Worst Ad Ever
Why this ad is the worst ad on the internet. Be careful, slight penis-related humor.
Why I usually eat lunch alone…
So today, I went out to lunch with a bunch of developers to a fucking sports bar. The highlight of which was that I got to ride in a Porsche 911 Carrera Cabriolet back the office. With the top down.
Your Favorite
Chocolat. See it with someone you love. As soon as you can.
Not Platinum
Has anyone else noticed how applications like QuarkXPress and Flash (newest versions of each) don’t use the Platinum interface inside their preference panels and menu selections? What’s up with that? Like, if you click ‘View’ in the top menu in Flash 5, all the options are in black text, with the highlighted selection having a black selection bar instead of the color you’ve chosen in the Apperance control panel. Also, everything looks very flat and System 7-ish. Weird. I wonder why Macromedia / Quark / Netscape would just simply not invoke the Apperances settings along with the Platinum interface elements. Funky-monkey. Hopefully 10.1 will fix all that.
Vs
As Neil Gaiman (or was it Terry Pratchett?) has said in the past: “‘Good’ and ‘Evil’ are just names for sides.”
Something perhaps to keep in mind.
10 years fly by
Nirvana’s ‘Nevermind’ was released 10 years ago today. Holy fucking christ.
My short Nirvana history:
- I hear ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ for the first time on MTV.
- It takes me a while to get into Nirvana, as my Metallica-loving stage has just kicked in and has yet to grow into the festering hate I would harbor in later years.
- Eventually In Utero is released, forcing me to reconsider my lukewarm attachment to said band. I look into the albums prior to Nevermind and am pleasantly surprised to find music that I enjoy.
- I see Nirvana in concert at the San Diego Sports Arena on Decemeber 29, 1993, coincidentally one year to the day before I would move away from my hometown, my life ripped to shreds.
- Cobain dies, I am really not that affected although a future girlfriend at the time is terribly unhappy as she is a huge Nirvana fan, and Kurt’s body is found on her birthday
- Unplugged is released posthumously, and keeps me warm during the cold Colorado nights. Almost.
Anti-Anti War
Right now, 6,300 Americans are presumed dead, a fact barely acknowledged by the protesters in Boston and many others swept up in the anti-war reaction. A foreign state that treats women like slaves is harboring and sponsoring a known terrorist with global connections. The world has a strong, reasonable suspicion that a network of genuinely savage fighters is being sheltered by the mountains of Afghanistan men who have publically and clearly stated their intentions to kill Americans and Jews, regardless of age, gender or military affiliation.
…
…staging street protests and petitions that seem to lend sympathy and comfort to those who destroyed the World Trade Center can only sabotage the Left’s ability to reach into the mainstream of American opinion and create real change.
I’m with him, I think. Decide for yourself.
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And read this one, too.
WTC Ghost Towers
This is kind of interesting. Multiple people claim to see some sort of ghost of the twin towers at night. The quote that struck me as odd, however:
The towers “were the most beautiful thing you could see from here,” said Carlos Torres, 28, a lifelong resident of the Lower East Side.
Torres said he also saw the faint image of the towers one recent night when his boss pointed it out to him. “Scared? Why?” Torres asked. “It’s a thing of God.”
Not to be harsh or anything, but I just didn’t think that Lower-East siders were the type to believe in God. Just a thought.