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Chico s Groove 1999 01 14
. . . : ; C h i c o ' s G r o o v e ; : . . .
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. . . : ; thgieytnewt - january 14 1999
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. . . : ; http://www.disobey.com/
. . . : ; The "YAY-A-NEW-YEAR" Notice
Yup, a new year, and a bunch of old stuff. Doesn't make much sense, I
know, but that's just fine with me. I'm listening to nice piano music in
the background, I'm the only one in the house, and I can hear the faint
sound of water running through a pipe. It's so peacefu... dammit, gotta
switch CDs, hold on.
. . . : ; The "MODS" Notice
Welp, since I'm poor and sink all my money into Disobey, I've gotten
into listening to MODs as a new form of musical entertainment. I just
don't have the machine power to work and listen to mp3s at the same
time, even if they are the buzz of the industry. It's not so peaceful
anymore.
. . . : ; ANNOUNCEMENTS and there were bad green beans at the market...
NEW DEVIL SHAT (#FortyFour): (Have you noticed that I've spelled it
correctly for the past two issues? What a record!) This issue is about
advertising - plain and simple, no surprises, no gimmicks, no hidden
messages. Yenom subroM dneS. Nothing big, really. Hope you enjoy it.
DEVIL SHAT EMAIL (HUGEEEE): Huge amounts of email were added to the
Devil Shat Empire this past week. This is the run down: Four (1),
Fifteen (1), Twenty One (1), Thirty Eight (1), Thirty Nine (1), Forty
(4), Forty One (4), Forty Two (7), Forty Three (1). Go read some.
NEW GHOST SITES (#23): Due to the huge amount of publicity that Ghost
Sites received in the past couple of weeks, and the huge amount of
reporting of death that came through the Ghost-O-Meter, Steve Baldwin
has got a nice big issue for ya - with tales of the Highway 17 Page of
Shame, Stale, and many more...
GHOST SITES MOVES TO LEVEL FOUR: Remember that stupid name that I gave
to sections that have been verified through HTML 4.0? Yeah, well, it's
back, and it's struck Ghost Sites. Various things have been changed, too
boring to list here (poor Steve Baldwin though, heh heh), but the most
noticeable being a new improved Ghost-o-Meter and a scan of the Ghost
Sites t-shirt (why haven't you gotten one yet?).
NEW COLLECTED WORKS: Yeah, some people forgot this was even an updatable
section... but due to the help of someone named DNA, we got five more
stories posted for Ben Ohmart. Yes, we said stories, not plays or
screens. If you're interested in his plays, you would love his stories,
I would believe. Ah do say. Like I said, it's not so peaceful.
LOW BANDWHAT?: Low Bandwidth was cleaned this week, losing two archives
that were just becoming a nuisance. I know most people don't use the
archives much at all (they are really intended for my collection, but
don't tell anyone else that), but hell, at least I can make them
interesting. As such, I weeded out some of that stupid business crap
that was cluttering up our bandwidth.
MINOR UPDATES: All of the copyright dates were changed, on all 1000 or
so pages... the neatest trick I've learned was to use the copyright date
on the pages as an image - just change one file and you've fixed up your
whole site... The main pages (including the secret and error pages) were
updated to the HTML 4.0 specification (exciting, eh?)...
. . . : ; EVERYTHING else and I bought them anyways, yum fuzz, yes...
BOOKS: Welp, I finally finished one of the better series that I have
ever read, that of THE APPRENTICE ADEPT from Piers Anthony. Seven books
in all, originally a trilogy, this series brings you through three
generations and the huge changes to a planet called Proton, and its
fantasy side Phaze. I actually missed these damn characters when I was
done with them. That's what happens when an author knows what he is
doing. The new book I'm trekking through is THE NICE AND ACCURATE
PROPHECIES OF AGNES NUTTER, WITCH from Neil Gaimen and Terry Pratchett,
about the Apocalypse - it's damn funny.
MOVIES: Seen a ton of them, in no particular order: CORRIDORS OF BLOOD,
THE ABOMINABLE DR. PHIBES, THE DUNWICH HORROR, DARK STAR, AS GOOD AS IT
GETS, THE HAUNTING OF HELL HOUSE, and the remake of DR. DOOLITTLE (don't
ask). We didn't finish DARK STAR because it was the most horrible piece
of shat you could even imagine (even being from John Carpenter), and you
can read all about CORRIDORS OF BLOOD in Viewer Discretion #12,
available from Low Bandwidth.
PERL AND UNIX: Welp, finally got my machine set up the way I like it, so
now I've got Apache running on a local domain, and I'm having a ball
learning Perl and using it for CGI... been revamping all of the scripts
that we use at my job (the ISP Disobey runs off), and creating some
interesting new ones on my machine...
AND C, OH MY!: Finally getting frustrated at how easy it was to make
something in Perl, and then having to reinvent the wheel using Qbasic
(or whatever you choose to name it), I have since begun relearning C.
Great fun, and oh so easy to port.
. . . : ; BLAHBLAHS OF THE WEEK: ( january 1st - january 14th )
[Inside-Weirdness-of-the-Week]-= Toaster Weirdness
---Besides the fact that the toaster we have is rather old, it also
---thinks it's pretty funny to blow all the fuses in our house
---everytime we use it. Welp, it evidently decided to go another step,
---and now, if we just PLUG it in, it'll short out everything. I've
---gone so far as to bring the damn thing out into the stairwell of
---my apartment building and use the plug out there because I didn't
---want to kill my downloads.
[Random-Phraze-of-the-Week]-= "I busted him up."
[Outside-Weirdness-of-the-Week]-= Too Much Food
---Yeah, we went to the supermarket, and we figured we didn't need
---the car 'cos we were only getting some soda and crap. Welp, it
---turns out that two people CAN'T carry 8 bottles of soda and three
---other bags of food. So, we loaded it all into the cart, and drove
---the cart home. Boy, it sure was cool walking across Main Street
---with a big cart. I felt so bum-like. Definitely a character
---builder.
[Best-Purchase-of-the-Week]-= Big Orange Cord
---Only ten dollars, and now I have unlimited electricity! Yes, due
---to bad wiring in my apartment and electrohog neighbors, I lose
---power about once a week with a landlord who just plain ol' don't
---give a care. So, with my magical 50 foot cord, I'm only 48 feet
---away from a nice fresh supply of power. No one will keep me from
---the Internet... NO ONE! OOooo... wait, did that sound geeky?
. . . : ; The Issue Was Not The Butt of Mister Ed
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