Apathy

/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// | // .-=""=-. | unmitigated v\ -|--, /v---|---|- |\ // .'\__/ \_\ | irrelevant / \\ || / // \ || || | \ // /__/ \__/ \__.oo | anti-news /___\\ ||_/ //___\ || ||__| V/ ._/___\__/__\__(____/ | episodic / \\|| // \|| || | // /__|/ \|__\ ` | orchard / V' // ' ' // ______________________|_____________________//________________// //////////////////// what?? / link / older / feedback / mp3 // -- -- -- -- // < 5 ? / logs / # 5 > / a portal / me // ______________________________________// //////////////////////////////////////// __________________________________________________________ | | 03/12/2000 | Just another free ride on the boring train | |__________________________________________________________| | | obsession | | of the day | Fake bullet holes prank looks cruel. | | | | Optical bullet holes and their applications in | | modern science. | | | |__________________________________________________________| | | charmful | | | Lynxviewer lets you see what your page might look | | like to the everyday Lynx user. | | | |__________________________________________________________| | | metagain | | | O-ho, hope nobody's offended by my joining the | | Webloggers ring. | MXMW 4eva | | | I got lost on the way to MXMW, so I decided to throw | | together a portal of personal tools using a field of | | dried-up, frozen corn stalks nearby. | | | | Also, I will have the mp3 research done by Monday or | | my name is mud! | | | |__________________________________________________________| __________________________________________________________ | | 03/10/2000 | Lame duckling | |__________________________________________________________| | | an infinity | | of your | Virtual Turing Machine | measuring | Scroll down or go to the form-only page to play with | tape | it. See Stanford's explanation if confused. | | | |__________________________________________________________| | | distro temp | | | Have you checked eMusic's free mp3 listings or | | Epitonic lately? | | | | Epitonic has a Rachel's mp3 from the latest album - | | which will not likely represent the sound of the | | trio as they tour, but it's a good song! | | | |__________________________________________________________| | | on hum | | hiatus | John de ADKG writes: "the most official word i have | | heard (from parasol, and billions) is that hum is | | basically on hiatus..." | | | | Jen o' sn00t points out the Hum news on Seb's The | | Pod -- thanks guys. | | | |__________________________________________________________| | | more stupid | | queries | query: "Britney Spears pitchers" | | query: "orc lamp" | | query: "hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh" | | | |__________________________________________________________| | | metablarg | | | MP3 fixin' how-tos this weekend, if I can bring my | | machine back from the brink of disaster. | | | |__________________________________________________________| PPM interactive shell (1.1.1) - type 'help' for available commands. PPM> install Date Install package 'Date?' (y/N): y Retrieving package 'Date'... Error installing package 'Date': Could not locate a PPD file for package Date PPM> install Date-Calc __________________________________________________________ | | 03/10/2000 | Medicinal properties only accidental | |__________________________________________________________| | | helpers | | have | bradKLIGERMAN at arch)INTERlog calls my attention | located my | not only to his nicely pictorial log, but to LinX3D | body | which is intensely neat. A virtual state that looks | | a bit like those stupid hacker movies, but actually | | functions! I'd love to see the exhibit, because | | Brad was correct; this is my kind of creation. | | [warning: music] | | | | | hypertext | | this/that | Subterranean Notes found Beehive - quality content. | | | | | smeat.net | | | I Never Thought I'd Wind Up Here | | | | | rotating | | mess | Kaliber10000 links Pixel Industries which is close | | to exactly the site I would attempt to design. If I | | designed sites. | | | |__________________________________________________________| | | music thyme | | | Hot Water Music | | | | Some people call it post-hardcore; it's really just | | loud, sing-a-long screaming rock with the best bass | | riffs in the biz. | reminded by | | tanque | Of course they're on tour (relentlessly) -- if you | | are curious about the live show, Supersphere has a | | superb quality set from the Fireside Bowl last | | November, and they plan on taping the two shows | | later this month in Chicago as well. Wisconsinites | | need not fear, HWM is also dropping by Madison on | | the 24th. Prepare to jump up and down vigorously! | a side | | order of | Why RealMedia Stinks for Music | rant | It never buffers back up to a higher sound quality | | after dropping down to a low bitrate due to | | congestion. Listening to those Supersphere shows is | | unbearable at anything below 100 kb/s. I hate you, | | RealMedia. This problem is fixable. So fix it. | | | | | no reason | | to keep | On H music, I have been meaning to find out if Hum | believing | is really broken for some time. Anyone down on that | | Urbana scene feel like enlightening me? | | | | | in the line | | of egon | The Rachels are coming to the Pres House Chapel here | schiele | in Madison to show off their brand of neo- | | classicical whatever on the 19th. This would be the | | trio form playing the Egon songs in a sit-down | | venue. Should be beautiful, catch them if you | | can... Southern has an mp3 available to convince. | | | |__________________________________________________________| | | sickened by | | the lack | This continuation of a common theme deserves: | | | | a.) A giant HOAX sticker | | b.) Spammed fake entries | | | |__________________________________________________________| | | inventing a | | solution | If you're like me, you really want to develop some | | detachable ears. Too bad it's already patented. | | | |__________________________________________________________| | | you really | | care | Side note to electro-loggers: JJG is back, or a | | reasonable facsimile thereof. | | | |__________________________________________________________| __________________________________________________________ | | 03/09/2000 | In the name of avoiding trandy locutions | |__________________________________________________________| | | greeting + | | explanation | Salutations. I managed to lose the text I had all | | typed up somewhere in the labyrinth. It shall be | | found tomorrow. | | | | Now dropping into full nerd mode. This post | | contains things that have been sitting in the | | leftover bin for my future reference. And this | | paragraph is a self-reflecting lame excuse for the | | poor quality. | | | | | let us not | | bring that | InSession - One of the things I have been working on | into the | [for work] lately. Fairly bandwidth intensive, it's | pool | a method for viewing the legislative floor process | | remotely over the net while listening to the | | session. It is a simplified version of the site | | that the legislators use on their notebooks; the | | Assembly here in Wisconsin has gone [almost] | | completely paperless. | shh | | | Boring to watch? You bet. I see it as one step | | closer to participatory democracy ... | | | | | your | | asterisk | On your way to Perl Mastery? | | | | | handy for | | logs | Robust hyperlinks are going to become more important | | as the net ages, no matter how they are implemented. | | | | | cribbed | | from the | Bernie DeKoven of Deep Fun runs this Technography | great petey | [book]log. | | | | | back at the | | fountain | Rasterboy is kind. He mentions that :23ing into a | | Mac is fun. Well, Win2k has a telnet server | | installed (but not enabled) by default; nothing | | quite as frightening as logging in and being greeted | | with a C: prompt. | | | | | lynx that | | | Any page claiming to be written in ed deserves a | | link, and thus I give you: Best Viewed With Telnet | | to Port 80 | | | | Although it's intended as a parody, you can actually | | learn a bit about the HTTP protocol we all use to | | surf the web. Plus plenty of geek humor: | | | | "[Using] the SGML DTD to parse HTML if you are not | | yourself a SGML parser is not advised." | | | | | inessential | | | An Amble Through Apache Configuration | | | | For all Apache questions, I usually turn to Apache | | Week - but I'm really looking for info on cache | | settings. | | | | Mark Nottingham's The Cacheability Engine lets you | | check your site's cache responses in-page, and even | | navigates through frames if necessary. | | | | Once you find out which documents need extra cache | | information, they also provide a Caching Tutorial | | for Web Authors and Webmasters that covers the | | basics. | | | |__________________________________________________________| __________________________________________________________ | | 03/08/2000 | "I'm running clean and I'm five lengths ahead" | |__________________________________________________________| | | what blinds | | | While speaking of Silkworm, eagerly awaiting their | | next slice of plain Western rock... You can roll to | | Silkworm's site and snag mp3s of some live stuff. | | Tim sings with Seam covering a Gang of Four track | | and the Crust Brothers [skwm side project] rip | | through CCR's Green River. | | | | Michael's bit on the tour journal about that Gang of | | Four cover explains little, but is entertaining. | | | | | tuneless | | tune | By request: Big Black - He's A Whore | | | | Yes, it's as offensive and loud-mouthed as you might | | imagine. Volume is low on this, and I'm going to | | cover mp3 manipulation next weekend as there's been | | questions in my mind about this for some time. | | | | Akiko has a copy of the final Big Black tour diary | | and 1987 Peel session mp3s. | braindead | | | The RIAA's circular logic about the legality of | | copying music gets more painful each time I read it. | | | | | more search | | returns | query: "mp3 queen bohemian rhapsody" | | No. I can't stand that song. Go away. | | | |__________________________________________________________| | | remnants of | | corded | How well do you know your Girl Scout Cookies? Ace. | dignity | | | | baking meat | | filler | Also see Cooking with Cookies - some of these | | recipes actually do entail crushing the cookies up, | | and making cookies out of the pieces. Silly! | | | | | easy | | targets | Old Girl Scout clipart with my added commentary. | | Any clipart can be commented upon; try it sometime. | | Some fodder for you to practice on: 1 2 3 4 5 6 | | | | Mmm. Golden nut clusters. | | | | Another Rubik's Cube is dignified with a garden | | burial and a sacrificial plant | | | | Surveillance satellite, Mary. | | | | Cross your eyes for the secret message. | | | | Good thing I brought my beating stick. | | | | Ha ha ha! Silly frog. Look at him sit there, all, | | umm, frog-like... on that rock... never mind, kids. | | | | Dance like the wind, if it played the tambourine. | | | | Haunting imagery. | | | | Like, dude, check out this huge jar of jam! | | | | What's that? Lil' Johnny lied to me? Go rough him | | up a bit, eh, kid? | | | | Torture patch | | | |__________________________________________________________| | | calling the | | kettle | The Shrinking Theory | cracked | | | "If you travel at twice the speed of light, you will | | be shrinking very fast, and time will change | | accordingly, therefore, whenever you calculate how | | long it will take for light to go across point A to | | point B, it will always be the same. Now, you just | | have to find the appropriate system of propulsion to | | make you reach that speed." | | | | Mmm hmm. Love these folks; quite a page there! | | | | | impulse on | | the long | The Ap�thy Family carries more weight after I start | paper | getting called Dan Apathy. | | | |__________________________________________________________| __________________________________________________________ | | 03/07/2000 | Driving through fields of iron and ice | |__________________________________________________________| | | said it | | before say | Stare into the Bucket of Truth for those answers you | it again | so desperately seek. | | [requires completely unecessary Shockwave] | | | | UCB's main interface still rules all nonsense. | | | |__________________________________________________________| | | more idea | | sharing | Everything2: It maintains moisture. Rock! | | | |__________________________________________________________| | | whiny | | drawings | It's getting impossible to see Word's Komix with all | and apple | those ads. | sauce | | | Ben Katchor's The Cardboard Valise and Tony | | Millionaire's Maakies are still worth visiting, and | | thus the direct links... but those ads on the front | | are depressing. | | | | | speaking of | | comics | Apathy Kat | | | |__________________________________________________________| | | tuning to | | is it or is | Occupying the logical space between shoegazing and | it not | pop, tangential to Low's orbit... it's Idaho! | | | | Their band-maintained site contains mp3 samples of | | rarities and some swell Quicktime movies to waste | | your bandwidth on. Go for the God's Green Earth | | video if possible, or "Spiral" if you're running on | | a thin pipe. | | | | Very active Idaho message board. | | | | Idaho's last record, Alas, gains more regard each | | time it hits my ears. | | | |__________________________________________________________| | | meaning | | fuzzed | Appropriation of meme: Sir Jason and other loggers | | have been going through Guess the Dictator/Sit-com | | Character answering the questions as themselves. | | | | It guessed I was Joseph Stalin, rather than one of | | the many TV characters. Frightening. | | | | | more | | rooster | I will eventually geek out like this with my CD | banter | list. Thanks for the inspiration, good fellow. | | | |__________________________________________________________| __________________________________________________________ | | 03/06/2000 | Hub cognation | |__________________________________________________________| | | en tretros | | falimas | In celebration of idiot mirror-gazing, it's time to | | discuss strange and funny search queries used to | | reach this log. I declare this boring to everyone | | who is not me. That would be you. | | | |__________________________________________________________| | | building a | | better | Turing Machine is a driving instrumental rock band; | krautrock | somewhere in the nether regions between Trans Am and | | Don Cab, they played their rhythmic destruction | | drone to great effect Saturday night. Plus, how | | swell is the name? | thud | | | Listen to a low-quality Real Audio encoding of "On | | Form and Growth" on Jade Tree's audio page. | | | | | limb loss | | | The Plan rocked. It was good to get a visual | | confirmation that certain other folks actually do | | exist in meatspace, but a shame that I'm an idiot | | and did not arrange for chatting before the show. | | Everyone was somewhat in that stunned state (at | | least I was) that a great display of rock and roll | | jars one into. | yes this | | has been | They played more from "...Is Terrified" than I | mentioned | expected from reading previous reports, which was | but go! | enjoyable. The show-stopper was definitely Travis | | spurting out syllables in the flurry of words that | | is their new song: "The Dismemberment Plan Gets | | Rich". Replicate the experience, or hold over until | | the 7" by nabbing a live mp3 from Indie Pop Live. | | | |__________________________________________________________| | | before the | | author was | LG emailed a bit about Vanishing Point, that good | born | ol', seemingly simple, car-chase-through-the-desert | | flick. See it if you haven't... here's an archived | | article in Smug about the remake FOX mangled a few | | years back. | | | |__________________________________________________________| | | | Absorbing far too many inputs. Last week. | |__________________________________________________________| __________________________________________________________ | | | | eh? | This is the log of a faceless entity. Me. I wander | | around the web, and point out what are most likely | | completely useless things for you to visit. It's | | where I have been, what I learned there, and what I | | plan to figure out in the future. All in the palm | | of your hand. | | | the daily | Technically speaking, this is a "weblog". There are | surfing | many weblogs. You can probably find one that suits | tools | your tastes pretty closely in the morass below, but | | if not, use the pitas system to track yourself. | | | contact | D Fitch dgfitch@yahoo.com ICQ:363803 AOL:dguyfitch | | | |__________________________________________________________| /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// old archives: dots are interstitial weekly posts silly queries: how not to find this page ... useless sky: staring at old links . legos and robots: designing electrical companions and other nonsense . grid puzzles: waste time with boxes and their brethren . chip music: listen to the sound of the FUUUUUTURE . lewis carroll: charles dodgson wrote some happy tales . opinionation: how do you do, capitalism? how do you? ........ defunct rock: amf, grammatrain, jawbox, poor old lu, roadside .. ascii games: to quote salon, @ <- you are here . voicemail: automated telephone systems . bach and tone: the endlessly rising canon of links . eigenspace: eigen wha? ... /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// possible subjects: feel free to suggest or help out falling pod: zoooooming through the earth's crust . occam's razor: computational reflection . bad art: clean up old gallery . demoart: art disks, ansi conversion, zoomscope . 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Arbitrary | | numerical scales are not real helpful, eh? | | | 9.3 | A Minor Forest - Cocktail Party.mp3 [6.3mb] | 2.7 | A Minor Forest - Discoier.mp3 [7.0mb] | 6.1 | Neutrino - Sure Are Shiny.mp3 [3.4mb] | 8.2 | Neutrino - Bring On The Super Desserts.mp3 [4.6mb] | 1.8 | 33.3 - Miles.mp3 [5.9mb] | 2.4 | 33.3 - Rancho Diablo.mp3 [7.8mb] | 5.2 | Silkworm - Empty Elevator Shaft.mp3 [3.5mb] | 5.6 | Silkworm - Waiting on a Train.mp3 [3.5mb] | | | 8.3 | Arcwelder - Captain Allen.mp3 [3.2mb] | 6.3 | Arcwelder - Finish My Song.mp3 [4.5mb] | 8.9 | MxPx - Sometimes You Have To Ask Yrself.mp3 [2.4mb] | 8.6 | MxPx - Let It Happen.mp3 [3.2mb] | 0.6 | Low - Lullaby.mp3 [7.8mb] | 1.3 | Low - Over the Ocean.mp3 [3.2mb] | 2.9 | Ativin - Riding and Roaming.mp3 [4.1mb] | 3.2 | Ativin - Cy.mp3 [5.6mb] | | | 5.8 | Hugh - Ruby Cruiser.mp3 [2.8mb] | 7.1 | Hugh - Little A.mp3 [3.6mb] | 3.2 | Codeine - Cave-in.mp3 [3.3mb] | 4.8 | Codeine - Cigarette Machine.mp3 [4.4mb] | 6.3 | Jawbox - Consolation Prize.mp3 [3.5mb] | 8.8 | Jawbox - Tools and Chrome.mp3 [2.5mb] | 4.2 | Starflyer 59 - Wasting Your Whole Life.mp3 [4.9mb] | 3.5 | Starflyer 59 - All The Time.mp3 [2.8mb] | | | ?.? | Shellac - Didn't We Deserve a Look...mp3 [11.2mb] | 9.2 | Shellac - A Minute.mp3 [3.3mb] | 9.9 | Frodus - Deviant Recovery Network.mp3 [1.5mb] | 9.6 | Frodus - Invisible Time Lines.mp3 [2.8mb] | 7.2 | Trans Am - Extreme Measures.mp3 [4.1mb] | 4.7 | Trans Am - Home Security.mp3 [4.7mb] | 2.8 | Sebadoh - Total Peace.mp3 [2.7mb] | 3.9 | Sebadoh - Not a Friend.mp3 [2.7mb] | | | 4.6 | Grammatrain - Need.mp3 [5.9mb] | 9.8 | Grammatrain - Jerky Love Song.mp3 [0.6mb] | 7.2 | Roadside Monument - OJ House Auction.mp3 [6.5mb] | 9.3 | Roadside - Trophies for Optometry.mp3 [5.3mb] | 3.8 | Buddyrevelles - I'll Sell You a Picture.mp3 [4.8mb] | 3.3 | Buddyrevelles - Port Riga.mp3 [4.4mb] | 0.8 | Labradford - Everlast.mp3 [4.1mb] | 1.1 | Labradford - S.mp3 [5.6mb] | | | |__________________________________________________________| ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////