[Friday, November 10, 2000]

1:22 AM

I like G4 cubes. Yes. But I like them because they're fast, because they're small, because the speakers that come with them are unbelievably clear. But a can't understand this obsession with them. It's really, really sad.   [ link ]

 

 

[Monday, October 30, 2000]

5:01 PM

From: [Sherazard]
To: emlyyn@visto.com
Subject: Re: (no subject)
Sent: 10/29/2000 21:32

We are so accustomed to there being more than one side
to things, however....
Actually, there is no however.
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[Friday, October 27, 2000]

9:27 AM

Er....

Great redesign, Dan. Very... um... familiar.

(strange - he doesn't use frames. I can't imagine what the problem might be)   [ link ]

 

 

[Monday, October 23, 2000]

1:52 PM

My teeth hurt. And I mean *hurt*.   [ link ]

 

 

[Wednesday, October 18, 2000]

2:42 PM

A have five gigabytes of MP3s, and (almost) every one of them is legal. It doesn't amount to very much music, because I, unlike many people, can tell the difference bettween MP3s and CDs, and detest inferior sound - thus, I insist that all MP3s be sampled at a ridiculously high sampling rate.

The Art of Euphamisms

Incorrect   I'm ripping these CDs for MP3s.
Correct   Third-layer MPEG files will be inspired by the data upon these compact discs.   [ link ]

 

 

[Tuesday, October 17, 2000]

12:48 PM

Good question. My answer - when you switch to a new operating system. Evan is undecided bettween Motherboard and hard disk (he reasons that a human is made what they are by their memory, so why not a computer?), Alex calls the actual box by a name and sticks with that name regardless of internal changes, and Sherazard isn't enough of a geek to name computers. Pity, because I bet she'd have a really interesting answer to that question.   [ link ]

 

 

[Wednesday, August 30, 2000]

7:32 PM

This is not an update.

For no compelling reason.   [ link ]

 

 

[Friday, August 25, 2000]

4:58 PM

I didn't cut off all my hair yesterday with a pair of blue scissors while listening to Britteny Spears on the radio.   [ link ]

 

4:50 PM

I'm never going to have a catchphrase, I've decided. For no compelling reason.   [ link ]

 

 

[Thursday, August 24, 2000]

10:35 PM

Ah, the sweet taste of being toyed with. I must be addicted to it. It's the only explaination.   [ link ]

 

10:31 PM

Hmmm. This Johannes guy linked to me.   [ link ]

 

 

[Tuesday, August 22, 2000]

1:28 AM

Today it was pointed out to me that this chain of weblogloglogloglogloglogging both began and ended with David Gagne. I hadn't noticed that. Thank you. And now, on behalf of webloggers everywhere, I would like to apologise to all weblog readers for the actions of David Gagne and to assure you that my chainsaw will soon be repaired.   [ link ]

 

 

[Sunday, August 20, 2000]

8:13 PM

Anyone who's thinking that I might be having problems with my girlfriend because of the previous post should try actually taking the lesbian test. I guarentee that you're a lesbian. That test is rigged.   [ link ]

 

7:37 PM

My connection speed in kps has somehow been reduced to a one-digit number.

This may be nothing new to some of you, but it's driving me insane. I've become weak in my addiction to high connection speeds.   [ link ]

 

6:09 AM

Sherazard took the infamous lesbian test, and it turns out that she's a lesbian. She tried to persuade me otherwise, but I think she took the wrong approach:
Sherazard: I wouldn't sleep with Leila if she were the last woman alive!

Ooops.   [ link ]

 

4:59 AM

What is it about rollover images?

I swear I could spend all day at Harlan's splash page, moving my mouse back and forth... and back and forth....   [ link ]

 

2:43 AM

New design. I'm still stumbling around, trying to hit on the feeling of my log. We'll see if this turns out better, now that my text is no longer boxed up and obsessively centred.   [ link ]

 

2:06 AM

I now have an ICQ number: #85656392. Feel free to intantly tell me that I'm a l4m3r.   [ link ]

 

 

[Saturday, August 19, 2000]

11:58 PM

>From: [Sherazard]
>To: emlyn@misery.8k.com
>Subject: [openness]
>Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2000 05:32:43 -0700 (PDT)
>
>
>You are my firewall, and I am your cracker.
>
>I'm such a nerd.   [ link ]

 

10:04 PM

I missed out on winning Bryan's Quote Contest. Again.

I'm feeling remarkably petty today.   [ link ]

 

9:42 PM

Rule of Thumb: If "everyone" knows something, then I don't.

It's true. My general knowledge sucks. Outside of the areas I'm interested in, I know virtually nothing.

Example: If I mention Marie Antionette, the only thing she might have said which springs to your mind is probably something along the lines of: "then let them eat cake."

I did an assignment on Marie Antionette once. My sourcebooks had a slight oddity in that, as well as documenting things that Marie Antionette did, they all documented something which she did not do; ie, say: "then let them eat cake." They went out of their way to point out that she hadn't said that.

I was baffled. It made as much sense to me as a comment like: "I didn't cut off all my hair yesterday with a pair of blue scissors while listening to Britteny Spears on the radio," dropped into a normal conversation. I didn't realise that there was a popular impression to the effect that she had said "then let them eat cake" which the books were refuting. So it just sounded weird.

Worse yet, when I later mentioned in passing to my brother that I had done an assignment on Marie Antionette, he said: "Oh. Let them eat cake, huh?"

I said: "What?"

And after that, he wouldn't believe that I'd actually done the assignment, even although I knew (know) far more about the French Revolution than him. Because the Cake aspect was all he knew of the subject, and he wouldn't believe I knew anything of the subject if I hadn't even heard that quote.

I don't know what I do about this. Should I try learning things outside of my areas of interest? How can I do so in any case?   [ link ]

 

8:31 PM

Quote via my friend Evan:

Source code is a lot like a parachute; it needs to be open to work   [ link ]

 

3:44 AM

Hmmmm. This Nicholai guy didn't link to me.

I am not Jason Kottke.

Pedal is spelled "pedal".

Work is spelled "work". Stuff is spelled "stuff". I do not "Blog" for anyone or anything. Size does matter.

Anything I missed?   [ link ]

 

 

[Friday, August 18, 2000]

10:12 PM

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[Thursday, August 17, 2000]

7:04 AM

Yet another Dr Seuss tribute. What is it with nerds and Dr Seuss?   [ link ]

 

7:02 AM

The begining of the end.

It has been suggested that a quantum computer would be capable of cracking any code at all, no mattter what, in less time than the lifespan of the universe (a reasonable period, therefore. For those who don't know, problems tend to be solvable either within a human lifetime or not within the projected lifespan of the universe, and seldom in any timeframe bettween these extremes). The existance of such technology, the ability to break any code, will inevitably lead to the downfall of civilisation, and I hope I don't have to explain why. We're all doomed.   [ link ]

 

 

[Wednesday, August 16, 2000]

9:07 AM

View your site without all the extra goodies
   [ link ]

 

 

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