the driving economic force of world economy, as a realm that will spawn unheard of forms of artistic expression, as the tool that will ultimately end prejudice, as a medium that will create new kinds of happiness and inconceivable forms of psychological disease. History will look back on the 20th century as the tail end of the dark ages. There will be a huge anti-net counterculture movement that will last a long time but ultimately fail. Children wont understand how things "used to be". Our ever-increasing comfort with and need for instantaneous data-retrieval will completely redefine the institution of marriage. Individualism and capitalism will evolve into an unrecognizable hybrid. Most importantly, we are going to continue to encounter better, more powerful ways to access information and to access each other. So to help you understand where I'm coming from, here's some of the stuff I have recently been investigating that got me all wrapped up in this rant in the first place: Metafilter Community Weblog is one of a new generation of frequently updated log sites allowing users like you and me to post curious news stories, sites to check out, and opinions on these things. It costs nothing , it's free of advertisements, it's bringing people together, and it's the way we are going to get our news in the future. Who needs AOL-Time-Warner telling me what's important when I can join a news community that shares my interests like Metafilter or Slashdot.org ? To see which of the many log sites is getting the good stories first, visit the Web Log Scoop Index . It tells you which sites are scooping most frequently, and also provides links to the scooped stories, listed by popularity. Now not only do we have constantly updated log sites, we have a constantly updated page to tell us who's updating most efficiently. And WebSoup lumps all of the zany Sites Of the Day that you could ever want to see onto one fast loading page of text. Visit A List Apart to see a recently published list of the best designed sites currently available on the web. The winning sites are truly remarkable: fast loading, engaging, and beautiful. Kaliber1000 , a crazy fresh web-mag, took grand prize. Photomontage packs some great art into a very small space. And the most beautiful web-site I have ever seen, Eneri.net , uses Flash animation and Shockwave to express the personal feminine sentiments of its author as no other medium can. The sleek efficiency of the web CAN be emotionally touching. Instant messaging and live chatting may be the most important Net resource of all, because it brings strangers together and helps keep friends in touch. I've been using ICQ for a year now, but the next step has arrived: rush right out and download the recent version of Odigo . It is compact, sleek, colorful, and completely compatible with ICQ (but less convoluted), so you can hold on to your current buddy list. It lets you find friends with similar specified interests. It lets you choose a face. It lets you declare your mood. It uses skins. Most impressively, it lists other Odigo users who are viewing the same web page you are viewing. Or, if you choose, only those users who share your interests. You can contact these people and chat with them. It's non-stop community. The people who came up with InfoRocket believe that people are interested in paying money to get the answers to various questions. It's basically an eBay for people seeking information. This sort of small time financial transaction sure would be easier if we all used electronic money. Don't forget to stop by The Simpsons to download a 700k program that gives you free dial up internet access from almost anywhere in the country, as sponsored by everyone's favorite dysfunctional cartoon family. The only catch is that you have to keep a banner thing at the top of your screen and click on it once in a while. It's actually a small price to pay for dial up service. I connected at 46000 baud on my first try. Then, since you still need an email account, surf over to WhatTheFuck.com to get ad-free web based email as programmed by a couple of clever 18 year-olds. I grabbed r@whatthefuck.com . It's gonna catch on. Join the movement before it becomes old hat next month. Speaking of WTF, finally there's a way to tell a woman she has facial hair without hurting her feelings. A way to subtly tell your boss that he has a flatulence problem. A way to send a friend mouthwash and a gentle hint . WTF?? Am I drunk? Has humanity lost its edge? Yes. We like the girls with the cellophane chests. At DaveNet , you can read some much more coherent commentary on the growth of the internet, changes in technology, and life in general. Dave's writing is honest, and he updates the column frequently.
There
now, do you see what I'm getting at? Something is
happening out there. I'm nearly positive that it's all
for the best, put goddamn if I dont have fun trying to
puzzle it out. The web has grown to a point where you
can surf sixteen hours a day, constantly discovering
things you never knew existed, never reading the
same thing twice. I hope I'm not driven to post this
kind of update again anytime soon.
I am trying to remain part of the solution, after all.
Sombody please email me and let me know how I'm doing.
One Hundred Percent Homegrown
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Christmas 1.06.00.17.14 Site news:i like this new format but at the same time i dont want my life to look like a business, so im trying to find a happy medium. i ran into a content soothsayer, but he didn't quite do the trick. horrible joke. sorry. hell, somebody please email me. 1.05.00.19.01 Journal entry: so many things are this color in the desert. joshua and i live near a ranch park something place where we pulled up a picnic table to play chess yesterday, and as we played, chickens and peacocks and pigeons approached us and made funny bird sounds. there were rabbits, too, and josh said "i wonder why the cats don't try to kill the bunnies," and i laughed and then he laughed, the sun screaming across in parallel from low to the horizon because here nothing grows both tall and wide. the sky maintains a hue of true blue and even as we speak it is sixty-one degrees outside. bass-heavy cars stream by the front window, tricked out to the limit, without a spot of rust. hmm, i had better start at the beginning... [more] 1.04.00.23.39 site news: Well, as you can see, my neat-o web site has grown a bit sleeker and faster and let me assure you that these changes are all for the better and all to benefit you, the user and me, the web guy. It's a new Millennium, now, and things have to be better and faster and more efficient and also better. Fewer errors and mittakes. Mostly I just needed something to do and I figured it might be a good idea to integrate some of my compartmentalized nonesense into a tight home page front end thingy. I will post journal entries and site news and links and other random stuff here, so you can expect it to grow longer and longer. I'm living in Phoenix now; Joshua and Andrew and I drove out here in my '79 Granada without any trouble and we spent New Year's Eve in the desert around a campfire. I promise to spill my guts soon about everything that has happened since before Christmas.
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