Comments system works.
Hooray! Now all I need to do is come up with a comments color scheme or something and it's all set. Go ahead and give it a whirl.

Because of this great achievement, let us celebrate by... uh... learning about Christian firearms. I'm not sure what that site has to do with anything; it's just really bizarre. It kinda gives me flashbacks of that Family Values Party thing I posted a long time ago.

Today isn't really a good day.
Ever have felt like someone was thrusting a knife into your intestines every time you ate or even walked?
Let me tell you, it is not pleasant. It's almost like if you swallowed the fabled metal Krusty-O.

If I ever figure out how come my stomach feels the way it does, that perpetrator is going to... eh... I don't know yet, but it's going to be horrific.

Pah.
The comments system is sporked. I don't really know what's going on, since I'm not too familiar with PHP. I don't think it's the code that's bugged, though, since this commenting system works on other sites. I think it has something to do with folder access; I'm supposed to set the folder's permissions to allow everyone to read, write, and execute its contents. Too bad every time I do that, it says I have successfully "chmoded" the folder to 777 (the numeric code for allowing all walks of life to read, write, and execute the folder's contents), but it never actually successfully chmods to 777. It always becomes 771 or something else instead. That's so dumb.

Maybe I'll work on it some more later, or maybe I'll just give up on the idea entirely.

State of the economy
From someone I know:
If you bought $1,000 worth of Nortel stock one year ago, it would now be worth $49 for all $1,000

If you bought $1,000 worth of Budweiser (the beer, not the stock) one year ago, drank all the beer, and traded in the cans for the nickel deposit, you would have $79.

My advice to you is to start drinking heavily.

Poppies... poppies will put them to sleep
And then a nuclear detonation will wake them up split seconds before they die.

As I type this from work, it would take a lot less than poppies to put me to sleep. A whisper in my ear, a cool breeze, a misguided keystroke.... zzzzzzzzzzzzzz. Bam. I'm asleep. But it won't be a good sleep. Here's why: All week, I have been getting to bed late, 12:30AM, 1AM, 2AM. I'm a stupid bitch. I think many of us have had trouble getting to sleep. Anyways, last night I intended to go to bed early. Right after work, my company had its quarterly meeting, to announce earnings, etc. I hadn't intended to go, becuase I just wanted to go home and pack for my weekend trip home and go to bed early, but I was sort of peer-pressured into it by my work friends. So I go to the quarterly meeting, the CEO talks about how much our company has grown in earnings, etc. blah blah, sort of cheerful stuff to keep our hopes up when we see around us so many other companies in uncertainty periods. Of course, our CEO also talked about the tragedy, and even broke down crying when detailing news of the employees and resources some of our clients lost in the tragedy. Very moving. So anyways, I finally make it home, do some packing and putting stuff in my car so I can leave for Boston right from work today. I get done with all this at about 8PM and tune in to watch WWF Smackdown, which of course was pre-empted at 9PM by the president's speech, which was forceful, and needed to be done, but got repetitive near the end, so I fell asleep during it. But it wasn't a good sleep. I woke up about 10PM and rolled into bed, and quickly fell asleep. But again it wasn't a good sleep.

The only problem is, my roommate called me at about 11:30 asking if I could pick him up in Greenwich, CT. He had fallen asleep on the train, and went about 5 stops past where he needed to get off for my apartment. So I was like "yeah, of course I'll come pick you up. Be there in 20 minutes." So I sluggishly rolled out of bed, got dressed, and went to pick him up. When I got there, he was a little drunk, since he had been drinking with his brother, but of course, he forgot to eat, so he wanted to take me out for dinner on him. Since I was not hungry, I took him to a diner and watched him eat a tremendous amount of food, while I had some ice cream. I finally got back to my apartment about 12:45 AM, very tired. I finally got back into bed at 1:30 or so after letting my ice cream settle. I already knew I was in for a short night, becuase I have to wake up at 7:15 AM to be on time for work.

Shortly after I fell asleep for the third time that evening, a storm started. About the loudest thing I have ever heard woke me up screaming. With all the stuff that happened last week, and because of conversations I had had with people about nuclear capability, I literally had convinced myself that a nuclear detonation had just occured 15 miles away from me in New York City, and I had about 0.3 seconds before I was consumed in a nuclear reaction. Now, I have never heard a nuclear explosion, but I imagine they are loud. However, it was just lightning. Another lightning blast which was just as loud occurred a few minutes later. It was sooooo loud. Quite literally, probably one of the loudest things I have ever heard in my life. And then sirens; to put out whatever the lightning had started. Needless to say, at this point I was so scared, and stimulated, that it was nearly impossible for me to sleep the rest of the night. It turns out the lightning struck twice at a building quite near me. Today when I talked about it with my roommate, it turns out I was not the only one who was freaked out by the sound. He didn't sleep well either, and the thought of a nuclear detonation had also occurred to him.

This is true terror. This is the lasting impact of what those terrorist bastards did to us. They left their mark in two ways; by waking us up with the direct attacks on civilians, and by keeping us awake when we need to rest. Collectively, we can not sleep because of them. We can not go about our daily lives as we did before, even though that's what Bush wants us to do. We can not return to normalcy, no matter what Giuliani asks of us. Is it safe for me to sleep at work? It certainly doesn't feel safe for me to sleep at home.

Tonight I return to my old home (provided I don't pass out while driving there, and crash into a tree), the home I have had for 22 years before moving here. Will it be the same? Will I be able to sleep in my old bed? There have been murmurs in the news that more attacks had been planned for tomorrow, and in Boston. The world shall see. But I won't because I'll be trying to get some sleep, and release my subconscious terror.

Site stuff and computer stuff.
In order to make links more visible, I had to change the text color. I wanted to stick with the orange link color, but it took a while before I could find a fitting text color to go with it. Yellow didn't contrast well. Red and purple were too dark. Green or blue text didn't really work with a site that has lots of brown on it, which is why I reserve those colors to make IM messages stand out more. That kinda left some shade of brown or white left. Since white is used on like every site but this one, I defaulted to a light shade of brown. Now this site looks like fuckin' Count Chocula's homepage or something. Heh. I hope you're cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs.

I'm probably gonna add some type of feedback tool to the site tomorrow or on Saturday. Then, you web surfers that accidentally found this site can comment on a post and tell me how much I suck and stuff. I'm looking forward to it.

I remember reading reports about the Pentium 4 chip and people were bitching that if the chip gets hot, it throttles down to cool off. When it does that, performance worsens until it throttles back up again. Oddly enough, this is actually a good thing, for if your CPU's heatsink or fan fall off, the CPU isn't gonna fry. Too bad the same can't be said about AMD. Check out the pics of the warped Athlons. I like the pic that shows an Athlon's surface temperature being 370 degrees (Celsius!). I bet the video at the end of the article is pretty cool, but I'm still downloading it at the moment. Kudos to Jon for the link.

In other Athlon news, it looks like future Athlons based on the Palomino cores are gonna be called Athlon XP. What a clever name. I wonder if they know there's a upcoming operating system that uses the same initials. Each new CPU that gets released will have a number after it (like 1600 for the 1.4 Ghz) that will mean what the equivalent Intel CPU speed is. Maybe this means AMD doesn't have to play the megahertz game anymore.

Oktoberfest is coming.
In just under two days, too! Anyone want to make a road trip?
I guess that means that Jim Koch and company are gonna have their Oktoberbest seasonal beer out sometime, assuming this isn't already the case. Mmmm.... And I still have my license, so I can buy this beer (and many others), unlike Jonny. ;)

Hey, does anyone remember that Javascript-run Tic-Tac-Toe board I made using Sam Adams and Rolling Rocks as X's and O's? That was cool. I wonder what I did with that.

Update: Found it. Error checking was a required part of the Tic-Tac-Toe board assignment, so check out what happens when you click on a square that has already been taken.

Anyone know how to fax a human?
OK, so as you know, I bought a car last week. (Saturday the 8th), at a car dealership in Rahway, NJ. I was able to drive it home that day, continget on a few responsibilites: I had to be insured by the end of the day monday (done), I had to show them my diploma to get a $500 discount (done), and I had to call them back after I got my NY registration, so that they could install leather and a sunroof. Not a problem, so I thought, but then there was a huge tragedy on tuesday. Since I live in New York, east of NY city, it was nearly impossible for me to get in contact with the dealership. It didn't help that they didn't open until today. Anyways, today they called me telling me that in order to process my registration in NY, I need to fax them 6 points of identification, including at the bear minimum a NY interim license. It only complicates matters that I have a license from MA, a job in CT, a residence in NY, and bought the car in NJ. So, I went to the NY DMV site, and looked up what I needed to do to get a NY license. I found out a NY license is worth 6 points, so if I get that, I'm golden, I can just fax that right over to the dealership, and they will over night me some plates.

Wrong!

I take some time off work at 12PM to go to the DMV (remember its in a different state!), I get there about 12:30, and I start waiting and waiting and waiting. Finally at about 1:30, my number is called, so I go to the counter. They ask for 6 points of identification to apply for the license, so I'm like biggity bam, MA license (3), social security card (2), credit card (1). And they're all nope, sorry, your social security card is laminated, so it probably won't work. I'm like ask the manager. They're like fine, I will. About 20 minutes later, after careful scrutinization of my social security card, they decide to allow it. The only problem is, now they don't like my MA license. Seems I have one of the last few of their old system. They have to bring out this huge blue book full of licenses that has like every license ever, to see if mine is valid. Well, surprise, it is! So then they issue me a NY license. All fine and good, and now I have 6 points of identification in one card. Wrong! For some reason, they only issue me an interim license, even though I had my picture taken, and I signed my signature and everything. I men, what the fuck? My college had no problem printing up IDs in 5 minutes. When I got my MA license, it was ready in 15 minutes. Hell, I even knew a person who I swear was not me, who could make god damn good fake IDs in less than an hour. But New York... New York for some reason won't send me my license for 3 to 4 weeks. And they took my MA license away. So now I can't buy beer. And now I have to come up with 6 points of ID still to send to the car dealership (remember the car dealership?).

I get back to work about 3. (Damnit!) There is an email from my boss at 12:30 asking if I'm there. Another one at 1:30. Oh shitty, my boss is going to wonder where I was. After straightening stuff out with my boss, I get on the phone with the car dealership saying, well, it's going to be hard for me to get 6 points of ID, espeically since they took my MA license, gave me an intereim NY license (only 2 points), and didn't give me a real NY license. They say a medical insurance card will get me 1 point. So I end up faxing them my interim NY license, my laminated social security card, my credit card (yikes!) and my health insurance card. They call me up, and whew, the fax went through ok, (even though I'm a novice fax machine user). However, the credit card came out all black on their end. Could I please send it again? And I'm like, not falling for that, I am going to send them my brith certificate instead. So that's where I am now, hoping that works. I have no real license or ID, I have no car registration, and I can't buy beer. :( I'm just glad they didn't ask me to fax my first born child, since I don't have one yet.

Reading the latest Maxim...
(I have a subscription now that I live by myself and have no roommates to buy it for me), I have found a lot of weird references to terrorism and blowing up buildings. This issue came out in late August before the WTC tragedy. Maybe its just a weird coincidence that is now showing up because of this tragedy, or maybe not. I am going to look into this, and will write back in a few days concerning my results.

Peace.

Links, links, and more links
You know you love them. In fact, I bet you yearn for them in your sleep, you sicko.

* No underaged girls for you! If you're in Swaziland and you get caught in the act, prepare to pay the ultimate fine: one cow. Make sure you get your cow's worth by subduing more than one teen at once. :p
* Pentium 4's nearly rival the brain of an ant. That's kinda neat, I guess, given the complex social structure of worker ants. Intel's next goal will be to surpass the computing power of a bumblebee.
* Oh no. Another virus. Of course, it's like six billion times more deadly than it's predecessors. Since I managed to get the Sircam virus sent to me 65+ times on this passed Friday to Sunday, I wonder how many times I'll get Nimba. I never got the Code Red virus, though. That's not an invitation to send it to me, by the way.
* This may make you hurl if you read it. It pretty high up there on the uncool scale.
* My survey needs to be filled out again. I think that damn pop-up window that comes when you submit the survey needs to display the "thank you" part near the top of the window before I actually get the results. What a scam. I don't think this was the case before. But whatever.

Sorry!
Sorry about the garish picture in the Mitsubishi post below. I swear it looks real good on the Mitsubishi site. It looks even better in person.

You bet your sweet bippy.

Free Reign
Whoa! Hold on a minute there, partner. I guess I have been given free reign on Jerome's site. You know what that means..... a bunch of swearing and pictures of goat porn! On second thought... I better not, becuase Jerome knows my password, so he could just as easily take away this Helm of Infinite Posting Potential. So while I contemplate what to write about, hows about I show you what my new car looks like:

Its a 2001 Mitsubishi Galant, silver like the one in the photo, with a spoiler, 17 inch alloy rims (so beautiful even Baker got a stiffy. They weigh 10 pounds each, but cost $700 each), a sunroof, and a leather interior.

Some jerkoff from the ghetto where I live had to go and steal the silver tire stem caps, causing me numerous tire problems over the weekend before and during my visit to RPI. Also someone spit lugies on the drivers side and passenger side doors sometime between sunday night and monday morning. I guess it doesn't pay to have a nice new car in the ghetto, even when you pay money to park in a lot.

Did you forget about him?
Jonny Boy is gonna take the Helm of Infinite Posting Potential tomorrow, since it is the third Wednesday of the month. In theory, he actually has the ability to post a lot more often than that, which may or may not be a good thing. Heh. We kinda forgot about the third Wednesday of August, so... uh, maybe he'll have a lot to say tomorrow, given his two-month hiatus. :) I'm looking forward to not having to do anything tomorrow, though. Website-wise, that is.

Well, pardon me!
I didn't listen to the radio at all yesterday (and I actually do listen to Opie and Anthony, should you care), so if there are inaccuracies in that last paragraph in my previous post, blame it on a "source" of mine who is known to exaggerate the truth to the point that it becomes fiction. If O and A didn't actually play any of the songs... well, ok, they didn't play any songs. But I don't see the need to get hung up on a detail like that. The purpose of the post is to show a list of songs that aren't going to get much (if any) airplay for a while. Carry about your business as usual. :)

On second thought, who actually made that list? Was it some network that decided "Hey, we're not playing these songs for a while" or was this a list a bunch of people made together and just handed to every radio station in the country? Not like it really matters, but I'm kinda curious as to who "they" are. I've already heard about six or seven of the songs in the last couple hours. Heh.

The following is a list of songs that are being pulled
from a large number of radio station playlists in light of the recent attacks on
the United States:

Drowning Pool - Bodies
Mudvayne - Death Blooms
Megadeth - Dread and the Fugitive, Sweating Bullets
Saliva - Click Click Boom
P.O.D. - Boom
Metallica - Seek and Destroy, Harvester or Sorrow, Enter Sandman, Fade to Black
All Rage Against The Machine songs
Nine Inch Nails - Head Like a Hole
Godsmack - Bad Religion
Tool - Intolerance
AC/DC - Shot Down in Flames, Shoot to Thrill, Dirty Deeds, Highway to Hell, Safe in New York City, TNT, Hell's Bells
Black Sabbath - War Pigs, Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, Suicide Solution
Dio - Holy Diver
Steve Miller - Jet Airliner
Van Halen - Jump
Queen - Another One Bites the Dust, Killer Queen
Pat Benatar - Hit Me with Your Best Shot, Love is a Battlefield
Oingo Boingo - Dead Man's Party
REM - It's the End of the World as We Know It
Talking Heads - Burning Down the House
Judas Priest - Some Heads Are Gonna Roll
Pink Floyd - Run Like Hell, Mother
Savage Garden - Crash and Burn
Dave Matthews Band - Crash Into Me
Bangles - Walk Like an Egyptian
Pretenders - My City Was Gone
Alanis Morissette - Ironic
Barenaked Ladies - Falling for the First Time
Fuel - Bad Day
John Parr - St. Elmo's Fire
Peter Gabriel - When You're Falling
Kansas - Dust in the Wind
Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven
The Beatles - A Day in the Life, Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, Ticket To Ride, Obla Di, Obla Da
Bob Dylan/Guns N Roses - Knockin' on Heaven's Door
Arthur Brown - Fire
Blue Oyster Cult - Burnin' For You
Paul McCartney and Wings - Live and Let Die
Jimmy Hendrix - Hey Joe
Jackson Brown - Doctor My Eyes
John Mellencamp - Crumbling Down, I'm On Fire
U2 - Sunday Bloody Sunday
Boston - Smokin
Billy Joel - Only the Good Die Young
Barry McGuire - Eve of Destruction
Steam - Na Na Na Na Hey Hey
Drifters - On Broadway
Shelly Fabares - Johnny Angel
Los Bravos - Black is Black
Peter and Gordon - I Go To Pieces, A World Without Love
Elvis - (You're the) Devil in Disguise
Zombies - She's Not There
Elton John - Benny & The Jets, Daniel, Rocket Man
Jerry Lee Lewis - Great Balls of Fire
Santana - Evil Ways
Louis Armstrong - What A Wonderful World
Youngbloods - Get Together
Ad Libs - The Boy from New York City
Peter Paul and Mary - Blowin' in the Wind, Leavin' on a Jet Plane
Rolling Stones - Ruby Tuesday
Simon And Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water
Happenings - See You in Septemeber
Carole King - I Feel the Earth Move
Yager and Evans - In the Year 2525
Norman Greenbaum - Spirit in the Sky
Brooklyn Bridge - Worst That Could Happen
Three Degrees - When Will I See You Again
Cat Stevens - Peace Train, Morning Has Broken
Jan and Dean - Dead Man's Curve
Martha & the Vandellas - Nowhere to Run
Martha and the Vandellas/Van Halen - Dancing in the Streets
Hollies - He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother
San Cooke - ???
Herman Hermits - Wonder World
Petula Clark - A Sign of the Times
Don McLean - American Pie
J. Frank Wilson - Last Kiss
Buddy Holly and the Crickets - That'll Be the Day
John Lennon - Imagine
Bobby Darin - Mack the Knife
The Clash - Rock the Casbah
Surfaris - Wipeout
Blood Sweat and Tears - And When I Die
Dave Clark Five - Bits and Pieces
Tramps - Disco Inferno
Paper Lace - The Night Chicago Died
Frank Sinatra - New York, New York
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Travelin' Band
The Gap Band - You Dropped a Bomb On Me
Alien Ant Farm - Smooth Criminal
3 Doors Down - Duck and Run
The Doors - The End
Third Eye Blind - Jumper
Neil Diamond - America
Lenny Kravitz - Fly Away
Tom Petty - Free Fallin'
Bruce Springsteen - I'm On Fire, Goin' Down
Phil Collins - In the Air Tonight
Alice in Chains - Rooster, Sea of Sorrow, Down in a Hole, Them Bone
Beastie Boys - Sure Shot, Sabotage
The Cult - Fire Woman
Everclear - Santa Monica
Filter - Hey Man, Nice Shot
Foo Fighters - Learn to Fly
Korn - Falling Away From Me
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Aeroplane, Under the Bridge
Smashing Pumpkins - Bullet With Butterfly Wings
System of a Down - Chop Suey!
Skeeter Davis - End of the World
Rickey Nelson - Travelin' Man
Chi-Lites - Have You Seen Her
Animals - We Gotta Get Out of This Place
Fontella Bass - Rescue Me
Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels - Devil with the Blue Dress
James Taylor - Fire and Rain
Edwin Starr/Bruce Springstein - War
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Tuesday's Gone
Limp Bizkit - Break Stuff
Green Day - Brain Stew
Temple of the Dog - Say Hello to Heaven
Sugar Ray - Fly
Local H - Bound for the Floor
Slipknot - Left Behind, Wait and Bleed
Bush - Speed Kills
311 - Down
Stone Temple Pilots - Big Bang Baby, Dead and Bloated
Soundgarden - Fell on Black Days, Black Hole Sun, Blow Up the Outside World
Nina - 99 Luft Balloons/99 Red Balloons

And this list is not complete! As is, this list is pretty ridiculous. I mean, like half of these songs are necessary at a time like this. Hello? Break Stuff? If I have some pent-up aggression, I need Fred Durst to help me out. And what is wrong with What A Wonderful World? Kudos to the boys of Rage Against the Machine for having all of their songs banned from the radio for the time being.

I stole this list from Opie and Anthony, who, yesterday, played most of the songs on the list. Heh.

On the online RPG front...
Looks like there's gonna be an expansion to Asheron's Call. Usually, expansions are more than just add-ons to an existing game, but offer fundamentally new changes to the game. Asheron's Call: Dark Majesty doesn't seem to differ from the original AC though. I guess that's understandable, since no one would really want to start at level 1 again because his or her old character is considered obsolete. Plus, there won't be separate "expansion only" servers. People with the add-on will have the ability to acquire housing (a place for you and/or others to store their "ph4t l3wt") and will have access to some new chunk of land. Ooh. Consider me unimpressed. I guess that's why Turbine intends to sell this expansion for like $20-30 + one free month of play. If the game was like... balanced between classes, not all about life magic and beating up the same damn creatures for hours on end, and if I felt like I made a difference in the world, then it would be cool. But as is...

In related news, Sony is gonna release their game, Everquest, and its two expansion together in some sort of trilogy collection thing. So, uh, if you ever wanted to play this game, now's your chance. I just hope the game has become a little better than when Mu played it (scroll down to 5/1/00) a year ago.

There are several other MMORPG's in different beta stages, but it looks like Dark Age of Camelot is almost ready to go gold. I don't really know anything about this game, but it looks like you get to choose to be a member of one of three nations, you can do the same old shit like questing and stuff, but you can also beat up people in the two nations you aren't part of in an ongoing struggle for territory and artifacts. The game has a lot of Arthurian and Norse lore, too. I'll probably check it out if a public beta is released. Otherwise, there's no chance I'll pick up the game.

Correction
Perhaps I was incorrect in my "quote of the day."

Frankly, I don't care, since what he said and what he meant are essentially the same thing.

Also, if you're browser says there's errors on the page...
Ignore them. Any generated errors are the problems of Geocities and their advertising scheme. I'm too "1337" of a coder to wantonly make frivolous mistakes. :)

Yo, there's a new survey up.
Fill it out, Jerky.

Results of the old survey aren't up. I don't know what I did with people's results. Oops. Oh well. It didn't matter anyway, since it was just for a class thing and not many people filled it out, let alone knew that it existed.

Taliban propaganda
Ok, so I'm using the word "propaganda" when I really mean the word "news," even though the two words are not synonymous with one another. But it got your attention, didn't it? Anyhoo, here are some stories related to the topic of the month:

-- Believing that the display of American flags in workers' cubicles are a sign of nationalism instead of patriotism, a Florida company's managers started confiscating the flags. What the hell? If I was a worker there, I wouldn't take that. At that moment in time, I would probably rather get fired than remove the flag I have in the mug with my pen and pencils. Assuming I had a little flag. And a mug. And a cubicle. And a white-collar job. *sigh*
-- A Bengali kid has been hospitalized when he spoke out against Bin Laden and his teacher beat him up. Hey FBI, I think we found one of his followers.
-- Murder in Small Town X was like one of two shows I started watching this summer. I enjoyed it very much, although I became muddled with all of the different clues and little events to figure out who the killer was myself. I also got to know the contestants of the show as the game went on. The winner of the game, a really cool guy named Angel, walked away with $250,000 a new jeep. His occupation? NYC firefighter. Where is he now? Unaccounted for. That really sucks, sort of like that time when that Pedro guy from The Real World in San Francisco lost his battle with AIDS. Except Angel never saw it comin'. Damn.
-- Live has released a new song called Overcome, which you can download for free. I haven't downloaded it yet, but I caught the last five seconds of the song's video on VH1. I guess it's good enough to get airplay. I hope it isn't as weak as Kiss 108's attempt to help the American people. Supposedly, those songs are really horrible. But I ain't gonna download them to find out.

Yeah, I don't have a background image yet.
All in due time, folks. All in due time.

Quote of the Day
Sure, I don't post these things daily, but it was better than calling it "quote of the moment" or something equally dumb.

I fear that all we have done is awakened a sleeping giant, and filled it with a desire for vengeance.
-- Adm. Yamamoto, after the attack on Pearl Harbor

Sircam 56, Organization 0
I really wish that the RPI alumni email server scanned for viruses before delivering one's mail. I have been getting an email an hour with a Sircam virus-infected attachment from some fucking dolt named "Chris Elsier" since Friday afternoon. I have no idea who this guy is, and frankly I don't care, but it would be really smart of him to stop checking his email and get rid of the damn virus before I go to his house and kick his ass (knowing my luck, he's probably a professional boxer or in the Mafia or something). Sure, I've gotten random infected email from people I don't know before, but usually I'd get the email once or twice and the "sender" figures out his or her computer is messed up and I stop getting their damn files. Not this guy. It's bad enough that I'm on a phone modem; I don't need my bandwidth being used to download 20+ messages, all at least 150 KB in size, and all of them infected and from the same damn tubesteak who chose not to scan an attachment for viruses before opening it.

I emailed him last night telling him how to uninfect his computer. "His" response? 18 infected email messages, 2 of which I have received while typing up this post. How dumb. I'll probably have to wait 'til Monday before I get any closure to this.

Time to email his organization's webmaster or system admins...

Chop suey.
My online presence is almost more elusive than the mysterious Sasquatch which, mind you, should not be confused with "squatch" despite their similarities.

unknown user: hey!!
me: hi!
unknown user: how are you doing i mis you
me: alright
me: i have no idea who this is, though
me: :)
unknown user: thats cool.... its elise
me: that's what I figured. how's life?
my cousin: ummmm great!.... your mom neva came and picked me up
me: you should kick her ass
my cousin: why??
me: cause she never picked you up
my cousin: hahahah no i dont think so she would kick mine first lol
me: so she [should] get beaten for the error of her ways or something
me: hehehhe

Heh, my mother could totally own my cousin, without a doubt. My cousin looks like a rail with appendages while my mom looks more like this. You don't want to fuck with her. Actually, if she did look like that, I would be deathly afraid, too.

"Jerome, go get the groceries."
"Nah, I don't think so."
I get choke-slammed through the kitchen table, never to be heard from again.

*shudder*