Righto, Ed. I'll take a look at that. I'm curious what Taylor thinks of 1&1; how it's working for him. But, like I said, I'll get to that stuff later.

Oh yeah, for Ngz (and, really, anyone else who wants to kill time), there's WEBoggle. Now we can waste precious time without having to dig up Eric's keychain! Woo hoo!

Apparently, contrary to my previous understanding, there is a Canadian in the kayak slalom. He's qualified for the semis tomorrow. He finished 16th out of 20 kayakers, but he is ranked 3rd in the world, so an outside chance at a medal (we seem to have a lot of those people.) If anyone's seen this, it looks like a brutal event. They have to kayak through rapids, but at least six of the slalom gates must be entered against the current (marked in red). It's scored based on time (each second spent counts as a point) with points added for touching the gate (2) and missing a gate (50). Naturally, lowest score wins.

As for the canoe slalom, it's not what you would first think. The only difference between canoe and kayak is the canoe uses a single bladed paddle, whereas kayak is double bladed. It isn't a canoe that we would normally picture.

something for the literazzi:
Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Journal
www.mcsweeneys.net/

and a fascinating collection of B A Z O O K A J O E C O M I C S F R O M A R O U N D T H E W O R L D .

"I hear a company called Bluehost is pretty good too. No good feedback on it though."

That doesnt make sense... maybe this does:

I hear a company called Bluehost is pretty cheap, although I've not heard any feedback on how good they are.

.net = .Lame

I hear a company called Bluehost is pretty good too. No good feedback on it though.

I've got a computer sitting around that Im deciding what to do with too.

shit. Lil' Phil helped design a website which was my great idea last week

http://www.restroomratings.com/

it's not actually a ualberta.net e-mail account, it merely forwards your e-mails to whatever account you choose. That way, you can give everyone your mynamehere@ualberta.net address for eternity, and change your actual e-mail account as often as you'd like. I don't think you can actually check your e-mail at ualberta.net though. It's like pretending to have your mail box at place x while really everything gets sent to place z instead.

Yeah, I've suspected as much for a while. As of this point I'm considering three options:


1. Transferring the files to someone else, who has a ualberta account


2. Grabbing a cheap computer, slapping Apache on it, and running it from home


3. Coughing up for a hosting service like 1&1


The first one is, obviously, the easiest and least permanent of them all. The other two require me to write my own code for the board (which I've *almost* finished.) The second one is cheap, but I need a computer (I have one at home but it's currently in use, and I don't know when I'll get another one.) The third one seems like the best option, and I think I'd go with the linux hosting business package, but I'd like to finish writing my board before I start paying up to $15.00/month.

I'll keep you folks posted on this (get it? posted? so funny). I'll have a lot more free time after tomorrow (unemployment really frees up your schedule), so I think I can get something going next week.

Paras:

"Your account, web page, and e-mail will all be deleted when you leaves the University.
Jeff Albert"

After a quick phone call to the help desk I found out that they do the deleting end of Aug-Sept. You should get an email from them just before they do it. (Unless you remain an employee of the UofA... quite possibly you could ask your prof to request that you keep that account). The Alumni 'gift' from the University is not that you get to keep your email address, but that you can request a ualberta.net email address from the Alumni association.

Pffff, Light Weight

SHIT. Eric, I've been trying all week to get tomorrow off of work to no avail!!!! I'm so sorry man!!! Let me know what's going on afterwards though, kuz I'll bust my ass to get out of work as fast as I can and meet up with you guys from there.

On an entirely unrelated topic:



Craig Thompson looks EXACTLY like how he draws himself. That picture nearly scared the shit out of me; I was looking at this random San Diego 2004 comic-con blog and I saw that picture and I knew EXACTLY who it was. It was fucking scary let me tell you. I've never seen a photo of him in real-life before (except for the crappy and way-too-small one in the back of Blankets). But having read Carnet De Voyage and Blankets I recognized him right away from his own illustrations of himself! How weird is that? And then I scrolled down more and saw him signing Carnet De Voyage and I was like "shit... it IS him." That was the most fucked up experience ever.


Oh... and by the way... I found some secret information about Craig's brother Phil. His brother Phil is doing design-work and can be found at urbansub.com. It doesn't explicitly have his name anywhere on the site. In fact, I think he's trying to distance himself from his relation to Craig in order to maintain success on his own terms which I think is a very honourable thing to do. It's kinda funny though, kuz I look at the illustration work on that site and I'm just like "yeah... that's totally Phil's shit." But yet again... I've never actually seen any of his stuff before.