I'm 30 and I live in a dorm.

alternateorg on February 3, 2001

So I just moved in with my girlfriend to a nice two bedroom apartment on the hill, refinished hardwood floors and all new appliances… The landlord looked at us with an eyebrow of concern, which I took as a good sign- never can be too careful about who you let live in your building, after all. (That’s probably why it took kev so long to find a place…)

He described the building as a “quiet, professional” environment, and pointed to the mid-thirties couple- a lawyer and a software rep- as demonstration of that fact.

We write the check.

The day weekend after we move in is my thirtieth birthday/superbowl/housewarming/wine tasting. (an aside here- everyone got the email that said it was a wine tasting, but only 3 people out of 25 brought wine…in the immortal words of Cobra Commander, “I’ve got morons on my payroll.”) The established couple across the hall moves out, leaving three empty apartments out of eight…

We meet our new next-door neighbors when they attempt to integrate superbowl parties by tossing out the always tantalizing icebreaker: “I used to be into backyard wrestling, but then I fucked up my knee.” Add to that the fact that they looked too young to buy wine- which, you’ll remember, we were sorely lacking- and we decided to politely decline. Upon exit, they promtply tied together the shoelaces of our guests- who had left their footwear in the hall outside our door- and proceeded to duct tape our doorknob to the one across from it…

Last night, we met our new across the hall neighbor. She looked pretty cute, but unfortunately, she’s really into retro 80’s music (“Oh my God, it’s Nina Blackwood!”), which she prefers to play UNTIL 5AM WITH THE VOLUME SET TO 11! But the best part of the night came around 4:45AM, when it sounded a lot like the two groups got together and had one giant Busch Light Jamboree. Break out your Billy Bass, we’s a gonna have us a sing-along! FUCK!

You ask yourself how much more depressing could this possibly get, and the answer that you get back is none, none more depressing…

Until the apartment above us is rented.

Speechless

alternateorg on February 2, 2001

This is amazing. It’s an image taken from Squaresoft’s upcoming computer-animated movie ‘Final Fantasy.’ In case you didn’t know, it’s based on an extremely popular game that’s been around for who knows how long, and is in its 9th or 10th version. I hope I like the movie better than the game.

*That image above is NOT real. It’s computer-generated. Amazing.

Their next idea: Microsoft Windows XPNT2000:PC Second Edition Service Pack X

alternateorg on February 2, 2001

You know what? I’ve started to get sick of commenting on Microsoft’s lack of innovation. I really have. Most Mac people totally get off every time MS announces something ‘groundbreaking’ that Apple has been doing for years. And I used to be that way, as well. But I’m honestly just getting pretty bored of it. I don’t know how anyone working over there in Redmond could possibly feel actual pride in the work they do. The :Mac people in the valley do a pretty good job of developing decent software for the Mac, but come on. It’s getting so that I don’t even want to talk about it, but here it is anyway: Microsoft’s new products are allegedly going to be named: Windows XP, Office XP, etc. instead of using the numeral 10. Who knows what it stands for, and who cares.

“Maybe they should just name it Windows WTF or Office WTF.”

Now THAT’S an idea I like.

What a hectic day

alternateorg on February 2, 2001

You know what I did on my lunch break today? I took my wife and son to the park. I think I’m going to like this working from home thing.

Sega DreamCancelled

alternateorg on February 2, 2001

It seems that Sega has decided to stop selling Dreamcasts. Now, I don’t own one (although I might now, with the price dropping to about a hundred bucks), but this kind of thing is a little unsettling to me. I thought Dreamcasts were selling like mad, and that the more-expenive-but-hard-to-get PS2s didn’t come close in graphics quality and gameplay. But whatever. Sega is still going to make games for other platforms… it just sucks that a decent, relatively cheap system is going to the birds, and that Sony now has the field all to themselves, despite the fact that they can’t even ship enough of the damn things. I just really hope the Nintendo GameCube kicks mutha-fuckin’-ass, as I know it will. I can hear Zelda calling my name….

Re: Sucking Monkey Balls

alternateorg on February 2, 2001

I can’t believe I haven’t posted about this before… I’ve had SO many problems with that SprintPCS site, it almost made me want to cancel my service… but I just love my TouchPoint 1100 too much. I’ve actually sent emails to them regarding the horrible performance of their site, and they just told me that ‘any site’ will experience problems from time to time. They didn’t respond to my suggestion of looking at alternatives to Microsoft when developing the next version.

ASP sucks….

alternateorg on February 2, 2001

….grrr….

Given that today is 2 days before my cell phones current billing period expires I decides to go find out how many minutes I have remaning.

Due to an “error” I end up (re)learning what I already know, THAT WINDOWS AND ASP SUCK FUCKING MONKEY BALLS.




🙂 by the way… PHP rules!

Home Sweet Home

alternateorg on February 1, 2001

Moving into a new place is both the worst and best thing ever. It’s a new place, so you’re stoked, but you had to move 2 (heavy) couches up 3 flights of stairs. So it’s a give and take. But I’m here. I’m in. No more actually going to a place of employment… it’ll be 10 feet from my bed. What does this mean to you, the beloved reader? More posts. So rejoice in Kevin’s new Wash Park residence. Rejoice.