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The last couple days have been fairly busy, with the whole "moving down to Bend in a snowstorm" thing and the "stressing out over the snowboard instructor workshop that will decide if I will be one of a select few... Keep reading this entry »
"And how would I go about starting a cult?" "You could say you're a prophet." "Hmm... I can grow a mullet." "Mullets definitely attract the word of God."... Keep reading this entry »
Props to yewknee for bringing to our attention the great feast to be had at lawforkids.org. Cutting-edge animations and biting social commentary bring law to life for kids young and old. Genius voice-acting makes the cartoons come alive! Did we... Keep reading this entry »
Over the last few weeks this town has managed to make me really cranky, and I never realized how cranky until I unloaded a full barrage of ranty goodness on a good friend. I feel like ever since November came... Keep reading this entry »
I can't write. Literally, cannot write. Every word I try to put down makes me feel like I'm fighting off motion sickness. We had a lovely day in Portland yesterday; tried to find coffee, played with Duplos, pawed through used... Keep reading this entry »
It's always fun to watch people struggle at a Rubik's cube who aren't good at struggling at a Rubik's cube and would be better off struggling at an Altoids tin. They spin and twist and stick their tongue out of... Keep reading this entry »
I'm bored. Lately everything that I've needed to do has gone over so silky-smooth that is isn't even worth recounting. The Green Dragon wagon got an oil change and new windshield wipers. I paid too much for the new wipers... Keep reading this entry »
The junk is slowly finding its way into cardboard boxes. I leave for Bend in ten days. The only things that remain on my walls are a 2003 Spam calendar and a monkey with text. The calendar has Portland's Decibully,... Keep reading this entry »
I go through periods where all I can concentrate on is the specific, and I eventually reach a series of revelations and then all I can think in is the general. It's always progressive, never regressive, always moving forward to... Keep reading this entry »
I've been doing a little bit of work under the hood around here, lately. My instincts were correct, and IE's massive pooch-screwing on my navigational buttons was due to the whitespace parsing error. I brought the index pages of all... Keep reading this entry »
Sun Ra: DAVE. Dave: DANE. Sun Ra: What's new? Dave: Pardon, I'm trying to coordinate an extensive and complex breakfast operation right now. Sun Ra: Oh my. Sun Ra: Does it involve little packets of sugar? Sun Ra: That's what... Keep reading this entry »
Say yay for the End of the World!... Keep reading this entry »
Check it out. This weekend Primus launches www.primuslive.com. As their fall Tour De Fromage unfolds they'll be offering full soundboard downloads of every concert. Right now you can download "Here Come the Bastards" from their Vancouver, BC show. Lovely. It's... Keep reading this entry »
I finally finished reading Jeffrey Zeldman's Designing With Web Standards, which has been a work-in-progress for my entire (extended) summer not because the topic is atrociously boring (because I find it utterly fascinating), and not because the writing is nausiatingly... Keep reading this entry »
So. If there's one thing Oregon doesn't know, it's roads. Specifically, trying to sand roads when winter tightens its grip. Minnesota has sanding down to a science; as soon as the sky gives the slightest inkling that some white stuff... Keep reading this entry »
RQH: You know. RQH: I got real tired of those fscking Jumbles in the paper. RQH: And the Cryptoquip. RQH: So I wrote a program to solve them. RQH: What a bunch of maroons that solve it by hand.... Keep reading this entry »
Otaku: I don't believe I'm within easy stumbling distance of any liquor houses, unfortunately. Otaku: Only shops that sell it. Sun Ra: What if you tried to hang out and drink at the shops? Otaku: I would probably get arrested.... Keep reading this entry »
Argle: So anyway. Argle: I've been thinking about things. Argle: And in the same way that I like my job, I want to look for something a little more... exciting. Sun Ra: "And this was the part of the story... Keep reading this entry »
It's amazing how much you have to talk about after you fight your head above the thrashing seas of ambiguity. In three weeks I will not be moving to Bend, Oregon to work as a lift operator at a ski... Keep reading this entry »