Adam's Blog

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...

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...

Hey, somebody buy me an iBook, please.

Those damned things are sweet. They have this ultra smooth look and feel, and aside from being kinda slow, they rock. Yes, it sucks that Macs run on proprietary hardware, but their product is awesome: it's UNIX, but it's easy. I've read one too many reviews on Macs recently, and now I want one. Who's gonna step up and shell out the cash for me...pretty please?

You can say whatever you like about how incredibly lame pop culture is, but I'm starting to fall victim to it. I have a "Pop" mix that I made not too long ago, and it features Britney Spears, Jessica Simpson, the Backstreet Boys, even *NSync, for crying out loud. That alone shows you how much it gets beat into your head. Either way, though, Britney is money.

But the cherry on top is that, last night, as I was watching the finale of "American Idol," I found myself liking that ridiculous Mariah Carey-sounding song the finalists sang. Something must be done about this, and quickly.

Music today is just starting to suck. The RIAA wonders why CD sales are down, and they blame KaZaa and Napster, when in reality, there's just lots of shitty music bombarding us. And in the space, when we lack good music, we start listening to crap -- and liking it!

Something big needs to come. The world is ready for another "Nevermind."

Do people actually buy the X10 web camera? If so, do they actually buy it from pop-up ads? That's the question of the day.

Honestly, that friggin ad follows me all over the damned internet. You'd think it was just that necessary, "Hey, buying a CD...why not pick up an X10 too?" "Say, checking your e-mail....need an X10 while you're at it?"

Seriously, I need to know - who is buying these things?

Remember Atari and that awesome game Pitfall? Well, I discovered the coolest thing the other day - check it out for yourself.