Day 1. In an effort to cheer myself up I found myself listening to Rollins, and by proximity in my library, Ruby. And thanks to the interwebs, what was once too esoteric for my level of interest in Ruby is now accessible: there is a remix album of Salt peter, and a second album released in 2001 after a period of "label shake up limbo", Short-staffed at the Gene Pool. Can't say I'm terribly impressed with the one song I sampled via youtubes from the newer album, "Beefheart", but one song doth not an albu... (...more)

Kinda felt like something was lurking on the relationship front, since before I visited last month. The beginning of this month. Whatever. Long before, if I'm honest with myself; maybe as far back as last Xmas, and can't-put-my-finger things in June. In between, romantic IMs which once would have elicited a certain sort of response, started falling flat. In retrospect I should have been tuned to that like a radio telescope. I was getting especially mixed signals the past few days, so when D.- seemed unu... (...more)

Finally remembered to search youtube for old arcade game playthroughs - Scramble, Vanguard, R-Type, Zaxxon, Gauntlet, Sinistar, Ikari Warrior, Heavy Barrel, etc. I'd forgotten just how fiendishly difficult some of those games were. In fact I'd forgotten entirely about some of them, Zaxxon and Vanguard e.g., despite having dropped some significant chunks of lunch money on them, a quarter at a time, back in the day.

"darth prolapse"

Googlewhacking can't be a thing if Google is going to cache transient forum "most recent" ticker stuff without spidering/caching the posts themselves.

In 2003, Congress had the chance to do the right thing about "spam"... and mostly failed. Instead of legislation with teeth, they left the FTC with armament amounting to a wet noodle. What consumers and ISPs really, really wanted was prohibition of unsolicited commercial email (UCE). What we got instead was legislation that overturned more restrictive local law, and removed individual right of recourse against spammers. The CAN-SPAM Act is often derided as the "Yes you can spam" Act, because worst of al... (...more)