Apathy

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'.,. .,.-' . eigen* ........other / ' \.... ,.' / \.....-' _____________________/ __________________________________________________________ | | 01/29/2000 | Post his likeness in the local station | |__________________________________________________________| | | settle in | | french | Soient: U R S T | | | | | just so | | plum | TextNES: Emulator for terminals. Almost playable, | | although any text is rendered useless in an odd | | twist of fate. No screenshot, so here's me | | attempting to play Zelda. Note the 4T4T3F in the | | upper right; those are my hearts. Lost one. | | | | | five times | | the bend | A sound card with hardware mp3 acceleration? In the | | Live line? Hadn't heard about that. The Sound | | Blaster link 404s. I'll buy that for a dollar. | | | | | | | sniping | | from the | Later, in a weaker moment, I catch myself | gallery of | anguishing over phantoms; something more | every day | is needed: a violent, divine convulsion | | A strange form of success | | that re-arranges the world; | | so, pile on the abuse. | | Off I'll go, howling at the world | | never sacrificing levity | | in the pursuit of | | clarity... re-assembling the nonsense | | one light-hearted moment | | at a time. | | [ thanks again for phrasing it so well, craw ] | | | | | the healing | | power of | Don't bother with the Dog Test or the Four-Letter | links | Word personality test. Go straight to the source: | | Scientology's Personality Test | | "Sick all the time? Maybe you have a disease-prone | | personality." | | | | | work the | | way | Tin_omen is now hiding out at Desktopian.org - | | highly recommended if you enjoy tweaking your | | interfaces. Today, he pointed at Crank Inc.'s | | CrankIRC... a transparent IRC client for Windows. | | Pointless yet tasty. | | | | | just leave | | | Now that I have insta-feedback, in addition to | | posting useless stuff at the end of each entry, I | | will ask useless questions. If nobody reads 'em, at | | least I know what I don't know. | question of | | the day | Did you ever play that game where you are a little | | ship going down the screen passing through smaller | | and more jagged tunnels as time progresses? Anyone | | know what it was called? The "landscape" would | | scroll up, giving the illusion that your car-ship- | | thing was delving into the earth. As things got | | faster and more crooked, you had to steer left and | | right to avoid crashing into the walls. | begin the | | stream | Chuck E. Cheese used to have a game like that, in | | reverse. It was free to play, and somewhat dopey; | | drive your boat up the stream! I recall playing it | | for hours unending. | rem ini sce | | nce | While looking for the official Chuck E. Cheese site, | | the Adventures of Chuck E. Cheese shows up as a | | prominent hit. Ultra bizarre Chuck E. stories, a | | bit over the top... don't miss "When I Met Billy | | Bob" and "Late Night with Chuck E. Cheese." | otoh | | | Actually, the official site's Fun Station hosts the | | plenty odd Galaxy 5000. [flash, frames, fire] | | | |__________________________________________________________| Font size not working for you? Please fill in the feedback box above. __________________________________________________________ | | 01/27/2000 | Have no heart | |__________________________________________________________| | | standards | Pokey Personal Proxy/Mirror Protocol [PPP/M] will be | | handy for synchronizing your Pokey collection, and | | doing other strange and wondrous things while | | waiting for new strips. | pokey | | search is | Finally, it has returned; now I can find my | back!!! | favorites again and annoy you. | | | | HELLO MR NUTTY I AM A SUGAR PLUM FAIRY!!! | | | | | let these | | mp3s be an | John Vanderslice himself poked me in the gut, I had | example to | been meaning to link this for quite some time after | you and | Nick pointed it out. You people need to go listen | yours | to some of Tiny Telephone's mp3s... wait, scratch | | that "some" part. They're all incredible, and | | highly fortuitous as I'm starting to get that pop | | itch. Everybody say, "Thanks John !" | even more | | nice | The Folk Implosion (who seem to have surpassed | musicians | Sebadoh in fun-factor) also have a very personable | | web site. The bio section details what they went | | through for their most recent album, and even | | includes mp3s of the early song fragments. Then, | | some of their site functions in that exploratory | | absurd manner made famous by superbad -- I | | especially enjoyed this graphic, which made me jump | | at first. The merchandise page is humorous as well. | | | | | | | | Warning: Update is geekier from here down. | | | | | submit from | | the other | Swell! The blind link box is picking up lint. | side | Thanks, dear reader-folk. I'm finding it handy to | | post things for later revue from remote machines. | | Now it's at the top, as well as a respond box for | | quick feedback. Everyone should have one! Idea via | | Doctah Chess. | | | | | blab... it | | falls | Let's hear it for idiot scripting. Justification | together | should be functioning perfectly now, and I even have | | hyphenation chugging like one of those fancy new- | | fangled steam-engines. This is definitely the way to | | put these many years of text processing algorithms | | to uselessness. [Yesterday's failure was caused by | | an out-of-context list. Silly me.] | | | | Curious as to format? Today's text, the way I typed | | it pre-filter. Makes sense to me, at least. | | | |__________________________________________________________| FYI, Yahoo! Mail is malfunctioning, or has been for a week. <dgfitch@yahoo.com>... Deferred: Connection reset by mx2.mail.yahoo.com. Message could not be delivered for 3 days Message will be deleted from queue Reporting-MTA: dns; elmls01.ce.mediaone.net ______________________________________________________ 01/27/2000 | Clock tick tock, short short long | ______________________________________________________ | stranger | Some Malkovich from the absurdist Malkovich avenues | Translator brings me to the fantastic Web Access Gateway. It's a taken | wrapper script for functions that allow easier access for | those visually impaired. Also nice for good, | old-fashioned EMBIGGENING. | | Malkovich. | | | malkovich | Spam, interpreted as text | /- --| / |--/ /- | : : :: :+: ://: : : | -/ |-- / /--| -/ | | | irc | <wetlog> it's true, being complimented by bloat is like | being whipped to death by dental floss | | | are | Today's MP3 theme: Non-metal takes on metal you | ready | Starflyer 59's Americana album [the red one] is a smart to | satire of glam rock and big metal, in a shoegazing format. rawk | Jason Martin and company have since moved on to poppier | territory, but the tracks on this disc have a charm all their own. # | Starflyer 59 - The Translator.mp3 # | Starflyer 59 - You Don't Miss Me.mp3 | | Iceburn is that strange rock/jazz collective from out in | Utah-land. Before they added the double saxophones and the | tendency to completely drop traditional song | structures, Gentry and his pals made Hephaestus. It's a concept | album of a sort, about smithing and Greek legend and all that; | made in a three-man rock band format that steals from old | Black Sabbath while adding its own slow, grinding crunch. The | first song is split over many tracks, so each word after the | colon denotes another piece. Listen in order for maximum | sense. # | Iceburn - Iron: Fe I Caravan I' Fuse Still | | | props | Should mention that Andrew rox. He fixed my chip music. You | should use Pitas. | | | | Looks like my Perl formatter didn't quite | wrap right. Darn. It was faster, though. | ______________________________________________________ 01/26/2000 | The light of the light of the light of the light of | ______________________________________________________ | I am saved | Plan your date, or your college career... with ICQ! | | | *highfive* | Welcome back or something, Departure. | I like having my back licked. | | | nerd | Ars reviews the 750 Athlon greed | droooooooooooooooooooooool... | The all-important Q3A test: | With a GEForce, the box did 60 fps in 1024x768@HQ. | | On that note... complex | Is hardware t+l going to last when games get worlds | much deeper into detail? | | | 5.6 = good | Dig that revamped Vim page! | | | just | Windows is the most widely used operating system. guessing | The unspoken laws of probability tell me you're here | probably using it now. Use OLEviewer to see just | how messed up the internal structure is. | (One of you Linux people needs to try this in WINE) | | | /var | Nabbed the Galaxie 500 boxed set recently. Gets /tmp | the Apathy Thumbs Up, that's for sure. I would have /mp3 | encoded some of the unreleased G500 tracks, but | every time I stuck the disc in my computer, it froze | until I removed it. So instead, you get my current | favorite, from the glorious On Fire record: soothing | Galaxie 500 - Tell Me.mp3 [3.7mb] | | To fill the hole, I thought I would log what songs | are currently stuck in my head so I can look back | someday and laugh. When walking home from work | today, these two managed to somehow mangle and synchrod | combine into one continuous catch. | | If you usually avoid songs I label "punk", nab this | anyway. It's just a fast pop song with simple | instrumentation. And those nananas will lodge in | your cortex wond'rously: punky pop | MxPx - Destroyed By You.mp3 [2.5mb] | | This other song stuck in my noggin is by Silkworm, | the odd band from the Pacific Northwest. Don't | mind the sheep at the beginning; it's straightforward | rock and roll with that patented Skwm mixed-vocal. | Catchy part would be the chorus about 2 minutes in: echo rock | Silkworm - Slipstream.mp3 [4.6mb] | | "Like a silly little dayay-dream..." | | Since these are on my home machine, I make no | guarantees. You know where to yell if there | are problems. | | | here | Less graph paper, more evil subjugation of Perl he | required. Unfortunately, I tripped over an old goes | tarfile of all my old junk and spent hours staring again | blankly at it. Mayhap I shall dust some off talking | sometime and point at my bad art. After I've to | removed all the terribly obvious underhanded the wall | slogging on the old employer. cough | | ______________________________________________________ 01/25/2000 | You are ignoring me | | | nit | Random House says, "never say spokesman; say writ | flight attendant!" So now it's "Office of the | Flight Attendant for the Secretary-General" | | | pleasehelp | Simulating a universe, volunteers needed. | | | unsolved | How do they make computer games fun? mystery | Nobody really knows. | | | BACON! | An artist's conception makes sense to eggs! | | | /me | Some of these entries were inspired by chiplog. shuts | Can you tell which ones? [hint: not this one] up | Wish I was that enigmatic. [hint: true] | | | opinions. | Almostcool.org reviews music. on | (one of those "why haven't I seen this?" pages) review | | Red Snapper - Making Bones | [heard good things, haven't heard em... someone?] | | Bowery Electric - Beat [drone beat sleep] | Dirty Three - Ocean Songs [fiddle strum sleep] | ausgesund | Trans Am - Futureworld [one of those rare nails] | | GYBE r00lZ Do0dZ A!@#!#11!! | f#a#infinity and Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada hint: true | are both worth paying for in limbs. | | Hum - Downward Is Heavenward Biased Fact Revue: | It isn't their second album. Best one, though. | subdue | Mogwai EP+2 | "Do not be afraid, these are quite mellow and | will not bite you," said the fisherman. Yell if you want MP3 samples. | | | [note to self: this is too hard] | | ___________________________________________________________________ !t y t | dd@f! k u | Eh? This is the log of a faceless entity. Me. usnngnll s | I wander around the web, and point out what are kr @gdqnvn | most likely completely useless things for you gx@dfwmd | to visit. It's where I have been, what I learned j zvhlx0lk | there, and what I plan to figure out in the b yqrccnh | future. All in the palm of your hand. pu @g ccgs | wjp jng | Technically speaking, this is a "weblog". There p t q0w gl | are many weblogs. You can probably find one that q r k | suits your tastes pretty closely, but if not you r !r 0q u | can use the pitas system to track v j p0 | yourself. x s | ____________|______________________________________________________ Dan Fitch dgfitch@yahoo.com / ICQ 363803 ___________________________________________________________________