USENET: Death of the Alt.* Hierarchy

The Usenet has been, and continues to be, a great source of information, where technologies that push product can easily be pushed aside using filters. There are more than 10,000 newsgroups on nearly every topic that delienates our human existence, all hierarchically arranged. The major hierarchies are known as “The Big 8″: comp.*, humanities.*, misc.*, [...]

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I wannabe Chris: A parody about Chris Crocker Parodies - Updates

Some updates to the story I wrote.
There are some minor changes to my story. (link above)
The Chris Crocker video in question.
His imitators (parody, of course, and not all male). Many of these stray far off the topic of Chris Crocker: 1 2 3 4 5 (Israel?) 6 7 8 9 10 (a hockey player?) 11
There [...]

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Four Ugly Colours (or, colours not found in nature)

There is a certain set of color values somewhere in the visible spectrum that do not seem to have a category. These colors seem to go with nothing in your house, and do not seem to come from anything in nature.
The commonest of the ugly colors appear to be (by their RGB values — it [...]

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Microsoft

Today I learned (or should I say, re-learned, since I did this before several times but today forgot how I did it) about another thing Windows does. It insists on formatting my partition on a new portable hard drive I purchased to NT without offering me any other option. I removed the drive from the [...]

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I have a problem with online communities

Look, there is no such thing. The idea of on-line communities is too passive for me to call it a community. It might have the power to make certain changes, but we need to work in real communities and worry more about bringing real people together in real communities.
While I post to a journal, I [...]

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Frustration in Printing

At long last, CUPS has detected my printer, but alas, I still can’t send print jobs to it. The fact that it is wireless might have something to do with it; but the odd thing is that I can telnet to it and print a test page. So, I think the problem must be software-related.
I [...]

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Fortune Cookies III

More auto-generated fortunes:
question = ( to ) ? be : ! be;
– C code, loosely based on Wm. Shakespeare
Experience, n.:
Something you don’t get until just after you need it.
– Olivier
There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear.
Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.
– Redd [...]

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Fortune Cookie Generator

Anyone who had used a UNIX operating system might be aware of some of the fun things on it. Such as a command called “fortune”, which generates short aphorisms and quotations similar to ones found in fortune cookies. Except some of these are funny, witty, sarcastic, satirical, and so on. I use a Linux system, [...]

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Ad parody for Windows Vista

Follow this link. It is the best Nat Lamp parody I have seen in a long time. Apologies for the repost, it is being posted to several new categories.

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Deep Purple

I have a retro cassette of pre-Beatles music from the 1959-1963 era. I have had it for years, and it is full of really boring tunes that I hardly ever play. It was an era of sappy sentimentalism, when torch songs reigned supreme, and everyone tried to outdo each other with the ultimate love tune. [...]

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Foggy essays

I have a “foggy” essay generator that just did the following, for an essay on folklore:

Of course, the characterization of critically co-optive criteria adds explicit performance contours to the profound meaning of “The Raw and the Cooked”. Conversely, a constant flow [...]

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I wannabe Chris: A parody about Chris Crocker Parodies

I was going to write a parody of Roch Carrier’s The Hockey Sweater, but I didn’t really want to write a real story. I was going to write about a group of people who were all fans of Chris Crocker, in the same sense that some people in earlier generations were fans of Maurice Richard. [...]

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Jamie-Lynn Spears

Wow. I was going through You-Tube, and, remembering the Chris Crocker hysteria (his and those he caused), there are now a plethora of Chris Crocker imitators who are standing up “in defense” of Jamie Lynn Spears. “Leave Jamie Lynn Alone” seems to be the most common title. All of them try to imitate the conniption [...]

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6 hours in a Toronto public library: a vignette

{If you have read this already, my apologies for re-posting, as I have now added a number of new categories for this article}
It was cold today; snowing outside. I had to wait to get my car repaired, so I ducked into a nearby library in a part of Etobicoke I knew nothing about. This was [...]

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Aphorisms II

{If you have read this already, my apologies for re-posting, as I have now added a number of new categories for this article}
It has occured to me from time to time that some people appear to adjust to leadership by taking their inner negativity and turning it into a “healthy cynicism” about those they lead. [...]

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Models make bad computer geeks

Computer Gique Chic - Unknown who the model or photographer is, but the main attraction is, is that darned computer!
I saw some images, professionally shot, of these stylish models in front of this mostly glass computer monitor with a glass touch keyboard. There were two problems I had with this: 1) there is no such [...]

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