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Chico s Groove 1998 05 07
. . . : ; C h i c o ' s G r o o v e ; : . . .
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. . . : ; net - may 7 1998
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. . . : ; http://www.disobey.com/
. . . : ; The "OK-OK-SO-THIS-IS-IMPORTANT-BECAUSE?" Notice
It's really not. I could bitch on and on about how this is an important
cultural study or that all those people who write journals online would
love this type of thing, but I'd be lying. So I won't. I don't know why
people read this.
. . . : ; The "SO-WHY-DO-PEOPLE-READ-THIS?" Notice
They find me attractive. Sometimes they say I have pretty hair. I don't
believe them. I need a trim because I have split ends. Split ends are
bad, very bad.
. . . : ; ANNOUNCEMENTS and no really, they told me so
NEW GHOST SITES (#15): From the GAP (Gallery of Advertising Parody) to a
Titanic server that should have waited a couple of months (the
university it was on decided it got too much traffic), Steve Baldwin
brings you yet another issue of dead things.
NEW DEVIL SHAT (#TwentySix): Don't depend on this issue. Don't depend on
this description either.
YAKUB IS NO LONGER WITH US: Sad to say, but Yakub is no longer a part of
Disobey. Some people have heard of this already... this is the final
breakdown: it was not a bad breakup, he might be back, he no longer has
internet access so stop trying to mail him, he is getting his life back
together, yes, I still love him. Stop asking questions now.
STUPID WEB TRICK #334: When you have as many pages on a site as Disobey
does, you face a deadly task each and every New Years: updating all the
copyright dates. I had to face that this year, and I didn't like it one
bit. So what did I do? Modified all the copyright blurbs so that they
are images instead. Now, I only need to modify one image and then upload
that image for all the copyrights to be changed. This has been Stupid
Web Trick #334.
LOW BANDWIDTH HAS SLOWED DOWN: Due to the leaving of Yakub, Low
Bandwidth has not had the amount of attention it had been getting
before. For those of you who had been hearing an "end of April" release
date... well, it won't happen. Don't worry, it's coming. I just don't
know when just yet. As a matter of fact, it is pretty close. I did a lot
more work on it this week, and it is coming along quite nicely.
LOW BANDWIDTH HAS SPED UP: We started sending out the first requests for
confirmation this week, and boy, did editors respond. Of the seven we
sent out, three have agreed to some of our major features. Do we sound
vague? Yeah, we are. You'll see, soon enough (insert evil laugh here).
COLLECTED WORKS GETS MORE: We're gearing up to become Ben Ohmart's
official site and you'll see some changes happening to his part of the
site in the next coming weeks. They haven't happened yet, but they will
be. Three new stories were also added to Arunas Statkus's section called
Home Dentistry, The Day The Earth Fell, and The Letter.
MINOR UPDATES: A bunch of stupid ones this week including: a
modification of the main page with Chico's Groove getting its own image
(oooOoOoHhhH!); a correction of formatting in one of the Devil Shat text
issues; Ghost Sites was modified both in the layout of the folders, and
cleaning up of stupid code; the Disobey page under Detergent was
modified to remove Yakub (and also to add his name to "contributors" in
the Devil Shat section) and to reflect the new places that we have been
mentioned; the whole site was re-uploaded to fix a website wide error
found in Internet Explorer 3.01 and yes, it was annoying; finally, I
added a computer image my girlfriend drew to the Disobey page of the
Detergent section.
. . . : ; EVERYTHING else and yes, they did! i'm not lying!
GHOST SITES BECOMES IMPORTANT: It's pretty pathetic when you find out
that Microsoft ripped you off. And although, Microsoft rips off
everything else, they could have least bought us out. What the hell are
we talking about? Well, it seems that MSNBC had a feature titled "Web of
the Living Dead". What was it? A poor attempt. They probably saw mention
of Ghost Sites at the ABCNEWS.COM article, and thought it was good
enough to copy. Ah twell.
WEBSERVER AND MAILSERVER: These past two weeks have been kinda hectic.
Disobey was moved to a faster server to better serve you (for some
strange reason, the hit counts just keep getting higher). And as such,
some problems arose. I was without mail for two days, although I think I
got everything from the server backlog. And the webserver was done late
Friday night for some strange reason. Hopefully, we're working out all
the kinks, and we should be back to normal soon.
WE ARE CRUEL: Thanks to our friends, we found out the sheep movie on
Disobey was featured as Cruel Site of the Day from http://www.cruel.com/
on April 4th. Their tagline? "Sheep Cruelty That Has Nothing To Do With
Kentucky Coming-of-Age Rituals." If you haven't seen the stupid movie
yet, it's about time.
. . . : ; BLAHBLAHS OF THE WEEK: ( apr 24th - may 7th )
[Morbus-Is-Feeling-Old-of-the-Week]-= Age is catching up...
---Sniff, sniff. My age got one of those +1 modifiers. My back
---is aching, I have a stuffy nose, and my eyesight is going.
---Where has my youth gone?
[It-Ain't-Helpin'-My-Age-of-the-Week]-= The Real Life Job
---Sadly, I have a real life job, and the fact that we have
---hardly no employees in my department have prompted them
---to have me close each and every night I work... alone.
[Movie-of-the-Week]-= This One Ain't Hard
---Scream 2 was rereleased in theatres. 'Nuff said.
---Can't wait to see Godzilla though. I've been a Godzilla fan
---forever.
[Movies-Morbus-Watched-of-the-Week]-= Not that many...
---Thinner was actually a pretty good movie, and I
---never got started with Leprechaun, though it's still
---sitting in the machine. So, I finally took it out, and
---rewatched Mars Attack (love that movie) and Friday the
---13th (repeat previous content).
[Music-of-the-Week]-= Rebecca's Mask
---Went to their website (http://www.rebeccasmask.com/),
---downloaded some samples, got their CD. I liked it. Go
---check it out and tell them Morbus sent you.
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