Apathy

+-------------[Dictionary of doors and letters - 04/14/2000]-=-- | Metaphorium: Explore the possibilities of random | combine multi-user interaction. This is a highly recommended | your link. Who needs to work on Fridays? Play. | thought | /--/-------[Stop oppressing me]-=-- | Overheard today in the office: Competing computerized | dumb funny text-to-speech anecdotes. "Oh baby, that computer is one | hot mama." It was funny then. Computers saying things | they shouldn't: who is the criminal? | | | +----------------------------/--/--------[Wired/tired tired]-=-- | What's hot: Keys of completely unknown purpose | What's not: Tiny knives | | | +-------------------------------[Let's hear it for programs]-=-- | Boxes Win32 port out now! Make boxes around things, sorta | all your like this page. Be the first kid on your block. | clear | options Article: Command-line NT: It Does Exist! from Linux World. | have gone Yee. Haw. | away | | +----------------------------/--/---------------------[MOTD]-=-- | Taxes are due for American citizens this weekend. | | +----------------------------/--/----------------------------=-- +--------[Comparing apples to oranges for cash - 04/13/2000]-=-- | Hilarious Ftrain -- oops, I mean Ftrain article. It goes | a bit long for you non-log writers at the end, but don't | miss the Ronald Reagan bait and switch story. | | | +----------------------------/--/--------[Pictures of music]-=-- | Corbis: A Celebration of Jazz | extra flash | /--/-----[Silkworm hates bacon]-=-- | Silkworm comp-only mp3 on Epitonic - Different. Of all | people, I didn't expect them to embrace the vegetarian | lifestyle. That's probably the point, and I missed it. | durn | /--/--------[RM Week Continues]-=-- | Populace Could Care Less, Survey Reports | | Roadside Monument Tribute page - much content. Including | we can pictures of them rocking the Fireside Bowl. Sob. | stick | around now Einer Johnathon Ford interview which mentions the fact | that Doug Lorig is now playing in Soundtracks for Scenery. | there's no I have heard things, and they are good things. Johnathon | reason we is also playing in Scientific, which sounds like some | could ever crazy calculus-powered new wave experiment with Christian | be free from the Danielson Familie. | | | +------------------------[Don't make me go meta on you, son]-=-- | So now I'm a Swiss conspirator, am I? I'll have you know, | this is not the World Bank is paying me rather poorly for my | text "services", ahem. I meant to tell you that the cross is | an allusion to Swiss cheese. Yep, that's the truth. | | Swiss cheese apetizers. | | | +----------------------------/--/---------------------[MOTD]-=-- | "Of course by using profanity you don't communicate | anything. That was the point. That's what rock culture is | about. We [Raft of Dead Monkeys] were poking fun of that | whole nonsensical side of it." | - Matt Johnson | | +----------------------------/--/----------------------------=-- +------------------[Harmonic greaty exat strat - 04/12/2000]-=-- | Music. | | Heard rumoured dead lately: Frodus, June of 44. | Innovators leaving stinks; the Frodus breakup is | semi-confirmed, but I can't find anything on June of 44 | calling it quits. | | Hear a new Frodus mp3. It is Rocking with a capital R; | mp3 alert the bass actually does remind me of Frank Erskine [oddly | enough], but the song is pure Frodus. | | If, right now, you are thinking "Frodus? What?" -- do not | download the mp3 unless you enjoy screaming. | | [For the more refined tastes]-=-- | Professor Vanderslice has some mp3s available from a | alert Jeremy Enigk live promo. | cont'd | /--/----[Sometimes I'm writing]-=-- | It's Roadside Monument Week in Fitch's head... finally, a | engine kid new page being worked on. Apparently with the approval of | too Jonathon. | | Can't explain what I love so much about this defunct trio. | The notes and nuances dig deep, somehow lighting dark | passages and alternate takes on this life. It's probably | the three instruments battling and scraping for a hold on | the cliff, yelling and whispering and commiserating with | everyone and everything simultaneously. | | /--/----[Bleeding from the hip]-=-- | Oh yeah, finally a Pitchfork blast I understand in a long | please note string of confusion. "Making pudding", blee hee hee. | distinct Take that, rich and indolent music! Power to the people! | lack of | irony | +--------------------------------[Nerd items you can ignore]-=-- | This should not have been as hard to find as it was: Perl | DBI/MySQL FAQ, which is oddly hosted on this Photoflux | public photography gallery. Very nice ideas, both. | | I like this fellow's digital Magritte parody. (Can't link | c'est directly, requires Javascript. Bleh, mayhap not such a | words, nice idea.) | pictures | WDBI: Web Database Interface looks swell for quick and | dirty rdb tasks, but genquery was easier to set up and | more automated. I think I'm going to get a Mason ripoff | whipped up. Geeks: Mason is coool with three O's. | | | +----------------------------/--/---------------------[MOTD]-=-- | "Existence isn't always a pleasant surprise." | eight hours - Roadside Monument | away | +----------------------------/--/----------------------------=-- +------[The cancer in your distributed network - 04/11/2000]-=-- | Toys. | | I HUNGER [wav] for the cockpit Sinistar cabinet. | | Noah Falstein recalls the old days creating Sinistar, the | GOOD collapse of the arcade market, and working under the Lucas | conglomerate. | | His domain isn't all that impressive, but for this: | | E3, Los Angeles, May 12, 2000 - Moderator for the panel | can I go "Collaborative Game Design". Panelists include Sid Meier | Mom? can I (Civilization), Tim Schafer (Grim Fandango), Brad McQuaid | go can I (Everquest), and Ken Birdwell (Half-Life) | please? | /--/---------[Lite Brite ya'll]-=-- | As Noah's article above details, assembling graphics used | 50cups: a to be a painstaking pixel-by-pixel process. Lite Brite | virtual was the gateway drug for me. Thanks Alice -- everyone | twist on a should go play Lite Brite now. Don't forget to turn out | physical the lights and flip the switch when you are done! | metaphor | /--/-----[Into the stopmotion!]-=-- | Mr. "Please Hold the Credit" Bagshaw continues the hits | large with Lego films. Warning: more obscenity, violence, and | downloads blood than you might expect. Caveat: The only movies they | have right now are Star Wars related. | | The blood in the big one is great, I must admit. | | Each and every day I kick myself for getting rid of my | oh boy I huge Lego collection. *BOOT* Ow. Just a few minifigs | love would do the trick; I could have them scatter in fear of | sarcasm! my horrific robot contraptions which swiftly chase them | down and chew on them. | | Speaking of contraptions, this is too funny to pass up: | Lego robot performs mundane task. | | | | +-------------[No more fun, now it is the day of pessimists]-=-- | Perhaps you hunger for more of that hatelife. Frippy, | Obeso the Pirate, Noodles, are you there Tony? | | Little of it is very funny, but the idea of an anonymous | ultra-cynical journal intrigues me. | | | +----------------------------/--/---------------------[MOTD]-=-- | From the last batch of submissions to my will: | jk | "Sometimes it's good to forget that Dan is tracking your | IP address each time you hit the subvert button." | | I would like to make it clear that MUAHAhaHAhaHAHA, err, I | don't think mean, no I'm not! | bongos | /--/-[Wisdom I'm too wimpy for]-=-- | "Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. | Boldness has genius, power and magic in it." | - Goethe | [need to find the original text] | | +----------------------------/--/----------------------------=-- +---------------[Retrieving the space diamonds - 04/10/2000]-=-- | Gasp. | not as | scared but No post this weekend. Although I had some tax links and | as tired commentary prepared, in a fit of wisdom I deleted it -- no | pain and suffering for you. | | /--/----------[Unkind reminder]-=-- | The only relief came when I happened upon a animated | these interpretation of Valse Triste on public access, telling a | things need bittersweet tale without words through a hallucinating | online cat. Apparently this was only part of a mid-1970's Bruno | archival Bozzetto production. All his work is extremely colorful, | but the stark alternation between color and grim in that | piece was a bright shard of destiny. | | [CashewsTasteGood (9:42:33 PM): B***:o]-=-- | Actually, that "only relief" is not correct. I also | text-chatted with a few folks. If you are one of those | folks, I hope I did not bore you too badly. Much | information was transacted. | | Must give this Hatelife a plug. Funny, but you may only | understand the stupid IRC humor having IRCed. | | | +---------------------[It is the wave of fear known as meta]-=-- | Last week: fearsome fun. Audio mixing, images of things, | this is not devilish culture jamming, the usual nonsense, and more in | real just one hard-to-swallow package. | | Also, go stare at the devolving posts answering what it's | good to forget. | | The real relief: when the forms were complete. | | | +----------------------------/--/---------[Goofy statistics]-=-- | "Only 7 percent of interpersonal communication is | attributed to content." | | SHUT UP. | | +----------------------------/--/----------------------------=-- Back to top +----------------------------/--/-------------[Older things]-=-- | This is the hand/drawn listing. Full pita listing. | | silly queries: How not to find this page | /// useless sky: Staring at old links | / legos and robots: Designing electrical nonsense | / grid puzzles: Waste time with boxes + their brethren | / chip music: Listen to the sound of the FUUUUUTURE | / lewis carroll: Charles dodgson wrote some happy tales | / opinionation: How do you do, capitalism? how do you? | //////// defunct rock: Eventually all things die | // ascii games: To quote salon, @ - you are here | / voicemail: Automated telephone systems | / bach and tone: The endlessly rising canon of links | / eigenspace: Eigen wha? | /// | +----------------------------/--/----------------------------=-- +----------------------------/--/--------[Possible tangents]-=-- | Feel free to suggest or help out. | | occam's razor: computational reflection | bad art: clean up old gallery | demoart: art disks, ansi conversion, zoomscopes | WFMU hunt: scavenge a radio site | cardboardic: disposable release | collage: photographic and non-digital | stupid cartoons: sg, c+c, r+s, brak | pita wrapper: perl posting app for pitas | | +----------------------------/--/----------------------------=-- The link section has been disabled until I can come up with something more interesting. Please feel free to try the portal if desperate for escape. Also, the mp3 portion of my babbling is gone. If you hunger for music, please visit mt and let me know. +----------------------------/--/---[Explanation in C minor]-=-- | This is the log of a faceless entity. I wander around the | web, and point out what are most likely completely useless | things for you to visit. If you know me in real life, | then you will probably hate this. Where I have been, what | I learned there, and what I plan to figure out in the | future. Ahh, the healing power of links. | | Technically this is a "web log". You can find many more | of these in the links section, but if none fit your tastes | you can always follow the monkey and get an easily updated | site with Pitas. | | /--/---------------[Disclaimer]-=-- | There are no guarantees. This site is not affiliated with | anything else I do. If you have been linked or mentioned | and would like to be removed, just let me know. Stop | looking at me like that. | | /--/------------------[Contact]-=-- | D Fitch dgfitch@yahoo.com ICQ:363803 AOL:dguyfitch | | +----------------------------/--/----------------------------=-- Back to top