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| Tuesday, June 27, 2000. |
11:39 PM - Some things about me?
Just recently a group of public transportation companies realized that their far too high prices were actually causing people to seek alternate methods of commute. When a trip from Toronto to Montreal via the train is almost as much money as it is to fly to Halifax, you can see why. This alternate method was the ride sharing company. Basically you join a club where they have drivers call in and mention when they are going to such and such city. Then you call in and see if anyone is going your way. If so, you pay the service a percentage and most to the driver. Voila. Cheap ride. But the other guys whined to the province and now it is no longer legal in Ontario (the only place I would take them *humph*).
OK. Its monday and I am back. Back at work, back in Montreal. I am exhausted.
Ride services. They are the cheap way between Canadian, and I assume American, larger cities. We have always used Allo Stop but we didn't have time to connect with them before leaving. We took a TERRIBLE shuttle service but were pretty sure about taking the ride service back. Went to assumed old location; nope not there. Did smart thing and looked them up in the white pages. Walked there; nope not there. BUT, there was Ozzy behind the desk at ecoride. Man, if you ever read this you were GREAT. Personable, friendly and chatty. Exactly what two Toronto tourists need. And the service allows you to book online. We went home with memberships in hand to await the next morning to check for appropo rides.
It was supposed to leave at 11:30am. He didn't check his booking and left without. Ozzy got his cell and cajoled him into coming back. He re-arranged for a 3:30pm leaving and we wandered Bloor West. He arrived at 5pm and we left. We got back here at midnight. He didn't make us pay. I was very very very tired. This was as long as I could put together sentences.
Wow. Ride services are an adventure. Jon was the driver and he is a Business Management Consultant. He treats his life and others' lives as businesses to be managed. On the way home I heard how men are broken into 7 days and how women should statistically have 39 men propose to them before they marry number 41. I was told the 4 ways to determine if your relationship will survive. All quantified and packaged for easy listening. He was fascinating to listen to. It was better than my usually restless snooze. AND he listened to MY CDs :)
I just had to remove the recent pirate of CU from my computer. It was fucking with the DSL connection.
I used to spend far too much time on CU-SeeMe. Part voyeur interest, part socialogical fascination (what KIND of people spend too much time on CU and have FRIENDS there?) and part "i prefer a face to the person i chat with". Focusing on the voyeur part led me to webcams. There was a clear line between the homecams and the sexcams. Schedules, dressing the part and regular guranteed action sort of ruins the voyeurism doesn't it? Homecams always give you a peek at someone who is not often different from you or i. They just do not mind you peeking at them. Since many consider the Net an extended family of like minded people, this is not hard to understand.
These days I find that almost all are sexcams and therefore quite boring. I don't hunt around for homecams anymore but if I run into one I might look in. I regularly peek in on Michelle Kinsey-Clinton (i love those typical downsouth names :), as I was led there by her journal. But as I passed the kitchen table there was an old copy of Yahoo Mag and it was about webcams. Right away I explored Here and Now and was pleasantly surprised, firstly, by the design -- kinda funky Swanky reminiscent -- and then secondly by the attitude -- unabashedly just interested in exploring the webcam sociology. I will go along while they rebuild the site, watch someone sleep all morning (via streaming vid) and peek in every now and then. I expect it will soon cost money which will mean more sexcam stuff. Then I will leave.
Someone at work explained it to me but it still doesn't seem kosher.
Can someone with a sports minded mind, tell me why The Sporting News has a section called "Fantasy" ?? When I read the by-line, "all you need know about playing fantasy games", I automatically think they are talking about D&D. I don't think basketball players play D&D.
From January 00, it is amusing to read about cold cold cold weather. Considering it is +30 and humid right now.
Today I braved the -42C (-43.59F) winds to go get a package. They moved the postal outlet from 4 blocks away to 19 blocks away. Gotta love privatisation. Late Xmas gifts of Pringles, email address and a newspaper from home. Its very disconcerting reading the home paper. So tiny! So self indulgent! Ohmigawd, that place is still open? Ohmigawd, it hasn't changed its friday nite band. Damn, apartments are cheap at home. Do I recognize anyone using the personals? I may actually read a newspaper from cover to cover.
I still want to get one. Never did. Maybe this weekend.
Thanks, Heather. Now I want THREE cameras to replace the medium format Yashica I "lost" years ago.
Photog. for me, had always been fun. Taught by a master, supplied with many cameras by the same, given dark room & unlimited film by the same and given an entire summer unemployed & sailing (ala the NS govt and the lack of work :), I learned a great deal and became quite spoiled in this very expensive hobby. Move one unemployed boy (istoast) to the nation's capital and all the boons go out the window. Since then, there was one stint at photog in Ottawa, a brief period of exchanging my medium format cam with a friends expensive Polaroid. I returned his and he promptly lost mine. End the photo years.
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10:37 PM - what exactly is takeable about a weblog?
As I transfer the contents of the old into the new, I have to determine what it is I want to keep. Because, after I close down passerby, its gone forever. But in the ever-changing (not) world of weblogs most of the content is chewinggum quality. Still, some sites MUST be recycleable. Some of the humour must be long lasting...
From december 99, I get something I am still chuckling about.
well. ummm. this pokey the penguin is just plain good weirdness.
*giggle*
It used to be something different. It was that. Now it is something more. It still has comix and it is still warped. But I have to read more. I shall return and see how it went, see how it developed and see how it is.
Oh this is just tooooo kewl. A weblog that seems to get its entries from some crazy buncha sooperheroes. Can i join?!? huh huh ?!?!
Occasionally I post about sex. Not sex that makes you go "oooooooo" but sex that makes you go "tee hee hee" because that was what sex was about when I was growing up. The bedroom still is a giggling matter but that is another story.
From December 99:
My oh my, I think a certain weather girl I know would love to snuggle into a bed like this one. Thank gawd, she doesn't read this (she is net-not) or I would be expecting a slap anytime soon :)
At least I didn't mention the media popularity, and her fascination, with the Fleshlight. After I heard her mention it I saw it in at least three different other mentionings including Josie Vogel.
From March 00:
Exactly who would use a Hello Kitty Vibrator ? Anytime I try to wrap my brain around it I either come up with illegal imagery *slaps face* or even more disturbing stuff...
From January 00:
Bwah-hah-hah!!
Well this is what you know the Internet was invented for. A list of prostitutes in London, England and reviews of them and their services.
No Jish is not a pervert, i am.
With a hint from Jish, I present to you, in my long tradition of sexual satisfaction (*ahem*) -- my world's introduction to the i-Brator.
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| Friday, June 23, 2000. |
12:32 PM - where did this gestalt begin?
I remember faintly how I ended up at a "weblog". I was reading Ebert something or other and they mentioned Justin Hall and a documentary about him and his online journal. Then something led me to saturn.org. Its annoying that I cannot remember the connector tissue.
Speaking with I____ on ICQ and we were discussing blogs or weblogs or on-line journals. I have always been addicted to relating what was going on in my life, whether it be in letters, diaries or webjournals. The diary was always the least fav because why write something ONLY yourself will ever see. How can you legitimately write a webjournal without being all revealing? They say Justin was, but i never read him. Perhaps I am can make this weblog my happy medium?
Ulp. No time. Must be leaving.
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| Wednesday, June 21, 2000. |
7:08 PM - shortlisting the popular kult.
This article used to have some great screenshots of "The Stars Wars Christmas Special". But they have been replaced with broke image tags. I guess Lucas in his quest to rid the world of any references to it, had them remove the offending pictures of Luke and Han in a dance number *grin*
OK, let's try this again (netscape crashed as i typed my first attempt). This is possibly the best review I have read about the Star Wars Holiday Special. I actually saw it during the original airing and I think its our responsibility to mention it everywhere and anywhere, before Lucas kills it from our pop culture minds. I can remember sitting on the floor of some hotel in Ottawa talking with the bassist of some indie canadian band that I ended up drinking with. The 19 year old was in awe that I had seen this TV show and could tell him, "yep. it was real. its not an urban legend."
Tom has one of the best weblogs out there but I actually found him through his brilliant page about The Bomb.
Fuck. Wow. A companion piece to Grant Morrison's Invisibles. Its annotations for every issue. Its alternate covers. Its great. Now I want to quit work, skip Xmas shopping and go home and pull out all the issues for this year and read along with the annotations. I am one of those who is equally mistified as intrigued by Morrison's beauty of comic book. Oh, and thanks to this page for a great copy of the handgrenade. I have been meaning to make one for a TShirt I had in mind.
Another reminder to find this guy somewhere on Gnutella or Napster.
In a channel surfing frenzy i kept on bouncing back to this HOTEI guy's interview on The New Music. I like. And I need some music in my life right now that will not be accused of being mellow.
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5:16 PM - tear it all down.
Its interesting going through the sections and realizing how many of the posts contain toss-away links. You know those kind considering most weblogs are dependant on them. It makes you smile or cringe and 5 minutes later you forget about them. Sort of Hollywoody. But I will continue to post them. They are in my nature.
From November 99:
OK. Today, in fact a few mins ago, I submitted TAGs to all my blogs and sub-blogs. Of course I never did it because I just didn't get around to it. But this lil page helped :)
and from December;
You know, I am not sure if these web design portals are useful or not. I used to regularly go to Web Developer and Builder to see what was up. But recently it just does not interest me. Its like they do not really have anything that innovative and are only briefly browsed to find a source for some META tag i forgot how to use or a good Javascript. I suppose that IS the purpose of a portal. Let's see what this WebTrends Network is like.
I actually never did much with this link at all but I still think it is worth looking at... later.
I still want one of these. They are now available in Canada for about $125.
OH! I got to get myself one of these Victorinox Cybertools. The Swiss Army Knife for computer geeks! And, it comes with the usual cork screw for un-corking those dep wines!! Wow, did you see how many parts it comes with? Not for your average three-year old!
*pulls back arm*
Yep, I can remember my days playing with a Commodore64 teaching it to say "hello world". Wow.
Interesting how not long after I posted this I was absorbed by the industry and have begun the frustration of teaching myself to think corporate-style.
Perhaps this should go into the dezinekulture section but I think the glassdog.WEB DESIGN are more coding related. I LOVE the way he starts with the advice to ignore what other people tell you about design and do it your way. I did. I like doing it that way. I don't have much confidence in myself making corp sites like microsoft or cnet or even webmonkey. My sites usually look and act crooked but i LIKE the suggestions to the coding of the webpage, such as making sure you use a bgcolor along with your image in case your image doesn't load, the page will still look like something readable.
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| Tuesday, June 20, 2000. |
11:40 PM - and the tarp falls to the ground.
OK. This is the new abode of passerby.
Welcome. Greetings. Tis me again. But this time the blurred image as I pass you in the street, an anonymous figure in faded black, has been traded in for a ballcap with a toaster, a leather jacket sporting a vampire and a Sony ESP2. Same me, new image.
Changes? Of course. One instead of four. Don't worry though; a "best of" has been stolden from the archives and shall appear here. In fact, it is sitting below all this. Yes, I am breaking tradition in a top down fashion. She shall be a cake's batter of everything I glean from the Web. Unlike others I shall not be trying to capture less from the others I read. If that is what I am reading, that is what you will read I am reading.
Enjoy. Please.
Starting things, from November 99:
Over the last few years, I have lost this SF site at least a half dozen times. I just keep on losing the link to it and NEVER remember the name. Its run by some people who got their fix at the old House of Speculative Fiction in Ottawa. Their ISP is actually across the street from the house's once location. It really is a GREAT site for reviews on the latest out there.
Not that I need to add any more books to my pile.
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