Obsessions – Page 31 – not falling down

November 6, 2003 /

Context. Ken, DC, Ian and I went to see Revolutions last night. One of the previews was for Punisher, which features Thomas Jane kicking many, many butts in various styles and fashions.

Payoff. Ian, on watching the preview: “Brendan, look! They already made a movie about Sigurdur Petursson!”

November 3, 2003 /

This one’s for Ian, Arbitrator of Manliness:

Guy called "Iceman," captain of ship named "Erik the Red," saves crew by dragging 600-pound shark out of the ocean with BARE HANDS
Friends nonplussed, say this is "typical"

I thought about exaggerating that for humorous effect, but it really doesn’t need it. Also, apparently I’m Fark today.

And I’m allowed to post there (shh!)

October 23, 2003 /

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

sudden anxiety

October 20, 2003 /

Am I the only person actually still using the phrase “jump the shark?”

October 17, 2003 /

MSN:

What's faster: tuna or a bullet?

Turns out it’s the bullet.

Spam

October 11, 2003 /

Horny teen sluts getting it on for the first time

Come on, now, that’s a contradiction in terms!

Spam

October 10, 2003 /

Kirk, You have been invited to a wild evening carefully as crock

What?
“Kirk?”

October 8, 2003 /

I’ve decided that my pocket notebook counts as NFD Canon, so entries that are properly dated in there (eg during class) are now going into the blog at that date and time, just like regular entries. Some would say this is cheating. I would reply: you’re right! Get your own!

Also I just did a couple of those, from yesterday. You might notice.

Warning: I’m gonna talk about a lot of stupid blog stuff now

October 3, 2003 / Brendan

My RSS aggregator is now officially aggregating 39 blogs. Granted, a lot of those are dormant, but that’s still not bad for something that started as an experiment while I was bored at work.

Things I want to change about it:

This is a third-party aggregator, so I have to wait for it to update itself, which it does only once an hour. For petesakes, that’s a possible 59 minutes of tardiness on late-breaking bruisable news! I should either write my own or find software I can install on my own site, but I’m lazy.
Thirty-nine? Come on! Somebody start a new blog, I want to round it off. No, not a blogspot, they don’t let you have a feed unless you pay money.
(Or, if your name is Kristofer Straub, you could get on the stick already and install some journal software with feeds and also real permalinks.)

I know thirty-nine isn’t actually a particularly large field for an aggregator, but it works nicely for me. It was pretty boring when I started out, but now there’s a good chance that any hour I hit it will yield at least one new post.

September 22, 2003 /

“Just imagine squeezing a monkey into a deflated balloon, and then inserting that balloon into another, much bigger balloon, and then filling the space between the two carcasses with strawberry jam. Even though you can’t see its shape anymore, there’s a monkey in there, and it still performs most of the normal monkey functions like picking up pencils and making fun of the teacher; it just has to do so through a load of blubber. That is what I sit by in class.”

Rejoice, ye people, for AUDREY HAS A BLOG!