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Thursday, June 26, 2003
This morning when I woke up, there was an incoming message from another Kazaa user. It was a bunch of legal-looking mumbo jumbo about copyright infringement. I read enough of it to get the gist, and then I shut Kazaa off. In light of yesterday's news, I was pretty freaked out.
How about this: I won't download or distribute any mp3s, and I also won't buy anymore new CDs. What a bunch of bastards.
"Sure, we conspired to inflate the price of CDs for years and years, but by God, if Joe Internet shares some mp3s, we're going to sue his pants off."
And the way that works out is this: The music industry buys us off for $13 apiece, and then turns around and sues us for $150,000 per violation. Fuck that. Music just isn't that important.
.: posted by andy 6/26/2003
Two sites where I've spent lots of time lately:
humanbeatbox.com, where you can learn to beatbox like a champ.
The Rotten Library, which is the sort of encyclopedic resource that I would build if I had the time or the motivation. I'm sure we're all more expert in some areas of the site than others, and everyone will be able to look at one entry and say, "I could've written a lot better article than that." But when you look at the resource as a whole, it's an enormous undertaking, and there's sure to be something in there that you haven't heard of. And by the way, the main rotten.com site is not for most people, so be very, very careful what you click on. Specifically, don't click on the four links at the bottom of each page (fetish maximus, etc.).
.: posted by andy 6/26/2003
Tuesday, June 24, 2003
Carl Grygil, the owner of a golf course in my general vicinity, said course being a nice place for me to practice throwing clubs, has purchased a course in Dunn, NC (remotely accessible from Charlotte). He renamed the course Pine Hills South. I entered "pine hills south" in Google, and got 487,000 hits. Definitely a distinctive name.
.: posted by Dweeb Eubanks 6/24/2003
Monday, June 23, 2003
The Supra in the first movie was a rear wheel drive, dual turbo, 3.0 liter V6. Everything else in the original was a customized tubocharched 4 banger, though.
I've been drinking way too much. I remember how when people would get back from their semesters in europe, they would talk about how they would go out drinking literally every other night. It's all a drunken good time until the day after your 5th night of heavy drinking, when your gut starts feeling like it's digesting itself, and your head feels like it's been smacked 3 times, twice on concrete and once on a car door.
.: posted by Jeremy 6/23/2003
I watched 2 Fast 2 Furious today, too. It's pretty much the original, only with more show and less grit. A lot more budget, too. They did correct the fallacy presented in the first movie that a customized 4 cylinder front-wheel drive car can approach the performance of a custom built hotrod. In the first movie, a blown 1969 Roadrunner and a Toyota Supra stayed side by side; in this movie, a Mistubishi Spyder and an Evo were blown away by a Yenko Camaro and a Hemi Cuda. I was actually surprised by how much T & A there was in this movie, but I guess the target audience is the 13-17 year old male. The CGI semi's were much better rendered, if they weren't real (unlikely, since running over a Mustang with a rock hauler would be nearly impossible to control).
If there had been any other movie starting within an half an hour of this one, I wouldn't have watched it, but it was better than I'd expected. Oh, and a weird thing I noticed, the villian was called one thing by everyone except one character, so I kept expecting some sort of twist at the end, a la Swordfish or Wayne's World, but it never happened.
.: posted by Grand Inquisitor Fnord Moco 6/23/2003
Sunday, June 22, 2003
I really liked today's fortune
.: posted by Dweeb Eubanks 6/22/2003
I got into a gunfight at the pet store today. I was just going to get some dogfood, but I ran into this guy I know. His name is Davis, and he's kind of like my arch-enemy. An evolutionary biologist might say that we're competing for the same niche in the environment. Anyway, he whips out his piece and starts shooting at me, and I whip out my .380 and start shooting at him. We're running from car to car blasting away like something out of the movies, and the next thing I know, my gun jams up. One of the rounds didn't eject all the way and now it's hung, halfway ejected, with the next round stuck about halfway chambered with a crease in the shell. I'm crouching behind this car trying to get my multi-tool out, and I can hear him scrambling around trying to get an angle on me.
It's funny the things you think about in a situation like this. I worked with a guy who got drunk and drove his car into a frozen river. He says the last thing he thought before he went off the road was, "At least I won't have to go to work tomorrow." Well here I am, seconds away from death, thinking about how much I like the sound bullets make when they ricochet. Nice.
I got the shell loose and jacked the next round out so that it didn't jam in place. At this point I heard the sound of a car squealing to a stop, and I should have paid more attention. I also should have noticed that Davis wasn't firing. But I was in cowboy mode, so I came around the end of the car I was behind. I came out low and I came out shooting, and wouldn't you know that I shot the hell out of the front end of an unmarked police car. Davis was nowhere to be seen.
Anyway, a long pursuit and four car-jackings later I'm writing this entry. I have two observations:
1. On those police-chase shows on tv, the bad guys always keep driving after they hit the spike sticks. In my experience, those spike sticks will fuck your driving up pretty quick. They spiked me in a Dodge Caravan, and I'll be damned if I didn't hit a fire hydrant two seconds later.
2. On tv, hitting a fire hydrant is no big deal. In my experience, a fire hydrant will stop you in your tracks, AND get you very wet. Because unlike the styrofoam hydrants they use on tv and in the movies, the ones in real life are made of steal held in place by a series of half inch bolts and a lot of concrete.
.: posted by andy 6/22/2003
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