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update: little.yellow.different
Ah, another square who says "teeny bopper."
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update: Holy Shit! First Ten episodes of Mr. Show to be released on DVD!!!
He's trying that "being vulgar" thing again, but David Cross is still cute. Apparently, he doesn't like Sex and the City, but that's okay, I didn't say he had to.
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blogs around: Keep Trying: Positively Blogvious
First, a clarification on my blogs are PoMo post: while I hold intractably that context is as valid as text, I should point out that you can have bad context content just as you can have lame text content.
Mike Sanders is always thinking about blogging. Responding to an email about the lack of good content (and I think the person meant text content), he immediately delves into why we love blogs. Eventually, he settles on their positivity, or perhaps how they recognize good content in other blogs, and posits that we can make a positive change by constantly pointing this out (i.e., context content):
Maybe we can create a Tipping Point of positivity. Maybe 150 bloggers who consistently recognize the virtues of other bloggers. Longer blogrolling list. More accolades. More cross-blogging. More thinking. More feeling. More laughing. More listening. More hearing. More emoting. More of whatever you want to do.At first, I am tempted to be skeptical. Sounds like a mutual-admiration society. Sounds like hippies.
In your old lives you had nothing to live for. Now you do. You have nothing to lose and everything to gain. Go clear the land for a new culture—bring your axes, scythes, and guns. . . . If you're not spending every waking moment of your life radically rethinking the nature of the world—if you're not plotting every moment boiling the carcass of the old order—then you're wasting your day.Thank you, Liz, for reminding me what an incredible experience that book is.
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6 degrees: NEW YORK SUCKS - So Why Did I Move Here?
David Cross is the cutest human alive. He can swear and be as vulgar as he likes, but he's not fooling us. He's a big cutie.
My 6 degrees to David? I went to high school with Bob Odenkirk's sister. Or: Bob Odenkirk spoke to my senior class. (Bob Odenkirk as in Mr. Show with Bob and David.)
linksy love: ultrasparky
daniel also loves david cross. thanks for the link!
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grammatical similarities: [ The Cool Kid ]
In a post on Saturday, January 26, 2002, TCK writes: "I just want to stay away from teeny-boppers." In fact, the phrase teeny-boppers is used liberally throughout the post. It's a term I have used liberally, myself, but I always thought I sounded like my mother saying it; it's such a square term. Good to know I'm not the only square. (Note to self: only squares refer to people as squares.)
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update: optometrist
My new contacts and glasses should arrive in the mail soon. It's a good thing, because my backup glasses (the ones I switched to after my contact cracked and my primary glasses snapped apart) have broken. One of the nosepads lost its pin and has fallen off. I've heard of cancer clusters, but eyewear epidemics? I'm staying away from my sunglasses in case they explode.
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symptoms of nitpicking spreading rapidly: The Chris Isaak Show
Yola, in tonight's episode (season 2, episode 4) (approx.): "I feel like the dorm mother. Mrs. Hathaway. Mrs. Garrett." She's upset that she's so uptight about her new roommate's nudity.
I'm just assuming she's referring to The Beverly Hillbillies and The Facts of Life, respectively. If so, I must point out that the character of Jane Hathaway (Mr. Drysdale's assistant) on TBH was generally addressed as Miss Hathaway.
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blogs are PoMo: E V H E A D: Movie commentary publishing for the people.
In a post about a simply brilliant Roger Ebert proposal, ev makes the following comparison:
It reminds me of an argument against weblogs that you used to hear a lot in the early days but not so much now—i.e., that they didn't offer value because they weren't self-contained content, just links and commentaries about other content.I can wholeheartedly believe someone made that argument. I can also believe that this particular someone is a complete jackass (Harold Bloom, I'm looking in your direction). Seriously, are we still living in the first half of the 20th century? Didn't Dead Poets Society finish off New Criticism? Let's get on with PoMo here, people. Content doesn't just mean the original, holy "work." Content is found in both text and context; making a link is as valid as writing a poem (and even more so if the poem rhymes).
Obviously that's not all that blogs are, but even if they were, the implication is that commentary (that is, perspective and interpretation) on media is not valuable. It's hugely valuable. And entertaining. And educational. And fun! Isn't this fun? Right on. Go Roger, go.That's the spirit, ev, that's the spirit.
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is it fatal? i've caught nitpicking: Biography - George Lucas
A&E Biography announcer (approx.): "Released in 1980, The Empire Strikes Back . . . also featured new advances in visual effects." Accompanied by footage of Millenium Falcon flying through Cloud City from the 1997 Special Edition of Empire! I find that a poor choice to show off the new visual effects available in 1980, and I voiced some words to that effect.
Liz said, "Don't yell at the TV."
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ala: In Passing...
"My baby is not a doll!"
--little girl in supermarket, emphasizing the true identity of her doll
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around town: raulito.net
for the purpose of saying hello to my real Chicago neighbor/virtual chicagoblogs neighbor, here's raul's thoughts on the last episode of Daria. it's pretty much exactly what i would have said if i had gotten off my lazy ass and said it. to help make up for all the brilliant thoughts i have every day but don't blog, i signed the DVDaria petition.
erik 12:08 PM | permalink | yap
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you mean we're supposed to have a business model? Blogger Pro demo
i've been waiting and waiting and waiting for this, if just so i could puplish through email. what? write my own system? puh-leez, that's so kev-rock. i tried doing this months ago, with much copy-and-pasting my posts into email to send to Yahoo! Groups, but whatta pain and no one joined anyway. then, lo and behold, just the other day i see evan is doing a yahoo group with evhead. hmm . . . how might he be doing that?
lots of other nice tweaks, too, like spellcheck and weblogs.com ping. oh, and perhaps the most important tweak: blogger can stay in business, and continue to offer the free service. yea for blogger!
erik 1:00 AM | permalink | yap
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a-list blogs get many links. here's one more: E V H E A D
evan has the lyrics to "birdhouse in your soul" hidden in his HTML source. hmmm. you mean i'm downloading an extra 2.3kb everytime i look at his page? i got yer easter egg right here, buddy!
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though you might guess higher, i've only ever broken one bone
last week, one of my contacts (hard) cracked in half. this morning the temple of my glasses snapped off. tomorrow i have an optometrist appointment.
i will be driving to the appointment in the car whose turn signals broke last night (for the second time in two months) (other car issues: busted tape deck, dead air conditioning). i will be wearing my red shoes (the only pair with enough sole remaining sufficient to deal with ice on the ground), both of which have broken shoe strings. i will tie them only half-way up (as usual) as a consequence.
amidst all these broken things, i remain income-challenged, meaning that i, too, am broke. thanks for paying for my new eyewear, mom and dad!
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in an associated topic:
burning VCDs is turning out to be complicated (or, at least, not really hard to do, but seemingly quite hard to do well).
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in an associated topic:
and would somebody please just decide on which device is going to be the center of our digital entertainment lifestyles already? all the companies are planning something: the DVD player, the DVR, the PC, the HDTV. crimenently, i've got a big mess of these electronics, and yet they all serve different purposes. and that's fine. but if something has to be the infotainment hub, i just hope it's not a microsoft product.
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no one knows what to do: DVD players ready for a makeover
but i know at least one thing: none of these half-assed ideas are gonna work. seriously, the companies are just going to have to cope with the fact that the DVD player will be a cheap appliance. widespread acceptance leads to many manufacturers leads to too many manufacturers leads to falling prices leads to many manufacturers going out of business. really, if you're betting that adding Kodak pictureCD functionality to your company's DVD player will make it stand out from the crowd (or convince anyone to pay more than $150 for it), you should probably just file for bankruptcy now.
erik 12:43 AM | permalink | yap
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other people's names: Google Search: ernie
l.y.d. is the number one ernie-site on the net. dayam.
hipsmart falls on page 8 of erik. i gave up looking for c.k.
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technical note: this page keeps getting slower to load
because i keep filling it with worthless gooblety-got. case in point: the tagline now randomly rotates. the code is inelegant, but it's late. me fix tomoree.
erik 3:25 AM | permalink | yap
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technical note: minor changes
a few little things:
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blogdex says it's popular, so i'm linking it too: Link Feedback
let's see just how well this javascript will work if i put it in the body of this post.
nice! HipSmart sees you! spooky!
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premature tagline: NewsBlogger ::: All the news that's fit to blog
the news i can see. and the news is indeed fit to blog. it's the blogging that's tricky. aha, they're using the infinitive! those sly bastards!
can anyone out there actually use newsblogger? i seem to recall using it once or twice . . . maybe a year ago. since then, no such luck.
for a while, the lower right pane was missing, making it impossible for me to post (from reading other people's troubles, i see that the missing pane phenomenon is widespread and random with respect to pane). then, of course, the whole thing simply stopped existing for a while, before popping up again, now at news.blogger.com instead of newsblogger.com.
now i find it impossible to log in: i always receive a 205 error, invalid username or password. i don't know which. same thing when i made up a new blogger account just for the purpose of checking it at newsblogger.
any thoughts on what to do about this? the discuss section at blogger.com is sort of old, and i can't post my problem there anyway because blogger.com refuses to accept my login cookie and always thinks i am logged out.
oh, what's that? login cookie problems at blogger.com? possibly related to the fact that my Internet Options keep reverting to settings that i don't want? that's a whole other story . . .
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blogdex says it's popular, so i'm linking it too: McSweeney's Internet Tendency: On the Implausibility of the Death Star's Trash Compactor
while i agree in principle that the compactor is implausible, i differ with the author on several points:
update: the blogger decoder
this doesn't solve the problem of the boring blogger code; all it does is regurgitate the answers to the questions that produced the code. i'm looking for some nifty spiky pie chart or something. i prefer the lusty french men solution, even.
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feeling your pain: Suck it Up
it's a lonely world when you're a proofreader, just like david carradine in kung fu.
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user interface design: Fury 3.2: Compare the Dots
a very interesting discussion of the design of new features is going on over at fury (my vote for best-programmed blog). what should dots look like? how big should bars be? should dots be numbers? are there enough dots? should there be a page entirely composed of dots and bars? rest assured that kevin will discover a brilliantly simple implementation.
which has got me thinking about this blog. what features is HipSmart missing? let me know by clicking "yap" below. i'll try to implement what i can (keep in mind i'm no kev-rock).
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copywriting gone awry: Krusteaz
written on the back of my box of pancake mix:
It began in 1932 with the women of a Seattle bridge club and a great idea for an easy-to-make pie crust. Since then, Krusteaz®—a clever mix of "crust" and "ease"—has come to stand for homemade goodness.i beg to differ. i find that mix to be nothing like clever. in fact, it's sort of disgusting.
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watching tv is good for you: No More Popup Ads
if this really works, it's about the best thing ever. thanks, CFH!
oh, and here's chris pirillo's blog. i love his bitching about the show.
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update: je suce en direct
okay, so i did search google for a string similar to my blogger code. the results?
gay french stories.
i just don't know what's going on anymore.
erik 12:42 PM | permalink | yap
community? Second Annual Weblog Awards
too much talk of late on the pros and cons of awards. i just think the Bloggies are fun. so go nominate people, make their day. heck, i probably nominated you. gasp! that's right, i like you! you are cool.
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blogdex says it's popular, so i'm linking it too: the blogger code
B6 d+ t k s+ u- f i o x- e l c-
big whup. i was expecting some sort of cool amalgamation of the answers, or a graphical doohickey. certainly not just a string of letters and numbers that exactly match my answers to questions. what am i supposed to do with that? search google for similar strings?
erik 10:26 AM | permalink | yap
non-disturbing search results: Google Search: Robby0809@aol.com
looks like robby is up to his old tricks, sending out massive amounts of weird email. yesterday, i had 18 referrals from searches for him or his email text ("if you are a time traveller"). geez, i hardly get that many hits a day. in the long list of search results, among all the other blogs that have commented on this weird spam, is a link to the usenet discussion of this topic. unfortunately, they have no better information on robby and his poor life decisions, but they do have the full, unexpigated text of his dilemma.
related news items: The Federation Is Too Lenient about the Prime Directive | Ask a Conspiracy Theorist
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somebody has to watch all those movies on cable: Serpent's Kiss, The (1997)
how does ewan mcgregor find time to make all these movies? here, in yet another mistaken identity fueled plot, he's a victorian gardener mixed up with an industrialist (delightful veteran pete postlethwaite), his wife, disturbed daughter witch with an uncanny innate sense of japanese gardening, and a fellow we'll just call "bad snuff cousin." some nice photography, but just another pat morality play.
what's with the british film industry? they continue to pump out huge levels of pat--endless variations on "the little movie that could, but didn't really matter." oh, that, and remakes of the full monty.
instead of watching this, you should see: Plunkett & Macleane (1999)
a much more enjoyable romp, a pre-victorian action movie with macgregor's chums from Trainspotting, jonny lee miller and robert carlyle, and liv tyler.
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somebody has to watch all those movies on cable: Just Write (1997)
WE, the women's entertainment network, is a goldmine of movies that i haven't seen, that you haven't seen, that no one has seen. last night i caught this effort from Jeremy Piven and Sherilyn Fenn, whose most impressive attribute may be the obviously self-congratulatory "user" review at IMDb (check out the bad line breaks from a poor job of copy-and-pasting).
Piven once again shines (this time as an improbable tour-bus-driver turned hollywood screenwriter), though sometimes one wonders if that's not because he's surrounded by crap. during the movie, i lamented on Piven's horrible career choices, but liz pointed out that he's probably not offered the choice roles. mores the pity--it would be nice if the show biz would recognize his talent and give him a decent role.
instead of watching this, you should see: One Crazy Summer (1986)
Piven has a small role as a henchman. also look for his excellent faux-George Costanza role in several episodes of "Seinfeld."
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top notch: Suck it Up
i link to this blog in my favs list with the SiU name because their URL is dirty. tee hee. they said a bad word. i feel so junior high.
in either case, it continues to be a really cool blog. what's that? another blog that erik likes with high-quality writing about deep, personal issues? he's linking again to a place to read emotionally revealing, touching, and insightful entries? that's so odd. if he likes the personal stuff so much, how come HipSmart is so offhandedly flip, glib, and non-personal?
hey, shut up, man. i'm trying. really, i am.
geez, if you want me to feel bad, let's mention some other things about Suck it Up:
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smart news: The Straight Dope: What mountain is depicted in the Paramount logo? Why do women laugh hysterically?
methinks Cecil tires of the answer biz. near the end of this gloriously trivial bit of trivia, he comes to the realization that he doesn't care. when the day comes that Cecil Adams stops caring about fish that swim up your stream of urine and other vital facts of human existence, my dope will be a lot less straight.
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i don't like to chew gum.
explanation: my orthodontist screwed up. i wore braces for several year, sometime around ages 12-15 (i don't remember exactly). well, it turns out that my jaw was not finished growing. once the braces came off, my jaw continued to grow and move and now my teeth are misaligned. so i have a horrible underbite, and my teeth don't match up correctly, and it hurts to chew gum. also, i cannot bite through foods with a certain consistency: apples are hard enough to be okay, casserole is soft enough to be okay, onion i cannot bite through. my incisors do not line up with the correct precision, so i always get a long strand of onion hanging out of my mouth. but i love onions.
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blogdex says it's popular, so i'm linking it too: WEIRD old comic book covers
haven't had a chance to dig all the way into this site, but it looks like a keeper. no sign of the issue where archie gets drafted.
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tech note: comments work again
so continue your blathering by clicking "yap" below each post.
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