Thursday, February 26, 2004
Thursday, February 19, 2004
Today on "or, to put it another way..."
i deciphered an ancient text today, written in a dead language. When i was finally able to read the text, it was a picture of me from the past.
Today i was looking for an old floppy disk containing some short stories i had written. When i found the disk, i remembered i had made the disk on an old computer, before i got this current one. When i opened up the disk, the files were compressed in some weird Windows backup format. That the current (okay, new-er) version of Vindows i was running didn't recognize. Shit, how am i going to get to my stuff? Went to Google, searched for the string "reads .QIC files". Three or four people asking exactly my question. One answer was, go to (this software manufacturer (honest, i've forgotten already)) and download the free trial version of their multipurpose file backup software to read your files. i went to their site, they were trying to sell you full versions of their software, of course. i looked carefully for the 'free trial version' download. The link sent me to Downloads.com, who i infer they rent bandwidth from. i downloaded it, installed it, ran it (it said it had to restart my computer, but i didn't want to cancel the dial-up _and_ stop the music i was listening to, so i said restart later. Fooled you, computer!) fiddled around with it, and got my files. Then i uninstalled the program. Then i read my stories. They were very short, really just literary sketches or random thoughts. But they really gave a sense of me at a particular point in time. A snapshot.
Today i was looking for an old floppy disk containing some short stories i had written. When i found the disk, i remembered i had made the disk on an old computer, before i got this current one. When i opened up the disk, the files were compressed in some weird Windows backup format. That the current (okay, new-er) version of Vindows i was running didn't recognize. Shit, how am i going to get to my stuff? Went to Google, searched for the string "reads .QIC files". Three or four people asking exactly my question. One answer was, go to (this software manufacturer (honest, i've forgotten already)) and download the free trial version of their multipurpose file backup software to read your files. i went to their site, they were trying to sell you full versions of their software, of course. i looked carefully for the 'free trial version' download. The link sent me to Downloads.com, who i infer they rent bandwidth from. i downloaded it, installed it, ran it (it said it had to restart my computer, but i didn't want to cancel the dial-up _and_ stop the music i was listening to, so i said restart later. Fooled you, computer!) fiddled around with it, and got my files. Then i uninstalled the program. Then i read my stories. They were very short, really just literary sketches or random thoughts. But they really gave a sense of me at a particular point in time. A snapshot.
Tuesday, February 03, 2004
televisation and its discontents
Today television is full of fat people weeping. Who would want to see this? Who thinks i would want to see this?
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A uniquely American experience: being forced to bid on and buy something you don't want and could never use merely because of competition with other buyers.
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"The official vehicle of golf"
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It seems to me that all the commercials are ironic. But i don't think they are. that's the scary part. What if they're all serious? What if they mean what they say?
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I couldn't stand it any more when i saw that they'd dressed up little kids to imitate celebritie's styles of dressing.
"What kids are wearing now"
"I think we'll be seeing more individuality this year"
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A uniquely American experience: being forced to bid on and buy something you don't want and could never use merely because of competition with other buyers.
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"The official vehicle of golf"
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It seems to me that all the commercials are ironic. But i don't think they are. that's the scary part. What if they're all serious? What if they mean what they say?
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I couldn't stand it any more when i saw that they'd dressed up little kids to imitate celebritie's styles of dressing.
"What kids are wearing now"
"I think we'll be seeing more individuality this year"
Monday, February 02, 2004
Tuesday, January 27, 2004
i love this kind of day
kind of overcast, sometimes rainy. i'm all by myself, nowhere to go (for awhile at least), listening to the cool jazz music, having a cup of coffee and just relaxing, being creative...
i can grab a little bit of time.
i can grab a little bit of time.
a rainy day
i began to imagine that life had no meaning unless it were recorded in some way, either through art or media.
And how horrible that would be.
Because memory is faulty.
but subjective.
And how horrible that would be.
Because memory is faulty.
but subjective.
the master plan
Organized religion is a scheme concocted by evil martians & impressed on our culture from outside to divert our resources into wasteful, stagnant assets instead of...
nah, you know, greed just explains it better.
nah, you know, greed just explains it better.
You know, that one
That clip where they pour on the sauce in commercials? It's common, so common that they gave a name to it. In ad-industry jargon, it's the 'money shot.'
Kitschy Cuisine
That's making food that appears to be another kind of food. Something it's not.
"It's a fluffy mousse... of chicken!"
"It's a fluffy mousse... of chicken!"
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