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semi daily notes
6/25/2001 Nemo had a nightmare last night. There's something unsettling in hearing the frantic mews of a non-human stuck in a dream they can't escape. I scooped him up off the footbench and plopped him next to me in bed. Witness the new background color of my favorite text editor Edit Plus! Light blue is the new grey.
6/20/2001 It's been fifteen days since the last time I updated this. All my train-time is consumed by The Lord of the Rings. Minas Tirith has just been saved, Merry & Pippen have been reunited along with Gimli & Legolas and Gandalf has just decreed that they must ride towards Mordor headlong into Sauron's trap. Damn, its a great book. What the hell is that monkey doing down there? Sometimes I have no idea what I put on this page. Here's a good time waster: Over 80 Transformers Comics Scanned and on the Web.

6/5/2001 (pause) More layoffs at my company. I'm not included. Good.
6/1/2001 32 gigs of MP3s gone in about 10 seconds. That's a whole lot of information destroyed in the span of a few thoughtful breaths. Ooo, just envision each little bit a tiny, self-aware critter.
5/30/2001 New shoes. So snug. So nice.
If you haven't seen these you really should. They're really why the site is here.
5/24/2001 Kick ass! I wish I had one.
5/23/2001 My hammock stand came yesterday. Jana surprized me with setting it up before I got home from work. She led me eyes closed, blind and stumbling, to the backyard and revealed it to me in all of its lazy summer afternoon glory. We sat and swayed and ate ice cream.

I have been on a Nethack binge for the past week. I've managed to be eaten by all sorts of creatures, starve to death, kill my own cat and find my own grave. Iz gud game.

SSX ate my balls. Sam would chuckle, but dammit, coming within 580 points of a gold medal on Elysium Alps suxx0rs.
5/21/2001 Nemo had an abscess on his butt. He's been hissing and groaning for the past few days but he seems to be getting better.
My hammock came on Friday but like some cruel joke the hammock stand has yet to arrive.
5/10/2001 I've gone tableless. It's wonderful to deal with absolute positioning of style sheets, but I have no idea how it will look on <5.0 browsers. [shrug] I'm not going to change the layout again for a long, long time.
5/3/2001 I'm going tableless. Soon, but not today. I'm chugging away on my Powerbook in the 45 minute spurts of activity that Caltrain allows me.
5/2/2001This guy is an idiot. I've seen this linked to from several places (first on /.) all in the context of who it's sad, true representation of the victims of the Internet start-up bonanza. He pulled the wool over his own eyes and not in a good way. Man, I need to make a rant out of this.
5/1/2001 A new week.
4/26/2001 Question
Jim has 27,399,110,698 bytes of drum & bass and trance MP3s. A Memorex 650 megabyte 50 pack spindle is $24.95. How much will is cost Jim to burn these all to CD?
Answer
A CD holds 1,048,576 bytes/megabyte * 650 megabytes = 681,574,400 bytes of data. He will need 27,399,110,698 bytes / 681,574,400 bytes/cd = 40.19 or 41 CDs to hold all the MP3s. Each CD is $24.95 / 50 = $0.499. It will cost him $20.46. Cheaper than a new Deskstar 75GXP
4/25/2001 Kill all robots!Passing by the Metreon this morning I noticed a shiny silver Aibo locked in the front display window locked in endless routine of sit, stand, paw air, sit. From the Sony site: "AIBO, with its own emotions and instincts, learns and grows through human interaction and from its environment." If that's true then maybe those thin robotic pleas of "Kiiiiill me" weren't just in my head.
Tux 4/24/2001 I should give Linux a second chance. But this sums up my opinion of it right now.
4/23/2001 Paul Van Dyk, May Day 2k. Must find.
4/23/2001 Packing went well. Jana packed my entire kitchen in three hours. I became mired in a bookshelf full of memories and only managed to fill a few boxes.
4/20/2001 I bought 10 Medium boxes from UHaul. The powerful robotic brains behind the Uhaul Box Guide have computed I need...
Sigh. "Shorty Wardrobe Box?" A wardrobe box for my shorty?
4/19/2001 The napkins look washed out on a Macintosh. How frustrating. Here's a quick way for Mac users to enjoy a PC view of the world:
  1. Open the Monitor Control Panel
  2. Choose Color and Calibrate to open the Monitor Calibration Assistant
  3. Set the gamma to ~1.1 and the target gamma to 2.2 Television Gamma.
I found this the closest to PC colors.
4/18/2001 Some people in San Francisco go to work with a latte and a scowl.
4/17/2001 This site is infested with Javascript errors. To see them you have to view it through AOL. Kind of like that little red plastic film you needed to hold up to the back of Transformers boxes to read their statistics.
4/16/2001 To-do: develop a venemous dislike of websites that spawn a new window on their splash page. Mostly because most designers deal with the aestheic inadequacies of Javascript by leaving the original window open. Their site takes a shit on your desktop and leaves a useless turd of a browser window in your taskbar.