So Emily Zekan, my best friend from high school, tracked me down last week by searching for me at RIT’s web site. She found my RIT email address. Argh … I was going to put my RIT address up here, but I don’t really want to check that address any more. So … this is my address … infer it, take out the spaces, and leave out punctuation: logic bus at yahoo dot com.
Monthly Archive for May, 2003
What’s your thought process when you try to decide what resolution to set your monitor at? It’s a tradeoff, right? You want to be able to fit more stuff on your screen at the same time, but you also want to be able to actually read text without getting your nose two inches away from the screen. So you set it to the highest resolution that you can still stand it. So you can still stand it. Doesn’t it seem like there’s a problem here?
I was thinking about HTML humor again, as I sometimes do. I came across a web site that had an intro page, and the first content page was in a directory called “HTML.” I of course found this to be ridiculous. Putting your site in a directory called “HTML” is like putting stuff in a box and then writing “BOX” on the lid. (It took me about two minutes to think of that analogy.) Anyway, humor. The needless directory got me thinking that putting a site like 10 levels deep in completely nonrelated directories would be funny. Not really worth a laugh, but funny.
In other news, I have a summer job lined up. It’s basically an internship, and it will only be three days a week, but it’s some money, and more importantly it’s something to put on my resume. Of course, now that I actually see a deadline looming for when I will no longer have unlimited free time, I’ve got an idea for a story that I can stretch into more than two pages, and drawings I’ve been working on for months are finally starting to show some promise.
What else? Last Friday Staples had 40 GB hard drives for 40 bucks. You’ve got to redeem a $40 rebate, but I always redeem my rebates. I didn’t need a new hard drive per se, but backing up to a second hard drive is a lot simpler than backing up to a second computer. I’m at a pace where I format about every 8 months, and I currently back everything up to my Compaq via ethernet cable. (Actually, for 5 of the last 8 months I was in VA with no access to my own system, so it’s been more like 3 months.) Now, with the second hard drive, I can just back everything up to it and format the C: drive whenever I want. Or I could even just store all my data to the second drive to begin with. A multitude of options. Of course, I suppose I could have just taken the Compaq’s drive out and thrown it into my current system, but that would leave the Compaq useless if I ever wanted to learn some new network protocol (I’m reading a Java book now). And besides … it was 40 bucks!
Okay, here’s a question aimed directly at Brian Lewis, Steve Smith, and Scott Morash. Is it appropriate to use vulgar words in the posts? Morash, of course, has the F-bomb in the title of his page, but he hasn’t updated it in like three years, so I don’t know if his vote counts. I don’t recall Lewis ever using curse words on his site, but he does have those pictures from New Year’s a few years back when people got naked. I don’t think Smiz has ever used curse words on his site, but he did recently feature Timco’s Mardi Gras pics.
So my friends’ sites have nudity, but no overt swearing. Is one more acceptable than the other? Or is it okay to cross the line, just not on the front page? I think I’ve sort of used that as the thumb rule. I posted some swearing back in the day with “Roommate Smack,” which I’ve been thinking about putting back up on my site. I’m a little leery about putting up swearing, but if it’s not on the front page, maybe it’s okay. I mean, these sites aren’t intended to be viewed by children, and they certainly aren’t intended to be viewed by anyone’s parents … Still, if you type “Dan Premo” into Google, you’re gonna find this page. So what kind of face should I present to the world? (***Update: typing “Dan Premo” into Google today gave me the raised by coyotes page on the RIT server. Same with Yahoo search. WTF?***)
On a different note, because of the whole spam thing I don’t put my current email address on any web sites. Putting a mailto: link on a web page is an invitation for spam. However, I recently read a suggestion to spell out addresses in a pseudo-phonetic manner, like “brian hyphen lewis at abc hyphen gay dot com.” A spider’s probably not gonna pick that up, but if someone actually reads the page, they could nab your address. What to do, what to do?
The new Apple iStore ads suck worse than previous Apple ads, which is saying a lot. Females should not be allowed to put poetry and/or song lyrics in their buddy info. Summer should be longer than winter. If you feel like the world owes you something, maybe it does. Shaquille O’Neal drops his shoulder on everybody, and his jokes aren’t funny, but he gets calls and people laugh because he’s big. Last year Jason Kidd was the NBA’s real MVP. Maybe Michael Wilbon is right, and hockey should just be called “goalie.” It’s a travesty that it costs money to listen to “The Jim Rome Show” on the Internet. DSL should be available in Chipmonk. The United States should probably have switched to HDTV by now. Everybody wants to rule the world. Eminem should focus less on D-12. It’s the economy, stupid. If big airlines were run the way that small airlines are run, they wouldn’t need government money to bail them out. Summer should still be longer than winter. Nintendo should drop out of the console business. You shouldn’t believe everything you hear. Java is a lot like C++. It’s time to format c: again. The New York Mets are a train wreck. File-swapping is not the record industry’s only problem. Dan Brown is getting married. The Matrix Reloaded is good. Rule of thumb: plural words are usually not “apostrophe - s.” Books will survive the digital revolution. Chip ‘n’ Dale are not intimidating. I want a 24 inch HDTV. Finding a job sucks.
Today I formatted a page to view the Jetta pics. Tripod refuses to list the contents of directories, I guess. That basically means that I’ll probably never get around to putting any more photos on this web site. Tonight I’m going to try to get a server side include working for the links, even though I know Lewis doesn’t like server side includes.
I keep meaning to address this in a post. Jim Rome is coming back to ESPN with Rome is Burning. I assume that The Final Word is no longer on Fox Sports Net. I always liked Romey’s radio show better than The Final Word. I wonder if Rome is Burning will be better, worse, or more of the same? It can’t be any worse than Mohr Sports. And at least ESPN decided not to bring back Beg, Borrow and Deal (which originally was called Beg, Borrow and BS).
I went to Rome’s web site a week or two ago because I wanted to listen to the radio show. You now have to pay to listen. What a bunch of crap! Here in A-Town, none of the (three) local stations carry The Jungle, and AM stations don’t carry all the way from Buffalo or Rochester. I’m pissed. But I am looking forward to watching Rome on ESPN. I wonder if Jim Everett will be Rome’s first guest.
One problem I have is that here in C-Monk, we don’t get cable TV because we live “on the other side of the Indian Reservation.” Until I was in 8th or 9th grade, we only got NBC and CBS. At that point we got Primestar. We didn’t get MTV until I was in 11th grade. A few years ago, DirecTV bought out Primestar, so now we have DirecTV. It’s a blessing, but if you want it in more than one room, you’ve got to pay additional charges each month. So, if we want to watch two programs that are on at the same time, that’s too damn bad. This is a problem because Rome’s new show is on ESPN at 7 PM, and my dad watches … Jeopardy … each night at 7 PM. Pardon the Interruption replays later each night on ESPN2, and I hope that Rome is Burning will also have a later encore. But as of two minutes ago, I couldn’t find a single mention of Jim Rome on ESPN.com. WTF? Anybody know if they’re going to replay it nightly?