January, 1, 2002 archives
happy new year! while i'm not a big fan of tying a resolution to the new year, i have started to make an effort to write more. that doesn't necessarily mean here, it could mean there or there, too. or other places. wherever the words decide to go once they abandon my brain.
burning monkey puzzle lab looks like a cool tetris-like game. makes me wish i had a mac. or sufficient artistic ability to make my own games like it.
the spiders is a brilliant online comic that pertains to the recent afghanistan situation. apocamon is another great comic from the same site that retells the book of revelation.
so this new year brings a job search for me. (i've fulfilled my sick little promise to myself to not earn enough to have to pay taxes for the last year.) you can tell how seriously i'm taking this by how i'm spending my time looking at culinary schools. it looks like the california school of culinary arts is the local hotspot, but learning to cook in italy (in italian!) would almost certainly be awesome. i really wish i'd considered this a year ago.
i love it when clay goes to town on something, like digital cash being stupid. (read later messages in the thread. they're a hoot.)
john balzar, writing for the los angeles times, absolutely nails what is wrong with making millionaires of wtc attack victim's families.
harvard early-acceptance emails were blocked by spam filters at aol. that's pretty funny.
oh, apparently i only need about five minutes of sleep each night. i fell asleep for a few minutes watching for a few dollars more (which isn't really a comment on the movie, just how tired i was), and now can't get back to sleep again. i find it humorous that sergio leone was sometimes credited as bob robertson.
hmm, osdn has started doing self-serve advertising. it would be more interesting if they had a lower entry point than $400. and it seems odd to be so loudly proclaiming that they'll only take $1000 a month, even if you're willing to spend more.
job search, day two: no job yet. (but i should have new glasses by next monday.)
because i'm just that cool, i got a complimentary copy of php functions: essential reference. would i be a bad person if i sold it on half.com? it looks like an excellent book, but i find the online php documentation fits just fine into the way i program (although there's room for improvement — i need to put together some more things to get more done from the keyboard without resorting to the mouse).