Mon Nov 01 1999 07:32:
It's Novemberlicious! I'm Novemberlicious!
Mon Nov 01 1999 15:15:
My {car,life} is falling apart. May have already fallen apart.
Start your day with gasoline
Rev yourself with Mr. Clean
Power up with Thorazine
Thorazine
Start your day with motor oil
Stand it back and watch it boil
Live it up with potting soil
Potting soil
I don't have a third verse. Not very good, but what did you expect? Don't answer that. Implied, Lisa? Or implode?
Mon Nov 01 1999 15:19:
I should probably put some good lyrics in here, rather than ones
I just made up, so that people don't get an abnormally low
idea of my lyric-writing abilities. But I'm so lazy and tired and depressed
that all I can
do is wave you at music and let you fend for
yourself.
Mon Nov 01 1999 15:24:
Dinosau
r Auction Snares $1 Million.
A fairly run-of-the-mill article, but the headline makes it sound
like the auction was some sort of scam.
Mon Nov 01 1999 16:31:
My music history essay is pretty lame, but it has a great title:
Concerto for Several Patches: Wendy Carlos's Interpretation of the Third
Brandenburg Concerto
I forgot to mention that Dan says that there is an MLA form for citing the output of a computer program. The MLA people need to get out more. Who am I to talk?
Mon Nov 01 1999 17:16:
It's official: Jon Katz
loves Katzdot!
Tue Nov 02 1999 08:06:
I finally found a use for the limes. They can be used to make Hansens
Mandarin Lime soda potable.
Tue Nov 02 1999 08:16:
"Live it up with potting soil" reminds me of a joke Andy put in
a ZZT game (Mansion of Bill, for those who care) about potting
soil as a pizza topping. "Trust me, it's great! Go out back and dig some
up! You'll love it! I swear!"
And don't forget Baked Potato on a Bun.
Andy and I should form a biotechnology startup. He'll be the bio and I'll be the technology. Let's make lots of money.
Tue Nov 02 1999 11:24:
They had the steel cage all ready to go, but I think I managed to
prevent the actual meeting. I identified all the pieces correctly,
I think. The stuff that got me was the questions about orchestration
and dates and such. And the essay (which turned out okay, or so
I think in my sleep-deprived state) is only worth 20% of the midterm
grade. That's gotta hurt.
Tue Nov 02 1999 11:42:
This
article doesn't even consider the possibility that the moon
might actually be a god! What kind of science is that?
Tue Nov 02 1999 13:08:
Related to the previous note: I thought Michael Shermer was going
to be on campus today, but it's Thursday. It's Friday! I may buy
his book. I have a little money, it's only $25, and it would be cool to
have an
autographed copy.
Tue Nov 02 1999 15:22:
Eric Guenterberg gave me a mod_rewrite thing to use on my fire
account. So now accessing any page in my old webspace on fire will
automatically redirect you here. Dick Clark's Rockin' New Year! Thanks,
Eric!
Wed Nov 03 1999 07:56:
Leonardonics: Next time, on X's Creek, the pothead
techie joke, we're your station, x.
Thu Nov 04 1999 06:37:
I think that The Register overestimates
the place that Guy Fawkes Day holds on the U.S. calendar of holidays. On
the other hand, I probably shouldn't have told Scott to proofread that
Super Bowl article for Segfault.
Thu Nov 04 1999 07:50:
The next Leonardonics items on the list are the Demon Dog and his
catchphrase, "Rehrehreh!". I love doing Leonardonics, and I really wish
more people would have personal slang dictionaries.
Thu Nov 04 1999 07:58:
!!! Jon Katz has started
actually
using Katzdot to do his story headlines.
Thu Nov 04 1999 18:01:
I finally got Dan to accept that no natural number is of infinite
magnitude. The upshot of this is that he now has to accept that
the real numbers can be diagonalized but the natural numbers cannot.
Now maybe we can have some peace around here.
The proof is a simple proof by induction: Zero is of finite magnitude. If x is of finite magnitude, so is x+1. Therefore, all natural numbers are of finite magnitude.
Thu Nov 04 1999 18:10:
I went to hear Michael Shermer speak. Not as good as I thought he
would be, but still very good. I bought both his books (Why People Believe Weird Things and the new one, How we Believe: The Search for God in an Age of Science),
which he signed "Best skeptical wishes" and "In glorious contingency",
respectively. The man is a nut! Heyooo!
Fri Nov 05 1999 07:09:
Dan is trying to do the plot for his latest game, Hover Carnage
(we are doing a whole family of never-to-be-finished "x Carnage" games; my contribution
will be "Tic-Tac-Toe Carnage"). And he's really set on having a real
plot, and he's really set on having nanotech in the game. But
nanotech just totally removes any conceivable reason why you would
run a hovercar around abandoned tunnels at breakneck speed firing
mini-nukes at other people in hovercars, except for some sort of death
{clock, sport}, and that's so cliche it's not even funny.
Fri Nov 05 1999 12:12:
Harry
Steven Keeler! And lots of him!
Fri Nov 05 1999 18:20:
This is a non-miscarriage of justice! A NON-MISCARRIAGE!!!
Fri Nov 05 1999 19:01:
Disclaimer: {36,24,36} is not technically a set, since it contains
a duplicate number. Only if she's 5'3"!
Sat Nov 06 1999 08:00:
I figured out a better plot for Dan's game than the lame one we
had before. The tunnels are in mines on asteroids and the like. The
mines are for elements not found in abundance on Earth; although
nanotech is avaliable, large-scale element fusion or whatever
that's called, is not. So you and the other miners are duking it out,
protecting and staking your claims.
The inspiration for Hover Carnage is an old arcade game called Stunrunner, if that means anything to you. Does the name really mean anything to you?
Sat Nov 06 1999 08:26:
I told my mother about the findings of fact in the Microsoft case, and
she was right in there with all this legalese. I always forget that
she was going to be a lawyer.
Sun Nov 07 1999 07:59:
The premise of Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, in the part where the antagonists
are trying to frame Smith as owning the land where the camp/dam will be located,
is flawed.
All Smith has to do is point out that if he really did own the land, he
could sell it to the government for the dam just as easily as for the
boy's camp, so he would have no motive for stalling the dam bill.
Mon Nov 08 1999 21:00:
Last night I {had a crazy dream, got mail from Chris Roddy} of
Da Warren and Death and Destruction fame. He found Crummy (more specifically, he foudn the
D&D tab) whilst ego-surfing and dropped me a line. He is attending Emory in Atlanta, and has
a homepage, of
sorts.
Midterm tomorrow. Midterm Wednesday. I'm trying to figure out whether or not R. Buckminster Fuller is crazy. I think that the way he writes is deliberately engineered to make the reader think he's crazy. But why would he do that?
Tue Nov 09 1999 13:50:
I had an idea for Be Dope, but no time to write the story. In fact,
I don't even have time to write this entry that points to
Mike's treatment
of the idea. Gotta go fail this midterm now.
Tue Nov 09 1999 15:26:
Argh. Steel cage carnage. I'm out half an hour early because I
couldn't do the problems I couldn't do. I really, really couldn't
do them. They required knowledge about secondary B+-tree indices and safe
Datalog, knowledge which I do not posess. So I just guessed.
Tue Nov 09 1999 17:04:
How can you write an article that involves Frank Zappa as much as does
this Salon
article, yet is as bad and nonsensical as that selfsame article?
Tue Nov 09 1999 17:09:
The problem with America's teenagers is that we as a nation
are failing them. We are failing them by no longer producing those silly high school movies and
TV shows like Saved by the Bell and Ferris Beuller's Day
Off. Today's youth lack constructive goofing off role models.
Wed Nov 10 1999 06:59:
Last night I did have a crazy dream. I dreamt {I lived in marble halls,
that there was an ice cream flavor named after Eli Gafni}. It
was a mix of honey mustard ice cream (?!) and some other, equally gross kind of ice
cream. It tasted horrible.
Why is Prof. Gafni so cool? I don't know. He just lives to kick algorithmic ass. I don't think he teaches any undergrad classes besides CS180, though.
That reminds me, I have to sign up for 2 of next quarter's classes a week from today. Don't let me forget!
Wed Nov 10 1999 08:03:
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Wed Nov 10 1999 09:24:
I converted and put up a
picture I took of myself about a week ago. Why is my hair crooked
like that? It always happens. I want it to be
Why am I even worrying about this right now?
Wed Nov 10 1999 10:35:
The joke's on us. Katzdot has seemingly become an essential tool for
Jon Katz. Or is Katzdot just really, really good at what it does?
Wed Nov 10 1999 14:36:
By some miracle I managed to not do horribly on that midterm.
Thu Nov 11 1999 01:22:
Dan found an IRC script that has a bunch of lines from AOL chat rooms
and prints one out randomly. I'm fairly sure they're real AOL chat
room lines. It would be more amazing if one person could think all
of them up.
Thu Nov 11 1999 01:52:
Friday is to be movie night. Dan is done with his midterms on
Friday, so I'm going to rent all the good movies he hasn't seen
and we're going to watch them. Movies I think are good that Dan has
not seen include Barton Fink, The Big Lebowski, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?,
the Star Wars trilogy, 200 Motels, Monty Python/Holy Grail, Monty Python/Life of
Brian, Dr. Strangelove, and any given Marx Brothers movie. The only
movie Dan could think of that he likes and I haven't seen is
Sneakers. Finally, I'm not the person in a group of two people
who knows less about movies!
I'm not sure that Who Framed Roger Rabbit? is good. I remember thinking it was really good, and the concept is a sound one, but I don't really remember much about it. So I reserve the right to revoke my endorsement of it.
Thu Nov 11 1999 07:40:
I used to not like grapes, because I was surrounded by them (literally;
our house was in the middle of miles of grape fields). But now I
think they are good booze (not literally).
Thu Nov 11 1999 10:58:
Mike added poll bars to the poll results and generally made the
poll results nicer to look at. I bumped up the version to 0.95. Still
vaguely working towards the new 1.0 rewrite.
Peter and I are also starting to work on another hypertext for the Madman CGI, and I am kind of working on eCow, a CGI interface to cowsay, which will be the next feature. Monty Hall's Hall of Doors needs to be a feature as well.
Thu Nov 11 1999 12:51:
I got an 87.5 on my Music History midterm, well out of the reach
of steel cages (anything less than a normalized 75-80 is steel cage territory
as far as I'm concerned). My essay was well-received.
Thu Nov 11 1999 14:59:
I'm wondering if it would be worth it to get the Mad Magazine
CD-ROM and try to get it to work with Linux, the way someone got
the Star Trek Encyclopedia to work with Linux.
Thu Nov 11 1999 15:58:
I did horribly on the database midterm, even compared to
everyone else, who also did horribly. This is not good.
Thu Nov 11 1999 19:21:
A rudimentary version of eCow works on sal. Dan is obsessed with
the idea that someone might be able to break the security. I'm
pretty sure it's tight. But I need to make the controls look better
and write some copy before I put it up.
Fri Nov 12 1999 05:28:
Check out the artist's rendering for
this dinosaur
story. I've never seen a dinosaur drawn with that foot positioning
before.
Hm, there was another dinosaur, which sounds like it looks even more interesting, but there's no photos or rendering of it. "This dinosaur had 600 teeth, but we're not going to show it to you."
Finally, enjoy a nutritious meal of buckyballs.
Fri Nov 12 1999 08:04:
I had a funny Transmeta story (which did not in any way resemble
any previous Transmeta story ever written, so shut up), but it
looks like the point will be moot come Monday. Or maybe it will just
be a big tease and I can run with the story. At any rate, many of
the jokes can be reused in another story.
Fri Nov 12 1999 08:09:
Telescope catches star just exploded. The horse raced past the barn fell down.
Fri Nov 12 1999 08:17:
From Jake's notebook (onerous unum misspelling corrected):
i've been falling asleep to "rite of spring" which is awesome, though not entirely conducive to falling asleep. if stravinsky was a conventional action hero i'd say "stravinsky does it again! buckle up, this is a wild ride! two thumbs up- way up!". luckily for us all, he's not.
Fri Nov 12 1999 10:22:
UCLA wants me to get a senior portrait taken. If you ask me, it
sounds like just another scam to line their pockets with my hard-earned
money.
Fri Nov 12 1999 18:47:
While in Blockbuster today, I realized that I had forgotten
to mention the ultimate teen high school goof-off movie, Rock 'N' Roll
High School.
Fri Nov 12 1999 18:51:
I scored a couple points above the mean, and several points above
the median, in the CS112 midterm. I estimate my grades for this
quarter thusly: CS112 B, CS143 C, Music History A, Philosophy A.
Sat Nov 13 1999 16:03:
Sometimes I feel like I need to
make a movie, but then I remember that my movie has already been made, and
that it is called The Big Lebowski.
Sun Nov 14 1999 07:58:
I just published a segv story
and I changed "Year 2000" to "Y2K" because "Year
2000" sounded funny. When did this happen? I feel dirty.
Sun Nov 14 1999 09:31:
Okay, we're past the halfway mark. Grail, Lebowski, and Star Wars
down; Motels, Fink, Rabbit, and Monkey Business to go. Return of
the Jedi was not the special edition, even though it was in the
special edition box. Bastards!
Dan wants to take huge breaks between movies. I don't understand that. I mean, ten minutes, okay. An hour and a half, no. This is a movie marathon, not a non-movie marathon! This is a court of law, not a court of justice!
Sun Nov 14 1999 10:21:
Leonardonics: Xfest '89
Mon Nov 15 1999 10:05:
We watched Monkey Business, and only Monkey Business,
yesterday. I don't know when the videos are due. I have them for
five days, but does that include the day I got them? It's so much hassle.
Tue Nov 16 1999 10:55:
The bizarre comic strip poll on Slashdot gave me a couple
hits to Dada Pokey, but I can't find an actual link to
Dada Pokey anywhere in the comments. Weird.
Tue Nov 16 1999 13:46:
I found it. Never mind.
Wed Nov 17 1999 17:25:
Who Framed Roger Rabbit? is not that good. I was disappointed.
The concept is brilliant, but eh...
It didn't help that I watched it right after Barton Fink.
Wed Nov 17 1999 18:36:
Watch in horror as eCow takes to the
air!
Wed Nov 17 1999 23:56:
I added Katzdot and eCow to the features page. If you get a weird
thing where the eCow graphic background doesn't match up with
the page background, let me know.
Thu Nov 18 1999 00:10:
There's a
new paper down at gnu.org. I think it's very funny, on several
different levels.
Thu Nov 18 1999 04:36:
If you do an Altavista image search
for "turkey", the turkey crossing sign from the Texas travelogue
shows up on the first page of results. There are a whole lot of
people doing Altavista image searches for "turkey". It took me a
while to figure out why, but I figured it out.
Thu Nov 18 1999 16:02:
YES!!
Note to the BBC: Give the guy who thinks up these so-bad-they're-good
headlines a raise!
??? Susanna's email style is a lot like my mother's. Interesting. Susanna never updates her homepage. Oh well. Thu Nov 18 1999 16:43:
From an email Susanna sent to me:
> I drove to Arizona and back on Monday night. got back at seven in the
> morning. No reason just did. Never doing it again, it was stupid.
Thu Nov 18 1999 16:57:
Oh yeah, I also got the customary once-in-a-while message from
Dave Griffith last night. If only Andy would reply to his mail,
I'd be surrounded by Da Warren people.
Sat Nov 20 1999 21:54:
I went through all the Gnome Aisleriot card games. Good ones: Elevator, Fortunes,
Freecell, Pileon, Scorpion, Spider, Yukon.
Sun Nov 21 1999 18:14:
Mystery solved!
Alka-Seltzer's famous "Spicy Meatballs" spot, first aired in 1969, depicted an actor downing endless forkfuls of spaghetti during the filming of a commercial for "Magadini's Meatballs." Dozens of takes are botched, and the hapless actor, gorged and nauseated, can barely utter his big line: "Mama Mia, that's a spicy meatball!"
Jose Preciado had a bit that went "'Ats one hot-ta burrito!" That's tangential, irrelevant to the mystery solved. The mystery solved was, from where does "That's a spicy meatball!" come?
Also:
One squid even mistook a 15,000-ton tanker for a whale. After striking the ship three times, the poor beast slid into the ship's propellers, turning it into the world's largest sushi platter.
Mr. Bond, this machine will turn you into the world's largest sushi platter.
Sun Nov 21 1999 18:29:
I didn't even notice that Be Dope
linked to eCow until I saw over 20
hits from the link in the access log.
Sun Nov 21 1999 22:01:
Instead of Frank Black from Millenium, Scully and Mulder should
team up with Frank Black from The Pixies. Then we'd see some action!
Mon Nov 22 1999 03:25:
I couldn't get any mail today, but it's working again now. So resend
anything that bounced.
Tue Nov 23 1999 07:45:
One thing that people who are around me for any length of time know
is that I'm constantly singing for no reason. It's completely involuntary; I'm just compelled to do it. I have yet to have
anyone actually complain about this, or I'd try to stop. But lately
I have been singing songs that I hate, like "Sweet Caroline". And
it's annoying.
Tue Nov 23 1999 08:18:
Oh yeah; Kurtis, Kris's brother, is going to UCLA now. I saw him
yesterday. He's a nut! He's living with Kris, and I think there
needs to be a sitcom on that theme.
Gotta go to class now. I should probably find something to eat first.
Tue Nov 23 1999 12:27:
My favorite games: freeciv,
XBlast, and
ADOM. ADOM isn't open source, but
it's an awesome game.
Tue Nov 23 1999 21:03:
I'm trying to move the MP3s over from linux to sith, but this
is complicated by the fact that I can't reach one machine from
the other. It's the fault of someone in the middle. In the meantime,
you can get the new MP3s (new MP3s of recordings over a year old) of Liquid
Crystal and Western Culture on the Skids at the
new AYAO? MP3 site. Get Liquid
Crystal. It will, it will rock you (take it from Jake). It has
killer lyrics and bouncing a spoon off the guitar strings, so the
only way to lose is not to play at all.
Tue Nov 23 1999 21:04:
Oh yeah, I used a not-based-on-the-codebase-every-other-free-mp3-encoder-is-based-on
MP3 encoder, so hopefully the non-Unix noodling problem should finally
be dead. Let me know otherwise.
Wed Nov 24 1999 08:06:
I'll probably be spending most of the day working on the new
Open Standards Band website. I did finally move all the MP3s over
to this machine (except for Sorry It's Late and the PPvDD thing; the
former may be moved over eventually, but I need to figure out where
to put it).
Scott is supposed to talk with me today about the new version of Segfault. But you know Scott.
I'm going home this afternoon. Spending Thanksgiving at my aunt Pat's house. I have another music history midterm, and accompanying essay, next Tuesday.
Wed Nov 24 1999 08:18:
Scott actually responded in a timely fashion, so scratch the OSB
thing for today.
Mon Nov 29 1999 08:07:
Back from vacation. Please do not write "dot.com" unless you
really mean "dot dot com".
Mon Nov 29 1999 20:48:
Is
this the best you can do?!?! C'mon, bring it on!
Tue Nov 30 1999 05:58:
My essay is nearly done. I don't know how well I'll do on the
midterm. I have to start attending those review sessions.
I also have a job interview today. I don't know it's going to go. I don't know what kind of interview it is.
Tue Nov 30 1999 07:43:
Oh yeah, Peter is in town for a while, so I'll see him today. There's
an archetype that Peter embodies perfectly, like Pelorat in the later
Foundation books, or the guys in Foucault's Pendulum. I think
that if you're going to be a professor in the humanities, you have to
fulfill either that archetype or the bitter, crusty old person
archtype.
Tue Nov 30 1999 15:39:
My midterm went well. My interview went well. I'd better go back home
soon and see Dan so he can infuse me with the need to complain, or
I might have no choice but to cease my cynical misanthropy.
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