At least in my household

alternateorg on November 15, 2001

I swear, Shigero Miyamoto must be a household name by now, I’ve seen it so many times recently.

And here’s a link is about the xBox, as Salon calls it, “The Internet Explorer of Gaming Consoles.” (Via Camworld)


Which is not to say it’s bad, but something worse: a Me Too production financed by a company with the resources to accomplish and afford so much more. But where Internet Explorer captured the browser market by being, well, free, the chances in this game-box war aren’t so solid for Microsoft, competing on a truly level playing field for the first time in over 15 years

Jane for short

alternateorg on November 15, 2001

So the Bitchlog is dead. But fear not, friends: Jane For Short has taken its place, still by Jen, only now apparently she goes by Jane. She’s still Jen to me, and we had a lot of fun this weekend on her way from Vermont to Seattle… mostly eating and drinking, but that’s okay.

Lunacy has found me

alternateorg on November 12, 2001

The track list from my recent ‘9th Grade Metal’ mix CD:

Metallica – Battery
Carcass – Heartwork
Slayer – Seasons in the Abyss
Pantera – By Demons Be Driven
Tool – Undertow
Metallica – Ride the Lightning
Pantera – No Good (Attack The Radical)
Megadeth – My Last Words
Carcass – Embodiment
Morbid Angel – God of Emptiness
Megadeth – Hangar 18
Pantera – Mouth For War
Megadeth – Tornado of Souls
Pantera – Rise

Aw. Yeah. If I had more time, I’d draw an ASCII skull here. On fire. On a stick.

We waited in line for Steve Jobs all day today

alternateorg on November 11, 2001

10:00 AM: Wait in line for Littleton Apple Store to open
11:00 AM: Actually enter Littleton Apple Store and wander around with all the other totally helpless geeks, wait in line to see/use new hella cool iPod
7:50 PM: Skip waiting in airport-like lines and buy tickets at a terribly interfaced ABO (Automatic Box Office), attend ‘Monsters, Inc.’ at Littleton/Highlands Ranch supermegahyperglobalplex amongst all the teenagers for whom Ben Folds’ ‘Rockin’ The Suburbs’ song was written explicitly for

All in all, a good day. The Apple store was every bit as interesting as I expected, especially with a someone special close to Alternate working at the Genius bar. 5 free t-shirts, I might add. Although they are dorky and do say ‘Aspen Grove’ on them (the name of the mall where said store is located). Some of those people in line with me were just… man. Geeks to the fullest extent. But at least they were Mac geeks. Balding men wearing multicolored Apple logos emblazoned on black tees abounded. And there was a guy on stilts.

Not concerned with the nudity

alternateorg on November 8, 2001

What a great idea. Take amateur porn photography and focus on what’s in the background, because what’s in the foreground is worse (click on ‘obscene interiors’). Don’t worry, the actual nude people in the pictures are traced and covered over, so you can view it at work and not vomit, etc. Complete with comments on the items in the picture.

I am way too busy for this..

alternateorg on November 8, 2001

..But since everyone feels the need to fucking have a say in how Alternate is run, post all your comment shit to this post. Tell me how much I suck, how much you hate this site and how badly it’s designed. Go ahead, here’s your chance. This is absolutely the last fucking thing I need right now but apparently you all feel the need to jump in and tell me how to run a site that I helped start a few years ago where no one read it and we didn’t fucking care. We started it so that we could make public some of the things that we talked about in private and felt that other people might be interested in. We also felt that journalists and other webloggers at the time were too wishy-washy and refused to put forth a strong if not popular opinion. We feel strongly about what we tend to write about and voice our posts accordingly. That’s it. I don’t owe you a god-damn thing and if you feel that I should sit here and take personal attacks with a smile and a shrug then you can fuck yourself. There.

Road geek?

alternateorg on November 8, 2001

After reading ‘On The Road’ not-entirely-too-many-times-but-enough-to-know-I-will-read-it-too-many-times-before-I-die, I’ve found myself actually interested in roads/highways… where they go, what personality they have outside of metropolitan areas and who’s been there before me.. things like that. Now, Tim has had some intersting road-related links up recently, and I found that there is in fact a term ‘Road Geek.’ I wouldn’t say I’m particularly there yet, but I certainly am interested in how interstates get their numbered names… So as soon as I have some time, I’ll look into it and post the results.

28 Degrees and Rising

alternateorg on November 8, 2001

I must say that the golf course across the street from me is gorgeous when it’s partially snow-covered, with green grass showing through. Fall in Denver really is a wonderful time and we’ve been lucky this year to have an extended ‘autumn’ time (defined for me by trees that are other colors than green but before their leaves fall) due to (I think) unseasonably warm temperatures. I swear that last year I was out of town for a week in early October and when I came back, I found I missed the entire thing.