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April 1, 2004

Finally

Well, after a long court battle, I, Dr. Helix Jung, have finally assumed proper control of the Avoision domain. The previous tenant was kind enough to leave up his source files, so I'm picking up where he left off. If you're reading this, it means the DNS has already propogated, [read more...]

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The End of Shortnoy : A Walk Down Danger Street

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SHORTNOY??

TS7: wow, so Shortnoy's dead? Mr. Grumpy: heheheh he can come back next year Mr. Grumpy: or better yet.... Mr. Grumpy: next year we can have a whole Shortnoy, the Younger years thing going on Mr. Grumpy: star wars style TS7: well, now that he's dead I have to [read more...]

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The Chronicles of Portnoy

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TS7 & Grumpy put off doing actual work

TS7: http://www.eesf.org/safetrid/wtp/safetriderlarge.htm Mr. Grumpy: ahahahah yes! Mr. Grumpy: i love this bass Mr. Grumpy: it's like....there's somethin goin on! Mr. Grumpy: he just fell down the elevator shaft TS7: like, the guy who made it just kept throwing in more and more stuff, and the client was like "this is [read more...]

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This'll Work, Just Hold On

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April 2, 2004

Chelsea called me up

Chelsea called me up yesterday, and said she was going to hang around downtown after work today (Friday). She asked about dinner, and we decided on Sushi Wabi, which is close to both of our workplaces. We had both seen a review of the place on Check, Please, a [read more...]

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Catalyst Ranch

We wandered up Randolph a bit, trying to find the right building. As we arrived, I discovered that the reading was going to be held at Catalyst Ranch. I found this a stroke of coincidence, as Ben mentioned this place to me not a week or two ago. I [read more...]

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Beechwood

Afterwards, we went to Beechwood for a drink. Which turned into two. Then three. Then four. [read more...]

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April 3, 2004

Cloud Formations and Recognition

I saw this walking today, heading over to Kent's house. The cloud formation was sort of checkered, and I wondered what that meant. I wasn't sure what weather conditions caused this type of formation. I also didn't know what it meant, if anything, about the weather we were going [read more...]

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Kent and HTML

Today, I stopped over at Kent's and ran him through the basics of setting up a page. He bought a domain (and an excellent name at that) some time back, but wanted to get his hands dirty making pages for both him and Christine. Justin's given him a walkthrough, and [read more...]

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Spring is here

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Updating

I spent most of the night doing some blog maintenance, and updating yesterday's entry. During the whole process of me getting this second version up, I ended up stripping out some <param> tags inadvertantly. This means that some of the Flash movies on here weren't working properly. That should be [read more...]

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April 4, 2004

Spontaneous Coding

I woke up early this morning, amazingly. Even with Daylight Savings and losing an hour, I managed to haul my ass out of bed and ran a few errands early in the AM. I got back a little before noon, and had designs on cleaning up the apartment a bit. [read more...]

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Scary Movies: Technique

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Stu and Juliet

Stu's back in town, and his new wife is with him! Everyone's gathering at his place in a bit for drinks. Back later. [read more...]

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Meeting Juliet

I walked over to Ukranian Village, and stopped off at the local liquor store (Sahara?) to pick up a six pack. Lo and behold, what do I see but one of the You Are Beautiful stickers. When I arrived, Stu and Kent and Dave were all hanging out in [read more...]

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April 5, 2004

Everyone... Meet Chris

We recently hired a new designer at work, and his first day was today! Everybody... meet Chris. Today, there was a lot of busy work and waiting around (his computer isn't in yet), but he'll be up and running before the week's out. We all went out to Goodwyn's [read more...]

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GNFNR

Although... this just speaks volumes about the man. *holds up Bic lighter* [read more...]

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Chess With Jamie

I stopped by the Artful Dodger after work, to see if Jamie was up for some chess. We had talked about playing a few games last week, but my recollection was a bit fuzzy. By the end of that night, I was pretty sauced, and only had some vague memory [read more...]

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April 6, 2004

Note to self

From rypunked: find out about a Portland band called menomena. [read more...]

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Pitching Arm From Hell

Justin and I stopped down at Dunphy's for an after-work drink. What was going to be a quick chat turned into a fairly extended session. Originally, my order was for a Johnny Walker Red and Jim Beam, straight. He served it to us on the rocks, and when I returned [read more...]

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Grandaddy

Right now, I'm listening to "Stray Dog and the Chocolate Shake." Got the album today, and I've been looping the thing ever since. Then again, this is nothing new to you I'm sure. By now, you realize I'm prone to that shit. [read more...]

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Counting

by Philip Larkin Thinking in terms of one Is easily done — One room, one bed, one chair, One person there, Makes perfect sense; one set Of wishes can be met, One coffin filled. But counting up to two Is harder to do; For one must be denied Before it's [read more...]

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April 7, 2004

Let's hear it for spring

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Menomena

This morning, I started off the day trying to find Menomena's web site. I think my eyes stopped bleeding sometime around noon. [read more...]

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Ben: Portrait of a nerd

New machine arrived today. Chris, being the newest among us, gets to inherit Ben's Mac. In turn, Ben gets the fancy G5. Though I'm a PC user, I gotta say... this thing looks sweet. [read more...]

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Sidenote

I'm On Standby ain't too shabby either.:loops: [read more...]

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all your oebase are belong to us

While looking around for The Unicorns and Menomena, I stumbled across a Portland music site called OEbase. Pretty damn cool. [read more...]

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Beating Myself Up

I was going over some pictures I took from the AWP conference a while back (which I'll post soon, I promise). Looking over things, I feel very distanced from my writer friends who are still working, still writing. It's not a lack of faith in my own work, or in [read more...]

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Preface

Alright. Enough of that shit. Let me tell you about this poem that my friend Mike wrote. It kicks ass, and you should read it out loud. I first heard this poem some six or seven years ago. Reading it again today, that line about Kenya still gives me the [read more...]

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With Three International Students on the Olentagy Bridge in Ohio

by Michael Løhre It is twilight and the river barely winds. The east arches remind me of Dresden far away on the Rhine before we destroyed our minds. Bomb us to the river. It's the only place that's safe. Sandbars below like the back of a whale to ride away. [read more...]

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April 8, 2004

A Day of Meetings and Free Meals

At work today, we have some folks visiting from Terre Haute. We all went out to eat lunch and, after an afternoon of meetings and chat... headed out for dinner around 5:00 PM. I am full with steak and mashed potatoes, and expect I'll be sleeping somewhat soon. Here's a [read more...]

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Bituminous?

by Shel Silverstein The hard coal's called bituminous, Or is that the anthracite? Stalactites grow down from caves, Or do I mean stalagmites? Those fluffy clouds are nimbus— No—wait—they might be cumulus. And that kid who was raised by wolves— Was he Remus—or Romulus? The brothauruses ate no meat. Does [read more...]

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April 9, 2004

Found Flower

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Flash Programmer Position: Second Story

Second Story, a great web design house based in Portland, is looking to hire a Flash programmer. Saw this earlier today, and thought I'd pass it along. I'm not sure if I have what they're looking for but, if I weren't already happy where I am, I'd be all [read more...]

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Forum > Thread > Trailer > Album

On Twelvestone, I came across this thread thread, which led me to the Garden State movie trailer, which features a song called "Let Go" by a group called Frou Frou. I got hooked by the tune, and ended up buying the album last night. Been looping that song a [read more...]

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Fill This

Fill This! is a monthly collaboration project (with roots from the Thunder Dome, I believe). Each month a new canvas is posted, which anyone can then download and play with. Feel free to upload your own images or browse what others have done. (Site created by Bastian). [read more...]

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April 10, 2004

Lazy, Indecisive Day

For most of the morning (and into the afternoon), I couldn't get motivated. I was going to run errands, but ended up just watching television. It got so bad that, after a point, I was watching cooking shows on PBS, getting hungry, but then being unable to decide if I [read more...]

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Cement Graffiti

They're tearing up North Avenue (and have been for about a week or two). I keep meaning to get shots of all the construction, but most mornings I'm running late. To be honest, I'm not sure what they're doing to the streets. But they're ripping the hell out of [read more...]

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Productive Evening

I spent about 3 and a half hours at Filter. I drank a crapload of coffee, and revised the poems that I had separated out as my "strong" poems. Most of it was slight edits (a comma here, a comma removed there). I did get a few substantal revisions in, [read more...]

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ProFont

ProFont: the ultimate programming font. I have yet to install this, but plan on checking it out. Thanks to StinkFist for the link. [read more...]

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