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Month: February 2001

  • I Choo-Choo-Choose You!

    I Choo-Choo-Choose You!Are you a Simpsons fan? Are you dating one?
    My Snookums is a big fan of the show, and I reeeeally wanted to get him a “I Choo-Choo-Choose You” card for Valentine’s Day. (Lisa gave one to Ralph Wiggum in a memorable episode.) Unfortunately I couldn’t find one anywhere on the Net, let alone a frame grab so I could draw my own. Frustrated, I posted a plea for help on alt.tv.simpsons. Lo and behold, somebody came through! So I took the frame, enlarged it, straightened it out, and set to work cleaning it up. I even removed Ralph’s chubby fingers. Click on the link to see the result! It fits on a normal sheet of paper, and I figured I’d have Kinko’s print it on a big sheet of nice stock so I could fold it over into a card. Feel free to print it out and give it to your honey, but if you post it on your site please toss a link back my way.IMPORTANT NOTICE! Despite my asking them not to, people have repeatedly been stealing my bandwidth and placing this image directly on their sites. Let me explain. I have no problem whatsoever with you making a link like this: <a href=”https://web-goddess.org/archive/388″>. In fact, thanks for that! That’s great. I also have no problem with you right-clicking on the image, saving it to your hard drive, uploading it to your own web space, and embedding it in your web page. Fine with me. What I do have a problem with is this: <img src=”https://web-goddess.org/img/blog/valentine1.jpg”>. When you do that, I have to pay for the extra bandwidth. This is theft. I’m sorry to be so harsh, but this is the third time I’ve asked people to stop and they’re still doing it. I’ve changed the name of the image several times now and it doesn’t appear to dissuade them. If it doesn’t stop, I’ll seriously consider taking the image down permanently.

    Geez, you try and do something nice for the Internet…

    FURTHER UPDATE: People are still being assholes. The big image is now being provided as a zip file, which means they can’t source it directly. You’re still welcome to use it on your site as long as you save it to your own server. Thanks!

  • oh what a night… it looks like the ‘backer has it’s own website! just in case you wanted to research their menu and/or buy some authentic ‘backer gear. in spired by their [in]famous sign—”linebacker inn; steaks and cocktails”—i always wanted to walk in there and ask for a prime rib, a martini, and a room.

    as i was never much of a ‘backer backer, i was saddened to see that Club 23 doesn’t have a website of their own. my search on google only turned up some “tour” dates on local bands’ sites and some blurb on NDToday.com, “What I Wish I Knew When I Was a Freshmen:” [sic]

    No matter how bad it looks on the outside, Club 23’s juke box makes it one of the coolest bars in South Bend.

    my question is, how would knowing that as a first year student help you in any way? how many freshmen can actually get into club? my other gripe is that everyone knows that the coolest thing about club is the slushies and how the unique “atmosphere” makes you appreciate california’s strict smoking laws five years after graduation. smelling like an ashtray has never been known to help alleviate hangovers… (Posted by Brigita.)

  • I just heard my (English) project manager on the other side of the room say something about “George Bush Junior.” When he walked over a few seconds later, I asked him what he had said about our new President. He said contemptuously, “Ah, I wouldn’t piss on ‘im if he was burning.” Seriously! It cracked me up.

  • Dreams

    So, I was just in the pub for lunch and I heard a remake of Fleetwood Mac’s “Dreams.” Who the heck recorded that? I wondered. Turns out it was The Corrs, back in 1998. I tried in vain to find a copy online, but I had to resort to my fallback. (Thanks, Aim.)

  • Former Amazon employee Mike Daisy’s film and one-man play make the on-line bookseller sound a lot like Microsoft, at least the version depicted in Douglas Coupland’s brilliant “Microserfs.” Sounds like they’ve got their own little “Cult of Jeff” goin’ on. And that part about the prehistoric cave bear is just too delicious. Suddenly I’m very hungry for two-dimensional foods.

    (Whoa, Coupland’s official site is a nightmare. How about, you know, some plain ol’ HTML, Doug? Maybe a site map? Wouldn’t hurt.)

  • “Smelly T. Rex on display in London.” Sweet! Well, not sweet. Pretty damn gross supposedly. Ooh, I can’t wait to see it. Our Natural History Museum really is one of the coolest museums I’ve ever been in (and it’s one of the prettiest buildings in London).

  • These things disgust me! When is America going to get good gun laws? Screw the NRA. Screw Charlton Heston. We need to keep weapons of destruction out of the hands of everybody. And where the hell do people get AK-47s??

  • Jen Grubb, nemesis of Weasels everywhere, has apparently been drafted into the WUSA (Women’s United Soccer Assocation). This brings the number of former ND players in the league up to 10.

  • Oh cute! Apparently Meaghan Leahy, a senior on our women’s basketball team, finally got to play on the same court as her younger sister Maureen, a freshman at Boston College. I got a kick out of reading how their parents tried to appease both groups of fans during the game.

  • Oh wow. Max tipped me off that Disney’s Beauty and the Beast is going to be an IMAX film. How cool is that? I saw Fantasia 2000 when it played in London at the Trocadero, and I’d LOVE to see B&B play there too. (Although I’ll probably have to go by myself again and fight my way through the hordes of screaming ankle biters.)