Apathy

+------------------[Making new holes every day - 05/12/2000]-=-- | I have been alerted! In line with Sam's wonderful dog, | continue Mr. Richard Stevens [3] runs robotstories which contains | excellent tales, involving robots. | | Pilgrims is amazing me right now. | | | +----------------------------/--/-------[State of net prose]-=-- | The Fray is somewhat me-centric, yes? | | 32,000 feet was interesting to read because I was | second expecting some air phobia stories in the responses, but | person there are none. I'm quite irrationally scared of planes, | and I've got another flight coming up. But I wrote about | someone else on a plane. Bottom of page 3. | | Did you like the part where I point out the | subjunct self-centered-ness of others, and then write a paragraph | and adjunct completely revolving around me? Hah. Weblogs are the | voice of one into the many, but they should be many -- | each logging for themselves. | | Bah, I don't know why my brain tried to tie those two | things together. Never mind. | | | +-----------------------[The laws do not apply to us robots]-=-- | Some more nifty links that will go into the robot archive | when I can edit it. | | Adam Currie's History of Robotics is well thought-out as | summed up far as hyperlinks, and an excellent read to get started on | the whole deal. | | /--/------------[Leg actuation]-=-- | Mark S drops the knowledge: Leg Robots at MIT | bouncing | He kept babblin' about the 3D One-Leg Hopper and I had no | lots more idea what he was talking about. Now I've seen the video. | in there | | +----------------------------/--/---------------------[MOTD]-=-- | "Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your | mozart's ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's | piano throats." | sonata no. - Howard Aiken | 3 = energy | +----------------------------/--/----------------------------=-- +-------------------------[Ye olde music issue - 05/11/2000]-=-- | If you're still visiting this site looking for indie rock | stuff, you know by now I'm skimping on that side of things | lately. For the full-on rock buzz, check Us Against Them. | | The reason? My weak brainwaves get thrown by lyrics while | deciphering dense prose. Classical and chip music for me. | | Speaking of chippy tunes, the etc says all the kids are | that was a talking about Minibosses [frames]. It's a band playing | quality old video game songs in a rock context. Their Castlevania | game tune rules. | | Thanks to everyone who's been tolerating me in email | *blink* conversations lately. I am a bit out of my gourd, credit | to Gravity's Rainbow. | | /--/-[In the more relaxed vein]-=-- | Gustav Mahler wrote one of my favorite non-Bach classical | works, his Symphony No. 1. It's one of the few pieces I | enjoy studying and would give a limb to conduct. | | Mahler Symphonies, a synoptic survey by Tony Duggan is a | shopping fine read for finding out information and subjective | spree opinions about the many recordings thereof. My Houston | tomorrow! Symphony reading of No. 1 is not the greatest; obviously | not awful, but I would like to find a copy of the Rafael | Kubelik-led Vienna Philharmonic. | | Now I need to search for such a resource on Bach. | | /--/----------------[Adulation]-=-- | Listen to a two-channel melody composed from any webpage. | [Requires JavaScript, Shockwave, and likely more. This | page is jumpy, try the default.] | | | +----------------------------/--/---[Spam made from poultry]-=-- | Cliff Woodman is pimping his corporate [?] site: | Chook.net. Not your average spam. Chook would be | sneaky chicken, for those not versed in Australian slang. | | Or maybe it's got nothing at all to do with chicken. | | /--/-----[Toss in some sprites]-=-- | Chook DOOM, on the other hand, is quite straightforward. | headless Chickens + DOOM = fun. Looks like a barrel of blanks. | horsing | [Another in the long line of horrid recipes]-=-- | Chook.com, Home of the Cheesy Scone Loaf | to grace | this meal | +----------------------------/--/---------------------[MOTD]-=-- | "Believe those who are seeking truth. Doubt those who find | it." - Andr� Gide | | +----------------------------/--/----------------------------=-- +---------------------[Reprints for half-price - 05/10/2000]-=-- | Some folks went and got lost at the Exploding Dog that I | a simple pushed yesterday. They liked it. You will too. Also, do | comic sight not be afraid to participate in the titling! | | | +----------------------------/--/-----[Not with you, at you]-=-- | Mumma-Moomaw Surname - Unintentionally hilarious due to | with their the obvious discussion of Mumma, Momma, Mumaw, Moomaw, et | very own cetera. | domain, no | less "Lester descends from Leonard Mumma, son of John Leonard | Mumma, the son of the immigrant, Leonard Mumma. He is | interested in information about any descendants on this | line." | | Blee hee haw haw... Get in here, Nessie! -- erm... sorry. | | No more today. I will read. If for some reason you can't | stand the dog, listen to some of those thought provoking | Massey Lectures from Sylloge. Seriously. | | | +----------------------------/--/----------------------------=-- +--------------------------------[Dance fitful - 05/09/2000]-=-- | A copy of Gravity's Rainbow snagged on my sleeve as I | apologies walked through the bookstore. This was several months | in advance ago. Now I have finally worked up the courage to plunge | into it. Some of my explorations in that matter follow. | I am not certain how this will affect my logging. I may | become incomprehensible. | | Toadex kindly pointed me to Jorny's Pynchon portal. | Content-free locus of links. | | Hyperarts - Best of the bunch. Includes superb advice for | newbies [like me]. I will be returning to their guide and | glossary while tripping over terms like "Ouspenskian | nonsense" because I am ignorant. | | It will flow over me. | the prose | is like [I cannot recommend this book enough, although I am only | lava one hundred pages in. Already my hands require a | through hardcover copy.] | water | | +----------------------------/--/------------[Jumping about]-=-- | From Syrup to Exploding Dog. Quite seriously, this is my | drawing is new favorite "comic". Simple drawings of thought | painful to provoking things, in an audience enabled atmosphere. | me Go now and don't come back. | | [Stolen scholastic speeches]-=-- | Massey Lectures in RealAudio | thanks | sylloge | +----------------------------/--/---[Desperate cry for help]-=-- | Work-related: skip this bit. [ugh] I seek IIS5 security | BORING anecdotes, horror stories, and other fireside tales I can | WINDOWS learn from. Being truly secure is like trying to keep a | CRAP, OH cheese grater afloat in a cannonball sea. | HOW YOUR | STENCH IS The usual search methods turn up dry sand and lame | LIKE A ROSE Microsoft chats. | | Best resource thus far is CERT's improving security page. | | Betriebsregelung und Sicherheitsinformationen f�r | WWW-Server und Frontpage unter Windows NT im UKLAN - was | ist "UKLAN"? Uni von K�ln LAN? | | /--/--------[On the other hand]-=-- | Love is humour, especially if one doesn't have to | I love you, administer an email server. Haha. Some fun variants; | reader. it's very much like evolution out there. | | DO NOT CLICK DO CLICK DO NOT DO NOT NOT CLICK DO NOT CLICK | DO CLICK NOT DO 1OT CLIC3 DO C5ICK D4 NO8 D9 NO5 N34 C7I1K | 6O N64 C5I61 30 251C4 427 | | | | Then I pop in some Walt Mink and all is made well. | | | +----------------------------/--/---------------------[MOTD]-=-- | "The children of the radio | there is like lemmings to the sea | music for They swallow what they're given | everyone, 'cause it's easy and it's free" - Walt Mink | but yours | is not [can't believe John is no longer creating music] | always mine | +----------------------------/--/----------------------------=-- +-----------[Third stage: Door to Door Rocking - 05/08/2000]-=-- | Was watching all the hilarious old Tenacious D episodes by | [of denial] way of Psyanide.com when I noticed this interesting post | on Heat Vision and Jack. | | Jack would be Jack Black, yes, the funny guy in High | Fidelity. Tenacious D is Jack and Kyle Bass playing | acoustic guitar and rockin' you. Heat Vision and Jack | would be Jack on his own with a talking motorcycle, | parodying just about everything under the sun. | | I'll have to steal Ben Stiller's intro to this remarkable | post irony little show. | | "As a person you admire, I'm giving you permission to | appreciate this show. I'm also giving you my personal | guarantee that it's gonna knock you back on your | coal-mining asses." | | +----------------------------/--/---------------------[MOTD]-=-- | "I KNOW EVERYTHING... Knowledge is power... for real!" | hope you're | happy Heat: "Jack, is that blood?" | Jack: "The blood of tomatoes..." | | +----------------------------/--/----------------------------=-- +----------------------------/--/------------[Previously...]-=-- | Last week was 3D strange attractors, Pi, dopey email | sounds, Fugazi day, and the end of the tablet contest. | | More stuff tomorrow, but you really should spend a bit of | bandwidth on that Tenacious D undsoweiter. | | +----------------------------/--/----------------------------=-- 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