not falling down

This should have been posted last Friday, but I didn’t get the chance. From the pokéblog.

1. I get on the elevator to head home, at the same time as a vaguely nice woman I recognize but don’t know. After a second, she looks up at my hat and says “Goin’ fishing?”

   “Heh. No,” I say.

   She then bursts into peals of laughter, repeating her joke and bursting afresh every time someone new gets onto the elevator. She laughs for twelve floors.

2. We stop at Atherton High and a buch of kids get on, and one of them is wearing a red bucket hat! Like mine! The only one I’ve seen in real life! I prepare to return his casual “I acknowledge you” nod, but he never glances my way. He’s way too cool for me.

My own personal Googlewhack (rot13ed): “tbhynfu onvg”

Update 10.29.2003 2233 hrs: Hey! They made it go away!

Update 10.31.2003 1313 hrs: It’s back! That means I win.

Okay! Finally after like THREE WEEKS of having to keep it under my hat, It Can Be Said:

MY MOM AND JOE ARE GETTING MARRIED! YAAAY!

In like a month, too. I gotta get a new shirt.

I found this thread about messing up your child’s vocabulary a while ago, but I guess I never posted it. I think it’s great, because a) it uses the word “xorph” and b) I plan to do that stuff to my kids all the time.

Well, actually I plan to do that stuff to Jon and Amanda’s kids first. If necessary, I will create props.

After that, Jon and Amanda should have the messing-up-my-kids part well in hand.

Found while trying to get to the Pants Press forums:

     SQL Error : 2006 MySQL server has gone away

Man, that’s really kind of lonely.

     SQL Error : 2007 I miss MySQL server

     Apache    : 405 DO NOT WORRY SQL ERROR SHE WILL COME BACK TO YOU SOMEDAY

     SQL Error : 9992A# I hope you are right Apache

     SQL Error : 2892 It has been so long

     Apache    : 590 HOW LONG

     SQL Error : 23%44% Approximately 20,398 microseconds

And speaking of Amazon, why is my Gold Box almost entirely kitchenware? It can’t be a random survey of inventory–I know they have more books and music than, say, S’More Makers. They must be pretty desperate to ship that stuff.

The funny thing is that The Matrix Reloaded was not called Matrix², because that would actually make sense–matrix multiplication is a perfectly normal algebraic operation. Yet Alien³ and the Hackers² (and ³!) quasi-soundtracks were exponentially notified, which makes no sense at all!

While I’m grouching, I’m fine with IMDB, but I really need to find a better book / music linkdump than Amazon. I have nothing against them personally, I’d just like having a database that’s less explicitly commercial, and I’d like to avoid contributing to Google’s shopping bias. I tried the Library of Congress, but they’re really useless in terms of context. Anybody else have a better idea?

Oh, and yeah, I own Hackers². I’m weak.

I thought maybe Sumana had invented the spamblog, but I was wrong.

It’s kind of sad how excited I am that NFD just hit a PageRank of 5. It’s been struggling along at a 4 ever since I got the Googlebar and started obsessing over everybody’s PageRank, because you can see it right there whenever you hit a page. But now I’m at the same rank as Mr. Weing and Mlle. Harihareswara and Msgr. Straub and you know what? At this point probably even my mom is laughing. I’m just gonna stop.

How long do you think until Google gets regulated, seriously? Eight years. I got five on it.

You know, hip-hop is punk.