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Looking For Quacks In The Pavement

Author: Karel Kerezman

  • It’s a good night for drunken dialing.

    If we’re going to get a case of wrong-number drunken dialing at 2:30 in the A-bloody-M, it might as well be on the night I’m up until 6:00, no?

    *ring!* *ring!*

    Me: *checking caller ID, it’s a wireless number* Hello?

    Him: *mumble mumble* (something that sounds like) Brian?

    Me: Who?

    Him: Um, (something that sounds a bit more like) Brian?

    Me: I think you have a wrong number, sorry.

    Him: *mumble*

    *click*

    I waited a few seconds to see if he’d call back, but… well, maybe he really did dial the number correctly the second time. And as I stood there in the kitchen I thought, “Ah! I have posting material now!” Yeah, I’ve been at this too long.

  • Some peoples’ parents.

    Well, this guy certainly deserves a prize for “best write-up of parental weirdness.” Go forth and check it out.

    Yes, I’m “blogging” for a couple of hours. You were expecting real original content at this hour? Really, now.

  • Stupid Windows (and,) AmphetaDesk Rocks

    We modem share in this household. That is, the server (in my room) has the modem, and everyone else utilizes the bandwidth (meager as it is) of that modem. Windows 2000 Server provides a way to share the bandwidth, as well as a “dial on demand” feature.

    That feature seems to have gone insane lately. When the connection drops (as modem connections are wont to do) what sometimes happens is a double-dial. That is, a dialing session on top of a dialing session, and each interferes with the other. That’s not the annoying part. What really gets my goat is when, after one of those, you can’t get it to dial at all. Windows claims that some other connection attempt is being made, which is clearly a sack of horse manure.

    So I have to reboot in order to get online again. I have just now done this. Yay.

    I was originally going to write about AmphetaDesk, a really nifty RSS/XML feed aggregator. Instead I’ll just link to it and suggest that you check it out if you read more than a half-dozen blogs/journals/thingies regularly. It’s a damned nifty timesaver.

  • In the home stretch.

    We’re getting near the end, folks. As of now there are only four more required postings before the end of the ‘thon. I’ve spent some quality time with a good book, but now I think I’m going to try some more anime on for size. I don’t even know which title yet, but I’ll find out.

    See you at 4:30…

  • Three More To Go

    It hit me in this past half hour… I’m really starting to feel the exhaustion. Luckily the Blogathon group remailer and a very kind comment left here are all encouragement to keep going. Ninety more minutes, that’s all it takes.

    Oh, and the X TV series? It’s very pretty-looking so far, but I’m not sure if I’m going to like it. We’ll see… but not tonight. Clearly watching subtitled anime is not the right idea at this hour. Some other time perhaps.

    Speaking of which… see you in half an hour for the Final Hour Timecheck. Huzzah!

  • Thank you, thank you, thank you.

    Now, with only one hour (therefore two posts) remaining in Blogathon 2003, I’d like to thank everyone who pledged a donation to the World Wildlife Fund on behalf of Your Favorite Little Grey Duck. Thank you Jenn, Wendi, Erin, Amy, Iris, Jayn, Marty, Sam, Mari, David, Sarah, Lilith (& Geoffrey) and Paul. Collectively you pitched in a total of $183! You should all feel proud of yourselves, and I’m proud to have inspired each of you to give a little something.

    Sincerely, truly, I thank you all.

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