Month: March 2002
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Has the Web gotten boring? In some ways I think it has, and I do think that the “profit” argument has a lot to do with it. Back in 1994, people were building crazy sites and offering them up to the world just for the fun of it. Nowadays no one wants to lift a…
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“I used to have a red leather tie. I used to wear it in my ‘Deliberately-Dressing-Like-a-Dickhead’ phase.” – The Snook Sometimes my boyfriend makes me laugh.
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Okay, this is gonna sound stupid, but can anybody e-mail me a recipe for Rice Krispie Treats? I’ve got a hankering for them but I’m not sure how to make them. I went to the store for a box of the cereal, but to my surprise I discovered that here it’s called “Rice Bubbles”. The…
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My mailman hates you guys.Wow, the birthday love keeps flowing. Getting presents through the mail is the best, because they’re so unexpected. Thanks to my mom and Joe for the quilting supplies, and to my dad and Cindy for the “George W. Bush Family Paper Doll” book. (Seriously, that one made me shoot Coke out…
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I was reading an article about the congressional trial challenging the Children’s Internet Protection Act when I came across the following statement: CIPA, signed into law in 2000 by President Bill Clinton, was the third attempt by Congress to restrict access to the Internet and its estimated 11 million World Wide Web sites, about 1…
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Dreamlog: This waas the ultimate nerd dream. I dreamed that somehow Rodd and I were at the LucasFilm offices during pre-production for Star Wars. We got to see all the concepts as they were being developed. I remember a guy coming in and telling us that they’d just finalized the design for Darth Vader. Some…
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Well, that project I mentioned I was working on is almost finished. It’s a revamp of the alumnae website for my college dorm. I had sudden inspiration on Friday and scrapped everything I had done previously. What you see there took me four days, start to finish. I’m pretty proud.
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Well, I scored fifth place in Matt‘s pool, and, uh, somewhat worse in Kel’s. The cursed irony is, if I had stuck with my annual strategy of just going with Ebert’s picks, I would’ve won! And Bosnia or no, I will maintain that Amelie got robbed big-time. Big-time. And by the way – is anyone…
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Jim Broadbent? Jim Broadbent??? There go my chances in both of my Oscar pools. I mean, hey, I like the guy and all (he was great in Bullets Over Broadway), but who in the hell predicted that?
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Fifteen bloody kilometers. We did it. Just over two hours. Man, I’m tired. Thanks to everybody for their support, and especially to anon, brigita, Frances, and our parents for the donations. (If anybody else wants to contribute, there’s still time…) I took pictures along the way, but I didn’t want to lug my digital camera…