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4-day-old 'bloglog is more linked than 6-month-old blueblog ever was. I think this proves my point. Well, I didn't really have a point, but if I did... that would have proved it.
blogger redesigned. I thought I had typed in the wrong url or something. It scared the shit out of me. I don't deal well with change.
Hmmm... despite it's problems, let's do a quick design comparison between powazek-powered blogger.com and the Davey-"designed" counterpart at editthispage.com. [Insert the obvious here.]
Anybody that sends me a blogger t-shirt will instantly be dubbed blueblog's #1 fan. And win my eternal gratitude. (Of course, after webloglog I think I may have already made fun of anyone who might have sent me one...)
omer and I go back to the old skool. The old, old, skool - Lincoln Hall Middle School.
But he eventually moved back to Israel, and now he's in the army. It always seems kind of weird to me, being able to keep in touch with people over the internet. I've been reading his journal - the parts that aren't in Hebrew. (Being a bad, pork-loving, Jew I never learned Hebrew.)
"plus, i need a life, and i need to find a nice girl who won't think i'm too apathetic or whatever it is that i am these days."
It's been a few years, but Omer and I still have a lot in common.
the current plan -
- weekend - study for final (only one. this is what happens when you only take 9 units)
- monday - take final
- wednesday - fly back back home to chicago for spring break
- buy old manual focus nikon slr
- learn how to take decent photographs
- stay offline for the whole week
omm has a much needed strategy guide to make Swat 3 - Sierra's first-person cop "sim" worth playing -
"S.W.A.T. 3 is missing this kind of attitude. Instead of simulating tough cops, the game rewards you for being a wimp and handling dangerous situations by the book. After a long session of S.W.A.T. 3, I asked erik to join me in one of our favorite office games, 'Who Wants To Smell My Finger?' 'I don't have to,' erik said, 'The pussy smell's all over you.' That's when I knew I had to change my S.W.A.T. 3 play style."I still can't believe this is what happened to Police Quest
I've played a lot of really weird Nintendo games thanks to the miracle of emulation - but this is by far the weirdest. AGTP released a prototype of Drac's Night Out. Just another obscure, unrelased NES game? Oh no. This is Dracula - in Reebok Pumps. You can pick up the game and read a hilarious GamePro article about it at Sardius's.
I have to ask mysef - why would I start this the week before finals? And the only answer I can come up with is that I'm an idiot.
Matt Haughey posted a quick tutorial about using <a name> tags with Blogger to uniquely identify each post in your weblog.I've been using these for a while for links to other entries. But it was only for me, you'd only notice the anchors if you viewed the source. I never set up the links because after the posts were put in the archive those links would still end up pointing to the front page. What I'd like to do is have the links point to the archived version, and I never figured out how to do that properly. TBTF log has a "perma-link" for the whole page - which I never figured out how to do either. What I'd like is each entry to be like that - each post has a little perma-link next to it that would point directly to the archived version of that post. Am I making any sense? Does anyone really care? Am I being an idiot?
blueblog sucks compared to pika-pika
The Pikachizer. Hours of mindless fun.
I never understood why people would use %7e or %7E instead of ~ in an url. Now I know why tilde should not be used in urls.
But why the hell are there tildes in the first place?
"There is hardly any explainable reason why such a convention was ever adopted. There is definitely nothing intuitive about it. How could you guess that ~ stands for 'home directory of'? Thus, people with no Unix background most probably have difficulties in realizing what the funny symbol ~ stands for."Everyday I hate unix a little more.
My father - "So, have you got a job lined up for the summer yet?"
Me - "No."
"Did you set up any interviews here for when you come back for spring break."
"No."
"What about that guy from the mercantile exchange?"
"Yeah, I don't really want to work at the merc, or in Chicago at all. I think I'm going to stay in California."
"Have you talked to any companies, gotten any interviews there?"
"Nah."
"So are you working on getting a job at all?"
"Not really."
I was going to tell him him that I put a "hire me" link on the sidebar of my weblog, but I figured I had done enough to piss him off for one night.
Although Infocom is dead, interactive fiction lives on.
Anyone can use Inform or a similar development system to make interactive fiction that, just like the old Infocom games, runs on a z-machine interpretter. And you can get Frotz - a great z-machine interpretter - for just about any platform imaginable. Even untalented hacks can easily and quickly make games to mock their high school English teacher's obsession with theatre of the absurd. There are tons of inform games here, and many, unlike mine, do not suck.
But I was weaned on old Sierra AGI games - like Police Quest, Space Quest, and Leisure Suit Larry. I learned to type with Mavis Beacon when I was seven so I could play King's Quest by myself. I crave pixellated graphics to go along with my text adventures. Unforutnately, the AGI community's output doesn't seem to be in the same league as their all all text counterparts. There is a good AGI Studio to edit with, but whatever. Never mind, I lost interest. I'm going to sleep.
Digital Swirlee used to be a weblog, but it's since turned into more of a webloglog. Webloglog - a weblog that ceases to have links to interesting webites, and instead only has posts about other weblogs or webloggers. (Hey, I can rip on Digital Swirlee since I've been reading it forever and mostly enjoying it, and more importantly, I was one of 14 people who voted for him over the geek goddess. Shit, I'm turning this into a webloglog. Fuck. Might as well finish the indulgence.) Anyway, Jordan notes:
"There are a lot of female bloggers. I know that, statistically, there are almost as many women on the Internet as there are men, but they've never seemed to have as much of a voice. I hope the weblog phenomenon changes that, and I think it will."
I don't know if I totally agree with all of that, but the important thing is that weblogs done by neat people are entertaining. What I'm trying to say is that while I enjoy reading the 500 billion blogs by white, 20-something, male, webmonkeys, (I love evhead!), I really think it's great that the demographics are changing. I like Coca-Coma not only because it's a tasty blog, but because sometimes it's more fun to read things writtern by cute high-school girls than jaded, angry, college assholes.
