Apathy

+----------------------------/--/-[Comonotonic - 04/07/2000]-=-- | Listen to Digital Hymns, a recommended source for | over the distorted poetry and prose reading by two folks over | ocean quality tunes. RealAudio still stinks, though. | | /--/-[Send in the overanalysis]-=-- | Judith of Calamondin sends: "audio + robots" | how about | that Dreams and aspirations in .wav format for the taking. | Less polished and planned than the hymns above, much more | spontaneous. | | I have a little digital recorder. I hereby promise to | record myself if I suddenly burst into epic prose about my | dreams. | | | +------------------------------[Or in the illustrating mood]-=-- | Semi-interactive comics and doodling: | again with | the doodles Motel Vite - A room, for you to color. | | Mark Martin's Interact - Semi-Exquisite Corpse is my | favorite, but there are other activities to play with and | stare at as well. | | Of course, Katie's Scribble mentioned a while back and | much more out there. I shall return to this topic. | | | +----------------------------/--/---------------------[Toys]-=-- | Mindstorms Ultimate Accessory Pack - My robots would be so | legos rule much more competitive with this, I can just smell it. | | Sennheiser Surrounder - Perfect for the computer gaming | audio leash geek that wants to look like a fool from the future with a | cyberpunk techno collar. Neat idea though. | | Napigator lets you hook your OpenNap client up to just | napster about anywhere. Pick a server, any server. | ya'll | | +----------------------------/--/----------------------------=-- | yes I'll "Sometimes it's good to forget that everyone hates you" | update the - Anonymous | question | soon +----------------------------/--/----------------------------=-- +-------------[Poisoned by a rotted elf corpse - 04/06/2000]-=-- | In accordance with the Central Internet Authority, I must | link: Star Wars Flash movie simplification | approx. 5 | minute Really quite worth your time investment. Well crafted. | loadtime | Dude. | | | +------------------[With respect to yesterday's fake ticket]-=-- | The ever-enigmatic proprietor of Dagmar Chili (apparently | from the named Toadex Hobogrammathon) was kind (?) enough to inform | mouths of me of a rather hefty mistake in that Adbusters production. | grabes | R.A. Lafferty didn't write in the "19th century" if he was | born in 1914. | | Err, thanks hero Toadex... not-quite-nonsense fans please | note there's a whole new episode to decipher. | | | +--------------------[The studio walls are scrunching along]-=-- | What's making those sounds? Arto Lindsay won't tell me. | Pandiero is the only oddity listed in the credits, and | that's not making the modulated scraping noises. Learn to | play pandeiro, the Brazilian tambourine, anyway. Groovy | off-rhythm .rm sound files to loop! | | | +----------------------------/--/-[Useless whining and such]-=-- | One messed up URL. | nothing | else good But hey, I finally got listed in a portalish site as "a | today, collection of useless information gathered from the | sorry crazy Internet." That is swell. | reader | folk who /--/---------------------[Also]-=-- | enjoy This is broken in Netscape on Solaris. Thanks for the | reading good, clean laugh Clint. | this page | for no /--/-------------[And an email]-=-- | apparent I recieved an email today from an unknown source. In its | reason at entirety (no subject was entered), it reads: | all | "Both Fitch products are named after John Fitch who is | ...is this about to be inducted into the Corvette Hall of Fame. John | an invasion is a famous race car driver who lead both the Mercedes and | of my Corvette race teams to some of their greatest successes. | privacy or Last year he received the National Transportation Safety | theirs? Boards Medal of Honor for his invention of the safety | barrels you can find on any highway. They are those yellow | barrels that cushion an out of control car headed for a | concrete median. John's grandfather invented the steam | boat." | | +----------------------------/--/----------------------------=-- +-----[Tomato golf in a swimming pool of salad - 04/04/2000]-=-- | Want to trade indie/jazz/punk/noise/classical/etc mp3s? | repeating | the offer If not, how about a joke: | | Q: How much did the pirate pay for his piercings? | A: A buck an ear! | | | +---------------[Enough with the bad puns, on to the images]-=-- | Seriously illusory dots from the unrelated Skeptinews | my head At first I thought it was an animation. It's not. | hurts | /--/------[No longer comic art]-=-- | It's impossible to find more information about Marc | identify Trujillo and Tales from the Land of Plenty, a beautiful | with the comic which doesn't take aim at humor. It takes aim at | dancing your preconceptions, like any good frewfrawy postmodern | comic will. The facial expressions, seemingly simple at | first, are the amazing part of this. | | My current desktop [90k png] is a redrawn interpretation | like you of these panels. The interface hides in the cube, scared. | care | | +---------[Out of culture comes the reaction and retraction]-=-- | Luther Blissett - an identity to order, for disorder. | | /--/---------------[The exodus]-=-- | Interview on culture jamming with Joe Matheny, known for | the "Reign of Frogs" White House email stunt. | | "Is CJ dead?" | | "No. It will always be around as long as we have people | who are not content with the consensus reality, bored | students, and people who crave media attention no matter | how they get it. I guess that's the real secret, the | perceptive Culture Jammers are as addicted to the media as those that | they accuse of being asleep. Maybe even more so." | | /--/--------[Automobiles stink]-=-- | Random Walks [ex-pita] points to Adbusters' new Reclaiming | Urban Space campaign: "Urban design for people, not cars." | | Don't miss: Fake traffic ticket PDF - "If you dispute this | fine, the trial will be held in your own conscience." | | /--/-----------------------[U2]-=-- | Why the sudden burst of anarchy? I might have a chance to | see Negativland on tour finally. Have to study up. | | [Imbibing plenty of the Refused]-=-- | "We want the airwaves back | We don't just want airtime | We want all the time all of the time" | | - Refused, Liberation Frequency | | +----------------------------/--/----------------------------=-- +--------["Don't feed the animals dice" - Anon - 04/04/2000]-=-- | D Bagshaw [who might consider starting his own log instead | nudge of trying to take over this one] drops this initially | inexplicable link: Isopsephia | | Actually, after some thought and a look at the brief | thought history of isopsephia, I figured out what this might be. | narrator You calculate numeric values for Greek, Roman, and Hebrew | words. I know I've seen Christian texts and/or pamphlets | utilizing this technique to prove they are correct. As | in, using it on words in some chapter of Daniel to show | how he prophesied the birth of Christ. | | I was named after that Daniel. | hmm... | /--/-[Unsure why this is funny]-=-- | This leads straight-away into Annie's Lovely Christian | Ladies pages, a beautiful find by Mister Pants. I have | not laughed that hard and violently in quite some time. | Seriously, I was falling apart. You may or may not laugh | with me. | | [Are you reading this warning?]-=-- | Skip the rest of today unless you like pain, hatred, | contra dict suffering, or mp3s. | | | +----------------------------/--/------[Searches and smarts]-=-- | Some rather prescient comments in the subversion note the | no problem prevailing wind of searching on the web. [+briteny | there +speers naked nekkid nud "no clothse"] | | Now, this leads me to why I am sad about search returns. | I don't want this particular hit to get any more priority | than it already has, so I will replace vowels with stars | and let you fill in the blanks, eh? | | Some sick f*cks have been hitting this site via the | arg queries "n*de ch*ldr*n" and "n*de l*ttle b*ys", due to a | mistake in song linking on my part. | | Go away. | | /--/--------[The deadly rhythm]-=-- | As noted by a subvertor, there are no longer mp3s in this | not out to version. I am scared of the Man. But only in public... | make If you would like to participate in an illicit trading | anything ring hosted by me, drop me an email to that effect. | | /--/---------[More geek chitin]-=-- | So fitch.yi.org is now my old P2-266 chip. This is not | interesting. Strange part is, the thing is overheating | and locks up within 10 minutes if I have the case closed. | If I wasn't a wuss, I would rip that motha open! | | Also on the OCP: Picture of P3 chip broken in half. | ooooh | +----------------------------/--/----------------------------=-- +----------------[Perhaps spinning too quickly - 04/03/2000]-=-- | Deep into the leftover file we go. | | Walken sound clips - self explanatory | | Delved deep into the Palace and Dirty Three archives this | new dirty weekend. Okkervil River deserves a mention in the same | three = vein, somewhat -- mp3s available. As we're venturing into | good the wayback machine today, I'm afraid I did not note who | pointed me here originally. | | [Explicit cross-species action]-=-- | From that same domain: A Stork Christmas, assorted | poetry naturalist and absurd poetry. Stay away, kids! | stench | | +--------------------------------[Fake, annoying stuttering]-=-- | Time... for a confession. *sob* I can't - *sniff* - oh, | it's t-too late anyhow. I don't *snurk* own a | t-t-turntable *SNOOOORT* of my v-very own. | | Clues welcome. | cheap clues | of course If I scrounge a cheap table up, I this double LP is | required. | | | +---------------------[The final word on refuse and garbage]-=-- | While engrossed in Hofstadter's Metamagical Themas still, | Pat, I'd I re-read the segment on Stuff and Nonsense. This... | like to buy limerick... is superb. | a malaprop | /--/---------[by W. S. Gilbert]-=-- | There was an old man of St. Bees, | Who was stung in the arm by a wasp. | When asked, "Does it hurt?" | He replied, "No, it doesn't-- | I'm so glad it wasn't a hornet." | | +----------------------------/--/----------------------------=-- +----------------------[Audio or mesmerination - 04/02/2000]-=-- | Little bits of discussion flying about on sound. Some | links flying through my browser follow. | | [Folk of the fringe, submit to my powers!]-=-- | Judith of Calamondin pointed me at Noodle which I had | coloring seen, and Buzzo's collection of Shockwaved interactive | the edges music which I had not. Both are worth spending some | quality time with. I am particularly fond of "The Audio | Star" | | D Bagshaw alerted me earlier about Coagula [color note | humming and organ - draw your music] and GranuLab [random sound grains | shaking and noise generator] ... I can't determine which is | the sky cooler. | | Also, much earlier the same crazy Mr. Bagshaw gestured at | Nanoloop, a realtime music loop composition program for | the Game Boy. Jammin' sound samples -- this should get | posted to chip music if The Most High deigns to give us | archive access. | | [Audio collage requires archival]-=-- | Kalvos and Damian's New Music Bazaar audio collage | twitch | /--/-------------["Real" music]-=-- | TMBG's Dial a Song - Cool. Yes, you get different songs | kempa by clicking more. Thanks. | | | +-------------------------------[The weekly Something Awful]-=-- | ICQ Prank: PiKe Learns to HaX0r | | "in the meanwile check out my page for a game "starcraft" | beware, www.angelfire.com/sc2/planetstarcraft ive programed it all | sounds using only html and javascript" | | | +----------------------------/--/----[A return to the brink]-=-- | Last week was rip-roaring fun, in my subjective opinion. | archived That Mr. Show archive -- whoo boy! | | "While walking down the street I sing of..." | | If you missed it, the April Fools gag was a redirect to | fooling Bud's Carefully Constructed Homepage, the creation of | nobody which really took it out of me. Animated gifs: what a | pain. | | In any case, nothing much for a bit. Subversion now goes | blab er ate to my brandy-new Linux machine, and is improved in | multiple ways, such that one can now click the button | without changing anything and get reprimanded for not | posting. The last posts are still visible. Aw shucks, | you'll figure it out. | | +----------------------------/--/-------------[thx fr vstng]-=-- 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