saturday, august 07, 2004
AIM IM with sarah <[older sister]>
sarah: BRIttaaaaaaq
britta: saaaraq
sarah: that sounds so terroristic
britta: haha!
sarah: so wuzzup
britta: nothing much, home dawg
sarah: i don’t process that expression
britta: o my, i could not type that with a straight face
sarah: are you a home dawg
britta: hahahah
britta: YES
sarah: or am i the dawg and you are at home, dawg being an interjection that vaguely refers to me.
sarah: like d00d
britta: i was thinking of it as calling you “home dawg”
britta: as in you are my dawg that is at home
sarah: Oh! A complication that had not even entered my head
sarah: alas
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tuesday, july 27, 2004
Banana-peel validation
Why does the W3C HTML Validator have a folded-over, decaying banana peel for a footer image?
There are multiple questions here.
(Thanks to d for identifying it.)
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saturday, july 10, 2004
My online dairy
ABCNEWS.com is looking for people who have managed to turn their stream-of-consciousness online dairies into a career.
Today, virtual cow #12 fell asleep for a few minutes in the grass. I thought about how some of those Los Angeles underpass murals are really quite ugly, but then it was milking time again. Milk, milk, milk. I really think I prefer the soy stuff. At least this online dairy got me that job as a potato farmer! Too bad they fired me last month for daydreaming too much. Maybe I’ll start selling cheese in the sidebar.
Contribute your own experiences.
Update 7/15/04: They fixed it. Oh well. Here’s one that hasn’t been fixed.
Before they left, they were told that the experience may trigger unbiblical itchiness and thoughts or dreams about infancy.
I like these typos that almost make sense.
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monday, may 24, 2004
single listeners searching msnbc for plastic pee
partial screenshots that have been collecting for weeks in a folder on my desktop.
- that’s a pretty wide variety of artists. i can’t remember whose itms page this was on.
- aren’t all searches custom? this was from some housing-search site.
- “gallium m. smack” is a terrific spammer name.
- quite an unorthodox set of categories.
- the itms said “pee sessions”! teehee.
- doesn’t rob look like he’s made out of plastic? that’s from the banner-ad version of those ubiquitous harry potter movie ads.
- reminds me of “the man in the coon-skin cap / in the big pen / wants eleven dollar bills / but you only got ten”, from “subterranean homesick blues” by bob dylan. it’s part of some banner ad for a dating site.
- a rectangle of very high-density geekiness. the article itself.
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tuesday, april 13, 2004
browsing the collective unconscious
what kind of .txt files do people share on a p2p network? is there anything interesting to read? i imagined some secret bbs-like thing going on, people exchanging crazy files…or maybe just a bunch of readmes and software cracks.
i fired up my faithful accomplice and found out. i searched for “txt” a few times and i had a sample of 853 things. good enough.
this is what i found:
- ebooks. some stephen king, some robert heinlein. a bunch of h. p. lovecraft. a tom clancy or two. a cookbook from 1894. a bit of edgar allan poe.
- 111 readme files.
- song lyrics (rolling stones and korn).
- 13 cd keys/cracks.
- a few game cheats.
- a bunch of mysterious person@host.com.txt files.
- 32 files named desc.txt.
- an assortment of EULAs. 9, to be exact.
- xxx passwords.
- the gnu gpl.
- 26 license.txt files.
- 11 placeholder.txt files.
- 56 TXT.rtf files.
- 9 “whatsnew” files. 1 “whatsold” file.
- no ascii art.
and a whole lot of files with mysterious and weird names. i downloaded a couple dozen of the promising ones.
- 3x5.txt
- guitar tabs for some inane song i’ve never heard of.
- about crack.txt
- installing a crack for macvcd. i have no idea what macvcd is. i figured this was about the drug.
- alexthelooney@hotmail.com.txt
- a chat log, in french. who the hell shares their chat logs? poor alex.
- BarcodeFont.txt
- a readme in german and english for a donation-ware font. i wonder what the font looks like.
- Get every song you want here!.txt
- awww, it just advertises a midi site.
- heavy elephants.txt
- a spoiler for some game with Greek and Norse soldiers.
- hieracosphinx.txt
- a quote from Oedipus Rex.
- Kniting Text.txt
- exactly what it says. enthusiastic basic information on knitting.
- TXT.rtf
- information about itunes in what appears to be dutch.
- Wasabi_Overview.txt
- about the app skinner, not the food.
- YEAR2000.txt
- also exactly what it says. things to know about the year 2000.
i could start a whole weblog of weird text files found on acquisition. maybe i will.
