Hell's Half Acre has a great e-card section where you can send e-postcards to people with sentiments like "i hate you", "shut up", and the ever popular "burn in hell."
There's a great assortment of things being posted to Monkey Fist .
In a brief perusal, I found Running Tally to be very very good. It led me to usr/bin/girl which I also enjoyed. Finally, I ended up at Hit or Miss , which rounded out my surfing session perfectly.
We are still without Cable, and have been since last night due to a rare ice storm here in the ATL. Normally, I could care less, but I wanted and planned to watch football today while redoing my Mac from scratch with a new SCSI hard drive I picked up a couple of weeks ago and a new LCD monitor that was too good a deal to resist.
Of course, with the cable out, I resorted to leaving the premises and found myself at the brand new Atlanta ESPN Zone . It was very crowded and impossible to get a seat or food. I imagine it will be like that for the next few weeks. It doesn't officially open until next weekend. I did get to see the Sportscenter anchors in person.
Well, the third anniversary of this site came and went yesterday without a mention due to technical difficulties. Three years my sporadic musings have appeared in this space, and a lot has changed both in my life and on the Web in general. I’d like to thank everyone that has read this site over the last three years.
Well here we are the day after, and it looks like we won’t know until tomorrow who won Florida and got the electoral votes necessary to win the election. If Bush wins, despite the fact that more Americans voted for Gore, it will be a depressing failure of our system in my opinion. Regardless of your party affiliation or particular viewpoint on this election, I’m of the opinion that, in a representative democracy, the candidate that the majority of the people voted for should win. If this doesn’t happen, the person who won did so through a loophole in our system. This is a horrible situation for our country.
I’m still up watching. It’s very interesting that, at this point anyway, the Nader vote could be the difference in this election if Bush is elected. We’ll see once they finish with Florida, which will determine this thing in the end. The margin there seems to be less than 50,000 votes now with about 10% left to be counted.(Nader had a strong 87,000+)
Exit Poll results posted on Inside.com seem to have things tight, but Gore ahead in a bunch of the key battleground states. It’s going to be a long night folks.
Customer service is dead. Three weeks ago, I purchased a Compaq iPaq Pocket PC. Looks great, interesting feature set, and some stellar reviews on the Web. I had it for two days, and I was really enjoying it. Then, things took a turn for the worse. The screen started showing everything backwards. I would have returned it in exchange for a new unit, but CompUSA wasn’t getting any more for at least a month. So I called Compaq, and they seemed great. They sent me a box and I sent it off to be repaired with the promise of the unit being returned in 3-5 days. I waited 5 days, then I called them again. My unit needed a new main board. As it turns out, there are problems with the main boards in a lot of the units, there is a main board problem. The boards are backordered and I’m in line waiting behind other suckers that bought the defective unit.
So, I've spent $500 on something that I had for three days and won't have back for the foreseeable future. I requested a new unit, but they claim they won't have any until after the first of the year. They are, however, shipping units into the channel. They would rather sell units to new customers than take care of people who are already customers, who have already plunked down their hard earned cash. Shame on you Compaq. I am no longer a customer of yours, and I will tell anyone who will listen how awful you are.
Nintendo Spaceworld 2000 is where you can find out more about Nintendo’s Gamecube and Gameboy Advanced. You gotta check out the new Gameboy, which goes on sale in Japan in March 2001, and will play all legacy Gameboy games.
Had a great time today climbing at Atlanta Rocks Intown. It looks like rock climbing will be my new thing.(I’m not a newbie, but haven’t been on a wall in about ten years.)
I finally saw High Fidelity last night, I’ve been saving the DVD for a weekend night when I felt like staying in by myself and relaxing. A few months ago, I don’t think I would have enjoyed it quite as much as I did. If you like Mr. Cusak’s previous efforts in Say Anything and Grosse Pointe Blank, you will love this movie. If you have ever worked in a record store, you will also love this movie. It’s an accurate portrayal of working at an independently owned store.(I worked in one for about a year.)
Is there natural law of cell phones that states that the more important the piece of information someone is about to say, the more likely the connection is going to drop out?
I keep reading on Dave Winer’s site about how great the Mets are, how they have some super philosophy that makes them different, and better, than the average sports franchise. Clearly, this thing is a construct in his mind. I haven’t heard any of the announcers for FOX talking about it, nor has it been mentioned on the half dozen episodes of Sportscenter I’ve watched on ESPN this week. I’m not a Mets expert, however, despite having lived in New York State for seven years, so I leave that to those much more qualified to address it. Something I do know about are the Yankees. He claims “they have no soul”. I disagree, no other professional sports team, with the possible exception of the storied Boston Celtics and Canada’s Montreal Canadians, has more soul and tradition than the Yankees. I’m the third generation in a long line of Yankee fans. The Yankees franchise has a deeper place in American culture than any other sports franchise. Period. Have you heard of Babe Ruth? Joe Dimaggio? Mickey Mantle? I thought so. Have you heard of Dave Kingman?
I haven’t forgotten about this site or anything, I’m just doing some other things right now. Regular updates should resume any time now, and should be coupled with a new design and archives and other sections of the site that actually work. Stay tuned.
The newest issue of the Industry Standard’s newish magazine, Grok, is all about wireless. I was impressed with the entertainment issue, but less interested in the education issue that followed it. I like the concept of a vertical magazine that changes vertical’s monthly.
This article from today’s New York Times pictures(without any sort of credit) the recipe of the day from the Foodvision.com site that my company built. I don’t know if they asked for permission from Foodvision to picture it, but it’s for that reason that I don’t really like services like the ones discussed in this article. They take a small snippet from a Web site and picture it out of the context that the site intended that content to be show. It’s sort of involuntary reverse syndication. I guess the argument would be that this gets your site a visitor and exposure, but I would argue that without the context of the site it really doesn’t benefit the content provider in a commercial environment very much.
My Creative Nomad Jukebox arrived yesterday. I’ve really been looking forward to being able to carry 6 Gb of music with me wherever I go. It is almost exactly the size of the typical portable CD player, and a little heavier. The included software works with both PC’s and Mac’s and it uses a USB interface to hook to the computer. I was pleasantly surprised that they included a bunch of classical tracks on the device when I received it.
Here’s part 3 of The Truth In Advertising. It’s absolutely hilarious. Parts one and two were hilarious too, but I can’t seem to find them anywhere on the Web. If you know where I can find them, drop me a line.(Warning: This movie contains graphic language.)