Category Archives: General

Mostly pop culture rants. Usually without reason or spell chekin.

Part the Three: Various bits

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• My sister’s house is massive. I really hope that she can offload it without any loss.
• I also hope she can build the house she wants beside the house she needs to offload. She’s busier than a paper wasp at a pulp fiction convention.
• I wore Government of Canada, Parks Canada rented shorts. I looked like I had canvas diapers on. Mike oddly enough looked kind of like a 1950s dad at a cottage…
• The mountains smell…like pine… We speculated as to whether or not there was a car freshener factory near by when in Kananaskis.
• There are some wicked used book stores in Calgary: I got Caves of Steel and Foundation, Issac Asimov; Salmon of a Doubt, Douglas Adams (I recommend. I was a bit aprehensive when I heard they were raiding his hard drives…Im glad they did); Crytonomicon, Neal Stephenson (I was reading it on the streetcar the other day and this guy punched his girlfriend and pointed at me “HE’S READING IT!!”)

Google Me This, Batman

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Have you played with the Google Start Up page? All the blocks of text can be dragged and dropped wherever you want. Easier to use than My Yahoo! Friendly! Clean!

I fear my job as web page designer will be obsolete in a year’s time if this takes off. It won’t matter how long I suffer over page balance (like we use to do over fonts and font sizes) because some inbalanced dink will do what they want with the pages they view.

But damn if it ain’t cool! I can see all my Gmail incomings!

Google needs to let RSS feeds to be added to it but soon…soon…

Oh Give it a Rest

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Stop!People. Please. Why do you want to see what she looks like? So you can recognize her if she moves into your neighbourhood?

If we’re lucky, she’ll be “Lady Di’ed” when she leaves the court house.

I think I’m more upset with Canadian media falling over themselves to mention her, mirroring US journalism sales tactics.

This will end in tears. Mark my words.

And Then Your Vision Clears

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Zanta Dance
Isn’t it weird how something comes to your attention and suddenly you can’t stop seeing it? Once a friend of mine ranted and raved that he wanted an orange VW van and now I see them constantly.

The last couple days I’ve had muevo hits from people searching for Zanta. Its like Torontonians want a hero.

Friday Shakes

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Sorry for the downtime again folks. Not sure what happend that time. MySQL took his SQL and went home I guess.

I’m going to “borrow” an idea from Blamblog and look to my outbound fave Blogs for “content”. I mean… Let’s look to my blogroll and see what they’re doing today:

Bondcliff.net hasn’t updated his site since May. Hmm. I like him as a person but as a blogger, he sucks. Go and slap his ass into gear!

Uncle Al hasn’t written anything since the Zug meeting back in July. Again, a great guy but not really a blogger, is he? Well let’s keep on down the list, shall we?

Daryl’s site ain’t a blog. And he hasn’t done much since the beginning of July. What the foosh? No wonder I am only on the C-list of Bloglebrity! I link to lame-os! (Just kidding, D. I know you’re busy)

Rants abound from Hairy Fish Nuts. You should go back to his site a few times a day and bait Squeamish into incredible anti-leftish rants.

Dawn’s Brain critiques a web development site from Arizona I sent to her. Yeehaw! Rednecks and Flash!

Shawn (2fruition) wants his lurkers to come out of the woodwork and just say Hi. I’d do that but I’m afraid I’d get the people from JulieAndrews.org or the CityTV forums pages. Brave man!

Spyke is concerned with his calluses. His shyness is his power!

From A to B (cut n paste, kids: fromatob.blogspotdotcom – it’s a blogspot) encounters his friendly neighbourhood ghost again via his girlfriend and as a result, has some tough questions.

Day 7 of peeing into a bucket for Not Well Planned. And a camera. Up her butt. Ew.

The Waiter deals with juvinile vulgarity with a deft hand.

And finally, Blamblog is jamming on creepy religious websites that turn homosexuals into productive elements of society.

U R A QT! LOL!

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It looks like Paris Hilton is going to be around for a while. Dang.

Sharkboy startled me this weekend by actually looking into buying a cell phone. The man who exhibits great glee in yelling “PENIS!” really loud when we walk past an obnoxious cell phone user. I would have thought he would see them as a digital leash of sorts but he seems cool with it. Now I will be able to text message him little cute love notes and goofy pictures of my corn chip toenails while he’s at work.

The sum of internet technology, right there folks. Corn chip toenail pics.

Like Writing my Own Obit

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As some of you know, I produce promotional material for Toronto’s premiere Leather/Denim/Cruising bar, The Black Eagle.

The GM from the bar just sent me a request for a print ad:

for sale

I wanted to add “Comes with dedicated web/graphic designer, cheap”

I doubt he’s going to get that price. Although, it’s down from the rumoured $1M everyone was saying he was asking.

And to my Graphic Design readers, yes I moved the price line up into the body of the ad in the final copy. I don’t know what I was thinking. I was on Dayquils.

Movin on Up

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Lets see… w. w. w. dot monster dot c. a.

Click on Salary Profiler. *click*

Enter some data. Typetty type type. *click*

Well welly well!