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Thursday, October 24, 2002
Things heard by nurses at the STD clinic. It is exactly as bad as it sounds, so if it sounds like something you don't want to read, DON'T read it. I thought it was funny as hell.
.: posted by andy 10/24/2002
It's definitely small, and the smallest on earth.
.: posted by andy 10/24/2002
It's definitely big, but the biggest on Earth?
.: posted by Grand Inquisitor Fnord Moco 10/24/2002
Wednesday, October 23, 2002
First: I sure do loves me some hype. I hope this is something good, not like the Segway Human Transporter, the most stupid invention since the ferris wheel that drowned people. I thought maybe it would be for a movie or computer game, or maybe a porn site. I guess we'll see.
Second: A good critique of CNN's coverage of the sniper story.
Third: Our dear friend Reneau is traveling in Australia, where a crocodile just ate a German. I warned Reneau before she went that Australia is one of the most dangerous places you can go (funnel-web spiders, saltwater and freshwater crocodiles, box jellyfish, great white sharks, brown snakes, tiger snakes, taipan, fierce snakes, black snakes, death adders, copperheads, sea snakes, dingoes, false vampire bats (not really dangerous, but creepy as hell), and platypus). But Reneau went anyway. Let's all hope she survives this so-called "vacation."
Also, I'm posting images in the right nav, now. They're not particularly relevant to anything, but you can pretend like they are if you want to.
.: posted by andy 10/23/2002
Tuesday, October 22, 2002
Stupid freedom of the press. Is it really possible that everytime a profiler says something on tv, the sniper reacts to it in order to throw the profilers off? If so, wouldn't this be a great tool to use against the sniper? Even the suggestion of reverse psychology ought to throw him off.
.: posted by andy 10/22/2002
A tech article on the problems with RD&D in Europe vs. the US. I liked it because it had a pro-American/Yankee-ingenuity slant. All the tech jargon didn't mean much to me.
.: posted by andy 10/22/2002
Monday, October 21, 2002
Pardon my post of a CNN link, but I can't help it. This man has found the secret to a happy life.
.: posted by Jeremy 10/21/2002
One of the most powerful and moving websites of our time. An undeniably forthright comment on the tragic beauty of the human experience. Especially "Snowed In," which makes incredible use of red blocks.
That is how I should have spent my childhood.
.: posted by andy 10/21/2002
The French strike again. Maybe it's time they lost another war...
.: posted by andy 10/21/2002
This little tidbit about the cuban missile crisis was news to me. Apparently some journalist was invited to be one of a few war correspondents going in on the next day's invasion of cuba, and he blabbed about it to his buddy the night before at some bar, where the bartender was a KGB agent. I think this is a nice reply to the WW2 propaganda poster everybody knows and loves. Loose Lips Sink Ships. Maybe so, but they've also prevented armageddon.
.: posted by Jeremy 10/21/2002
Sunday, October 20, 2002
Hey, I redesigned the site again. This time it's Netscape Compatible, except for the style on the header text in the upper righthand corner. Hell if I know why sometimes Netscape just completely rejects a style.
I liked the TV a lot, but I can see how this is a content only site, and reading stuff in such a small window is irritating. Also, it made the site pretty much unreadable for Netscape users.
God I hate Netscape.
Beth and I saw The Transporter yesterday. Truly a terrible movie. At the end of the movie the Chinese girl shoots her father in the back, and then says, "He was a bastard, but he was still my father." I don't know why she said that. I don't think she was crying or anything, just point out the obvious. Also, at one point the hero is hanging over the edge of a cliff while a guy gets ready to shoot him. The hero reaches over and breaks a piece of rock off the cliffside, then stands up to face the bad guy, hiding the rock behind his head. But he never does anything with it. He just holds it, and waits for the guy to shoot him. Also, at one point he gets in a fight in a garage, and covers himself with oil so that nobody can grab him. He also covers the floor with oil so that no one can stand up. Then he breaks the pedals off a bicycle and uses them as a crampons so that he can walk on the oil slick. And you know what else? There's a scene in the commercials where he's sitting at his kitchen table and a missile comes flying at him and he bats it away with a serving tray, and that scene ISN'T EVEN IN THE MOVIE! But, some of the kung fu scenes are pretty good. At least I think so. But the sound track is awful. And the plot is threadbare, almost nonexistent. I still don't even understand what the deal was with the Chinese girl. She was a hostage, then she was the daughter of a smuggled slave, then she was a gangster's daughter, then she was a gangster, then she was just a girl again. Blah. I wish I had my money back.
.: posted by andy 10/20/2002
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