A little bit of humor
In my quest to find a site where to find another weblog (besides my own) that I might enjoy, I found this over at Paxil Street:

Hehe.

Not much updated today
This afternoon is over. Nothing has changed. Woe is me (250 style points if you know what "Woe is me" is from).

In the last 18 hours since I said I was going to do something about this site, I slept a lot, went food shopping, watched some TV, and I helped my buddy Ghal / Merik / I don't know what his name is anymore work on his future Shadowbane guild site just because I am such a swell guy. Unfortunately, I'm not providing a link to his work in progress because... well... it's hideous. :)

I spent many moons trying to figure out how to remove the gap created when images in tables are placed above and below one another. Despite using the obvious <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0> tag, there was always a 2- or 3-pixel gap between pictures. It sucked. After creating several test pages of my own and searching the web for what seemed like an eternity, I figured it out:

DO NOT put spaces or hit the enter key after the <td> tag.

How dumb.

Battlebots marathon this afternoon
Starting at 2 pm Eastern on Comedy Central, you can watch Battlebots until The Man Show at 10 pm.

I'll give you a dollar if you watch all 8 hours of it. I get to smack you for watching all 8 hours afterwards, too.

Not much to say today
Do you come to this site hoping that I may be able to shed some light in your otherwise dull and diluted life? Unfortunately, Yours Truly doesn't really have much in the ways of news to talk about. It is a very sad state of affairs. Perhaps I can keep you occupied by telling you some of my plans in the near future?

Some time tomorrow afternoon... maybe tonight if I feel like it, I'm gonna spruce up my site a bit. I'll slap some links into the left sidebar, maybe add some more links somewhere else, and do some other vague things. And since this site loads some damn fast now, I may add some images somewhere... I've also been leaning towards the possibility of putting some hot chick as part of the wussy Against the Grain logo. Who knows, though?

Still looking for something to do? Go take the Spark personality test and the Spark gender test. In case you care, I came out as a "judge" for the personality test, just like 3% of the people that took the test. As for the gender test, I think I just barely squeaked out for acceptance into the "man" category. Heh. I'm not sure what that means... But anyways, one of my roommates across the hall took the gender test, and he must have barely ended up in the "woman" category. Sucka! Hehe. Thanks Adam (aka "Atticus") for the links.

Blogvoices is too slow
I mean, it's unexcusably slow. Hence, my wussy discussion forum / meassage board has been axed... for now.

Unfortunately, I really really really want some way to interact with my site visitors. And I am not willing to use something that is cookie-cutter. I don't need, say, a different message board system with huge-ass banners on the top and bottom of the page nor something where I can not make it look like it fits nicely with my color scheme. I want it to look like it is part of the site. Or even better, it'd be kinda nice if it looked like I made it as opposed to being hosted by one of those sites that give away FREE (heh, these sites always capitalize "free") counters, guestbooks, chat rooms, etc.

Such a thing usually requires CGI access of some sort on my part, which is not the case. That's also why I don't have a counter still, so I have no idea if I'm getting my typical 5 or 6 a day or if I'm getting 16 billion a day now that I have changed my site layout. But that's a different story... kinda.

Email me some suggestions if you have any.

More good spam
While the whole snoring problem spam I got a while back was pretty amusing, this one totally takes the cake:

To: [email protected]
From: rick@[insert DNS here]
Subject: What the hell are you doing?

WHATS YOUR PROBLEM? We break up for 2 weeks and then Brad sends
me this url: [insert url here] What the hell are you doing?
You look like a cheap s1ut! Is that what you want? Everyone to
think you are a WH0RE? Fine if that's the deal, then I'm gunna
send this email to every person that I can. Now the world
will know exactly how skanky you are!

BURN IN HELL BlTCH!

Love Eric

Go here and see what a WH0RE my ex girlfriend is:
[insert url here]

Right... let me check something really quickly.
Yup, I'm still of the male persuasion. Now I got a lot of questions...
Who the hell is Brad? Why is it signed by Eric when the email came from Rick? Better yet, who the hell is Eric or Rick? Was I female at one time? Or does this mean I'm gay? Did I get too drunk at some party that I don't have any recollection of (ha!)?

It doesn't matter if you knew what the url I censored out was. And I thought I was supposed to get porn spam only through ICQ...? That or through my hotmail account, not my RPI address.

Funny.

This Week's Incident Blotter
There were two rather good things that happened since the last blotter:

Sunday, February 11: Main Campus: Medical: Wind blew car door shut on person’s finger. RPI Ambulance transported patient to hospital.

Two words: oh shit. Getting your finger stuck anywhere where it shouldn't be is bad news. That makes me shake just thinking about it. That or I have a really cold draft that I can't do anything about in my room. Actually, it's both. Wow, my hands are FREEZING! I can't type with gloves on, though... what a dilema.

Thursday, February 15: MRC Lot: Car Fire: Engine compartment of ’91 Jeep Cherokee ignited after driver parked vehicle. Troy Fire Department responded to extinguish fire.

I'm not sure what to say about this. The "I'm so damn witty" part of my brain isn't working right now... Hmmm... I wonder what started the fire in the first place. Was it faulty wiring or was it part of a covert plot by a secret underground RPI agency run by students that believe that "the war" is not over? Was it just a small fire, or was there an explosion that created a wonderful display of flying iron and steel? I don't know.

I think I gotta lie down. My commentary sucked. *sigh*

Gay or Eurotrash?
I spent the last hour or so sifting through other people's weblogs hoping that I would find one I would like to read on a regular basis. Then I came across the realization that I hate everyone. A third of these weblogs have super-fancy titles and unorthodox site layouts that make me want to puke. They are totally lacking in content, and 10-dollar words are used when simple 5-cent ones will do. They suck. I swear these logs were made by hippie computer science majors who use a WYSIWYG editor or by some breed of "technonerd" (TV Guide's description of the Lone Gunmen in The X-Files. Good job, Guys.) subconsciously yearning to be gay or to be English teachers.

I feel a little better now. Heh. I'll describe the remaining two-thirds later.

Anyhoo, I came across a link you might enjoy from one of these weblogs: Gay or Eurotrash? It's pretty cool stuff. I wish they had more "game pieces" though. Maybe they will create some sort of expansion later on.

Some quick movie reviews
I saw Hannibal at the theaters this past weekend. Supposedly, this movie is the sequel to Silence of the Lambs, a movie I did not see. I didn't feel lost during the story, so the director did a good job at making sure n00bs like myself wouldn't feel too confused. I was expecting the movie to be a psychological thriller. It wasn't. There was some gross stuff, but... I don't know. It wasn't what I was expecting. People died in clever ways but I wasn't spooked nor was I temporarily messed up in the head after seeing the movie. Maybe I wasn't supposed to be...

I saw Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon from the comfort of my own bed. A few people had this movie as one big 670-820 MB download on the RPI network. I had it in about 15 minutes. :) I heard some good stuff about this movie, so I might as well check it out. Anyways, I don't see why so many people liked it. Some of the fight scenes were pretty good and the plot kept me interested for a while. But the whole flying / moon jumping thing was rather queer. That annoyed me a lot. It was so unrealistic. That and some of the fight scenes were too dark, but the compressed movie file might be to blame for this. All in all this movie might be a 7 on a scale of 1 to 10.

The Subspace Squad of Doom
Yeah baby.

If any of the two or three of you that visit my site want in on this ultra-secret invite-only Subspace squad me and my pair of roommates are in, act now or forever hold your peace! You'll even get your own ultra-secret banner to display next to your name!

Yeah, you're jealous.

Is Jon hot or not?
Jon had the testicular fortitude to go forth and put his picture up at amihotornot.com. Give him the benefit of the doubt and make him feel like one sexy bitch. Do so here.

Rumor has it that Keith also put his picture up at that site; I'll post the url as soon as I find out which url it is.

Update: For Keith's pic, go here.

ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US!
ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US!
ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US!
ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US!
ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US!
ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US!
SOMEBODY SET US UP THE BOMB!

Check out the insanity at http://www.dayvid.net/allyourbase.swf. Thanks Jake and Frank.

I want ICQ 2000a
I haven't tried it yet, but I bet if I try to skin my ICQ (version 2000b), that New! ICQ SMS! is going to cut a chunk out of the skin instead looking like it's part of it. Plus ICQ 2000a doesn't have as many of the buttons that I am not going to use.

Update: My predictions were correct. Skins look like ass since you can not skin around the banner. Time to find v2000a.