I spent some time this morning, and got the links at the top working… And just so you know… I am a PHP genius. So there. The searching and archiving functions work (be careful, they’re split up now), and the about section is there. The other sections are placeholders, but you don’t really need to care about that.
I just got a new television set for my new place (which will surely be stolen, defaced, or teepeed sometime soon- read earlier post), and decided to save a little money on
Saturday night and stay in, basking in the glow of 43 inches of pure Japanese
love- on a lot of weblogs, that would be the close to a really interesting story that
I’m sure some of you aren’t old enough to read, but here at alternate.org, it’s just the beginning…
I’m not a huge fan of football, but the erstwhile governor of Minnesota had somewhere along the line convinced me that the program onto which
I was to stumble that night had a little something extra to offer. He was right.
As my remote control fell from my hand in amazement, my mind reeled. Awash in colors, shapes and sounds, this event was unlike anything
I had ever seen (short of that one parade on the hill in Denver where there was that thing with the stuff, but that’s another weblog, too).
It’s as if the marketing executives of the WWF have flat out admitted that we’re morons who simply want
explosions and T&A involved with every event we watch… the cheerleaders were strippers (which
I didn’t mind, really), fireworks shot off after every touchdown, and you could put any nickname you wanted on the back of your jersey.
You used to have to be good enough that Chris Berman gave you a nickname on Sports Center.
Now anyone can have one? Fine, from now on I’m “leader of the naked monkey clan“, a 6 foot 1 inch soph-o-more from
aaaaaal-a-bama…
Now I don’t want to go George Will on you here, but it seems to me that entertainment and sports used to be a little like church and state.
Do I think it’s any coincidence that Dubya gets into office and all the sudden I’ve got strippers on NBC during prime time? I don’t really want to
comment on that, but I’m almost certain that we’re making less of the few great games we have left
every time we figure out how to project a sponsor logo onto the court for the home viewers (tennis), or develop a technology that lets people who don’t really care watch the game without having to really think about why it’s important (hockey’s stupid
pucktracker). If you lower the bar, we simply jump lower. Then if you try to raise it, we just go play another game, because now it’s too hard, and they’ve got a cool new 360-degree camera over on the other field.
God, I hated that thing at the Superbowl…
Like I said, I don’t really care one way or another about sports… it just makes me feel bad for
the people who do that the powers that be would treat them this way. Except for
the strippers… they were okay.
I know you’re a little frightened by all the changes going on around here, but for the love of god, DON’T CLICK ANYTHING. The top nav really doesn’t work yet, and the survey is old, but at long last, the new design is up. This isn’t a well-read weblog, or even a well-written one, so I’m not worried about launching incomplete code. But if your grubby little hands need to try something out, click on the new ‘hide’ function on the left… Jax helped out on that shit, and it’ll only get better.
For every vote the pink design gets, the blue design gets three. So you voiced your opinion, and blammo, you get what you want. The blue design (hence referred to as ‘v3’) is pretty much coded and ready to go. A few more tweaks, and it’ll be live by Monday morning.
And on an unrelated note, I would just like to re-proclaim my love for IFC. I wouldn’t even consider paying for digital cable if I didn’t get it. I just saw a great movie entitled Hi-Life. Rent it the next time you’re in an independent movie rental shop (read: NOT Blockbuster). The best line: ‘Ho ho ho, you fuck.’ Ha. I can’t get enought of that shit.
One little thing Jax…
The described event occured in Denver, on Capitol Hill, on SuperBowl Sunday… Last time I lived on the Hill during SuperBowl there were riots, looting, and gun shots… it was pretty damn “depressing”.
Actually, I thought it was kinda cool. 🙂
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.
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.
Bah. I made the switch to Eudora Pro 5.0 in favor of MSOE5.0.2. And I like it. I think. The chile peppers are funny.
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.
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.
