When Ross and I liked a girl we saw we'd say: "I'd wrestle with her." When we were overcome by extreme desires it would be become: "I'd wrestle with her twice and in mud (or jello)."
11:54 PMI often wonder: why do you women have a thing for "I Will Survive" by Gloria Gaynor?
9:35 PMSomeone has done some research and really wants to be reminded of all their work
1:21 PMWednesday, November 29, 2000
Based on the good advice of Neale this entry is dedicated to gathering completely random users by making search engines think I'm useful: christmas porn sex Sony Playstation PS2 Aibo free women music MP3 chat download save shop buy adult perrywinkle pink elephants wet sheeps horny software orange apples gore lieberman sore loserman bush dick. Okay, that's enough.
6:20 PMI think the success of different weblog solutions is really how much of the communication solution do they provide. Blogger is great for the technically able and who desire the benefit of control over their sites versus the cost of extra work and knowledge. But, BlogSpot and Diaryland provide the whole shebang. Just write and click and they'll take care of everything for you. Naturally those will have more users than Blogger. Blogspot was a naturally and necessary evolution for Blogger. Yes, Brig, I can believe there are estimated to be over 100k sites of regular personal expression. This is such a viral thing. Regular readers and friends of my site setup their own. Amir, Amy, Perry and Alina come first to mind.
5:58 PMEarthlink is having problems with one of the DSL circuits I'm connected to. The effect is basically that I can browse the Internet, but I can't send big messages or webcam pictures. Therefore, the webcam images will be flaky until they fix this. When they do fix it, though, the webcam images should be back to being 24/7. Finally!
5:47 PMWords provide a strong sense of time, visuals (without words) don’t. Think about it. When you look at a frame from a comic strip the contents have an almost instant, short-sense of time. When you add words in callouts or action words, they add time to the length of the frame. The act of reading the words or imagining a character saying them makes the frame longer.
The same is true with the way we think. If spend your time in your head talking, analyzing and using words to describe what’s going on (using the linear left-side of your brain) then that time seems like an eternity. On the contrary, if you are daydreaming, simply experiencing motion in front of you (like watching a movie) then time seems to pass instantly.
I’m trying to understand this better, but it seems that time passes faster when you use the visual, holistic right side of your brain. Now, when you interject those moments like watching a movie with some internal dialogue (not simple comments or judgments), but ongoing deep thought, then it takes a lot longer to get through the movie. I am passively paying attention to notice the difference between what’s going in my head when time passes instantly instead of drudgingly.
5:45 PMI'm impressed with Earthlink's support. They have been very helpful every time I called. They have live chat on their web site and someone actually responds! They have a page on their web site that tells you what the current wait time is for support if you call.
12:01 PMTuesday, November 28, 2000
It is pretty clear to me that every candidate is just fighting for his personal interest. At this point, every one else who identifies with a candidate is mainly pushing the point-of-view that insures the one they identify with is the winner.
I think Gore would have won if the ballots weren't screwed up in Palm Beach and if people didn't vote for Nader in swing states (like New Hampshire).
Fact of the matter is, both of those things happened, so Bush should be the winner. I think the will of the people on Election Day leaned slightly towards Gore over Bush, but that's not what the numbers show. I don't know what the courts will rule, but I think the source of the conflict is the disconnect between the will of the people and what the numbers show.
4:56 PMThe trip back home passed quickly. I had less than four complete days at home. The first day was a daze because of restless red-eye flight. The rest were spent cramming in quality time. I probably won’t be in Jersey again until June 2001 (when I should officially become an uncle).
I don’t like what happens when you introduce serious constraints of time to friendships. I get to rate my friends and actually see the ones that are rated "higher" than others. Feels great. Seeing them was a little easier back when I wasn’t working, lived in Fair Lawn and had all time to myself. I need to adjust my expectations and I need to decrease the circle of friends I maintain regular contact with, especially if I want to introduce new ones into my life.
4:53 PMOK, I should be more forthcoming. I brought 90 bagels from Fair Lawn to feed my fellow Cooperistas. My company feeds us lunch every Monday. It occurred to me last Wednesday that I could come back from Thanksgiving and enlighten the Californians. The bagels were a hit (and I managed to leave a few at home). In fact, the lunch was responsible for introducing lox (the perfect companion to a good bagel) to a few employees. I made a significant contribution to the quality of my coworker's lives. Now they can feel complete on Sunday mornings.
4:44 PMLife is a test of patience. DSL is not working as expected. Software incompatibilities galore. To top it all off, I think I lost my Palm Vx. I haven't seen it since last Wednesday.
12:09 AMMonday, November 27, 2000
I've been aching for this kind of service for years. A makeover for geeks: Geek Boy Services (via cam, Flash required).
Actually, I have this desire to be very fickle with my wardrobe. I want my wardrobe to be filled with clothes of various styles and I want to wear a different style for each day of the week. Grunge one day, yuppie another, gap leather the next, Asian garb on Wednesday, skateboarding dude on Saturday and so on. Part of it is that I don’t want to be labeled one way, and part of it is I want to observe the reactions of others in public places as I wear different things.
5:42 PMWhen Sony released the Playstation 2 in France they decided lines weren't necessary. Instead, a mob fighting over boxes would be more fun. Check out the videos on the right-hand side of this page for some of the desparate action.
4:28 PMI saw the last regular season Stanford Women's Volleyball game last week. I wanted to watch them play in the NCAAs, but the team will be in Santa Barbara, CA for the first two rounds. That's just a bit too far for me. I was hoping it would be on campus, about 4 minutes from work and home.
10:46 AMI transported 90 bagels from Fair Lawn on the plane last night.
10:30 AMThursday, November 23, 2000
Red-eye flight with a connection=YUCK! Tired, must take a quick nap, then turkey, then more napping. :)
10:14 AMTuesday, November 21, 2000
I am alive and kicking, just busy. Tomorrow we're handing off the deliverable to our client. This project was something we call an Intensive, and it lived up to its name. We alloted two days for ramp up and conceptual design, two days for high-level interface and screen design and one day to convey it all in a document. My conclusion today was that we created so much in those two days of interface and screen design that there is no way we could convey it all in two days of writing let alone one, even with five of us writing. So, like every day at work, we tried to get the most important details out instead of getting everything out. Still, all in all, we're so overdelivering and I doubt they would get so much good stuff from anybody else in six days. Yeah, I'm proud of it and now I know way too much about designing for WAP (Internet access on those tiny-screened cell phones).
On a different note, tomorrow night I'm heading home to Fair Lawn, NJ on a red-eye flight. I'll be arriving around noon in La Guardia and cramming my family and friends into all waking hours until the flight back on Sunday.
10:59 PMFrom today's Florida Supreme Court ruling:
"Although error cannot be completely eliminated in any tabulation of the ballots, our society has not yet gone so far as to place blind faith in machines. In almost all endeavors, including elections, humans routinely correct the errors of machines."Yes, we have humans routinely correcting the errors of machines that were caused by previous human error (feeding the ballots, punching the holes, designing the counting machine, designing the ballot).
10:41 PMThursday, November 16, 2000
You know you are working with cool compatible people when they'll spend 45 minutes of their time being patient with you dealing with technology, asking gas station attendants for directions and getting lost just so you can find a good Korean BBQ restaurant for dinner. Dinner was awesome and the adventure to find it was awesome. Work was awesome. I even learned more about Korean food and language (one of my coworkers is Korean). A non-Korean coworker told me that fermented food helps the digestive system. He said eating Kimchi actually helps your stomach break down other food. This explains why after overeating Korean food, I don't feel bad, in fact I feel good. Perhaps I should have Kimchi with every meal...
9:47 PMWednesday, November 15, 2000
Some interesting responses to my smelly question:
Most of the odors you smell are various gases produced by the bacteria in the feces and are not particles (like say the particles found from asbestos, 2nd hand smoke or car exhausts), so although bad they don't endanger you in the same way. I would wait til I got home, and used my nicely scented bathroom.Keep it coming! :)
Elan, regardless of the fact that I sympathize with you, some things just aren't fun to read over lunch....
I don't really want to talk about this... but on a similar topic, i have been a "mouth breather" all my life and it has caused some gum disease problems. So it's always better to breathe through your nose, I think.
find a bush and shit outside...what kind of question is this???
Use the woods; you can't beat the natural pine scent. Just don't scrape with the poison ivy.
8:16 PMThis is fun. I like design consulting and I like working with my smart funny coworkers.
8:15 PMTuesday, November 14, 2000
I have a question about smelling, particles and yucky feelings.
I was taught some years ago in school that if I smell something, it means that I have particles of whatever I'm smelling in my nose. I was also taught, that I should breathe through my nose because it has little hair-like things to catch debris and particles so they don't enter my lungs. This leads me to think that if I breathe through my mouth, then more debris and particles are entering my lungs. Now here is the question.
When I go into a public bathroom that has a pungent odors of feces, I have two choices: breathe through my nose or breathe through my mouth. Which is worse for my body? If I breathe through my mouth, I don't smell the crap, but more particles enter my lungs. If I breathe through my nose, less particles enter my body, but I shudder and tense up from the disgusting smell. I don't know which is worse. I could choose not to go or I could try to hold my breath, but I could never last the entire time of my bathroom visit.
9:43 PMI am leaving to Portland tomorrow morning. I'll be there until Friday night. I get to wake up at 4am tomorrow. Woo hoo!
I got an Omnisky wireless modem for my Palm Vx last week. I didn't buy it, it was just lent to me by a company in the area. This company is testing a web browser for the Palm and in order for me to be able to use their web browser, they needed to give me an OmniSky wireless modem. I think it will be useful while I'm in Portland to find local restaurants and hang outs.
9:13 PMMonday, November 13, 2000
I'm finally on a project! The plan, at least with the latest news, is that I am flying to Portland, Oregon on Wednesday morning until Friday night. I'll be working on a week long project for a client that needs some quick high-level design help. I'll be flying there again for Monday, too. I hear the flight is only an hour and a half. I didn't know exactly where Portland or Oregon was until last week. Most people at work can't tell me where Delaware or Rhode Island are, so I don't feel so bad. You know, I don't think I know a single soul that lives in Oregon. Correct me if I'm wrong. So much for moving to California for the weather. :)
10:31 PMI saw a production of Diary of Anne Frank yesterday. It was pretty bad. But, it did get me thinking. All the versions of the production I have seen have been interpretations. Is there an actual direct translation of her diary?
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