Apathy

+----------[Blustering in the face of blushers - 05/02/2000]-=-- | Too tired to correctly post the contest results since I | sorry, want to make a non-pitas semi-permanent location for them. | continue I would hate to make the page, archive it, and then have | onward someone say "Take my submission off!" | V | V Because I can't, you strange people reading my page. | V | V | +----------------------------/--/---------[An original find]-=-- | mp3it has Noam Chomsky's Capital Rules available in its | over on the entirety, in mp3 of course. | left | silly, Go now. Hear the truth about our divided system. You | click it don't need to be a genius, stupid me understood the | articulate Professor Chomsky quite fine. Spread the link. | | | +-----------------------[All is well in the academic sector]-=-- | Mathematical Quotations Server | search with | regexes Browse, search, randomize, or snarf the whole thing. | | Stolen with great stealth from everyone's favorite Logical | fear my Pluralism pita. | ninja power | Also, Pete von dem Browse-O-Tron hat gefunden eine[r?] | ultimatiefste Mathe-Witzesammlung! | | | | +-------------------[Neither of the glasses is full, robot!]-=-- | Well, this is the sort of thing I want to tack on the end | of a related archive but can't. | | Lego Mindstorms by Joe [text is Japanese] | mark s | again Well worth spending some time watching the Quicktimes of | his robots walking around and such. | | This four legged bug is funny lookin', for example. | | This climber shows a realization of the concept I was | originally trying to use in my stairstepper. Again, watch | the video. | | Amazing in its simplicity, the water strider is | unfortunately video-less. | | If you do build Mindstorms, the schematics in Jim's | Laboratory will help you figure out what fits where. | | | +----------------------------/--/---------------------[MOTD]-=-- | "How then shall mathematical concepts be judged? They | from the shall not be judged. Mathematics is the supreme arbiter. | mqs From its decisions there is no appeal. We cannot change | obviously the rules of the game, we cannot ascertain whether the | game is fair. We can only study the player at his game; | not, however, with the detached attitude of a bystander, | for we are watching our own minds at play." | | -Dantzig [Is this David van or George ?] | clue? | +----------------------------/--/----------------------------=-- +-----------------------[Activate your innards - 05/01/2000]-=-- | Contest results tomorrow... there's still time to enter if | lazy me you want. If you entered and do not want your idea shown | forgot to (with credit of course) to the readers of this page, | start these please let me know. Be prepared to draw! | today | [This metaphor has gone too far]-=-- | I'll stumble through some sketching and drawing sites | tomorrow. In that vein, T points out 1art.com and the | subpage A Antonov's Internet Classical Realism Art School. | | Notable mainly for steps 1 and 2, as follows: | | "1. Stop looking at modern art and stop loving it. Modern | bright colors and hue contrasts destroy the subtle vision | of the painter who risks to study classical painting in | our time." | | "2. Many painters get an energy charge from music. Stop | listening to any modern music and begin listening only to | classical music. Try to begin loving it." | | Try to begin loving it, indeed. I sketched another | oh how it Kentucky page while under the influence of Bach's cello | would be to suites, so don't be thinking that listening to the | draw classical masters makes you an instant artist. | wonders | | +----------------------------/--/------------[Extended MOTD]-=-- | "The hell it isn't real." Leo glared at him. "What does | that make me, then? Listen." He pointed his finger at | Barney. "There's nothing unreal about me; you're the one | who's a goddam phantasm, like you said, out of the past. | I mean, you've got the situation completely backward. You | hear this?" He banged on the surface of his desk with all | the strength in his hands. "The sound reality makes." | | /--/--------------[Explanation]-=-- | Blasted my way through The Three Stigmata of Palmer | Eldritch today, and it was exactly what I needed to read. | Heavy-handed symbolism and paranoia taken to extremes; | it's always good to skip the nonfiction for a while and | hit some scifi. | | Religion and sin, reality and ontology, hallucination and | drugs... Philip K Dick has one strange biography. | | Reading list for future reference. | | +----------------------------/--/----------------------------=-- +-------------------[Broadcast alert - Repost on 04/29/2000]-=-- | This is important so I shall leave it at the top: | expand and Live-Stock is a live webcast from Stockton [UK] which | contract includes bunches of goodies. It will run through the | weekend, not to be missed for experimental fans. | | Listen [realaudio] | | | +----------------------------/--/----[Get down - 04/29/2000]-=-- | I declare today Fugazi Day! | | See this low-noise pseudo-log: Fugazi in the Media | awesome | | Strangeness: fugazi.com goes to Amazon. Yuk. | | Mom goes to a Fugazi show | | | Utopia gots the news [sound] on lots of great tunes. | tasty Don't forget, they host the Fugazi live recordings site. | mp3... mmm | /--/---[Interviews and thought]-=-- | Digging through the Perfect Sound Forever archives: Ian | Mackaye interview from 1997. | | PSF: "Are there other ways that you know, or have thought | of, to fight the whole status quo of the music industry?" | | IM: "I'm not interested in fighting them. I'm in | burn! interested in doing my work despite them." | | | Another old golden interview with swell quotes from Guy. | | | This is Not a Fugazi Homepage is still a funny concept | market this extension. | | | +------------------------[The gigantic stack of mathematics]-=-- | So much to read, so little time. | | | +----------------------[No more faking it, I like the games]-=-- | Better save my pennies, because this Cave Quake sure looks | missed it expensive. If you have a fat pipe, don't miss the movies | on blues, of real people with VR accoutrements running around in | caught it Quake 2! Freakin' amazing. | on kuro5hin | [Especially for the text arrays]-=-- | From MooGoo: | | Doctor Kildeer's Guide to NetHack is quite decent, if not | quite bleeding edge. From a master of the Healing class, | no less... The information is provided in a mainly | non-spoiler format, and there are two kinds of spoilers; | the hand and questionmark denote simple detailed | information and clarification, and the key and hole are | for true spoilers, I guess. Haven't dared to ruin my fun | by clicking any yet! | | +----------------------------/--/---------------------[MOTD]-=-- | "It's a long time coming, it's a long way down... it's | long division, crack and divide." | - Fugazi | | +----------------------------/--/----------------------------=-- +----------------------------/--/-------------[Illiterative]-=-- | Must love that Flash design on iGun. Flows nicely if you | the violent have a beastly CPU. | end of | parody | +------------------------------[Tom the Dancing Brain Tumor]-=-- | Crazy Morty returns! | elevators (If confused, see the previous from last year.) | to the | stomach To segue into the next bit, my pick for all-time Bolling: | lining for Placebo Drug Craze Hits Teens | free | | +------------[Linking to the Onion may be pass�, do I care?]-=-- | The Onion Reports: Mountain Dew Users May Go On To Use | or they Harder Beverages | might just | twitch "Because it is legal and its use widespread, Mountain Dew | around on is often assumed to be safe. The drink, however, is known | the floor, to pose many medical risks. Clinical studies have linked | shaking in its consumption to rapid heartbeat, insomnia, dieresis, | spasms of anxiety, hyperactivity, and the inability to concentrate." | the heart | ALL LIES! Tee hee. The reason I point this out? I've | been informed I drink a lot of Mountain Dew. Well, I do | try to keep a surplus of at least 48 cans around just in | case I get really thirsty. And I couldn't say the last | line of the article better myself: | | "I've been a six-pack-a-day Mountain Dew drinker for | there must almost 20 years, and it hasn't negatively affected me | be a patch whatsoever," DeSilva continued. "If it did, I could quit | any time I wanted to." | | | +------------------------------[An unscheduled interruption]-=-- | You are wimps. Revitalizes your skin for that... | | Rectal Incisions Can Eradicate Rectal Cancer And Rodents | ricercar | truth | Revitalizes your skin for that...that...that's no Brie | unexpect wheel! Run! | | | ...for that slow-roasted taste | eating of ...for tender and mouthwatering flesh. | the lotion | | Revitalizes your skin before that all important bukake | UGH festival with Clairol Herbal Essences(tm) exhilarating | line of products. You can't go wrong with our combination | of botanical ingredients and enviormentaly safe packaging. | Indulge yourself! | | [Ed. note: You don't even want to know what bukake is. I | @#^!$ did a search on it and was immediately disgusted. Is this | a common thing? Gah. Now people searching for it (!?) | will find this page, hoho.] | | | ...for that "what I want to know is whether Mr Fitch is | questions closer to 12 or to 40 years old" look. | | | A: Closer to 12, in Earth years. So stop talking about | answers bukake already! | | | +----------------------------/--/---------------------[MOTD]-=-- | "Here's a game that self-destructs when it's properly set | into motion." | - Jawbox | | +----------------------------/--/----------------------------=-- +--------------[Temporarily dissolved in water - 04/27/2000]-=-- | Lincoln D. Stein on Napster in WebTechniques. Usually I | lossy only read WebTechniques for the Randall Schwartz articles, | compressed but this segment really does a grand old job of | commentary summarizing Napster and the associated problems. | | Also: Asides on Hypertext, which appeals very much to me | since I have a very "jerky" hypertext style. | | | +----------------------------/--/-----------[The spam issue]-=-- | Funny spam domain: ChildRecall.com, [warning, annoying | okay maybe redirect] complete with frightening "Choking Baby and | not that Happy Mother" picture in the sidebar. I'm sorry ma'am, | funny after but we're going to have to take back your child, it's | all malfunctioning and the current model is known to be quite | dangerous if swallowed. | | /--/---------[A question asked]-=-- | Bereaved in Cleveland asks: "Re: why do spammers think | note: not that If they put "Re:" at the beginning of some email | really from they'll get read? Huh, Fitch? Why?" | cleveland | Answer: "Re:" and "Fwd:" are magickal, subliminal tokens. | Combinations of them can be overly powerful, so sometimes | the spammer will settle for the arcane "Re:", meaning | "cut". This forces the reader [you] to imbibe the spam. | | Alt.spam FAQ might be handy. Scratch that, is handy! | | +--------------------------[Defining moments in six strings]-=-- | Michael Hedges: inspiration and imagination - more here | su bl im | ate Rootwitch content is not immediately obvious, thus I skip. | | | +----------------------------/--/---------------------[MOTD]-=-- | "I wait for a miracle, I go to a big building, I pray. I | dance with demons, they whisper my fate, scare me into | thinking I'm saved." - Jonah Matranga | | +----------------------------/--/----------------------------=-- +------------[Just when the dry roasting stops - 04/26/2000]-=-- | You could win a drawing tablet for, umm, drawing things! | repost Offer ends this coming Monday. Many great ideas thus far, | continue the trend: mailto:dgfitch@yahoo.com | | Here are the contest details again: | | Rules: Send in an original comic concept. Doesn't have | gambling to be drawn, just described. No required length, no | without constraints; it must be draw-able. The submission I pick | money for from a hat gets the tablet. | useless | prizes I'm just giving it away, you might win just by sending one | whiny email! How long could it take? How many people | could possibly be paying attention? | | Deadline: May 1st, 2000 at 12:00pm CST [6:00pm GMT]. | | Details: Only 4x6, serial port required, pressure but not | tilt sensitive, will work with Windows, MacOS, and Linux. | Offer void where prohibited and all that. | | | +----------------------------/--/---[Happy for transparency]-=-- | April is Occupational Therapy month! See, my very own | hi mom! mother is an occupational therapist. She got her article | love you! about occupational therapy published in a Montana | news-paper. Now, I wonder who thinks I'm joking? | | As far as I am aware, my folks do not read this page. | bleb, my That's a good thing in my opinion, they might be | jaw fell frightened that I am wasting my time in such crazy | open and manners. Who am I kidding? They know me. | can't stop | "A cowgirl bucked off a horse has a painful elbow fracture | yep, which requires a custom fabricated splint to keep her arm | montana in proper position." | | | +----------------------[Treading the edge of media legality]-=-- | Grey-market video software. I am seeking a way to save | ASF streams. [Windows Media Player] | | Also handy: Codec Warehouse, for when those live videos | just won't play audio or some similar problem. | | +----------------------------/--/------------[Mark my words]-=-- | Travel onward into yesterday, there's some good stuff in | there. I'm slow on the draw today. | | +----------------------------/--/---------------------[MOTD]-=-- | "I thought about following your link to the Apathy site, | but I didn't care that much." | - In dc's anonymous text submissions | | +----------------------------/--/----------------------------=-- +-----------------------[Telemarketing grandma - 04/25/2000]-=-- | Bob the Angry Flower: | Good LORD!! Have you guys heard of this 'INTERNET' thing? | | | And now, some links. | if you make | it to the | end of It is the triumphant return of Bovine Inversus which is | today's most likely to save the world in this dire time of | entry, you desperate robber barons. | win a prize | Note to self: Propose to buy Turkish Airlines domain out | from under them for one million Turkish lira. Convert. | | [The government as told by government workers]-=-- | Missile Command now a reality | jeff y | NASA Area Nanotechnology Study Group | mark s | Deers and Beers java point and clicky clicky: Animal | keith n rights activists wouldn't find this funny. I do. | Therefore, I am not an animal. | right? | | +------------------------[Architecting a stolen master plan]-=-- | The following are links I could not restrain myself from. | References are out in the right space. | | | Tolkein reading from Rings from everywhere. Want more. | | | Gravilux is all very fun to toy with, but where are the | kottke oddly shaped polygons and the little triangle to shoot | them into halves with? | | | Ray Szmanda, Menards Guy - you just have to be a fan. | dandot | | Deleted Aliens scenes ..?! Why would they ever cut this | fasthack line of Hudson's out? | | "We got nukes, we got knives... we got sharp sticks..." | | | +----------------------------/--/------------[Feed the geek]-=-- | Need to read Foundations of Object-Relational Mapping when | rc3 done with the current stack of relational analysis texts. | | Also Intro to DBI. | genehack | I think I cement my nerd status by proudly owning a velcro | wallet. [Love to Burn for the link] | | | +-----------------------------[From last subsumed into meat]-=-- | Quotes from the best bureaucracy is, from obvious to not. | | "The best bureaucracy is no bureaucracy" | | "The best bureaucracy is an oxymoron" | | "hello" | | "The best bureaucracy is served with" | | "The best bureaucracy is better when you close your eyes." | | "The best bureaucracy is it'as thime the thei Of for | 3pieami QWihc is a new ostation for the at pwh w ha shw ." | | "The worst bureaucracy is ghost technocracy" | | "Dan fitch has a funny nose. Not that I've seen it or | I was just nothing. But would he take a picture of a kite? | kidding Especially if two mysterious dwarves appear with it." | about the | prize, | sucker! The answer is yes. I will take the picture later when I | am not so tired. Have a beautimous day! | | | +----------------------------/--/---------------------[MOTD]-=-- | "There goes that butterfly in the Amazon again." - Abuddha | | +----------------------------/--/----------------------------=-- +-----------[Perhaps they would like to sample - 04/24/2000]-=-- | Oh my! New Easter-flavoured Pokey. | Thanks for the headsup, Supa Phive... | | | +-----------------------------[Windows media rocks, sort of]-=-- | Recidivistic points at a devastating archive of three days | sunday of post rock. Yes, do watch the Mogwai. Good mellow | afternoon moments in the Papa M as well. | viewing | | +-------------------------[Nothing more, save some babbling]-=-- | No time to upload a new template and change the subvert | photoshop tonight, I am afraid. Spent my remaining hours completing | is fun my latest bad comic: Kentucky the Absent-Minded Plank | visits the desert. Certainly learning a lot, I actually | had to plan out the contrast lines in this one quite a bit | and sketch most of it out before settling into details. | | Casio QV-3000EX can store 340mb of digital pictures on an | more toys IBM MicroDrive. I think I know where the tax refund is | going to get wasted. | | /--/------------------[Delving]-=-- | Last week there was generative music, comics, more | Nethack, prog metal, and a contest (to be continued). | | | +----------------------------/--/---------------------[MOTD]-=-- | "The nitrogen is fine. It delves into hypothesis and | says, 'Young lad, so mimical and used. You feed small. | Simulated. Advantageous." | | - Thought Industry, "I'm Jack Frost Junior" | | +----------------------------/--/----------------------------=-- Back to top +----------------------------/--/-------------[Older things]-=-- | This is the hand/drawn listing. Full pita listing. | | comp conc: Computers and consciousness | / mp3 normalizing: Mess with mp3s | ///// 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 | vinyl stuffing: the long playing past | bad art: clean up old gallery | demoart: art disks, ansi conversion, zoomscopes | team battles: the packet wars | WFMU hunt: scavenge a radio site | collage: photographic and non-digital | stupid cartoons: sg, c+c, r+s, brak | buddies: personal perception and the net | pita wrapper: perl posting app for pitas | | +----------------------------/--/----------------------------=-- The link section has been disabled until I can come up with something more interesting. Please feel free to try the portal if desperate for escape. Also, the mp3 portion of my babbling is gone. If you hunger for music, please visit mt and let me know. +----------------------------/--/---[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