great, looks like my mobo died (not posting, power seems ok, hard drives, video card, and ram test ok) on me while i was installing a stick of ram i just got. grr. especially bad timing… the ram seems to be working ok in my old system though…

you know, sometimes i forget how much richer my life is because of the the internet. it’s just so easy to take it all for granted, especially the little things. from yesterday’s peterme:

I <heart> regionalisms. I found out last night that what most people call a ‘liquor store’ or a ‘convenience store,’ Michiganders call a ‘party store.’ Like, 7-11 is a ‘party store.’

This just in: Meg informs me that in Massachusetts, liquor stores are called “packies” short for “package store.”

this totally random tidbit totally brightened up my day.

omg this is great: Porn Star or My Little Pony? should i be disturbed that i’m not more disturbed?

mark on the topic home improvement:

In the novels The Soft Machine, Nova Express, and The Ticket That Exploded, William Burroughs makes a lot of references to the combination of hanging and orgasm. He also talks about orgasm death. I just started to realize what that might mean. In some ways it could refer to an orgy of spending and consuming that will promise nothing but ecological disaster. Interior Motives then becomes a show that isn’t only about decorating but also death. How long can Christopher broadcast from his phonied up studio home before the tides of toxic waste pour over the walls of the dump and equalize our glut?

so, i just got back after heading off to the weekly technotribe event. paris spun a great house set, and then afterwards, i spotted some people praciticing some break dancing, and got one of them, to show me going through a six step. i did it three times and i think i have it now. the one i was shown was more like this version than the necko one

i think i’m going to start blogging people i’ve met since i have such trouble with names. then i just need a more effective search engine. hmm, time to split up blog / journal /todo / bookmarks / notes? – big mike (whom i keep forgetting), daniel (like webster) who goes to lmu and does graphic design, does “the box,” martin (undecided), philip (environmental studies grad student), and yasmine ( 3 german cats), and the breakers, stee-lo, ki-li, and juliet (took a year off, going to smc next year), who showed me the sixstep.

i asked her if her parents were romeo & juliet fans, and it turns out they were fans of the movie. i couldn’t recall the director’s name at the time, but what i was thinking of was to ask if it was the zeffirelli version, which is what i’m assuming it was. now she said though that her parents loved the movie but that there was a sorta sequel made with the same actors, and that the name of the juliet character was also juliet, which piqued my movie trivia curiousity, so i did a search, but came up with nada.

amazing, kinko’s just did a stupendous job cutting and binding my graphic identity manual. i guess third time’s a charm. i’m so happy, i’m so glad they didn’t screw up again.

part 3 of my procrastination series.

i’ve been using aim some since aol has shut down the jabber relay, and after messing w/ the client some (getting rid of the ads for one things), i do have to admit that it has some neat features and seems better assembled / way better written than icq. the text settings export, text config files, and buddy icons are slick. however, some weaknesses: can’t create aliases for buddy names, no msg delivery when a user is offline, weak presence settings, and (most importantly for me) no message archiving / history. this really makes im useless as an actual useful tool. now, admittedly, having logs of yak back to 1997 is excessive, but there’s just too much useful info that i want to look up even in passing conversation. names, numbers, urls, etc. the best ideas come up when one’s passing the breeze. if only aol would play ball with an open messaging standard, i wouldn’t have to juggle between client features and the services that my friends use… or at least allow icq and aim to interact (hey if jabber can add relays, why can’t aim and icq?)… looks like i’ll be sticking to clunky chunky icq as my primary tool for now though.

so, this is the site that won the macromedia flash 5 design a site for usability contest. the shirt bookmarks work until you leave. the entire site is one file so you still can’t save say, the about page… oh yeah, and one thing jakob forgot to mention, still breaks !@$#$ copy n paste. sad, just sad.

paul’s 4.8.2001 entry makes me wish he had permalinks.

semi related, joey ramone died yesterday.

of course,the post-modern literary device!