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After spending some time perusing the archives of the incomparable , I just need to repeat something I say occasionally.

Nobody ever invites me to these parties!

Addendum: Why are there two Usenet newsgroups devoted to Jennicam and not one for Gigglecam? I mean, if you see Jenni as sexy but not Chris, you must not like girls.
current_mood: annoyed

Are all my Canadian friends now unmiffed, since our illustrious leader down here named Canada first in his recent speech? 🙂

Yep, the obligatory, self-congratulating, rather pointless post you’ve all been waiting for…

One year LJ anniversary day!
Sorry, had to do it.

To bolster my discussion in ‘s journal, here are some references for the KAL007 incident.

Black Boxes

Transcript of attack from inside the plane

Let the conspiracy nuts come forward!
current_mood: tired

New t-shirt designs, this time more colorful, if just as cynical as always.

After sharing this post with a co-worker (who also knows in real life), I just felt I had to try to get it wider dissemination.

Aaron, you need to keep a journal and write a fucking memoir someday. That’s some funny shit, and great phrasing. National Geographic collector, hehe
current_mood: amused

So, I put together this CD-ROM with lots of reference documents that we may need when we’re on the road away from the library of books we keep on the network and on our bookshelves. I rule. PDF files, indexes, bookmarks and hyperlinks, the whole deal. Wonder if anyone cares.

My boss (well, one of eight) makes a Powerpoint presentation to his boss at random intervals. Apparently, knowing how to effectively use Powerpoint is not a requirement for employment at the Defense Information Systems Agency. He opens a blank slide, ensures there are no pesky placeholders, and inserts his text boxes. Um, ever wonder what that outline thing is for? So, I fix his presentation, making it easier to update in the future as well as presenting a uniform appearance from slide to slide (the titles and bullets used to wander). His next update, does he a) use the fixed presentation as a template or b) start over with a set of blank slides and the text tool? Yeah, you got it.

Information Systems Agency…
current_mood: amused

Hey, my shirt design is on the front page of T Shirt Countdown finally! Woohoo! To do your part to make Gary famous, go to my Store and click the little VOTE button.

So, while perusing semi-random websites, hoping to see the fruits of ‘s labors someday when the military turns their web back on, I come across this gem of professional web design:

<title>Untitled Document</title>

I mean, c’mon! You actually named a document untitled document? WTF? Glad to see military webmasters continue to attain the highest level of skill. This site also claims to be Section 508 compliant (Americans with Disabilities Act accessibility law), yet the only navigation buttons are a series of Flash applets. Yep, all kinds of accessible. Way to test that web site in Lynx or turning off scripts and such first…
current_mood: superior

Dammit, just when it looked like I was gaining and might make it to the front page of T-Shirt Countdown, the new month starts and I get reset to zero. Now I’m only up to #33. C’mon, everyone go to my store and vote for me. While you’re there, don’t you think a beer stein with an origami crane on it is cool? 🙂

Hey, not only does young Courtney have today off, it’s her birthday too! Go, Courtney, it’s your birthday!

(Yes, I really need to sleep longer)

Well, the Messenger Bag design at Cafepress is no more, but this month is Stein month. If you want an origami beer stein (and who doesn’t?), come on down to the AndySocial Emporium. 🙂

As an aside to any other Cafepress storeowners: has anyone sold anything? I’m sure Persis has, but how about anyone else? It seems silly that I get hundreds of hits on that page, but not a single sale. Oh, well, it was just a lark anyway, like the Amazon shopping link that never earned a dime either. 😛
current_music: Days of the New – Dirty road
current_mood: tired

Made another Black Forest Cake, this time using the correct type of chocolate for the mousse.

Unsurprisingly, it was quite popular. I discovered something, though. The building I work in is notoriously chilly lately, but today it was quite warm inside. After 3 hours, the top half of the cake (or what was left by then) slipped off, due to the melting of the mousse on the third layer. Oops. Too bad we don’t have a fridge there…

With apologies to Bill Watterson.

So, I’m reading Slashdot and come across this gem of a headline: PayPal Announces Intent to IPO. Um, did something change, or is an IPO now considered a verb? A company can issue or hold an IPO, or it can go public. You cannot IPO, just as you cannot do any of the other things that corporate America turns into verbs. Grrr!

Warning, here be spoilers…

Um, did they decide to just rehash every possible stereotype from the previous four iterations of Star Trek for this show?

And, must we introduce the “prototype” of every individual piece of technology seen in the other shows all during the pilot episode? Look, a “phase pistol” that has two modes: stun and kill. Oooh. Or, that newfangled transporter thingie that nobody trusts.

Hey, look, a cold emotionless Vulcan that turns out to have a heart of gold after all! Oh, my, whoda thunk it?!?

I particularly liked the strip-tease with the sexy Vulcan and the cretinous human in the shower/decon room. Yeah, baby, shake that pointy-eared thang!

Seriously, the show wasn’t bad, but they really need to let go of the baggage. Look at Andromeda or Earth: Final Conflict for examples of Roddenberry-inspired shows that aren’t exactly like the earlier Star Treks.

Although not the most talkative of late, happy birthday, !

Well, while working from home and exploring ways to make the webpages for the office actually reflect the federal law that states we have to have ADA-compliant webpages, I’ve brushed up my stylesheet skills.

Now, using Netscape 6, you can choose between the normal or “high-contrast” stylesheets for my random thoughts pages. Damn, I’m smoove.

My Stores are apparently popular, but nobody is buying anything. I’ve gotten to #25 on the T-Shirt Countdown, though. 🙂

I’ve moved some things around on my site, so if you get a 404, go back to the main page and try again. Nothing particularly popular got moved this time, though.
current_music: Blue’s Clues AGAIN and AGAIN

Feeling like a Flintstones character with that subject line.

OK, apparently anyone that wants to join up with the zoo in March has to make an obligatory post enticing all their friends to do so as well.

Consider yourselves enticed.

? Got a spare room still? 🙂

As in, fuck me in the…

The local post has reduced their alert level from the highest to something just below, which nobody (with a memory reaching back to Vietnam for some) in my office could remember hearing of before. Meanwhile, it took me an hour longer to get through the gate this morning than Friday, and they’ve closed 40 or more parking spots, forcing everyone to walk about 1 mile to get from their autos to work.

This is reduced security? Either these guys screwed up last week, or they’re just being dicks this week.
current_mood: annoyed