Monday, June 28, 2004

The EZ Guide to Stalking Me

Out of curiosity, I went on Google a little while ago and searched for myself.. Full name, nicknames, emails, pretty much anything that someone could use to find me online. It wasn't a vanity search, so much as.. let's see.. a visibility search?

The fruits of my labor? A buttload of personal profiles:

Fark, Friendster, LiveJournal, blogger, OKCupid, Everything2, bitzi, twistid, yahoo, MSN, ICQ, Gaia, @Delphi

Netflux

It has come to my attention that out of the 104 discs on my Netflix account, only 28 of them are ones that I actually want to see.. this is counting 10 discs from the Season 1 sets of Deep Space 9 and Buffy the Vampire Slayer that I added to the queue two weeks ago.

Aileen and I need to do some Serious resorting of this thing.

Sunday, June 27, 2004

For External Use Only

I'm procrastinating instead of working on my Semantics homework due tomarrow.

In front of me is a box of hair-removal wax stuff that my roomie got the other day. There's something on the back of that box in Big Bold letters that I can't get past:

NOT TESTED ON ANIMALS.
Let me just say... for any animal that has ever had hair-removal wax tested on them:

OW.

thank you
~jlev.

Wow, just... wow.

Somebody.. everybody..
go and marvel at Screen.
Those are all the words i can really muster at this point.
(link goes to GrandTextAuto, blog co-written by Screen co-creator Noah Wardrip-Fruin.. follow his links)

Saturday, June 26, 2004

Looking over the food in the kitchen

Now who eats only 2/3 a pack of M&M's?

Seriously.

Friday, June 25, 2004

Single and Hating Classmates.com

In yet another complaint against Yet Another Socal Network Service, more specifically, another complaint about another question about dating status.. look at this question from the Classmates.com Life Profile:

Q. How would you describe your current relationship status?

Single and loving it
Single and hating it

Married
Partnered
Divorced
Separated
Widowed
In a committed relationship
I plead the Fifth!
Note the first two Answers. You are either Single and Loving it or Single and Hating it... Not just "Single". You're either a Playa/Slut or a Spiteful Hermit. Unless of course, you were once married. In that case, you've got a nice little assortment of enthusiasim-neutral choices. But o'course, since that doesn't apply to me, and I am niether Loving nor Hating my relationship non-status (though I'd appreciate a change *wink*), I guess I'm left with just one option:

I'm forced to plead the fifth.

Thursday, June 24, 2004

More proof that I'm psychic: Current @Delphi Ranking

Within a few hours of my last post, @delphi user hippos scored another .25 points, sending him into first and me tied for third.

By the end of the night, I had gone from third to 10th., at least I'm still in the top 10. (Though, I'm still tied, so sometimes I'm listed as 10th, sometimes I'm 11th and not on the "top 10 list" at all)

Competition on @Delphi is pretty fierce, but this is one round that I want to win. See.. in addition to the normal Gift Certificates taken from the Donation Pool, they've also rounded up a big pile of GMail Invites... And unlike some people on Blogger, I wasn't given one just for showing up.

While Gmail Invites are pretty much Internet Gold right now, the main reason I want Gmail is the 1GB storage limit. Of course, I've got the University-Based Cruzmail right now. Cruzmail has Unlimited Storage, and despite my best efforts I've only used up 20MB.. most of that being LJ-comments from my "Asexual Reproduction" color-bar spoof.

...anyway, I might not need it just now, but I want GMail. I'm not soliciting Invites. There are a few forums here and there dedicated to GMail/Okrut Begging, and I have no desire to get one like that... I want to earn it.

I just hope I'm able to nab blue_j@-.

Wednesday, June 23, 2004

I knew all this psychic stuff would pay off someday.

EEEEEEEEE!

I'm currently tied for second on @Delphi!

given, of course, that the current competition has just begun, and I'm not likely to stay even with current all all-time champion hippos for very long.

But still.. Yay!
(Back to semantics homework)

Tuesday, June 22, 2004

Everybody's Favorite Internet Scam is back!

From : poetry.com <SMichaels@poetry.com>
Subject : Your Outstanding Achievement in Poetry Award


Dear James,

Because you requested that we notify you of important poetic events, I am delighted to inform you that in just a few weeks, we will be honoring your poetic accomplishments at poetry.com’s and the International Society of Poets' Summer Convention and Symposium, to be held in America's Birthplace, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from August 13th-15th, 2004.

When you attend the Convention and Symposium, you will present your poetry in front of your fellow poets from around the world (our last convention was celebrated by over 2000 poets from 45 countries worldwide!), and you will be presented with your Outstanding Achievement in Poetry Silver Award Bowl.

[..full-text-here..]

DON'T BE LEFT OUT

Don't miss this opportunity. Space is limited, and our Conventions routinely sell out. Plan to join your fellow poets in America's Birthplace, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, August 13th-15th, 2004, for the poetic event of the year! I am also looking forward to meeting you and celebrating the power and beauty of poets and poetry!

Sincerely,
Steve Michaels
International Society of Poets
Convention Chairperson


That last line was the only indication that they may be selling something.. that something is tickets to the convention in which they are supposedly honoring me.. Price? $595.. only $575 with a $60 Distinguished Membership.

*sigh*
These guys take intarweb scammary to an Art Form.

Look at my new War Mech! It's Complete with nuclear silos, plasma turrets and Windows XP!

My Mall Monkeys CD arrived today.

I give it supreme Yayness.

While i find it unfortunate that the strip is dead, and i'm a bit disappointed that the archives have been taken down, I'm happy to know they're still available... for a price. Only $13 plus shipping. I figure it's worth it, but that's for me.. this isn't the kinda comic everyone would get, but, man, do I wish they would.

I have yet to read the final, epic 13 page finale.. but I will. And it will be Blacktastic.

Monday, June 21, 2004

Dear IE v5.1 for Mac

Your handling of CSS is atrocious,

please stop sucking so much.

thank you.

~jleveque

[skill scale meme] This seems accurate enough...




What Is Your Best Sexual Skill?
Name:
Age:
Sex:
Sexuality:
Flirting Skill Level - 2%
Kissing Skill Level - 65%
Cudding Skill Level - 42%
Sex Skill Level - 3%
Why They Love You You have a way with words.
Why They Hate You You can be selfish.
This quiz by lady_wintermoon - Taken 22125 Times.
New! Get Free Horoscopes from Kwiz.Biz

[blogger]: if there's one thing that annoys me..

it's undesireable user interfaces.

such as the way that Blogger notifies you of an HTML error in your posts...

HTML ERROR

Closing tag has no matching opening tag: </a>

That's it.. it dosn't go out of it's way to tell you which anchor tag is broken, it just says one of them is... and in the post above, with tables and links and tags galore, finding One single, broken tag (which still renders correctly in any browser) is a major pain. Oh and did I mention that blogger won't let you post something with an HTML error on it? Sure, I'm as much a stickler for proper coding procedures and conforming to W3C standards as the next guy, but if you're not going to let me post, at least help me with fixing the error.

Oh and double posting is never cool.
(the reason why I'm complaining about a post which, according to the archives, I haven't made yet: It was a double post.. I cannibalized the first one for this rant)

Sunday, June 20, 2004

Who's on the inside hiding out?

No one told me that Jerry O'Connell was on Crossing Jordan.

I think JLeveque has a new favorite show.

Thursday, June 17, 2004

Movies Seen Recently

No Commentary at the moment, just a list and links.

Sat: Big Fish
Sun: Paycheck
Mon: Evil Dead 2: Dead By Dawn
Tue: Hollywood Homicide
Wed: Once Upon A Time In Mexico

Wednesday, June 16, 2004

Stuff I Bought Yesterday

9-11: Emergency Relief, Various Authors. (Amazon)
I've been looking for this for a while. Atlantis had a copy, but it got snagged. The Baytree also had a copy, but it was so deliriously beat up, you can tell College Bookstores don't care about comix. Finally, I found me a copy for $7 at Book Shop Santa Cruz. Bless you, Book Shop.

Indestructible Object, They Might Be Giants. (Amazon)
Another $7 at Streetlight. If I did not get TMBG's lastest EP before it went out of print, I would have to resign from TMBG-Fandom, which means withdrawing from tmbgtmbg, turning in my Operator Badge (This thing: @) at #tmbg, and of course: unsubsribing from The List.

Goodbye, My 4-Track, Logan Whitehurst & the Junior Science Club (Amazon)
$10-ish at Streetlight. I've been passively looking for something from this guy for years, but no matter how hard I searched, or how drearily independent the Record Store was, I couldn't find anything by Mr. Logan Whitehurst or his other band (until recently) The Velvet Teen. Dear Mr. Logan, I have finally found and purchased a product of yours.. please enjoy your 75¢ in royalties. You Have Earned It.

Oh, and the latest issues of:
mental_floss
Paste
Too Much Coffee Man

Tuesday, June 15, 2004

Wish List: Movie Theatre Mylars

At only $2.95 each, (plus $6+ S&H) it's taking all my willpower not to buy these..

..all of these.

okay, maybe not all of these. There are some real sucky kid movies in the mix. But still, a few of these would be nifty.

At the very least, I can steal a few of the scans for Image Macros.

Monday, June 14, 2004

...And apparently, Tickle doesn't like me.

No matter how many times I try to revise it, my Tickle profile insists on calling me a Homosexual.

Sheesh, Tickle.. so I bad mouthed you on a blog, big deal. Telling everyone I'm Gay is sooo High School.

Sunday, June 13, 2004

Why I don't like to be Tickled.

..Updating my profile on Tickle (wasn't it once eMode) for the first time since 2001. Mostly, this meant changing my Zipcode to Santa Cruz and switching "Some High School completed" to "Some College or Technical School completed.

But this also meant retaking their Ultimate Personality Test.

..check out the following question on the bottom of the last page:

51.
I would really like to have more success with women and dating and would be interested to learn about the "secret psychology" of attraction and specific techniques that guys who are successful with women use.

Yes! I'd love to receive free information that teaches me how to be more successful with women from DoubleYourDating.com

No thanks, I'm already successful with women and dating

Do I need to explain the immense shadiness here? Sticking an Opt-In Prompt inside an otherwise normal personality test? I mean, glory-osky: look at the way they phrased it.

Maybe there was a reason why I haven't been here for 3 years.

..
.
That said, I've found a use for this thing.. this blogged-out derivative of my Good Ol' LiveJournal. I figure I'll use this space to post the irrelevant and meaningless, the moot minutiae of my life, like my distrust of Tickle: Things I want to say, things I'd like to get out there, posted and published and whatnot, but things that really have no business getting mixed in with the very personal, heartfelt, and relevent thoughts on my LJ.

Expect stupid links, and maybe a few memes. But not all that more often than previously available on the LJ. (Which means: Rarely.)