3:37 PM | !!
I just got the weirdest ICQ message from a random person:hai fool
go outside
What the fuck? Maybe it's a code, like "The spoon flies at midnight" or something. Maybe it's from an ESL person, but even non-native English speakers don't fuck up a sentence that bad.
11:28 AM | !!
The Ten Worst Types of Bosses. My bosses fit into several of these categories.
11:22 AM | !!
Heh heh, I wanna see some actually build their own apocalypse cubicle just to see what their boss says.
9:45 AM | !!
After reading this guy's story of his trips to LA, I realized I haven't really seen a lot of this city. I mostly hang around where I live. I try to get out though. A few weeks ago, on Saturday, I picked a direction and started driving. I ended up in Anaheim, around Disneyland, just by taking the regular streets.
There's not that much to see actually. Orange County pretty much looks the same. Everywhere I went I saw the same houses, the same McDonald's, the same Starbuck's, the same Kmart's, the same shitty strip malls. Once in a while I saw something different.
9:27 AM | !!
Bruce Sterling wrote an excellent article about Blobjects & Biodesign, those round, plastic, translucent, hand-shaped, bulbous objects you see everywhere nowadays. On a related, I'm starting to get really tired of all this iMac inspired translucent bullshit. When these things first appeared on store shelves, I thought they were kinda cool, in a "wow, that's new" way. Now it's just pathetic. Office Depot sells translucent pink and blue office chairs now. What the hell is that about. It won't be long until Volkswagen introduces the new translucent plastic Beetle. Hey, how about some translucent hand guns? Or maybe translucent toilets?
9:17 AM | !!
Artbyte has an interview with William Gibson, one of my favorite writers.
8:51 AM | !!
Possibly useful information: How to Connect Anything to Anything.
8:39 AM | !!
These shirts, although potentially offensive, are pretty cool. Although I'll probably look like a skater if I wear one.
12:38 AM | !!
I think I'm gonna buy my own domain name soon. And get another web hosting, uh, service place. Netcom's been acting kinda weird lately, and Girlhacker says Earthlink is cancelling Netcom shell accounts. Now, you have to understand, my brother is the one who uses the Netcom account. I use my apartment's ethernet for internet access. I'm just using my brother's Netcom webpage hosting cause I get 5 mb at Netcom vs. 1 mb at UCI. Anyway, if they cancel Netcom accounts, I need a new place to host this wonderful, magnificent, popular blog. So I'm gonna start looking around. Any suggestions? Preferably something cheap, cause I don't want to spend too much money on a stupid little blog either.
12:19 AM | !!
Ha ha: Shoe Rule Cuts Traders Down to Size. Now those stock traders know what it's like to go to a small show.
7.31.2000
10:25 PM | !!
This video is so cool. It's an interactive version of Michael Naimark's art installation. Four synchronized vistas of Timbuktu, Angkor, Jerusalem, and Dubrovnik can be collaged together so that they overlap, and the audience can see what's going on in all four cities at the same time of day. I think this is only a video of a demonstration though. I want to see the actual installation in person.
8:41 PM | !!
I love the icons this dude makes. Whenever I try to make my own icons they always look like shit.
6:55 PM | !!
Giant Robot has an excellent article about nerds, a subject I know all too much about.
5:51 PM | !!
When I was a kid, I wanted to do the kind of stuff Survival Research Laboratories does. They build machines such as the Air Launcher, which launches explosive rounds at 500 mph, and the Flame Whistle, the loudest flamethrower in the world made out of a Boeing jet engine. Once in a while SRL puts on big outdoor shows where the machines pretty much destroy each other. Those pansy Robot Wars have nothing against SRL.
5:29 PM | !!
Red Baron Pizza's really starting to piss me off. The crust is too thick so the middle part doesn't cook when you microwave it. Then if you microwave it longer to compensate, the outside crust becomes hard as a rock. And I still don't see the connection between a World War I flying ace and pizza. I'm hungry now.
5:23 PM | !!
Well, I guess every company has one now, but does 7-Eleven really need a website too? It's a pretty nice looking site though. They should have free email addresses while they're at it. Then I could be-
wait for it...
wait for it...
evan@7-eleven.com!
Can you believe I didn't plan that out either?
5:07 PM | !!
Kmart has a new shoplifter returns policy, allowing stolen items to be returned for a full refund or exchange. Tee hee hee.
"Last week I pocketed a couple of vid[eo]s from Kmart for my kids, OK?" said Eric Littleton, standing outside a Kmart in Akron, Ohio. "One of the tapes was all, like, weird lines, and my kids were friggin' screaming, 'Take it back!' Without the returns policy, I gotta steal again, but now, I'm golden. I am definitely patronizing Kmart in the future."
4:59 PM | !!
Tapster is similar to Napster except it's for Spinal Tap songs. I guess it would've happened sooner or later.
12:21 AM | !!
Yet another "Wassup" parody, but this one's fairly decent actually. It's done with characters from Half-Life.
12:15 AM | !!
Ah great, I have to get up in front of class and do a presentation in about 10 hours. You would think this stuff gets easier, but nope. And what's worse is that it's the class with the cute girl that I still haven't worked up the nerve to talk to. But I'm gonna impress her with my magnificent oratory skills, and she'll fall madly in love with me and we'll live happily ever after.
7.30.2000
11:02 PM | !!
This might be useful to some people out there: How to hide your ninja lifestyle from your co-workers.
2:01 PM | !!
Maya Lin, the architect who designed the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, DC, will design a new plaza and entrance for the School of the Arts here at UCI.
12:25 PM | !!
This little program lets you record streaming ASF files from the web.
1:55 AM | !!
That last post was just totally random.
1:52 AM | !!
Great, I don't have just one, but TWO canker sores in my mouth. And I don't give a shit, man, I'm gonna tongue them. That's how fucking hard core I am.
12:02 AM | !!
Yet another reason I think frats are stupid.
