not falling down

• I’m thinking of open-sourcing Anthropology, except it wouldn’t really be open-sourcing in the typical sensebecause obviously I don’t own it. Still, the book is out of print–Dan Rhodes is never going tomake another penny off it, no matter how many copies Bookfinder turns up. It’s a wonderful book that I would like to share with asmany people as possible, and I would like to do so in a pointlessly illegal manner that pokes funat the stupidity of current copyright law. And if people do like it, they’ll be more likely to buymore of his books in the future. (Are you listening, RIAA?)

• At any rate, let me know what you thinkabout the idea. If you are Dan Rhodes, incidentally, you rock.
• I reassembled the mighty desk forthe second time ever today, once again by myself. You’d think it would be easier now. You’d bewrong. I think the desk is my arch-nemesis: I do battle with it on a regular and recurring basis,but then once I win it serves a good purpose. Now I just need a code name.
• I want to state right here that the only reason I post at the Checkerboard Nightmare forums isbecause I plan, when Kris Straub is the most famous satirist on the planet, to make frequent andpathetic attempts at riding his proverbial coattails. “Wow, that Kris Straub is hilarious!” mychildren will say. “Yes,” I will say, “I know. And he linkedme once.” And they won’t believe me.

  Anyway, proof of said future fame can be found here. It’s like Mac: Electric Boogaloo. It’s great. It’s sublime. It’s funny asfuck.

• And!
• I got these things! They’re like fingerboards, except they’re pogo sticks! They’re thelamest things ever made! I own two. You can apparently do fingerboard-style tricks on them,although I have no idea how–the packaging contains no instructions. It does, however, contain this guy trying to be XTREME on a pogo stick,and you can’t put a price on that. Actually you can, and it’s twenty-five cents, which is what Ipaid.

money talks, I hate tolisten
but lately it’s been screaming in my ear