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August 2002

Stupid Spammer

In today’s Chronicle:

“Many of our clients do not have access to traditional forms of advertising, which can be very expensive,” said company President Kevin Katz.

So that justifies resorting to an ILLEGAL form of advertising which involves theft of supplies, resources, and time from its recipients? “Constitutional right to advertise by fax”, my ass. This, once again, is not free speech. It’s larceny…

Who’s with me? Who else quivers in anticipation at the thought of seeing Fax.com driven into bankruptcy by a lawsuit?

Technology That Works

Technology which works the way it’s supposed to gets me all squishy and excited. I just upgraded the satellite package online, and the new channels appeared instantly. Didn’t have to plug the receivers into the phone line or anything. Somehow I never had that kind of luck with the evil AT&T…

And, as luck would have it, the first thing I found in my new lineup was a documentary on Alfred Hitchcock, which made things just that much more orgasmic…

Looks like my bachelorhood ends in about ten days. I’m still waiting for that bachelor party…

Upcoming

The next two weeks or so are going to be really hectic, more for Mark than for me, but I’m still making no promises about regular updates nor about anything resembling prompt email responses. To be honest, the last thing on my mind right now is sitting in front of the computer and answering mail…

When I’m not working or getting the apartment ready, I plan to be doing, well, nothing…

Except, maybe, for reflecting on my final few days as a confirmed hermit and fantasizing about the day when all this stuff in the apartment (not to mention Mark and I) will be in a real house someplace other than San Francisco…

And watching some of my numerous new satellite channels…

Stupid Netscape

If I had twenty bucks for every hour of my life I’ve lost making pointless and annoying website adjustments for those seven or eight people on the planet who still use Netscape 4.x, I’d be a wealthy man indeed…

I no longer even bother if it’s an aesthetic issue; I figure Netscape users are used to everything looking like shit. But when a simple stylesheet causes a browser to crash every time it loads a page, modifications must be made, I suppose…

All the same, I beg you, please upgrade. Please. Really. Netscape 4.x is over. It has been over for several years now, and it wasn’t all that good even before that. Why is this damned browser so persistant, even if it is only among three per cent of users?

Breakthrough

I had a breakthrough tonight in the bedroom. No, not THAT kind. I put many more things into the Goodwill pile, and then I moved the bed. I looked at the remaining space and suddenly, I realized that maybe everything WAS going to fit after all…

Now if I could just have a breakthrough in the front room…

Yes, my brain has turned to mush this week. Just ignore me and I’ll go away…

La Vida Hound Dog

OK, this is just fucking creepy: an Elvis impersonator sings everything from “La Vida Loca” to “Achy Breaky Heart” to “Candle in the Wind”. I’d have thought it was a “Saturday Night Live” parody had I not seen a commercial for it tonight…

Worse still, I almost have this very disturbing desire to own it…

The Hermit Thing Is Almost Over

At this point, I’d start counting down how many hours of hermitdom I have left, but I’m not sure what time Mark is showing up with the U-Haul on Saturday, so I can’t do that yet…

Remind me of this if I complain about moving heavy objects this weekend: things could be much worse. I could be stuck in this little corner of hell instead. On the upside, though, San Francisco should be almost tolerable all weekend, since so many of the most annoying people will be in the desert through Monday…

It’s been a good week for movies on The Mystery Channel and TCM, with “Mildred Pierce” and “Double Indemnity” still to come before sundown tomorrow. The VCR is starting to overheat…

One Day Left

It’s a bit over 24 hours now until the murderingmove. I don’t think there’s anything much more I can say about how excited and happy I am. I’ll keep you updated on all the rest, but that will come after the weekend…