Archive for October, 2003

Sigh

Sunday, October 12th, 2003

While I was out of town from Thursday until Sunday, I got over 70 spam-ments. That’s assholes who run scripts to spam my comments. Although it completely goes against my philosophy, I’m considering turning off comments until there’s some way to fix this.
Leave it to spammers to turn something great into [...]

None of your beeswax

Wednesday, October 8th, 2003

Last night I noticed that honeybees have moved into the stone wall in the front yard. Apparently since the Africanized bees have hit Austin, beekeepers don’t really come out to take away bees anymore. People now suggest killing the bees rather than remove them. I really hate to hear this, because although [...]

Comments spam

Monday, October 6th, 2003

Just be warned. If you leave a comment spam on my blog, it will get changed into something rude.
Ruder than spamming my comments, anyway. So piss off, you craptastic zip code and life insurance site dickbags.

Retraction

Saturday, October 4th, 2003

Rumors of the demise of both Acheron and my cell phone may have been highly exaggerated.
Film at 11.

Poof.

Saturday, October 4th, 2003

It wasn’t enough that Acheron died and Sprint was mean to me, no. Now I tried running the updater on my Treo 300 and it died in the middle of flashing the ROM, and now the phone is completely and utterly dead and worthless. Now I get to arm-wrestle with Sprint once more [...]

Mourning

Saturday, October 4th, 2003

Well, I’m in serious mourning. After 3 great weeks of play, it looks like Acheron has shut down. There’s a new Matrix-based ARG that popped up on October 1st, but holy carp, it’s a huge and elaborate production and I have a feeling the pace is going to move too quickly for [...]

Semi-annual driving reminder

Friday, October 3rd, 2003

Dear Austin,
I realize that sometimes traffic laws and regulations are considered optional. They are, in fact, important. Particularly the following:
§ 545.154. Vehicle Entering or Leaving Limited-Access or Controlled-Access Highway
An operator on an access or feeder road of a limited-access or controlled-access highway shall yield the right-of-way to a vehicle entering or about to [...]

Some people…

Thursday, October 2nd, 2003

“If you have to do that to feel good about yourself, you don’t have much going for you,” Broder says. “I feel sorry for everyone involved.”