Month: August 2001
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This article claims that Jakob invented spam, but I think that’s a bit silly. I mean, the concept of “unsolicited internet advertisements” has been around a lot longer than that. Wasn’t the first Usenet spam for a lawyer specializing in immigrant Green Card cases? I read that somewhere. Anyway, bitch about a stupid mistake Jakob…
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Scroll down to the Dirty Dancing bit. Seriously. You won’t regret it. (To this day, every time I catch that film on cable I can hear my college roommate Liz swooning over Patrick Swayze’s back. It’s that scene, you know the one, where Baby goes over to sleep with Johnny for the first time? And…
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Congrats to Max on the house purchase. Although methinks you should have that chimney looked into. It’s generating a *lot* of pollution. 🙂
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Happy belated birthday to Marcus!
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We’re off to Oxford tomorrow, so expect a new entry on my Photos pages. Once again, I get to play Michael Palin to all you Yanks, showin’ you the sites of Europe. 🙂
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In case you haven’t noticed, I’ve added some new links to my list down on the left. In the process I suddenly decided I needed to alphabetize them. I know, I know, I said before that I couldn’t, but I changed my mind. I don’t want anybody to think that I’m ranking them by priority…
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Yay, Indiana! People crap on my state, but I’m proud to be a Hoosier.
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Some mouth-breather asks Cecil: “my question is, the song lady marmalade, what are they saying? is it in another language, or what???” His answer does not disappoint. (I’ll admit, I always thought the “Gitcha gitcha” part was saying “Gitcha, gitcha ya-ya’s out, gitcha gitcha ya-ya’s here”. Ya-ya’s being slang for breasts and jollies, respectively. But…
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Wow. Britain’s gonna make all the major museums and galleries free of charge from December of this year. A lot of them already are, but some of the cool ones (The Victoria & Albert, the Natural History Museum, etc.) still charge admission. But not anymore!
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I just made a new downloadable wallpaper for my Roald Dahl site. It’s tilable and it features the famous “dancing lady silhouette” from the intro sequence of “Tales of the Unexpected”. It’s probably a bit risqué to use at work, but hopefully people will like it.