Multi-touch

Whether you look at the iPhone, Jeff Han or even Microsoft, the future looks cool.

We need another gnome illusionist thief.

Welcome new blood. We need another powerhouse like Koppel.

New blood

Steve (KT), good luck with the interviews, brotha. And new blood is good... 'Chris'? Tell him to take a look, and if he likes what he sees, he can make a dude and join the blog.

By the way, is he moving to the San Francisco area? If so maybe we can meet up.

Sorry i was incognito for a bit

I had a lot of interviews and I was feeling a little down too.

I'll get back in touch in soon. In the meantime, someone I met in Chicago may want to join in.

Chris plays a lot of D&D and video games, and he is headed out to California to start photography school....that's all fine and dandy, but can he handle spiderbots, Teddy Ruxpin, Eagles, and an Owlbearaconda--not to mention multiple Ambassador Beakers and juiced royalty? Only time will tell.

Huh.

My browser said it just blocked a pop-up. I'll check it out.

Update: I think I fixed it. It was either Technorati or the web log exchange. Both are lame, so I cut em.

Pop Ups?

Has anyone else been getting popup ads like netflix or "free smileys" when you pull up the main page?

67? oh... I thought you said 16

Rob, in light of your recent rant...

I'm at the store, lady in front of me rings up her 8 lbs. of Jelly Bellies (I kid you not - all the same flavor - pink grapefruit) and she can't stop talking about how delicious they are, and how we should all try them. The kid behind the register says "That will be $56.67" so she digs through her laundry bag of a purse and shells out three twenties. She then digs around for her change purse. She has half of her body inside the bag looking for it. When she finally comes out, hair dishevelled, red cheeked, she proudly counts out sixteen cents and triumphantly hands it to the kid. he looks at his hand, then looks at her, then back at his hand...

"uh [pause] yeah... $56.67"

almost offended, the lady starts digging around in her change purse again, can't come up with the extra fifty one cents, and in disgust, takes her sixteen cents back and reluctantly takes the change from the kid. All the while, she is muttering on and on about how sure she was that she had the change. She was a talker. And the more she looked for that change, the more she talked.

I was 8 feet away from the kid and I heard the correct amount. She is thirty inches across the counter and she missed it.

Neva mind

Oh, you can always press the orange Publish Post button. Autosaving is actually good. Disregard my bitching. I suck at internets sometimes.

Complaints re: ladies' rudeness still extant.

Exact revenge

Eh, I actually listened to Joy Division today ("Heart and Soul", their best song). Plus She Wants Revenge, which is sort of like Joy Division. I totally forgot it was today. Honestly I sort of forgot what day today was in general. My days are all sort of similar. Some days it rains. Some days I get a drink after work. Some days things go, some days things don't go. Etc.

Cheers to Joy Division and New Order. Everyone loves New Order. I don't know anyone who doesn't like New Order. I have a confession to make... I've been listening to The Smiths lately. I don't know what's wrong with me, I used to hate them. Even when I was an angsty sad goth kid I hated the fucking Smiths. But they have a few good songs I guess. I'm not like emo about it, the songs I like, I like for their pop licks.

I'm also listening to Freezepop and Severed Heads, which are good stuff. Mark, I think you'd dig Freezepop if you don't already know them.

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Dude, Blogger's gay Save Drafts Automatically thing is pissing me off... it's disabling the Save Now button when it farts along and autosaves.

Honestly: Blogger people: stop fucking around. The website is great as is. Don't take away more of our features. Fuck, they disabled the button again! Guess I gotta keep typing.

You know what else bugs the hell out of me? Exact change. Ladies, you know I love you. But I don't care how cute your new thrift shop or hand-knit coin purse is. I'm a busy fucking guy. The guys behind me are busy too. Just give the goddamn clerk a twenty and save your change for the fucking bus. It just takes FOREVER. It's always ladies too. So in protest, whenever there's a woman behind me in line, who looks like she an exact changer, you know what I do? That's right. I pay with exact change. Ha ha, fuck you! Yeah it's awkward and takes long and I feel like a total ass, because all the change is tucked in the corner of my wallet and I got to dig it out with my finger, and it's never quite right, so I have to take longer and feel all lame for using exact change.

But maybe, just maybe, my voice of protest will be heard and I'll change one life. Change one heart. Change one mind. To put away your goddamn change.

Also, ladies don't hold doors open. Guys do, even for other guys, it's not like a chivalry thing or a sex thing, it's just polite.

2 + 2 = Volcano?

I guess I never put it together that JD day and Mount St. Helens erupted on the same day.

Just a dash...

Happiness is here
Only I can show you it
Put some salt on it

18 May

Anyone have any good JD Day plans?

Employment

Steve... that does suck, but I agree wholeheartedly with the other boys, you will come out on top of this. The work you have done at school and in the workplace will pay off.

Damn

Yeah, sorry Steve... that sucks. Hopefully something good can come out of this- keep us posted.

canna get a amen. cannah?

Christopher Hitchens and Al Sharpton have a debate available on line if you are bored.

http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/pep/pepdesc.cfm?id=2677

Oof.

That sucks, Steve. -But I guess you don't need my expert opinion.

If you didn't enjoy the job, it can't be all bad. However, limbo can be rough.

I don't doubt you'll come out for the better. Yet, I don't envy the process that lies ahead of you.

That Bar shit is ridiculous. Let me know if there's anything I can do to help. When do you go in July? Gao Qi and I might be taking her brother's family to Chicago in early July.

Poor KT

Well, I lost my job at the accounting firm. I think it was because the Florida Bar Association called the managing partner and 2 of my supervisors, I think the firm just figured that I was going to work there for a little bit and move to Florida. Which is exactly what I was going to do, I just needed about 1 more year's experience before I could go. So, now I'm just kicking it in Chicago, looking for work.

I thought having 2 graduate degrees would be nice, but with only about 6 months experience, it turns out I'm pretty much overqualified for entry level work and not experienced enough for senior level work. I have to fly down to Florida in July for an administrative hearing with the Bar to explain my alcohol-related tickets from years ago. Hopefully that will go well and I'll eventually get admitted.

Anyways, I'm not in the best of moods these days. I get all intro- (and retro-) spective when things go bad, like I second-guess my decision to get the degrees, how hard I worked in school, etc. I see a lot of missed opportunities and laziness. Don't think I'm all doom and gloom though, I'm still keeping the chin up.

I haven't told anyone besides my parents and you guys.

Anyways, back to the regularly scheduled randomness of Teddy Ruxpin, eagles, and castles or whatever.

The Mormons

the PBS doc really wasn't so bad... it caught a few people off guard, but hey, any time you dig through history, you're bound to find some good old fashioned controversy - especially in religion - especially in one as crazy as mine. I think the doc was pretty fair. I mean, for a program affiliated with Frontline, it was S-O-F-T. Frontline usually doesn't pull any punches. I think if I had one complaint about the show, it would be lack of representation. I didn't have a pen and paper out to keep track, but it sure seemed like they had more people who are NOT members of the LDS church than those that were. But all in all, I think it was a fair, flat, unbiased study. I liked it.

Hello Airport: An analogy for the Iraq War

I had a dream last night that Chris was giving talks at a local Mr. B's based on the Descent into Depths campaign.

I heard this good interview the other day.

and what I heard might be relevent if you have a good memory.

www.commondreams.org
www.fair.org
and I must say Bill Moyers new show has been really good. Last week was a brilliant interview with Jon Stewart. I would vote for Bill for president anyday. Jon would make an excellent VP. you can watch it all on line. online. WiFI wifi.wIfI. Also Pbs hate some stuff on Mormons, I don't know if Big deed should watch PBS ever again. Gave those cats a pretty bad name.

3/3

Dag, you're 3/3.

Chess puzzle good... hmm...

on the DL

Sorry about the private profile thing... I used this blogger account to make an "un-DiD related" blog... and I wasn't sure I wanted to expose our game to any of that traffic... I don't know what I was thinking?!?!?!

Come one, come all, to the festivus we call DiD.

So, did Tut fall into Lake Michigan? or did he nab a real-life girlfriend?

Rob, I think my character sheet may be completely out of date... By my record I am 2nd level fighter and cleric... before the recent XP and the weird Princess thing. Did I miss a level or anything?

Nice chess puzzle

A chess game begins with the move 1.e4, and ends with the fifth move knight takes rook mating. Reconstruct each move of the game.




















BTW, each player takes a turn in a 'move'.

Eh

Sorry Steve, meant to get on that when I updated the page yesterday. Mark beat me to it. I fixed his edit.

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Yeah I've been known to rock a few final fantasy tracks. Didn't think you were into the stuff Mark. There are some swell remixes to be found too, by other peoples.

uh... Azoth x2?

so uh... on the campaign summary, it lists me as Azoth also... I mean, I love Justin and all... and like Dag and Az are thick as thieves, being half-breeds and such... but yo, can I get my own description?

--I know that by asking for this, I am certainly going to get a description like "Dag is a fairy princess from happyland, he lives in lollipop house on gumdrop lane"

Final Fantasy Composer

Nobuo Uematsu is kewl.

A reasonable question:

Thank you officer
Protecting the innocent
Where's my goddam droid?

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