September, 3, 2001 archives

i'm drowning in a sea of spam. i'm almost ready to just give up on email. (in the time it took me to write this, i got three more pieces of spam. i wish i was exaggerating.)

hp to acquire compaq for $25 billion. holy cow. i wonder what flavor of stupid name they'll end up with, post-merger.

cdnow is having a $7.99 cd sale. so if you were the recent recipient of a cdnow gift certificate for your birthday, here's your chance to clean up....

today, i was thinking about what used to be "la caña", a flamenco bar that is next to "the iliad bookstore" and "odyssey" video near my apartment. it would be cool to open a store called "homer's music" there. (it is probably a sign of mental illness that i can see all sorts of fun to be had in a retail business, but the thought of working in an office again makes my skin crawl.)

the becker cast goes back to work. whew. crisis averted.

"possessing the powers of licensed software, meg a. byte, software's super heroine, champions good, fighting for truth, justice, and protecting the world from software pirates everywhere. but ms. byte wasn't always an upstanding netizen. discover how she broke away from the forces of e-vil and found the super powers in license software." apparently you're free to rip off the look and feel of classic games like defender, pitfall, and pole position if it suits your needs, though.

jews for jesus has been accused of misusing images of curious george in their propaganda. cheeky monkeys.