February 2001

Wednesday, February 28

well said

http://a.wholelottanothing.org/more.blah?moreID=8

Odd email addresses say alot about the people who have them.
"Butt79@hotmail.com" for example, demonstrates that I'm an imature idiot who would do the world a service by not reproducing. and,.... this morning, I get an email from "NoFondlinMySheep@aol.com". "He" just wrote to say that my "stuff was absolutely hilarious".

"No", I replied, "your email nic is absolutely hilarious."
Yes, his nic may be funny, but no one will ever top my "hitler@jewishmail.com".
I don't ever use it, but at least I've got it instead of some twisted skinhead nazi freak.

Tuesday, February 27

According to the Financial Times, drug companies now spend more on branding and marketing than on research and development. It doesn’t matter if the pill works, as long as the reps can sell it to doctors, seems to be the message. Final proof, as if such were needed, that concern for people’s health now takes second place to profits.

Every once in awhile, you come across things like this that liven one's day and remind us all of the true potential of the internet as a medium for unadulterated self expression.

"Unleash the Tiger"
www.sardonia.org/karate/

"If you don't see something on the web that you sense a need for, create it." - some smart guy.

Monday, February 26

Hang wet expensive dirtbike gear out to dry on the deck. ..,mold bad. Borrowed gear costs more than bike.
Shower. Wash chain lube out of hair.
Sleep ..
go to school. Don't talk about weekend. Pretend mine was as uneventfull as everyone else's.
I don't like people who flaunt their fun.
They don't either.

Friday, February 23

all this nerd stuff is getting old.
Justin has informed me that I'm going riding with him and others all weekend. ..,he's right.

I've never been there before, but the mill creek trail system is supposed to be pretty cool.

So today was spent readying the bike and borrowing "cool dirtbike attire" from those who have money.
It's weird to think that my bike (KX 125) was actually in a bucket only 3 months ago, and it runs pretty good in spite of the fact that we put it together without using a single metric tool.

Cool.
I just finished setting up blogvoices. Now, my 3 daily visitors can respond to each and every pathetic post.
I'm a night person you see, and at 1:35 am, this whole thing finally gets done.
Dad can't go to sleep with the knowledge that I'm not, asleep. That's just too bad.
No school tommorow, so he'll purposly wake me up real early in an attempt to break me of this productive nightime habit.
He'll never understand.

Thursday, February 22

"The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, 'You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done." - George Carlin

Radiohead: Fake Plastic Trees ....says alot right now.

Wednesday, February 21

Whoa!
Now thisis something that I might actually do.
If this service is everything it's cracked up to be, ...all the people out there like me will be ..."so doing it".
cafepress.com

I'm a strange person. For some reason, I've really been diggin on two OLD songs and listening to them over and over.

Looking Glass - "Brandy (you're a fine girl)"
Gladys Knight and the Pips - "Midnight Train to Georgia"

Good oldschool music seems to transform a sucky day into something semi-meaningful.
ok, back to "Fight for Los Angeles".

Monday, February 19

Zeldman: "Some say websites will be like Hollywood movies as soon as everyone has broadband. That's what they mean by convergence. I don't think "everyone" will have broadband as soon as they hope. And I don't think every website will be a $100 million production (like a Hollywood movie). So I can't see it. I can see some sites being fat-media-intensive, and this has been going on for years now. RoadRunner and other cable modem providers have sites filled with Quicktime movies and such, to demonstrate the benefits of their product. But will every site be like that one day? I don't know. I hope cheapairlinetickets.com doesn't feel the need to run widescreen movies before letting me save $5 on my tickets. Airline movies are so lame."

I love reading things that crack me up and make me think at the same time.
The latest interview

1 luxury cruise ship, divided into 160 "homes". For 2 million dollars, a person can LIVE on the boat for a year and travel all around the world.
I'm guessing that having everything would get old after awhile. .., no, probably not.

got around to updating sucky photography page with stuff from Louisiana and Freestyle Motocross. I kinda like the whole "photo essay" approach. For me, whenever people post photographs, it's always more interesting if they say something about them.
....I just wish my writing skills didn't equal those of an 8th grader. It's kinda scary when you come to realize that SO MUCH in life depends on a person's ability to mold sentence and paragraph structure. ...Yet ANOTHER reason why I suck.

oh yes.
I've finally gotten the blogger syntax correct. It'll be SO easy to update now.
hmmmm?.... .., what to say.

Monday, February 12

She say's she'll call back in a minute...., right. I'm good at getting the hint. .., at least now I know.

It's always good to be aware of where you stand, even if a person doesn't come out and say it.

So now I know. .., and knowing is half the battle. This "battle" just happened to be over before it ever began.

A man called our house yesterday trying to sell dad 3 canoes.
His last name was Wellhouse.
And his parents, who were obviously very cool people, chose to name him Max.

With a name like Max Wellhouse, a person can pick up chicks in a bar with a one-liner that will last a lifetime.

idea # 2:

It's always been a dream of mine to open a resturant where people don't come for the food OR the atmosphere.
They flock to 'this' resturant to experience weirdness and oddity at extreme levels.

details:
The resturant will serve authentic mexican food, and the menus will tout extreme levels of the spanish language that even your polished high school foreign language teacher would have a hard time deciphering. Everything in the whole establishment would would be mexican to the max...,
..except the waiters.

They'd be Korean or Chineese. And they'd all have to wear the sumbreros and attempt to speak the mexican menu jargon.

THAT, would be a dining 'experience'.

Another idea from 'this' marketing genious:

All of the rentable moving trucks are yellow. ..,why?
I guess it's because people recognize the yellow trucks for what they are etc..
Uhaul needs to come out with a new line of trucks, commercials, ads etc.. in which the trucks are painted blue.
And the slogan, that will be painted on the side of every truck will be:

"These trucks are blue"