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Who's the furry little dude who's a sex machine to all the Thespians?
THAD! Can you dig it?
Who's the cool cat sitting in the corner spewing Mountain Dew out of his nose?
You know who I'm talking about.
o~/ Who is the man who can turn a mummy to a soda can? o~/
THAD! That's right.
o~/ He's a complicated man, and no one understands him because he talks like a damn thesaurus! o~/
BOYD Thad!
Yeah, I hear that Thad is one cool frood who really knows where his towel is...
Shut yo' mouth!
I'm just talking about Thaddeus Roscoe Robison Boyd...
We can sass it! THAD!
((At this point Brentai is overcome by the urge to grow an afro and have sex with beautiful women. Since both are nearly impossible for him, his head simply explodes.))
- Brent
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The good news is that I successfully installed RedHat. The bad news is that it doesn't work very well, and I have to disconnect my zarking primary master to run Windows.
Well, we've got another Bush in the White House. (Hey...that turning sound from Zappa's grave has turned to just sort of an uneasy shifting!) And conventional wisdom holds that I helped elect him. God bless America. I've written an essay on the subject. Again, I don't plan to turn this page into a forum for my political views, but indulge me in this rare indulgence.
Oh, and new Life.
I know I look kinda stupid for writing that essay and going straight to bed after the initial announcement of Redneck Boy's presidency, but I was tired, dammit, and I'm not altering the thing unless Gore somehow manages a victory after all.
Anyway, I managed to get my sweaty, excited hands on FF9 today. Now they're sticky, too. Read a short synopsis in my new Life.
Oh, and I've got a decent dual boot now. ...Not a very good config, but a decent dual boot. ...I've switched to Mandrake. ...Shut up, Steve.
Well, you've probably noticed that the page looks a teensy bit different. I've gone all-out to conform to XHTML 1.0 standards. Now if only the browsers would do that.
Got a new and worse counter from digits.com. TheCounter used bad HTML and I don't know enough about scripts to fix it, and HitBox uses banners.
(Not that Digits is much worse than TheCounter...it's amazing how many unique hits I'd get in the span of ten minutes from users with IE and Java at 1600x1200. Good Lord, people, how hard is it to check an IP?!)
Anyway, watch as, in coming days, I slowly update the entire page to XHTML 1.0.
And I've left up the November updates because there were only two; I'll do another combined archive at the end of the month.
The Links Section is now XHTML 1-compliant, revamped, and has links to CutePet and Jon's art pages.
I'm working on upgrading the Archive; I plan to have that done at the end of the month.
While it wasn't actually online until two months later, I put together the first slapdash incarnation of this page one year ago today. It's been an interesting year...it's shown us the most farcical election in history, the release of Transformers on DVD, the end of Beast Machines, and Final Fantasy 9. ...Shit, that was all just last month.
Anyway...in honor of this momentous event, I added a link to a page I found yesterday: Christopher Priest's. I command you to download "Noogie" and "Three Shakes" from the Quantum and Woody section.
Also, I changed all the single-cell tables on this and the links page to divs. Because that's what divs are for.
Incidentally, the XHTML-ization of the Archive is finished, but I still don't intend to upload it until the end of this month/year/century/millennium. It's just easier that way.
New Life. 'Cause why the hell not?
Between studying for finals, I've upgraded such forgotten "Creative" Writing staples as ChairmanCase@aol.com, Enemies List, and Election 2000 to XHTML 1.0 standards, removed the separate CSS file for Links, and finally remembered to change my URL (or is "URI" the trendy thing now?) in my Short and To-the-Point Questionnaire.
Other classic flops such as How Capitalism Killed the Internet vs. YourGoingToHell.com and behemoth-sized entities Jaded Views, BRR, and KateStory to follow.
Remember, at the end of October, when I said I had something to say but couldn't remember what it was? Well, I soon remembered: I was going to write a Snow Rant. Unfortunately, by the time I remembered, it had become unseasonably warm. However, as it snowed like a mofo today, I have written The Snow Rant in a long overdue Stream.
Minor updates to Life and Links.
Rather shaken by the news that X-Man is getting cancelled now that Ellis has finally turned it into something decent, I've added a Support Black Panther banner to my page. More than that, I will now rattle off a list of all my favorite comics, that you may support them too: Quantum and Woody (Acclaim), Astro City (DC-Homage) (although neither of those has been put out for like a year, they're not technically cancelled), The Authority (DC-Wildstorm), Planetary (DC-Wildstorm), Black Panther (Marvel), X-Man (Marvel), Avengers (Marvel), and The Simpsons (Bongo). In short, pretty much anything written by Christopher Priest, Kurt Busiek, or Warren Ellis. ...The first issue of Ultimate X-Men (Marvel) was pretty good, and I still regularly collect Thunderbolts (Marvel), but they don't really constitute favorites.
New Life.
Well, it took awhile, but Jaded Views is XHTML-ized, and now equipped with a special set of notes at the end detailing the differences between the final version and the draft used for the MiSTing. (Actually, I mostly did find-replace; I'm getting sick of this. So, if you see any errors in the code for any reason, let me know.)
No, it's not much of an update, but hey, at least I didn't, say, put Dawson's Creek on instead of The Simpsons. I fucking hate WB.
As my first New Year's resolution, I've gone ahead and finally XHTML-ized everything on the site (except behemoths BRR and KateStory. I also spent a hell of a long time trying to change all the extensions to .xhtml, but they won't display like that...I'm still new at this. Anyway, I've given up; I feel sick (and I haven't even imbibed any alcohol, it's just been the worst week in history) and I'm going to bed. At any rate, if I broke any links when I was fucking up, let me know.
My next New Year's resolution is not to go on a killing spree. Don't know whether I'll accomplish that or not.
Enjoy both. They're more than you deserve, world.
Incidentally, November-December Archive's up. You vultures.
Finally, I added links to Steve's new page and Thor's mirror.
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It's not that I've never seen snow. I spent five winters in Prescott...though I don't like to talk, think, or perform interpretive dance about that.
But I've never seen it quite like this.
Okay, so maybe I'm still a lightweight compared to people backeast.
I don't know where I'm going with this; I've just been waiting months to use that "interpretive dance" line.
So guess whose CD-ROM drive died today?
I am sorely tempted to add IOMagic to my Enemies List. Maybe later.
Anyway, I finally, with Mandrake 7.2, got my video and my network to run flawlessly. The problem? The fucker gave me a tiny-ass partition. So of course I wiped it.
That's when my CD-ROM drive gave out...right after I obliterated my Linux partition.
For those of you not keeping track, that means I couldn't boot.
Uncle Ben gave me a CD-ROM drive he wasn't using, but apparently it doesn't like CD-Rs. Soooo, I was able to reinstall an even-more-limited version of Mandrake 7.1 than before and get back into (MS-)Windows, but my beautiful working Linux environment is gone.
But Brad's not taking down his computer over break, so I'm going to steal his CD-ROM drive and use it until I can get a new one.
On the plus side, I finally know what I want for Christmas.
...Maybe I'll ask for a USB CD burner...
Games: Mega Man Legends 2. The worst targeting system in the history of video games just got a little better. ...Seriously, I'm enjoying it, and it was good and cheap, but the controls suck almost as much as in the original.
Games: Final Fantasy IX. So far, it's about lived up to the hype. ...I about had an orgasm when I heard the first couple bars of the battle theme, and I pumped my arms like a superdeformed motherfucker when I heard the fanfare. ...Actually, other than that, the music's been pretty bland. But...well, get the sucker. I mean it. If you're an FF fan from way back, you'll think you've died and gone to heaven; if you're not, you'll get to learn what the series is really all about.
Still haven't beaten Legends 2, so you haven't heard the last of it.
Books: The Magician's Nephew. No, I didn't skip The Horse and His Boy, I just read it during that huge gap in November when I didn't update. ...I've also been reading a bunch of other shit for English, but that doesn't really qualify as My Personal Life, so I've left it out.
Books: The Last Battle.
Games: Got myself a USB adapter for my PSX controller, and it's been me, SNES9X, and J2E's latest FF4 patch ever since.