Remember when I wrote up my favourite albums for 2004? Remember how I originally did it for the Exclaim! reader's poll? Yeah... well, I won! I'm getting an MXL 990 condensor microphone!!!!!



SOOOOOOOOOOOOO FUCKIN SWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEETTTT!!!!!

...now I gotta go to band practice. I'm late.

Al, I'm actually on that website. I submitted a really shitty Galaga remix to that site about 3 years ago or so. I'm DJ Zee or something like that. Check it out. It's terrible. haha

Who likes old videogame music? If you are like me you'll want to hear those old tunes again so go
here to down load and listen to some remixed vid music. They got bit torrent setup so download them by the ton!

The spammer's solution to captcha's (those distorted pictures from which you have to identify letters and numbers in order to register for a website) is, apparently, to take advantage of the web-viewing public's propensity for free porn.

Oh, and for a bit torrent search engine that's an actual crawling engine, (rather than just a frontend to a google search), try TowerSeek.org. I'm not sure how good it is, but it seems to do the job thus far.

No work for me today... too cold for the van to start.

we didn't actually own the lake, you dork, we owned a cabin. and it was small, and it had a wood stove, and it had an outhouse, and the pump froze in winter. so you had to get your water brought in... or from snow. That's what I miss. And that's what made me happy. I even miss the smell of stale mothballs and dried wood that the cabin had when it had been sitting all shut-up for a while... and the fact that you had to chop wood, and shovel a path to the outhouse, and that the toilet paper had to be kept in a coffee can to prevent squirrels from eating it... that's what I miss, and that's what would make me happy, smartass, not the frozen body of water.

hiya

Here you go, Beck. It's the little victories that are important.

• ... the question of whether Machines Can Think ... is about as relevant as the question of whether Submarines Can Swim


• Teaching BASIC should be a criminal offense


• If in physics there's something you don't understand, you can always hide behind the uncharted depths of nature. You can always blame God. You didn't make it so complex yourself. But if your program doesn't work, there is no one to hide behind. You cannot hide behind an obstinate nature. If it doesn't work, you've messed up


• When there were no computers programming was no problem. When we had a few weak computers, it became a mild problem. Now that we have gigantic computers, programming is a gigantic problem


• Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it

Temp: -33.0°C
Wind: 10.41km/h
Humidity: 67.5%

Damnit! It's bad enough when my parents leave over the summer and I have to spend some (minimal) time at home, but now that it's winter, and the furnace makes weird noises (it sure is humming a lot more than it used to...), I have to be home a lot more, and make meals, and keep things clean, and ensure that my Grandma doesn't die, and hold it all together until the end of the month. fuck.

I hate that house. I wish we had sold it and kept the lake. Then I'd be happy. Not too much can go wrong with a wood stove and an outhouse. But here, if the furnace quits, we'll freeze and the pipes will burst, and the water heater could explode, and the house could burn down. so yay for responsibility!

sorry I'm all dooms-day. Getting up at 3 (not on purpose) doesn't do me much good in this frigid weather.

On a more positive note, my Grandma told Jean (the guy who lives in France) that I might be coming to visit him, and he was really excited about it. I don't know how much that will change things for my intent on travelling in Europe... I may opt to stay a long time in Bordeaux... still, exciting!