Month: April 2002
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“Typecasting: The Use (and Misuse) of Period Typography in Movies”. That’s awesome. I love nitpicky articles like this. I’ve also noticed myself becoming more “font-aware” over the last few years. Lately, I’ve developed a physical revulsion to the inappropriate use of “Comic Sans MS”. (Yeah, I still use it for my Dahl logo, but it’s…
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Success! The Snook had a lot of willpower, but I broke him. He’s now as hooked on Big Brother as I am. We were both shocked to see Damian – the house Lothario – voted out last week. He was one of the couples! (He was probably the one most likely to have sex in…
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The last of my Blogger CD Swap CDs arrived yesterday. Hooray! I’ve got a phat stack of music I should be listening to. Big thanks to Todd, Dobbs, Ida (my favorite cover art of all time, by the way), Sophia, and Teejay (who insanely sent me three awesome discs and thus proved that somebody spent…
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Friday Five: 1. What are your hobbies?Besides all this Internet crap? I quilt. My first blanket is coming along very well, aside from the fact that my fingertips are all raw and bloody from stabbing myself too many times with a quilting needle. I’m also learning Korean in the hopes of amusing my grandparents the…
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Check it out! Remember the Australian reality TV show I told you about, where the viewers control the fortunes of a minor league rugby team? (Sidenote: The Hammerheads just won their first game! Chicks still aren’t allowed to play, though, so Debbie Lee is working as assistant coach.) Well, anyway, it looks like HBO is…
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Mucho apologies for the lack of post. Turns out it wasn’t our ISP; it’s our server. Dialing out works fine from either Snook’s or my computer, but when we go through our server (and firewall), nada. Since we haven’t changed anything recently, we’re wondering if we got hacked. Snook’s busy scraping everything off it and…
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Ahhh, it’s been too long since I did one of these. What High School Stereotype Are You? Not surprisingly, I am a geek. I object strongly to their indiscriminate use of “geek” though. Sure, I got good grades, but I also played sports and went to dances. And I never played role-playing games (back then)!…
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I’m suffering Internet withdrawal. Our ISP has been “throttling” us because we download too much. Whatever. It’s too slow to do anything. I wish the damn ADSL guy would come put us out of our misery!
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Have any of you ever tried to learn a foreign language on your own, like from a book or tape? I’ve decided I’d like to learn Korean, but I can’t find a single language school in the city that offers it. Now I’m wondering if I could do it on my own. I found a…
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Calling all old-school gaming nerds! You can now play the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Text Adventure online! It’s java-based, but I got it to run fine in Mac IE. It’s fun! I keep dying, though. I can’t figure out how to stop the bulldozer. 🙂