Adam's Blog

Yo - thanks to you jerks and your requests, you can now comment on each item submitted. This is good, it means we don't have to waste the log itself commenting back and forth. Still feel free to post as much or as little as you like, but use the comments thing if you like. There's no admin page for the comments right now - once you submit, it's there for good. The only way in is through the server. Anyone can comment, whether they post to this weblog or not. If you submit your e-mail it will be visible to all. It can also accept a URL instead of an e-mail address. Otherwise, you can just leave that field blank. I'm going to watch some movie called "Mildred Pierce" now. If it's not good, Stine's in for it. **update**Although you may not realize what you're looking at, it originally began as a project FOR WORK. Since I started this thing about a week ago, it's truly become a web application - and there are still features we're not using yet - archiving, full text search, user groups... So have fun, we're essentially the first people on the internet to...

I think the show Crank Yankers is hilarious. It's on Comedy Central, and everytime I watch, it cracks me up. Sure, there are some not so inspired skits, and yes, sometimes they bail a little early, but Jimmy Kimmel and crew have whipped up a hilarious "Jerky Boys of the 00's" with this show. Tracy Morgan, who I've always only found "kinda" funny, is the real star here. His "Spoonie Luv" character kills me. Dennis Leary and whoever does that hippie college student are also friggin hilarious. If you get a chance, watch it. Tuesday at 10:30. I think. That's not the only show on Comedy Central that's funny as hell. Those of you mourning the demise of Jackass will find the show "Trigger Happy TV" hilarious, as well as anotehr Brit import, "Travel Sick." Trigger Happy TV had me in tears last week - imagine how funny stuff is once you factor in an accent. Since the only other show on TV that really makes me laugh is "The Cosby Show," I'm glad to see Comedy Central putting those crazy Brits on. Go, Comedy Central, go.

I have to say, I buy into "reading." Reading is what intelligent people do - it's a sign of intellect, and those who read tend to be captivating and interesting. But lately, movies have been doing it for me, not books. I can't get myself to read a friggin book. I've seen a lot of good movies. Some old Hithcock films, and very recently, "The Tao of Steve," which I liked. I watched "The Minus Man," in which some comedians put a fairly freaky story together. I really want to buy Bottle Rocket on DVD -- in fact, could one of you please buy it and give it to me? It's sad to say, but it's getting to be truer by the day. Who would've ever though that movies are the books of the 21st century?

Two people have now suggested I write a module for posting "comments" to each submission. I think it might be doable, but it mght be some work. Is it worth it? Write me and let me know if you want to see that......

The proposal Keith and I have maintained for years is that the Moviefone guy should be a cheery Canadian. Just imagine: "Hello, buddy! Thanks for calling AOL Moviefone! Ey, what movie to you want to go oot and see? Enter the province you'd like to search NOW....." "Let's see, guy, the closest theatre to you is aboot 6 miles doan the street; pretty close, ey?" For my two cents, this would make for a friendlier moviefone.

Well, the cat's out of the bag for me, thanks to JD, and now I'll definitely have some 'splainin to do to those I never let know about theonion. On the other hand, it's been a positive experience in general because even though I feel slightly demeaned by the entire experience, I've met some cool people and it's certainly kept me entertained. And you know what? It's nice to get e-mail from someone who thinks you're amusing. So, the answer, I guess, is "Go ahead and try it." You really have nothing to lose except a small piece of pride, and truthfully, I lose that regularly anyway, for example, right after my post on "fonts." The internet has become an legitimate and socially acceptable forum for meeting - and e-mail is one of the best measures of personality, a shitload better than old school personal ads, blind dates, and frankly, even bars. My advice, if you're single, let go of your hang ups and give it a whirl. Dad, chime in when ready.

Tahoma, your days are numbered. Arial, you're old school. The "Verdana" font has been impressing me lately. I'm pleased with its smoothness and I'm almost prepared to transition this entire site to it. I'm especially amused just looking at lowercase "m" or an "a." These letters are examples how of a font can further lend credibility to your writing without adding the starched shirt, business-only seriousness that comes with some websites. So here's one vote for Verdana, "Best Font of 2002."

From a small town just west of Regina, Saskatchewan, DJ Terrance has been ripping up the nu-disco scene. His album, "Midget in Bikini," has topped the British charts and his style has been heralded around the world. On top of this, his so-called apprentice, Phillip, has also been tearing up the charts with his single "Join Me for Kraft Dinner." Why are these two scratchmasters, sometimes referred to as T & P virtually unknown in the US? It's probably because the US is always behind in style. We follow Europe in trends, and perhaps nu-disco-techno-porno-funk has yet to cross the ocean. I had a girl convinced the above was true. She told me she had heard of them. She also conceeded that they were the best talent to come out of Canada since Bryan Adams. Maybe this belongs in the stupid people category.

I'm a dork. I just can't break away from this nonsense once I start with it. Getting it working isn't good enough - I have to keep screwing with it and adding new stuff. On the other hand, thank god I have this so I can stop messing around with sethadam1.com for a while. This thing is now true multi-user. Not only that, it supports privileges, meaning no one can edit MY stuff! That means for the first time you might actually see someone else post a message! I can't image why anyone would actually want to, but hopefully, one of the few (un)lucky people who can post will write something that will amuse me. Oh well. Here's some good news though. On American Idol tonight, right after we got a glimpse of Justin's hometown, one of the hosts whispered to him, "Dude, you could have any one of those chicks now!" That was the coolest thing I've seen on TV since Jackass or Family Guy. ps. Know what's a funny word? Titmonkey.

Most of you know that I work for the Government. What you may not know is that, even though I get frustrated as an employee, I have recently gotten very upset as a taxpayer. Nothing is upsetting me more than this stupid contract called NMCI. NMCI is the Navy/Marine Corps Intranet, a great idea on paper but utter shite in reality. In an effort to link the armed forces, the Navy and Marine Corps awarded a 6 billion dollar plus contract to the (completely unprepared) EDS. The Information Strike Force, hereafter referred to as the morons, simply don't know what the hell they're doing. They are doing things like replacing new hardware with old hardware that they actually know how to use. They are planning to "upgrade" our 12 million dollar cat 6 infrastructure to cat 5 (ungeeked: NOT an upgrade), and they are charging us -- and taxpayers, mind you -- an obscene amount of money. For God's sake, installing the Flash plugin to your browser is going to cost about $125! What in the hell? Some recently retired Admiral better be smoking a cigar and sitting on serious cash in a Cayman bank account, because otherwise, we got...