Monday, February 28, 2005

sigh

I know it's your plan to try and piss people off by writing these reviews, but it doesn't make sense. You criticize all music. What do you listen to that is so good. Give me some bands and im sure i could write as much bullshit about them as you do. Thanks for amuzing me with your stupidity.

no amount of commentary will do stuff.

One for the ages

I put this away message together while waiting to see if I had to go to sleep or not:

One basic tennant of any legal system is that none may ignore the law

sigh... the internet is a festering cesspit comprised of atrocious grammar and fetid spelling. I am going to sleep in the hopes that, at some point in the distant future, the university's administrators see the Mack truck of a snow storm headed our way and call "Game Off" before little Jimmy gets run over while trying to match Todd's call of "from just in front of the mailbox, bounced off the ground and swished to fall into Mrs. Apfelsaft's flowerbed."

Yeah it was a long way to go for a HORSE joke, but that's okay, you don't have to laugh at it.

Friday, February 25, 2005

go go gadget internet moron

2005-02-25 08:52:12 AM newton

those sprays do work. they add an unnoticable gloss that
creates an overexposure of your plate. there is no law against altering your plates, as long as the number is visable to the eye. i do not enjoy robot enforcers. i do not enjoy robot check-out lanes at the store. i walk past over 100 cameras a day on the streets of the city. I am famous.


Sigh. You go from the laser guided traffic tickets to convenience at checkout lines? How about the anonymous nature of self checkout? All the porn and condoms you can buy and nobody has to see it. Self checkout is a godsend when you don't have to deal with people who don't trust it. I was always sick of waiting in line at those behind people who clearly had no business using them, checking out 300 items or more all the while doubting every price they showed... list goes on. Anyway, I don't care about how many damn cameras you walk past. I walk past the same 10 or 20 cameras every day, the people behind them probably know my "routine" and all that. You know what, though? I don't care. Neither should you. [edit from 2019: my views on privacy have changed now that there are cameras everywhere in a way there weren't in 2005, and now that facial recognition is a meaningful point of contention in policing/law enforcement]

In other news, comments are, according to blogger, now easier to post. Chop chop!

Wednesday, February 23, 2005

NO NO NO NO NO NO

2005-02-22 09:47:30 PM m4tt3
I kinda enjoyed their most recent CD. I'll...admit to it.


NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO. GOD, SHUT THESE PEOPLE UP PLEASE. I want internet licensing NOW. [edit from 2019: I would no longer advocate for needing a license to get on the internet as a joke; it's become clear the internet was a mistake overall and licensing wouldn't fix it]

Seriously.

2005-02-22 09:58:59 PM Doolspin

im up too 2500+ items copied right now. Good luck with dial up :)


Look, I'm sick of the internet. I am sick of everyone's horrible grammar and spelling. [edit from 2019: I had a comparison link to something I wrote here and it's gone. I then bragged about being a better writer than an internet rando. Truly, 2005 Nat got 'em]

Shut up, internet

in re: script for downloading all the calvin and hobbes strips from whenever to 1995:
2005-02-22 09:35:54 PM naturalbornposer
Ditto on the script. Open source would be nice so I could adapt it to, umm... candid photos?


No. Shut up.

Tool.

Tuesday, February 22, 2005

Seriously, I want off

MacAddict Forum Post

HOW DO YOU SPELL WARRANTY THAT WRONG? Logical flaws aside, that person should be ignored just for spelling.

Oooh. I should be granted peremptory challenges for internet users.

Sunday, February 13, 2005

Daniel Ewing thinks so...

So the question is, why doesn't the rest of the Duke population see a rivalry?

On playing against Maryland:
"Over the last couple of years, it has been a big rivalry between us. Both teams get up to play each other, so it is going to be a tough game every time we meet. Both teams have good players, both teams always get up for the game and it is going to be a pretty good rivalry."

Friday, February 11, 2005

I'm such a nerd

I found a replacement driver via slashdot today that allows me to scroll on my iBook in a manner only just announced on the PowerBook G4: using two fingers at a time. I'm proud of myself because it's really quite cool, quite handy, and, most importantly, it was free and required using the terminal to install. Go nerd!

In other news, I was sick Wednesday. Now I am not. Uhh... I guess that's about that.

Thursday, February 3, 2005

When metal goes bad...

chris: damnit

me: this is not rock

chris: thin lizzy should only play the boys are back in town and jail break

me: mine died

chris: you are lucky

me: oh good, it fixed itself. :-!

me: brb YO

chris: ok

me: I gots to make sure the elevator is working

me: wow now it almost rocked for a second there

me: then it went back to crap



Thanks, hardrockin80s.com!

Wednesday, February 2, 2005

YEAAAAAAH!

[edit from 2019: presumably there was an image of a groundhog here once]
Happy Groundhog Day, mofus!

booooong



Also, YOU WILL WATCH THIS. I will, I'll be watching it at 8 and 11.

Tuesday, February 1, 2005

One other thing

Jeff had this that i came up with:



Aww, he's so drunk!



Jeff took the picture.

Descent into Madness

...

[edit from 2019: this post had a series of pictures I took of random things in my office during a particularly long boring night shift; this was one of the first times I had access to a digital camera. sadly, all of the images are dead and gone]



Who am I kidding? I was already there!



CCJS 452 notes from 2/1/05

Bizzarro World



My work schedule from 2/1/05

Dinosaur



My CCJS 370 notes from 1/26/05

Exit sign



The hallway in the ASY 3311 Suite

Hallway



Hi!

Hi



A pile of Griffin iMic dongles

iMics



Jesus is a terps fan and was at the FSU game

Jesus is Metal



Part of my jacket

Leather



A mouse

A Mouse's Ass



The computer in the EMC office

Otters sure are silly



Unintended consequence of dorking around

WHOA!



Can you tell me why stamina means no battery?

WHOA! AGAIN!



Unique Perspective

Tags



CCJS 452 notes from 1/27

What the hell is this thing?



A tripod and movie cart, and my shoe.

WHOA! BUT A THIRD TIME!



Vampire Scott. Yeah, i forgot his head was bell shaped at the time.

You're such a dick.



More CCJS 452 notes from 1/27

Word, bitch: Phantoms like a motherfucker!

oh so many hours

I'm in the filthy Electronic Media Center for the evening. 5:30 to 10:00 pm, for all intents. I'm not even sure what I'm going to do with myself for four and a half hours. I brought my CDs with me because I knew about this in advance, and I am listening to Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence because I am some kind of prog metal fanboy.

Could be worse.

I wish I had brought my bass. I wish I had ______, for that matter. Something... to do. I have two tasks: keep the lab open until 9 so that one girl can come back, and train Sue how to do checkouts and run the lab. The latter will last from maybe 6:30 to 7:00. Yeah, fun holler, represent.

I did something amusing on the wall for here. It's a notice. We have a severe problem with people misusing our loaner equipment in this office. Right now, for example, one of our digital video cameras (the newest and best model) is missing without a trace. AWOL, if you will. Since I am fed up with being jerked around by the art department students, I won't stand for this. Much less will I stand for it from coworkers. Thus, the notice:

ATTENTION EMC EMPLOYEES

Did you check out the DV-6?
I only ask because I can't seem to find it or any record of where it went.
I mean, I'm only trying to keep the place running well.
No, no no no, it's not your job to help me.
I am schvitzing all over the place up here though because the camera cost a lot of money and, you know, these days you can't count on funding to replace lost items or any of that
What am I saying, it's not a trouble, don't bother yourself. I mean, we'll all only get fired but really, you shouldn't bother yourself with trying to figure out where it went.

All that in progressively smaller text, from 36 on down to 12. Nothing like Jewish guilt, I hear, might as well try it.

But then I drew this:
Snoogans!

It's only going to get worse, people.

Natural Light

Is there any way to wake up refreshed in the morning? What's the secret? I woke up at 8:50 of my body's own volition, meaning I was done sleeping, and I still feel terrible.

Stupid sleep.

Citations

You know, I wish I could quote song lyrics on here without feeling like a total tool. Fortunately, I can't, so I would point out to all of you that Train of Thought is a fantastic album and I didn't even know I identified with some of the lyrics from "Endless Sacrifice." I guess trying to play through most of the album will do that realization trip.