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Month: August 2004

  • I simply must ask.

    In what alternate reality dimension, not of sight or sound but of mindlessness, is it a good idea to send email attachments of over 200 megabytes?

    Seven times?

    All at once?

    To the utter knob who ruined my morning by crashing the email server with seven 200-plus-megabyte attachments: Go directly to hell. Do not pass Go. Do not collect $200.

    (Before anyone asks: Thanks to the delightful way Groupwise stores messages, I have no way at all of knowing whodunnit. Believe me, that fact alone adds to my blood pressure levels considerably right now.)

  • More incredibly evil than I could conceive of.

    It’s that evil Flash stuff again… this may actually be more evil than Kenya.

    But not moreso than Badgers. Nothing’s more evil than Badgers. Anyway… without further ado…

    The Incredibly Evil Machine

  • I’m the guy with the really big razor blade.

    You Are a Samurai
    You are a Samurai.
    You have trained the majority of your life. You are
    honerable, you follow your word. You spare no
    one once in combat, but that is expected, for
    your oponent would do the same to you. You use
    a two-handed katana.

    What type of Swordsman are you?
    brought to you by Quizilla

    I dare you to get something other than Samurai. So far, everyone I’ve heard of who’s taken it has ended up with this result. Not that this isn’t a cool thing, mind you…

  • …and I’m an addict.

    Hi, my name’s Karel, and I’m a Neopets addict. (“Hi, Karel!”)

    It was two of my friends that did it to me. They sat down and created an account and gave me my first Neopet. At first I resisted, but then I couldn’t bear the thought of my electronic pet going hungry, so I started looking for games I could play well enough to finance my Neopet’s diet.

    Of course, then I found out about the free food options. I felt silly, but by that point it was too late. I was hooked on Destruct-O-Match, and then came Sutek’s Tomb.

    The true realization of my addiction came today, when I realized that what I really wanted was to save up for a paintbrush.

    My friends, I’m afraid it’s true. I’m a Neopets addict. No, no, don’t bother with the intervention. I’ll take a few NP if you can spare ‘em, though…

  • Fun, and yet also not, and also something else.

    I don’t really have much to say about the last week or so. It’s been an interesting, enlightening, occasionally frustrating, sometimes depressing, sometimes delightful experience. I’m learning a few things about myself and how I relate to people. I’m uncovering yet more things about myself that I’m less than happy about… as well as things I’m moderately proud of.

    Looking back, it probably wasn’t the best plan ever conceived. But I had to try, didn’t I? That’s the whole point of life: Trying things. Being willing to faceplant disastrously, taking that risk, is how we learn and grow.

    Right?

    All of that determination and belief doesn’t stop me from feeling like the world’s biggest doofus, though. Le sigh, le double sigh…

  • It’s only funny because it’s so accurate…

    In lieu of content, linkage. C’mon, you can fake a look of shock and amazement better than that. I know you can.

    (Real content to come, eventually. Just maybe not in the next day or three. You’ll manage without me, I know you will.)

    The Apple Product Cycle

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