instead of work, i’ve been reading old penny arcades. they’re all pretty good, but this one split my sides. the slashdot one is good too.

did i mention i got the abyss: se dvd in the mail today? it’s a kickass 2 dvd set w/ both the theatrical and director’s cut, and tons of extras, like the complete screenplay and storyboards, mutli-angle stuff, concept art, and documentaries. now if only i had a working dvd player…

i wanted to finish writing a late paper tonight, but i ended up spending 4 hours in a coffee house unsucessfully studying for a fa350 midterm (art theory and criticism). semiotics and critical theory, wee. de saussure, beaudrillard, derrida, lacan, oh my. the cool thing is that i met a ucla (no link there, nope nope) 3rd yr graduate art student who coincidentally enough was writing a paper on barthes / freud / lacan, etc. (psycho-analysis). was able to get some (different) perspective on how all the theorists and theories interact. ok, well, i’m gonna be up for a looong time tonight. blech.

randomness: i got dope wars (based of of the original drug wars – ahh, amber screens and warm fuzzies… memories)

for my palm in january, and played it for about 3 straight hours. i got a high score that night $26,482,227 which i’ve yet to beat since. unfortunately, my lowest high score is $3 million+, which can get frustrating when i make over a million and still not be rewarded properly. incidentally, i’ve calculated it will take me 11 years to make my first million if i save $30,000 / yr assuming a 20% avg rate of return. if i get cracking this summer, i should be able to become financially independent by 2011.

obviously mentioned everywhere, the web economy bullshit generator. the cool thing is that a lot of the words that me (and everyone else in the biz) suggested last week ended up on there this week. yay. the scariest thing of course being that all this jargon sounds frighteningly … uh real. reminds me of the old trek technobabble generators, ahh, the wonders of fidonet. i’d dig out the original, but unfortunately i lost all my bluewave logfiles in a hd crash in 1996. wow, that was a while back ago. old skool. 😉

while i’m babbling, i got the m$h sndtrk (corrected order) from cdnow today. i must say, that stateless (ra) is a frickin’ awesome song. so different, yet so u2.

i have a hitbox account and should really use that instead of extreme tracking for ths stuff i can’t get webalizer to cover (and that i’m too lazy to set up analog for) but th hitbox icon is just too damn ugly.

well that took a long time to type out. so that’s where all my time goes. c’est la vie.

i’ve almost forgotten how frickin hilarious suck can be.

jason will flip over this, mr showbiz has an interactive pets.com sock puppet.

i’ve been relistening to the u2 salome boots this morning. as much as achtung baby rocks, some of the unreleased stuff was even better.

funky. try out leonard($foo). this is based off mediator software, part of critlink. the author of those apps has also written an interesting an interesting issue tracking system in python.

metaphysical conceits are neet.

random rant: hate it when you leave a cd out and it gets scratched at it starts skipping. when i get a better cd drive i should rip em onto mp3 to avoid that kind of thing. need to get paid first though… maybe then an ultraplex would be good.

i’m gonna take a step back until i clear some stuff off my todo list. hopefully i’ll be able to get enough done that i can have some fun this weekend. rent.net actually works. too bad bookmarking is such a bitch (crappily designed cgi), and the interface/organization/navigation sucks. i’m kvetching again.

hmm, blogger, crapping out again. time to get some more boxen, burn that venture capital!