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Judging on the Photo from this BoingBoing Post

2005-06-05T18:37:00.000-07:00

I would just like to say that this is, officially, the scariest room one could possibly be trapped in during an earthquake.

Pointy.

Also: Gee whiz it's been a while since my last update!

Kitty + Bunny = X

2005-01-23T20:09:00.000-08:00

"There She Is!", A lovely new Flash music video that's been circling the net, and by "new" I mean "on the net for a good 8 months now, but I only just saw it". The song's in Korean, and so's the animator's homepage, so I can't say much more about it than: Yay.

"There She is!!!" on Newgrounds, and non-Newgrounds mirror of .swf file
SamBakZa.net - animator's website
English Language FAQ

Really Quite Hipnotic

2005-01-22T22:19:00.000-08:00

The Picard Video. Watch it.

I have nothing more to say.

Links to Official Version, Newgrounds mirror, and raw .swf mirror
Rainbow Animations - animator's website
Dark Materia - Home of the full-length version of "The Picard Song", as well as "The Worf Song" and "Frame of Mind", featuring Riker.
Link to another take on the same song, via Newgrounds

Nintendogs

2004-12-05T23:20:00.000-08:00

!Behold:

The cutest video game in the world.

..
...part of me wants to hug it.
....most of me wants to destroy it.
What do you think?

Reverse Reverse Psycology?

2004-12-05T13:52:00.000-08:00

This is a link to a Love and Sex Life Prediction Meme.

Don't click it.
Don't fill it out.
You have been warned.

Does Anyone Else Get That Feeling?

2004-11-27T11:25:00.000-08:00

If you haven't seen this yet, i concider you either a) light-years behind the rest of the internet or 2) a very blessed individual:

Everyone Else Has Had More Sex Than Me

A little bit of research shows that this the actual music video for the autrailian band TISM, whose costumes explain the hooded fella with the keyboard. They held a "Short Film Competition" a while back looking for a good video for their next album, and this wonderful peice by Bernard Derriman of Longueville NSW was the winner.

For the curious, the runners-up, and an alternate version of the winner, are availiable for viewing on the contest page, although all entries are either in Windows or Quicktime format, not their native Flash format. Anyone know where to find the Flash versions of these guys?

i love links. good, fresh, links

2004-10-30T11:29:00.000-07:00

Can't Find Jeans That Cover Your Stomach?
It's easier to find cute baggy overalls than it is to find jeans that aren't low. So think about looking for overalls or a jumpsuit of some type.
Jen Magazine has released a list of Fashion Fixes for Modest Mormon Teens. My personal favorte? The ModesTee.
20Q.net: a Twenty Questions game that's been around the net for a while, but never the less, is still quite awesome. So far it has managed to guess "elf" of all things, but not get "baseball bat". (it asks for demographic info, but you don't need to enter antything, just hit Play.
Imagine the joy that you can bring to your children's lives with a 5Ft Usb Cable. When they see their friends, they'll say with pride, "I have a 5Ft Usb Cable. Don't you wish you had a 5Ft Usb Cable?" A neighborhood craze for 5Ft Usb Cable would ensue, and you could relax knowing you started the 5Ft Usb Cable revolution.
I mentioned my flickr account and photoblog last time. What i didn't mention was the li'l flickr badge I have in the sidebar of this here weblog. Nothin spectacular, just a li'l square thumbnail on one of my pics at random.
And finally: This man hates your weblog.

it's things like this that make me wanna start a chatter blog

2004-10-27T20:55:00.000-07:00

peachlette (8:44:19 PM): the red sox just won the world series
bluejuh (8:44:28 PM): already?
peachlette (8:44:31 PM): yep
bluejuh (8:44:38 PM): that was quick.
peachlette (8:44:41 PM): what?
bluejuh (8:44:55 PM): it just started.
peachlette (8:45:00 PM):you are three hours behind me
peachlette (8:45:03 PM): motherfucker
peachlette (8:45:03 PM): :)
bluejuh (8:45:15 PM): i mean, isn't it only game 4?
peachlette (8:45:21 PM): yep
bluejuh (8:45:37 PM): so they swept the world series
peachlette (8:45:55 PM): yep
bluejuh (8:46:34 PM): the Red Sox, the BOSTON Red Sox just swept the World Series?
bluejuh (8:46:54 PM): ..of Baseball?
peachlette (8:46:59 PM): yep
peachlette (8:47:03 PM): of baseball
bluejuh (8:47:13 PM): okay that's it.
peachlette (8:47:30 PM): what?
bluejuh (8:47:43 PM): the rest of this stuff was just subtle hints.. war, disease, hurricanes....
bluejuh (8:47:49 PM): but this:
bluejuh (8:47:55 PM): it's the end of the world.

...Not to mention the lunar ecclipse tonight.

Links and Things

2004-10-25T13:55:00.000-07:00

The Pac-Man Cafe in Orlando, FL. (photo). An entire resaurant/arcade dedicated to the yellow guy himself. On one hand, just the thought of it is cool. On the Other hand, it's kind of sad: like JC Herz mentioned in Joystick Nation, there's something very sad about finding something from your childhood that you experienzed in a very raw fashion... sticky unwashed cabinets, the faint scent of cigarettes and beer in some dark, isolated back room... and seeing it so.. primped-up, family friendly, and safe.

But that's not why I'm posting about it here. This is. The cafe's menu. Scroll down a couple pages and you'll see what I'm talking about: Custom-Shaped Pac-Man Pizzas.

Custom-Shaped Pac-Man Pizzas.

In other words, pizzas we already took took a slice out of.
George W. and Ralph Nader are equally hot with Kerry pulling a relatively distant third, according to this extremely scientific poll.
If you haven't seen "Badgers" Yet, go here. Once you've explored Weebls-stuff, wait a week or so to reccouperate and then go see what's eroding at my santity lately: Bananaphone.
Finally, I've got me a new photoblog. I just finished off posting a bunch of pics from my Choir Tour to England back in 2000. New pics'll be a little sparce for a while, as everything's hosted on flickr, and while I love flickr will all my heart and soul they only give you 10MB of upload bandwidth a month. Annoying, but it's better than 10MB of diskspace.

All the fun of a rating community, no need to apply!

2004-10-06T01:16:00.000-07:00

bluejuh: omg.

http://cafe.hotornot.com/

NeeliaBuzz: meep?

bluejuh: Chat with people while group-voting "hot or not" pics

NeeliaBuzz: oh ok

NeeliaBuzz: thats amusing

bluejuh: but just the idea... it's like a LiveJournal rating community.. in Chat form!

NeeliaBuzz: lol

2004-10-05T18:04:00.000-07:00

A girl phoned me the other day and said... Come on over, there's nobody home. I went over. Nobody was home.

Rodney Dangerfield, 1921-2004

I might even post more than once this month.

2004-10-02T23:49:00.000-07:00

I was reading the (often humourous) Arcata Eye Police Log today and something in the most recent post struck me as (unintentionally) funny:

8:09 p.m. A different woman happened upon what looked like her stolen bicycle locked up outside an I Street store. She tried the combination on the lock, and it unlocked. Police determined that it was indeed her bike.

While I do appreciate the fact that the thief didn't think to change the bike-lock before going on their daily errands, the fact that the thief used a lock at all cracks me up.

The log doesn't mention anyone getting questioned or arrested, so I assume the cops just let the lady take her bike back and left... So I wonder: When the Thief came out of that store on I street and noticed that the illegally-acquired transportation was gone, do you think they said to themself "Someone just stole my bike?"

FINALLY

2004-09-23T23:35:00.000-07:00

I'd have to check up on this, but I think it's been a good three, four months since MS announced that hotmail was raising it's mailbox limits from 2MB to 250MB. It Finally happenned tonight.

Of course, they had to wait until right after my Summer Vacation was over.. right after I spent two weeks without internet, running to the public library each day so I can empty my hotmail of Spam and not lose any potential incomming emails.

So yeah, if you want 250 megs of email space, you can go out and get yourself a hotmail. (as if you don't already have one)

Or you can ask for a GMail invite.

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That said: Hi. I'm back.

Semi-informative For The Confused Americans

2004-08-22T01:48:00.000-07:00

For anyone watching, or trying to watch the Olymipics, there has to be at least one point where you're watching the screen with no idea whatsoever as to what's going on. You know that that guy in the green spandex is trying very hard to accomplish something, and that the Kenyans in the stands are getting very excited about it, but you, personally, are clueless. For the apartment here, that moment came when the announcer mentioned that they were in the middle of an event called the Snatch, and that following soon would be the Clean & Jerk.

Well, just in case you catch yourself scratching your head, remember this site: Sports Animations from the official Athens 2004 Olympic Games website.

Flash-animations demonstrating the Olympic events in a very professional, PowerPointy manner. Never before have I felt so imformed about Table Tennis.

Wonderful.

2004-08-19T21:16:00.000-07:00

This will make up for my not posting in a while:

OKCupid Presents the best game ever: The Virgin Game

UPDATE: and the second best game ever: The Gaydar Test

Bruce Banner Ads

2004-08-12T03:12:00.000-07:00

I do not trust the guy in this ad. He looks like he's just about to snap, rip his clothes off, and punch and me and my mother in the eye.

That reminds me, I need to call Home tomorrow.

Note to self: Stick to predicting the Weather

2004-08-01T23:10:00.000-07:00

Official @Delphi Competition 5 final leaderboard:

1. BKBroiler 60.75
2. sdjunglist 56.5
3. supima 55.5
4. bluej 54
5. hippos 53.25
6. critch 52.5
7. Walstib 52
8. jccohen 50.5
9. spiritauthor 46.5
10. soc151 46.25

My predictions were off by just a tad, as you can see. The Broiler managed to pass sd.. I managed to pass critch.. and everybody in the top six managed to score another 10 points before time was up. Interestingly enough, hippos and I kept our places and none of us fell out of the top 6.

And Now, back to your regularly scheduled irrelevance.

Just my 3¢

2004-08-01T15:39:00.000-07:00

Dear Canada,

First the "looney", now this.

It's a limited edition, sure. But seriously folks: Neither America, nor the rest of the world will ever respect you until start taking your money seriously.

Thank you.

~james leVeque

A Battle For The Ages

2004-07-31T15:23:00.000-07:00

Bill O'Reilly Vs Michael Moore

Never Mind. Bandwidth Limit Exceeded... I'll look for a mirror.

Never Mind that Never Mind, the main site seems to be dead, but the page I'm linking to seems to be just fine.

Blast it all. Everything's dead. Either wait it out for RichWatch.net to come back online or find it on your own. Best of Luck either way.

Instead, here's another battle for the ages: The current @Delphi top 56:

1. sdjunglist 45
2. critch 42.5
3. BKBroiler 41.75
4. bluej 41.25
5. hippos 41
6. supima 41

With the competition ending tonight at Midnight Central, there's no question: sdjunglist will be winning this competition. Just below him is critch, the same guy who knocked me out of the top 10 at the last minute during last month's GMail completeness. We must be two people with very like minds, since we're constantly within just a few points of each other. At third is BKBroiler, a strong player who's constantly in the top 3. There I am in 4th place, just barely edging out All-Time Champ hippos, who is tied with new guy supima.

Like I said, the competition ends in about 8 hours.. so I doubt that there's going to be enough points awarded for one of us to take 1st place away from sd, but other than that, it's a pretty tight race. I don't think I'll be able to overtake critch, but the Broiler might. And if he doesn't, I just need .75 to take his spot and double my prize money.

Then again, all hippos and supima need to do are get .5 and I'm knocked down a peg.

There's a question that just expired, asking us to predict if Adrian Beltre is going to hit a home-run in the Dodgers/Padres game going on right now, I guessed "no." it's worth a whole point: enough to send me into 3rd.

So, unless the admins do some serious weeding through the backlogs of ungraded .25 pt Dailies's.. My prize total depends on whether or not the Dodgers' First Baseman chokes (and whether that question gets graded today, too)

Either way, I'm pretty much guaranteed to be winning some sort of prize money this time around, which I'll channel into paying for a dedicated user account. And with 145.75 points total, I'm definitely going to hit 150 and level-up next round.

And just think: if RichWatch.net had better hosting, you wouldn't have had to read any of that.

Coke Corrupts Our Kids

2004-07-28T21:11:00.000-07:00

A recent Coca-Cola ad describes some teen dude trying to hook up with many a teen chick. Each attempt is thwarted by a) a cuter dude with a cast b) a hotter dude with a car or c) his mom coming to pick him up early.

In the end of the ad the narrator gives the kid some advice: Break a bone, get a car, and stop telling your mom where we're hanging out.

Or at least that's what he used to say. Now every time I see it, he ends the advice with ..and try to get your game on before curfew. Now, It's often the case that a company will air two versions of an ad, each with a different joke or scene or edit. But nope, the actually went back and changed the end of the ad. My only guess is that someone grew concerned with the ad telling this kid, and by extension, every coke-drinking kid in the universe, that they shouldn't tell their parents where they were hanging out at nights.

Maybe I just lived a blessed life with a dad who didn't really worry about where I was, telling me to call if I needed a ride and leaving it at that, but still.. are there really parents out there that think a coke ad joke could possibly lead to anything more dangerous than, say, cavities or juvenile diabetes?

That's No Moon.

2004-07-28T12:01:00.000-07:00

..Oh wait. Yes it is. My bad. Sorry.

College Roomie Story Arcs from Hell!!!

2004-07-22T22:58:00.000-07:00

It's come to my attention that the current plot of College Roomies from Hell!!! has been running since September 18, 2003

10 months.

I love you, maritza campos, and the bat wing thing with the girl's plot is a start. But for the love of all that is good and funky. Get These Kids Off That Island And Back Home.

*explode*

That is all I have for now.

IMHOWYSIWYGIRFA

2004-07-16T10:07:00.000-07:00

Blogger just ate a post I was working on regarding CNN Headline News.

As losing a post is always quite depressing, I don't feel like typing it up again just now.

I will, however, point out that Blogger's new Create New Post page defauts to a WYSIWYG, rich-text fomat.

For people who already know and ar comfortable with HTML, WYSIWIG sucks.

that's all.

Something just seems wrong about this:

2004-07-12T20:25:00.000-07:00

From the Catalyst's Concert Shedule:

ORGY
Ages 16+
$15 in advance,
$19 at the door
Doors open 8:30PM
Show starts 9:30PM

It all tastes the same to me, anyway.

2004-07-12T00:01:00.000-07:00

Something I noticed on the latest commercial in Miller's "President of Beers" ad campaign.

The ad responded to the tagline in Budweiser's latest few commercials, one that could be taken as somewhat of a rebuttal to the whole Beer-Election-thing: "Choose on Taste."

Miller responded by saying "How can they say 'choose on taste' when surveys have shown people say Miller has More Taste than Bud!"

Of course.. our good friend The Disclaimer showed up on the bottom and said, quote:

Results reflect which beer has More Taste or Flavor, NOT Preference, Carb Count, or Smoothness

So in other words, the study didn't say people like Miller more, it just said people could taste it more. so: If I gave you two drinks to test... one of mineral water, and one of rancid milk.. and you told me what you thought, I could go off and tell people "Rancid Milk has More Taste than mineral water!"

Then I could declare myself to be the President of Rancid Milk.

...and considering how long it's been since we've cleaned our fridge and washed out all the dishes in the sink, I don't think I'll have that much competition.

My issues with GMail

2004-07-06T21:52:00.000-07:00

As I mentioned in my last post, I've just recently recived that one most holy of blessing, the finest, purest form of Geek Gold in existance: a GMail invite.

Since then, I've had a chance to poke around a bit and I have to say that GMail is not my most favoritest application ever.

I've got a number of servere annoyances, not the least of which is the fact that GMail requires you to have the latest version of your favorite major browser, on your favorite major operating system, with cookies and Javascript enabled. Anything less, and the login prompt is replaced with a notice that your browers does not meet GMail specifications. While it does give you the option to sign-in anyway.. this just sends you to a static page that reads, in its entirety, Loading.... So far, I've hit this brick wall on a W98 box running what seemed to be IE v.5.5~ish and a Solaris running Netscape over CDE.

But I run WXP and use Mozilla FireFox on my home computer, so problems with Solaris and old versions of IE don't bother me that much.. what gets me is the lack of customizabiity. Google wants you to experience GMail in one, specific way, and if you would like to change this, tough noogies.

line-height: 0;
height: 0;"> Click The Image on the right for a screen cap showing some of my main annoyances. First of all: The Text on both the main sidebar and the Ad sidebar is too small, if I didn't name them myself, I'd barely be able to tell what my labels were.. and as for the ads, what good are they if I can't read them? Sure, I can make it a bit larger by hitting CTRL++, but that'll just make my actual emails too freakin' Huge.

Next up, all HTML images are turned off by default. While this is a good tactic for preventing Spammers from going into the kill, when you read graphic heavy newsletters, or even newsletters that aren't that graphic heavy, like Lockergnome here, all you see is a bunch of broken boxes. They've got a link you can click and turn all images back on, but you have to click that link for every message, everytime you view it.

The obvious complaint to make is about the ads. I don't mind the ads themselves, but what I do mind is the CSS layer they use to display them. Everything renders fine when your window is expanded and your resolution is high, but if you're like me and you regularly surf around in a window that doesn't take up the whole screen, the Layers get confused and cover up the actual email content as shown in my screen cap. for added irony, I chose an email where the content being obscured was a Google Search form. To be fair, this isn't just Google's problem, this is a problem with every site out there that tries too hard to use CSS to define one, single layout for their pages.. but that's a rant for another day.

Of course, the main complaint that anyone who is used to nearly any other form of email is the lack of an adress book. GMail has no method of keeping your contacts handy at all. Not a real biggie for me, but I'm sure some office worker or mass-forwarding, 14-yr old, canadian girl is going to be fairly peeved.

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All these issues aside, it's still a free Gigabyte of storage space with advanced search capabilites included.. so I'm glad I have my GMail.

Now that I've got all this GMail-bashing out of the system, I can feel free to look at the more interesting aspects of GMail: It's really less of an email client and more of an.. interpetation of email itself.

It's really interesting from a New Media standpoint, and if I had any more experience in critical analysis of New Media than one quarter of one class here in UCSC I'd talk about it further.

for now though: Pizza.

so close, and yet...

2004-07-04T23:19:00.000-07:00

The results from @Delphi Competition 3 are in, how'd I fare?

11. bluej 25.25

#10 had 27.0 points.. meaning if I was a measily 2 points higher, I'd've got myself a top 10 spot.. and a GMail invite. Oh, and for the record, I missed roughly 52 points worth of questions. Seven of them worth 2 or more points.

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So I didn't earn myself a Gmail invite, but that's okay because I have been Given one from my close personal friend, and fellow Blogger, Autumn. So, while I can't access it at the moment (The browser on the computer here isn't cool enough to interpet GMail's scripting techniques.. a major flaw on Gmail's part, I'll say).. my new email account at gmail.com is "jleveque"
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In related news, in the current competition (#4).. I seem to be tied for 6th... with about 17 other people.

[link] I am a funky porn star* that loves to laugh at dinosaurs.

2004-07-02T02:15:00.000-07:00

One of the reasons I tend to frown on Quizilla-type Personality Tests is that the results are so very random. Your categorization is based more on the hash value of your response than whatever it was you had to say.

with that said.. I fully applaud this: a simple little toy that illustrates just how random this stuff is.

DISCLAIMER:
Flash Required.
Some results NSFW.
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PS: kudos to moe4eyed, whom I belive is the first person from the LJ world to comment on this weblog.

My other car is a NOT-APPLICABLE

2004-07-01T14:39:00.000-07:00

Taking online surveys, this one wants to know about my opinions on car concepts. The thing it asked me was which of the cars on this big pulldown list did I own... thankfully they had the foresight to add a NONE option to both the make and model menus... unforunately.. well.. just look:

How would you describe your role in the buying decision of your NONE None...

Sole decision maker
Involved in at least fifty percent of the decision process, but not the sole decision maker
Involved in less than fifty percent of the decision
Not involved in the decision

The rest of the survey did the same thing... *sigh*

The EZ Guide to Stalking Me

2004-06-28T23:40:00.000-07:00

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

2004-06-28T09:25:00.000-07:00

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.

For External Use Only

2004-06-27T18:45:00.000-07:00

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.

2004-06-27T00:33:00.000-07:00

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)

Looking over the food in the kitchen

2004-06-26T18:56:00.000-07:00

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

Seriously.

Single and Hating Classmates.com

2004-06-25T21:56:00.000-07:00

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.

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

2004-06-24T09:06:00.000-07:00

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@-.

I knew all this psychic stuff would pay off someday.

2004-06-23T10:40:00.000-07:00

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)

Everybody's Favorite Internet Scam is back!

2004-06-22T22:00:00.000-07:00

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!

2004-06-22T14:37:00.000-07:00

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.

Dear IE v5.1 for Mac

2004-06-21T14:57:00.000-07:00

Your handling of CSS is atrocious,

please stop sucking so much.

thank you.

~jleveque

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

2004-06-21T11:57:00.000-07:00

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

2004-06-21T11:52:00.000-07:00

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)

Who's on the inside hiding out?

2004-06-20T22:30:00.000-07:00

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

I think JLeveque has a new favorite show.

Movies Seen Recently

2004-06-17T09:42:00.000-07:00

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

Stuff I Bought Yesterday

2004-06-16T10:12:00.000-07:00

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 tmbg, 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

Wish List: Movie Theatre Mylars

2004-06-15T01:00:00.000-07:00

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.

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

2004-06-14T00:51:00.000-07:00

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.

Why I don't like to be Tickled.

2004-06-13T21:19:00.000-07:00

..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.)

[this does not exist]

2004-05-17T18:44:00.000-07:00

I do not keep a blog here, nor do I think I ever will.

This blog was just created as a way for me to join-in on the Blogger/Blog*spot world now that they've finally implemented commenting. (I hate commenting as "anonymous")

That said, I do keep a journal over at LJ.

Time to run away.