July 31, 2003
A Longer, Less Strange Trip...
My wife's parent's latest obsession is bicycling. They recently crossed the pond to bike England. Jerry has a
website to detail it all. Good job guys! To make this posting Stranger, here is a
BurningMan Photographer's website.
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July 30, 2003
Long Strange Trip...
1300 miles in four days, and I have the Neapolitan-ice-cream-arm to prove it. I went to visit family in Southern California this weekend. Thought I would get into
Siggraph for free, but didn't. Still, great time had by all. We got some put-put action on in the desert. Thank you Mr.
Boomers. I will post some pictures soon of some sand sculpturing I saw at
Imperial Beach. For people who have never visited the state below Northern California, I have included a brief description of visited cities below.
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Palm Springs
This town lies just within the thirty-second ring of Hades, the ring of heat and sweaty discomfort. It's residents are mostly made up of sun leathered gay men and roly-poly old ladies. Ninety percent of the businesses there are either hair salons or interior design shops. I do believe it is the only community of its size in California that does not have over crowded schools. My brother is living there as a firefighter (because things dry out, and catch fire easy.), and his fiancée who is a nurse (the community has health issues aplenty.) I had a good time though because swimming pools are manditory.
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San Diego
It is the same size, and very similar to San Jose, except closer to the ocean. It's full of bright colorful modern buildings. Some made up to look like old buildings. Some actually were old buildings. Other than beaches, most of the outlying areas were business complexes with corporate brainstorm names like SYNERTECH, OMNIBYTE, and LOGICQUEST. I'm sure if you asked the workers of one of these places at a party what they do at these places he wouldn't know, or you would be walking away with your drink half way through him explaining that he was a Third Tier Sales Production Support Human Relation Annalist for the Information T...
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July 26, 2003
Come On and Lend me Flash 5
This is the beginning of a Video I was making for a friend's band. They have since changed their name to
Shadrack.
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July 24, 2003
Feel The Power!
Is it the computer that makes a website Very Nice? I think so. Here's a
picture of mine.
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July 23, 2003
Hail To the Chief!
In elementary school, they bored us to tears with the lamest aspects of California history. If they woulda taught us the cool stuff, I woulda been on the edge of my seat. I can only wish to live as long and colorful a life as
Emperor Norton.
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July 22, 2003
Liberia Liberation Lipogram
We have recently involved ourselved in
Haiti,
Iraq,
Jordan and
Kuwait's conflicts. I'm sure we will get mixed up in this
Liberia thing just to finish off the middle of the alphabet. Hasn't the world made it known that
Most of this is
Not
Our
Place, and we should
Quit our
Rogish
Shenanigans. Isn't it
Time to try something
Unprecidented and avoid
Villany
Worldwide by e
Xamining our envolvement, and stop sending our
Youth to death and discomfort in someone else's war
Zone?
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July 21, 2003
Nailphile
I went to Wishing Well, (a Party and Crafts store) the other day, and they had nail clippers for 17 cents. I spent too little to get a quality product. First few nails were not clipped so much as broke off jaggedly. Then the strangest thing happened. My nail broke the metal clippers. My NAIL BROKE the metal clippers.
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July 18, 2003
Does this mean I'm old?
Stasi helped me do
this last night. It worked, but man i feel
lame. What comes next, nosehair trimmers, walkers? I guess it all
depends on how well I take
care of myself.
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July 17, 2003
Wait a bit, let frosted flakes work their magic.
Ahhh.. delicious milk-surup, the best part.
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Fun w/ MS_PAINT.haw
Soccer is big in
India.
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July 16, 2003
It was rated Arrrgh! I own a pirated copy.
We went to see "Pirates of the Caribbean" last night (Go monkey, get busy!). Picture with me if you will, going through a two-hour surgery, and coming out feeling like things went famously. Then the surgeon comes up to you and says, "After we got you all tied up, we had this left over.” and hands you a pile of your random guts. That is how sloppy and awkward it ended. That soundtrack sound familiar, of course it does, it is every Jerry B movie's soundtrack. I did enjoy most of this movie, except the previews, and the end, both were horribly painful. The first preview was "The Nutty Doolittle Lives in A Haunted Mansion". Do you remember when Eddie Murphy was funny? I know it's hard, that is because it was a loong time ago. The second preview was another rehash of Vice Versa. Do we need another two hours of pap to tell us parents are uncool and work sucks? If the internet
Jamie Lee rumors are true, that girl is in for a world of surprise when she finds her mom is packing two working sets.
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July 15, 2003
Platapus Pox?
Have you noticed there are some serious deseases that get the names associated with what are usualy the comedy gold animals? You would think they would try to scare you with names like Black Mamba Cough, or Vulture Fever. Instead we have
Swine Flu,
Chicken Pox and
Monkey Pox. The only funny animal left is the Jackass. Jackass Flu has my vote.
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July 14, 2003
Who's that? It's To The Limit.
Ever since
Brunching Shuttlecocks stopped posting delicious goodies, I've been on the hunt for a site that makes me laugh good. I would like to thank a
coworker for showing me
Penny Arcade. Even though
The Onion never fails, once a week is too long to wait for 10 minutes of entertainment, and once a month or longer with
Too-Much Coffee Man is waaay too long to wait. The magic of
Homestar Runner is blocked at my work by their netnanny software. Grrrrr!
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Step 1: Make it Lame
Being new to website making I did a Google search for
Basic HTML, you know, to make my website Very Nice. I do appreciate the fact that people take the time to put together these, and really appreciate the fact that some people aren't jackmules and give this info for free. What I do not appreciate is they teach all the poo that makes a bad website right away. First they teach
Underline.... I bet you moved your mouse to see what was linked... and that is EXACTLY why not to teach that first! Next is
bold and
italics. So,
why exactly,
have these, to put
emphasis on a word? Why not just
Underline it?
Or change the color of every letter to make it
really emhisized.
Why, in the name of all that is good and right, does strikeou
l make it into these basic tutorials!? Do you not get to use the delete key in HTML?
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July 13, 2003
When I Ask, People Just Shrub their Sholders
What is the effin' deal with bushes? We have our fair share of them around our new place, and I loath them, so I started looking at other houses for inspiration on what to do without bushes, and nobody doesn't have these earwig-nests. Most bushes are hideous. The ones that aren't took fifteen years of meticulous attention applied liberally. If my parents spent their weekends for fifteen years disciplining me every time I was out of line, I woulda turned square too. I refuse to spend that much time and effort on a retarded wannabe tree. And why are they there? Some people are trying to cover up their ugly houses. For these people... unless you are mating the two, two uglies to not make a cute. Another answer is that they are put below windows to keep out the burglar. Let me give you a little insight on this. He is a crazy doped-up glue sniffer. Look at what the guy is after. He thinks that stealing your VCR, (Yes, the one that was worth ninety five years ago, and paid sixty because it was missing the plate that covered the buttons.) and selling it to a pawn shop will ease all his worries. Do you seriously think that the thought that some rustling might roust your neighbors and cause them to call the police ever passed through his abused brain? No. I am going to go on a bush slaughter when given the chance. Stupid bushes.
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July 12, 2003
For the Couple That Has Everything
Moving is just like opening wedding presents. Except it lasts thirty days, it's all stuff you already have, and no gift receipt if it's crappy or broken. Well, and Stasi was a little more eager with the gifts. I wouldn't have had to use my finger as a toothbrush if one of the presents got left behind.
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So, Anyhoo
If you are not part of my close-knit circle of friends, (Sorry, you are really missing out! (If we invited everyone, I really couldn't call it a close knit circle, now could I?)), you may not know what the name of this site is all about, and I feel like I can let you in on this at least, (mind you , you still aren't in the circle just'cause ya know). There is a band called
James Kochalka Superstar who sings a dirge of the age old battle of Monkey vs. Robot. If you ask people, and please do, which side they choose, everyone has a strong opinion either way. It is interesting as it is the one question whose answers have surprised me almost every time. I have opted monkey for personal reasons I cannot go into. The singer of the fore mentioned band also has an
Online Comic Strip that is Pretty Nice.
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July 10, 2003
Proof..
I heard that the main Pirate from "Pirates of the Caribbean" has a pet monkey instead of a parrot. Very much better! Not only can you dress him up as a tiny pirate, but you can give him a butter-knife as a scimitar. Pirates are forever getting tied up by the law, other pirates, mutineers .etc... Monkeys are better at untying knots. I've seen parakeets try for years to untie knots unsucessfully, I doubt Parrots are any better.
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