| 13 jun 2002 "-you dump a guy because of a bad kiss? -honey, you have to! i mean, if their tongue's just gonna lay there, what do you think their dick's gonna do?" penis joke aside, i have to agree that kisses are important. but whether a bad kisser can be taught how to change is another issue, although the dude that charlotte met in episode 5 of _sex and the city: 3_ (the face licker) seemed rather incorrigible. the episode was basically about the existence of "deal-breakers," you know, things about the other person that will instantly disqualify them for romantic consideration; the show used such things as race and smoking. this episode was also the introduction of aidan, the fabulous burly furniture designer with an adorable attitude and cool facial twitches. funny, the touretter inside me found it irresistible to try imitating the offhand movements he did, but i couldn't do it with any hint of naturalness. but anyways... aidan... i decided last year that if i have a son, that'll be his name. 5 letters and irish. nice. i noticed for the first time, though, that aidan was too tall for carrie. i mean, the girl's head ends where the guy's chin starts. that's too big a difference. when they were kissing, he would have to stoop *this* far, to the point where he looked like a hunchback. very awkward. so the blog is up. of course, the template is the default one, which kinds of makes me feel silly, seeing as i strayed away from blogger because it looked generic. (well, not the tool, but the blogs, but i'm really not making any sense, am i?) but anyway, movable type seems pretty rad, and there's a lot of shit i will have to pick up over time. still, i kind of feel like a sell-out. perhaps talking to carol (her and her anti-majority attitude) has infected me. :) but then again, it's not like this geocities thing was any good in the first place. they say websites are a union of content and design. well, in this case, design is nonexistent. so it took me about an hour to install MT. unpacking archives, moving files around, changing permissions, running cgi scripts... it was all pretty easy, except for the fact that running emacs turned my window into a white-on-black inversion, which was ugly to deal with. but then, when i tried to run the main MT application, it got some weird fucked up error. i was pretty much traumatized. before i got even more frustrated, my coworkers pulled me out of my cube to play some ping pong (whereby my team crushed our opponents), and when i came back, it just magically worked. thank fucking god. don't worry. i'll let you know where it is. i just need to clean up some shit. hell, i don't even have a splash page. i installed dreamweaver MX last night, and the interface itself seems very cluttered. i think it's a bad sign that the book that came with it was only "an introduction" to the tool. the actual manual is like a 9MB pdf file. so yeah. i'm now on a mass-produced content pumper-outer. it feels vaguely like converting myself from a simple mom-and-pop shop to a factory. the most important thing to me is how time will change. the two opposite forces are a shortening of time (by creating posts much faster) and a lengthening of time (by triggering my OCD to post 24/7). i'm beginning to glow... forever! ----- it's cloudy and chilly today. a welcome change to the heat that's been plaguing this area in the past weeks. basketball should be nice an enjoyable today, without the sweat and exhaustion. i always liked playing tennis in the winter, because that way i could beat the shit out of the ball and not even break a sweat. as my ex-roommate will attest to, my place has a serious ant problem. i walked into the kitchen tuesday night, and a veritable multitude of ants had swarmed around the garbage. shit, i mean it's one thing to leave food out on the counter, but the garbage? i always considered that a safe haven, a demilitarized zone when it comes to invading ants. i briefly considered suspending my garbage can in the air. not having any ant spray to hose them down, i took the trash and put the bag outside in the stairway. there, take that... try to bore through my door, why won't you. sure enough, the next morning, the ants had found a way, and there was another stream of marching hexapeds all the way from the roof, down the wall next to the front door, straight to the garbage bag. holy crap these creatures are amazing. oh, did you guys catch the eclipse the other day? yes, i was a stupid boy and tried to look straight at it. the result was me being blinded for about 15 minutes, seeing these bright white spots all over the place. eventually, i tried the standard pinhole approach that failed me in 4th grade, but this time it worked. not very glorious, seeing a little crescent-shaped figure on a piece of paper. so apple has this ad campaign featuring allegedly real people who switched from PC to mac, people who claim that the mac experience is so sublime. you know, as cool as it looks, the OS is actually pretty flaky. i can't tell you how many times i get that spinning color wheel and wait for the computer to figure out what the fuck it's doing. and sometimes, it doesn't stop until i either reboot or kill the application. i've gotten the whole system to freeze a couple of times. so much for the ironclad nature of the UNIX-based operating system. for #2 of its top 10 reasons to switch, apple says, "it doesn't crash." hrmph. but that said, i do love my computer. but i won't kiss apple's ass, either. oh, and the cd tray is starting to squeak when it opens. perhaps it is the result of opening and closing over 700 times? didn't mean to act huffy. i guess i'm just disappointed because apple was touting its bulletproof OS as one of the prime reasons why the new macs were so good, and i'm sitting here doing simple things and getting all this annoying shit. poor new jersey nets. they fight through and go 50-32 in the regular season, make history by making it to the finals for the first time (in the NBA), and get blown out in a sweep. but i should very much like to see mark madsen dance again. and i am anxiously awaiting football season (go cowboys) to start so i have a reason to watch sports again. here is a real course in NYC that teaches men how to attract asian women. at first i was kind of amused, but now i'm disturbed. who goes to these? guys with asian fetishes? the reason why i ask is because i'd figure that this course can't possibly be targetted at asian men, because asian men should have no problems approaching asian women, right? i mean, there's no culture gap there! and here's an article on japan's maglev train. ever since i was a kid and read about magnetically levitated trains, i was fascinated. it combined my desire for travel speed with the safety of being close to the ground. well, perceived safety, anyway. i mean, you're riding in a steel tube at over 300mph. as one person commented, "this will make for some spectacular derailments if amtrak gets their hands on it." dude. not even amtrak. what if somebody put a cinderblock right on the track? would that cause a derailment? it's scary. and here's a true geek thing. i mean, i know that movies are mean to stimulate our eyes, so does it really matter if the laws of physics are completely bent or destroyed? anyways, here are some examples of horrible movie physics. honestly, though, if explosions in space were silent like they really would be, it would be so boring to watch. i've been sitting here with silent headphones on for half an hour. silly me. |