Random Fluf Archive
NerdBoy's No-Longer-Neo Nonsense Page
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Friday 12/15/2000
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You get what you pay for. That is, while you may get less than you paid for, you seldom get more. Case in point, my free web page on GeoCities (I see you cringing). I like that it's free. And I like that it lets me upload pages with ftp, or publish directly from Front Page 2000 or other Office programs. What I don't like is that there's no way to get timely help, or even an "email GeoCities" link. BTW, my spell checker suggests I replace GeoCities with Velocities, Ferocities, Genocides, or Groceries. What do you think? Nah.
So anyway, I tried to wiggle my way out of their little popup box, and then everything got ugly. Front Page wouldn't talk to their server, and using ftp programs (I like FTP Explorer) gave file upload errors. So I just kept pounding on it from various angles, and eventually I got Front Page to publish. My best guess is that it was simply network congestion between me and them, with Front Page simply timing out and giving up. So probably all that pounding I did was no more effective than if I had, say, pounded sand instead. I guess the bright side is that (from what I've read elsewhere) I could have had the same problem even if I were paying for my web page. Hoo Hah.
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Thursday 12/14/2000
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I'd like to take a moment to recommend to your attention some people who are smarter than I am, and better at designing web pages. Check out the Daynoters link at left, for the daily journals of an odd assortment of mostly-nerds, many of whom write computer books (and/or fiction), some of which I have actually read.
And now for something completely different... I'm trying to keep denying that my occasional headaches are caused by too much caffeine. La-la-la, la-la-la, I can't he-e-e-e-ear you...
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Wednesday 12/13/2000
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Here's how you can tell if the spicy food you're eating is good or not: if you have to stop every few minutes to wipe your eyes and blow your nose, it's good. This, incidentally, is the bad thing about good chicken wings: the wiping/blowing portion of the meal also requires you to clean your fingers first, adding noticeably to the time required. Because pepper is only a good thing in the mouth. For some reason, the membranes surrounding the eyes are considerably more sensitive about this stuf.
And on a tangentially-related issue, have you ever noticed how when coffee is at a proper drinking temperature, it's too hot to stick your finger in? Like even your lips are afraid of it, but your tongue is OK with it. What's up with that?
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Tuesday 12/12/2000
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America - what a country! People give you stuf for free here. Like domain names, web pages, email accounts, storage space on the web... My philosophy is, if somebody wants to give you something for free, take it. Now most of the things people offer us for free aren't really free: usually they want us to give them some personal information, or agree to accept some kind of spam from them. But here's the thing: you can usually tell them anything, and they won't check it. So next time you want to download the latest media player, and it wants you to register your "free" software, just lie. And even if you need to give a valid email address, you can set up another free email account somewhere, just to have a valid address that you might never use again. After a month of inactivity,
they'll mothball it, and everybody wins. See what I mean?