daily link   Friday, August 22, 2003

I'm not depressed. I just have an acute sense of reality.

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The whole idea of quotes is just brilliant. The complete sum of of all of the wisdom of a life or of a thousand lives captured in beautifully succinct little packets of pure thought.

Take a kernel of life add decades of experience, knowledge and insight remove all of the awful personality, human failings, and compromises and you can reduce any person down to a couple of good quotations. That is to say, a couple of good quotes at best.

I had so much fun with that last quote that I had to give another one a go.

"A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking."
-Jerry Seinfeld

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Weblog Design Services Sale of the Century.

I'm announcing that I'm offering weblog design services at low low prices. This is a limited time offer. Why? I need to make some money so that I can buy a server and colocate it. I'm thinking $4,000.00 should just about cover it so I figure I had better get started.

I specialize in "nudgeable", layout oriented designs that emphasize standards compliant HTML, XHTML and CSS. I primarily work with Radio UserLand and Blosxom but you can take the designs and do with them whatever you like (I can help but I would have to charge you extra for that).

Come on... you know you want to.

A perfect opportunity to setup a web presence for your business or improve your existing site.

Start taking an interest in your own life! Just think, at this time next year you can look back and get a blow by blow reminder of how everything went so horribly wrong (or right ;O). Think of a weblog as your personal, perpetual time capsule, filled with all of the people and events and ideas that are important to you.

"The unexamined life is not worth living."
-Socrates

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Sorry about not posting yesterday.

I didn't post but I did spend a lot of time on my weblog. I'm working on the weblog design, putting some finishing touches on this design before moving on to the next one.

I'm also working on a very long winded post about my take on copyright. I really don't want to be spending my time writing about or even thinking about this sort of thing. I have more pressing problems in my life (like the fact that I've been out of work for 9 months and desperately need something to happen on that from quickly). Instead of working on my life I'm spending 1/2 a day so far writing about copyright. Anyway, when I do post (definitely by the end of the weekend) I hope you read through it.

Feel free to send me feedback and if you think that what I say makes sense then please consider sending me $2 for the time and effort it took for me to add a little objective, intelligent thought to the discussion (discussion in the ethereal sense), assuming you think that my post represents objective, intelligent thought).

Hey Dan, this is your fault. I'll be expecting my $2.00!

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Upcoming Events & Other Stuff:

The First Day of the Rest of Your Life

Tomorrow

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MacWorld Expo Jan 2004

San Francisco. Tuesday January 6, 2004
Keynote by Steve Jobs 9am Pacific Time.

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Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King in theaters.
December 17, 2003

I have tickets for 8:25 pm, 12/18/2003.


Simpsons Halloween Special
Treehouse of Horror XIV(Start of a new season of The Simpsons)
8:00 pm EST, Sunday, November 2, 2003


Apple releases OS X 10.3 aka Panther with Release Events at Apple Retail Stores. 8 pm - midnight, 10/24/2003

World Series Game 6: Marlins at Yankees
7:30 pm EST, 10/25/2003



Post Queue

A post queue is a quick little list of items I want to post and maybe (but not always) a description.

If you see something that looks interesting to you, click on the link and send me an email. I'll post about items that you're interested in before the others. Another original and super fantastic idea from robreed.net and GoGoHappySunshine :O)



Reaction to Apple's Jan 6, 2004 Expo Annnouncements

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Movie Review: "Big Fish"

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PC Buying Advice

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Which Linux Distribution Should I Choose and Why?

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Are Computers From Apple Really More Expensive?

A Quick Comparison Based on Current Pricing and Specs.

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The problem with online communities...

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Post Queue: Picky little comment about Dave Winer's ThinkPad purchase.

I don't know why but this guy pisses me off. Well to be fair... I know exactly why ;O)

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Movie Review: "Bend It Like Beckham"

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Movie Review: "Deep Impact"

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I don't want to be the OTIS guy I saw at Starbucks today, 12/17/2003.

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Why I hate Boston's Museum of Science, and why you should too.

votes: 1

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Why Apple's concept of a "Genius Bar" in their retail stores makes absolutely no sense.



Movie Reviews

First I need to explain
the system I use to rate movies.

Now with all that out of the way... it on to the reviews:

-- The Matrix Revolutions



-- View From the Top


-- Head of State


-- X2 X-Men United


-- The Matrix Reloaded


-- Finding Nemo


-- Bruce Almighty



This is my Thank You Bubble.

Thank You, Heather Martian
Thank You, Jenn Martinelli
Thank You, Mac OS X/BSD UNIX
Thank You, The Magazine Industry

Thank You, The Simpsons, Futurama, The Family Guy (How'd you get so smart?)

Thank You, Boston, after Syracuse and Buffalo I needed you desperately.



This is my Thanks for Nothing Bubble.

I know it's crass. These things are important to me but also I don't want to waste a lot of time on most of them.
Whether I write them down or not I carry them around in my head so why not just write them down.

Thanks for Nothing, RELIGION for thousands of years of oppression; ignorance and outright stupidity; seemingly limitless death, violence and destruction; hate and isolation. Real hope, even salvation doesn't carry so high a price.

Thanks for Nothing, Microsoft
Thanks for Nothing, Apple Computer/Steve Jobs
Thanks for Nothing, the Boston T
Thanks for Nothing, Boston's Musuem of Science

Thanks for Nothing, SUNY Buffalo/The SUNY Buffalo Classics department (by the way if anyone from SUNY Buffalo sees this please take me off of your alumni mailing list.)

Thanks for Nothing, Harvard University, for being irresponsibly short-sighted in every way that doesn't mean more money for your endowment or padding for your reputation. There are more important things.

Thanks for Nothing, George W. Bush (Thanks for Nothingr father too). For ruining America at precisely the wrong time.

Thanks for Nothing, Ronald Regan you brain dead piece of shit, for helping to ruin my life by making me fear for my future and the world around me when I was growing up.

Thanks for Nothing, My parent's generation for passing on your inadequacies, self-doubt, fear... and not much else. Your children are your responsibility. It's is your obligation to pay for their education because their future is your debt. If you are so vain as to think that in a world of 6+ billion people there is some need for you to procreate then you had better be prepared to pay the price.

Thanks for Nothing, The Republican Party, for taking advantage of the general population's stupidity to your own advantage.

Thanks for Nothing, the Democratic Party, for being too incompetent to figure out how to help the general population in spite of our collective stupidity.

Thanks for Nothing, Arnold Schwarzenegger, for taking out your frustrations over your pathetic movie career on this country.

Thanks for Nothing, California (see Thanks for Nothing Arnold Schwarzenegger)

Thanks for Nothing, The people of Boston and Boston politics, for doing your best to ruin a truly great city.



Quotations

You're not as smart as you think you are.
- Me

The Museum of Science is a shit-pit and I wouldn't be surprised if someone told me that Harvard is killing babies to pad its endowment.
- Me

Success in life is about managing a continuous series of small failures.
- Me

I prefer all of my human interaction in magazine form.
- Me

Hold onto your grudges.
- They are a part of who you are.
- Your life and your experiences don't make any sense without them.
- They represent real knowledge gained.
- At times they're all you have that's of any value. Don't give them away.
- Me



Good Deeds I've Done

If I do any I'll post them here. Don't expect miracles ;O)



The Score

Listen up everybody. I've decided to start keeping score.

You may not even realize that you're playing (I won't tell you. It's my only advantage).

[ Life vs. Me ]

Life: 32
Me: 0

More info: Life gets 1 point for every year of my life to this point.

+1 point because I'm unemployed.
+1 point because my apartment is awful.
+1 point because I have fewer than 3 friends.

[ Dan from Liverpool High School vs. Me ]

Dan: 0
Me: 1

[ Jenn's horrible friend Stacie vs. Me ]

Stacie: 0
Me: 1,000,000



Music I Like

Ben Folds : Rockin' the Suburbs

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