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Saturday, November 02, 2002
So there was a book I had as a kid, one of my favorites. Since losing it about a decade ago, I've been looking for another copy. Every few months I sic Google, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and any number of other online services on the problem, to no avail. Did so again a week ago.
Next week I'll have two copies.
You'll hear more about the book once I have it in hand. Trust me, you'll hear.
Friday, November 01, 2002
Work connection is live, but I have about eleventy-five things to do before I'll be back up to full posting speed. Between that and my at-home/not-sleeping time being eaten up by Vice City, give me a little while. Then we'll return to normal posting speed.
Thursday, October 31, 2002
Work is moving offices today (just a few doors away, but as with all moves it matters little whether it's across the country or across the way--the only difference is how long you wait between packing the trucks and unpacking the trucks) and I'm about to tear my work computer down. But before the month closes, I wanted to thank everyone for coming by and making this OD's most successful month to date. Hurray!
Via Chad comes this story of Scouts finding a human skull at a camp I used to go to! Color me speechless!
I never thought I'd be so bugged by a rapper shooting, but this time it's Jam Master Jay of Run DMC, for no immediately apparent reason. Optional background reading: the history of Run DMC, the Run DMC blog Run's House, and the Hip-Hop Archive's Run DMC lyrics collection.
Wednesday, October 30, 2002
Those interested in this week's Blogger hack might want to revisit Anil Dash's thread on the topic, with commentary both good and bad from many and sundry including Blogger's Evan Williams.
Tuesday, October 29, 2002
From PCJM, fantasy and reality collide: in the Fitting Room you can either buy the gowns for yourself--or download them for your Sim...
Unhappiest man on earth. But is it because:
a) he's eating in front of photographers,
b) he's eating an MRE, or
c) he's eating an experimental MRE in front of photographers?
Why haven't I ever heard about the awesome labyrinth of tunnels beneath Liverpool before? (via boingboing)
Cafe Press passed along an email today saying that they're updating their "Member Agreement" EULA. Since I was bored for a few minutes, I actually read the whole message. I found the following to be the interesting bit:
If your account generates less than $25 in commissions for any 180 day period, we reserved the right to close your account. We
will notify you at least 30 days before closing your account, and if you generate a sale, we will reactivate it for another 180 days.
This seems to be an interesting step away from their initial stance of "anyone can set up a store and we will sell products at your convenience" to "set up a store that's successful enough to meet our minimum, or we shut you down." I guess I can see where they're coming from, but it seems to be a pretty fundamental change to me. I hope the money they save on server space (and couldn't they make some of that back by requiring images to be hosted by the enduser?) makes up for the business they stand to lose.
(It also has an interesting subeffect of potentially forcing people to raise their commisions so they meet the minimum, rather than--as many people do now--just selling custom shirts at the CP minimum costs.)
All that said, go buy stuff in my store. It may be gone in 180 days.
Monday, October 28, 2002
Sunday, October 27, 2002
No new Simpsons.
No new Alias.
(*&%^%( World Series. Baseball can be the nation's pasttime all it wants, but when it starts intruding on mine...
Grrr.
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