Apathy

+------------------["Nectarine schenectady..." - 03/25/2000]-=-- | A.P.A.T.H.Y.: Artificial Positronic Android Trained for | stech and Hazardous Yardwork | others | | +---------------------------[First, some serious literature]-=-- | Dr. Chess, your common quote is from Reflections on Sin, | Pain, Hope and the True Way. I have no idea where this | can be found in print; it's not in my Collected Stories. | | Found this text archive of miscellaneous Kafka letters, | parables, and others: An Intercourse with Ghosts | | | My favorite is the simple phrasing of The Watchman: | | "I ran past the first watchman. Then I was horrified, ran | must code back and said to the watchman: 'I ran through here while | block you were looking the other way.' The watchman gazed ahead | quotes of him and said nothing. 'I suppose I really oughtn't to | have done it,' I said. The watchman still said nothing. | 'Does your silence indicate permission to pass?'..." | | | +------------------------[Now into the sugar-powered laughs]-=-- | During the weekly stop by Something Awful, I had great fun | don't be with Jeff K's Choose Your Own Adventure. As if that's not | offended enough in one sitting, Ask Jeff. | [joke] | /--/----------[Precious cinema]-=-- | "Anything fun going on over there?" | | In response to this cross-building AIM question, I | consider responding: "Giant plant-men are enslaving us to | build their glass pyramids... oh wait, wrong building." | | But, I decide to bide my time. | | Also discussed at work: Fractal Robots | abuddhas | | /--/--------[Extended metaphor]-=-- | Robot Frank - Boxlor with more content! | His diary is laughing at you. | | "I also took my road test today (again.) The first time I | failed because I hit 7 people. This time I only hit 2. I | thought I would pass this time because I hit a lot less | people than I did last time." | | | [Too hilarious to leave well enough alone]-=-- | Pardon me while I temporarily channel anti-news from a | site requiring registration. | | Clinton Stalks Bengal Tigers - "Once I was deflowered, | NYTimes, pw they weren't interested in me," he said. | required | Huge thanks to Len for picking out this gut-collapsing bit | of context. I'm done now. | | +----------------------------/--/----------------------[Hmm]-=-- | Can I tell you what ties the above four bits together? | | | +----------------------------/--/------------[Stolen stones]-=-- | Interesting things from elsewhere. Yell if this is bad. | | from kottke via kempa: Lego Font Creator: tubular | | from michaeln: Cheth a.out Robot Wars: grimy | | from rc3: Persistent URL: autoredirection | | from kuro5hin: Cryptome.org: privacy | | from xblog: ROTORtype: myfonts! | | | +----------------------------/--/-------------[Unvisitation]-=-- | That Violent Femmes show from yesterday was pretty good, | yes? 80 minutes of classic psychotic American folk rock. | Camerawork wherein the band members are visible, these are | the benefits of money. | | "We are the salt of the earth. | If we're not salty, what are we worth?" | | +----------------------------/--/----------------------------=-- +--------------------------["Pork rind poetry" - 03/24/2000]-=-- | Keep filling that box with hilarious comedy. You don't | have to be nice. Some folks are downright obscene. | | Big update today; settle in. Handy browsing tip: Long | headers seperate semi-logical sections, so if you don't | care about something skip down to the next long header. | | /--/----------------------------=-- | Speaking of obscene, take a look at E-Holster: The | draw cowboy shoulder holster for electronics. Diamond Age, here we | q come... | | +-----------------------[Time to rock, ladies and gentlemen]-=-- | Spoon concert - thanks to the Yuppie Slayer | differ It's hosted by House of Blues, a concept which generally | source scares me. However, Spoon rises above this. Also I'm | pretty sure they are pop and not blues. | | Fun stuff in the archives: Vanilla Ice, Deftones, Magma, | things to Violent Femmes, Dick Dale, Tricky, Hepcat | watch later | /--/------[Half milk reminders]-=-- | Thick slices of new Supersphere content. | one more | time for I must watch the Paul Newman, Dianogah, Emperor Penguin, | the record Candiria, Snapcase... great for work soundtracks. | books and | the late Candiria proves skillful, funky metal can still get heavy. | arrivals Refused filtered through a metallic grinder, weighted with | cement shoes, and shot full of PCP. (minus the wacky | experimental aspects and the beatings) | | One mp3 available on their MP3.com page. Worth the | download for heavy music fans; it starts out like a fusion | song and rapidly reintegrates into metal and other shapes. | | /--/----------------[More plan]-=-- | Hah! Yes, The Dis Plan are going to tour Europe with | ex-kings of Seattle, Pearl Jam. Travis sounds psyched. | Pearl Jam is one of those bands I have an irrational | dislike for. Actually, just Eddie Vedder. | | Also, fans of the Plan please note Indiepoplive has the | second set from the same night as before posted. More old | stuff, wrapping up with an incredible extended run of "OK | Jokes Over", and even three new songs! Rockin. | | /--/------------------[Finally]-=-- | Records I finally found, with 2x3 reviews: | thanks | insound Iceburn - Firon: | Metal Vivaldi covers, another insane canon | Unwound - s/t on Honeybear: | Worthy of re-release! Understandable emo connotation. | The Dismemberment Plan - "!": | Slightly below latest. Still, catchy chunks. | Walt Mink - Bareback Ride: | Jumping hyperactively happy. Several killer songs. | | +----------------------------/--/---------------[Subvention]-=-- | Dagmar Chili = The pita I would have if the voices never | stopped. Rbahetlme! Dagmar might be mangling these | lists, but I don't think so. | | Twitch = The pita I should have seen long, long ago. For | under a month of links, that's an impressive collection of | oft-engrossing commentary. As for missing the Guernica, | you can always return to its screaming glow if you like. | I'm working on the links, honestly. For whatever reason, | it's rough going; maybe because it's all ASCII. | | +----------------------------/--/--[Man with a mission meme]-=-- | P Romlow submits Pudding Guy's Craaazy Chocolate Airplane | now crave Adventure. Proof that chocolate pudding is the most | flour blessed foodstuff of all, even if it is Healthy Choice. | | +---------------------------[The obvious cynical commentary]-=-- | Und Jaffo sagt, "The Internet is a sick, depressed dog | goodbye chasing its own tail. A bunch of depressed, disaffected | losers dancing with each other in cyberspace." | | Where do I sign up?! | | +----------------------------/--/------------[Fifth edition]-=-- | In line with the slightly modified Idiotic Slogan(tm), | knobless it's JOE: Java Ontology Editor. | | Unfortunately, it doesn't validate or check for flaws. | | +----------------------------/--/---------------------[MOTD]-=-- | "The Pant Association urges you to wear pants at least | three times a day!" - Joel, MST3k | | +----------------------------/--/----------------------------=-- +---------------------[Techniques for standing - 03/23/2000]-=-- | As part of an ongoing attempt to make the design changes | lynx THIS of this page (and the design itself) as jarringly annoying | as possible, I give you: Codeine Overdose Rescue. Drop | your thoughts in the Subvert-o-Matic if you want. | | +----------------------------/--/--[An exploration in texts]-=-- | The rapidly-ramping up kuro5hin pointed to a great old | kuro5hin article today: Anarchism Triumphant from First Monday. | | It's good to recieve a jolting reminder of a site you once | read, but have forgotten. First Monday is an old | awe-inspiring technical octopus; it would be easy to spend | weeks reading the papers here. | | Important picks: | | Stephen Downes - Hacking Memes | | no, I don't Josef Progler - Mapping the Musical Commons: Digitization, | expect you Simulation, Speculation | to read | all of Ted Byfield - DNS: A Short History and a Short Future | these but | they are Chun Wei Choo, et al - Information Seeking on the Web: An | quality Integrated Model of Browsing and Searching | | +----------------------------/--/----------[Drinking bleach]-=-- | "I've got a song stuck in my head, one that I miss more | it's than my bed; it's a song sung from a fallen milkman who's | recursing drinking bleach instead..." | in me | /--/----------------------------=-- | Subject: Re: Drinking Bleach | | "Hi, someone had once told me that if you wanted to not | have signs of marijuana to show up in your urine, then you | can fill a three liter container of water, then use the | three liter cap from the container and fill it with bleach." | containers | are easy No. It works great if you just drink it straight, wimp. | to find | /--/----------------------------=-- | How dangerous is liquid bleach? | | "One of the most common calls to the Poison Center | involves the ingestion of liquid chlorine bleach. Victims | frequently gag and vomit after drinking bleach, resulting | in a frantic call to 9-1-1 or the Poison Center." | | +----------------------------/--/----------[Thinking stripe]-=-- | Didn't one of Picasso's grandsons kill himself by drinking | something bleach? I'm probably making this up. | to research | /--/----------------[Metamagic]-=-- | "Making variations on a theme is really the crux of | creativity." -Douglas Hofstadter, his italics | | +----------------------------/--/----------------------------=-- Back to top +----------------------------/--/-------------[Older things]-=-- | This is the hand/drawn listing. Full pita listing. | | silly queries: How not to find this page | /// useless sky: Staring at old links | / legos and robots: Designing electrical nonsense | / grid puzzles: Waste time with boxes + 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: Eventually all things die | // 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 tangents]-=-- | Feel free to suggest or help out. | | occam's razor: computational reflection | . | bad art: clean up old gallery | . | demoart: art disks, ansi conversion, zoomscopes | . | WFMU hunt: scavenge a radio site | . | cardboardic: disposable release | . | collage: photographic and non-digital | . | stupid cartoons: sg, c+c, r+s, brak | . | pita wrapper: perl posting app for pitas | | +----------------------------/--/----------------------------=-- The link section been disabled until I can come up with something more interesting. Please feel free to try the portal if desperate for escape. +----------------------------/--/---[Explanation in C minor]-=-- | This is the log of a faceless entity. I wander around the | web, and point out what are most likely completely useless | things for you to visit. If you know me in real life, | then you will probably hate this. Where I have been, what | I learned there, and what I plan to figure out in the | future. Ahh, the healing power of links. | | Technically this is a "web log". You can find many more | of these in the links section, but if none fit your tastes | you can always follow the monkey and get an easily updated | site with Pitas. | | /--/---------------[Disclaimer]-=-- | There are no guarantees. This site is not affiliated with | anything else I do. If you have been linked or mentioned | and would like to be removed, just let me know. Stop | looking at me like that. | | /--/------------------[Contact]-=-- | D Fitch dgfitch@yahoo.com ICQ:363803 AOL:dguyfitch | | +----------------------------/--/----------------------------=-- Back to top