16-Aug-02

I'm going to try to take a few days off from posting, everytime I play with the templates for this blog I need a break -- it takes me longer than most to play around with codes, even when techies leave great instructions on how to do whatever.  Oh well, I'm better than I used to be B4 I discovered the Blogosphere.  Enjoy the links, etc. and I'll enjoy yours. Update: Okay, I lied, but I will cut down on my time spent here.  I now have the domain name I wanted, but I want to be "Tenorman" in the real world as well.  I plan on it, even from the bottom, as soon as my eye problem is sorted out -- better be within a couple of months.  Actually the eye problem and other health problems -- in addition to my brain having a difficult time understanding French dialects -- are forcing me to focus on my past dream of singing.  I have to beat my negative-imaging problem too.  I'm honest here, and I worry about this sometimes, but other weblogs are even more personal and the worst I've heard is that some have been fired from their jobs.  As far as I know, no one has been killed for being honest on their blogs, they may lose visitors, but who's in competition here?  Some are, but most of us do this for ourselves, whether therapeutic and/or for fun, employment, etc.  I've spoken to a handful of people since I moved here a few years back, I'm beginning to speak online first, to get a feel for it again, then I'll be more ready for the so-called real world, almost ready for both languages too -- even if I can't understand French dialects for the life of me. I long for software that will permit me to record foreign slang and then play it back into my own language.  Probably a hundred years away. comment [] 5:31:49 PM | permalink

Slashdotted. There is a very interesting discussion ongoing on Slashdot about our interview with RIAA pres Cary Sherman. Don't forget, we... [Blogcritics] comment [] 4:03:57 PM | permalink

I'd like to thank Andrew Bayer for helping me with that new "currently subscribed to..." code, I should get it to work on this page very soon. comment [] 3:34:35 PM | permalink

Possibly Excellent New Thing: I decided to run BlogSnob. BlogSnob is a little rotating text ad on your page that advertises other blogs in the system. The purpose is to publicize blogs that otherwise wouldn't get much exposure. I recommend you check some of them out. The first one I clicked on was Cult of Lincoln. How appropriate. [She's Actual Size, Nationwide, Believe] Thanks for mentioning this, I've visited blogs via BlogSnob before but have yet to implement this service on my new blog.  (I was waiting until I was a better writer, but that may never happen so...   :o)  (I don't even know if BlogSnob will work on my page, we'll see after this message) comment [] 1:57:53 PM | permalink

Long live the King. Elvis Presley died 25 years ago this week, and his hardcore fans are getting "too old to shag." But the bizarre and marvelous world of Elvismania will never die. [Salon Headlines] What the hell -- I hesitated to link this article because the media should be called "Elvis" right now.  Today's Fresh Air will have some Elvis content as well.  comment [] 6:24:36 AM | permalink

Thomas Carlyle. "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." [Quotes of the Day] comment [] 6:15:16 AM | permalink

Seeing Beauty in Rocks. The Chinese look at unusual, highly textured hunks of stone the way Westerners gaze at billowing white clouds in a summer sky: as sources of inspiration and fantasy. By Wendy Moonan. [New York Times: Arts] comment [] 6:14:28 AM | permalink

Happy Birthday, lovely, crusty crab!. Happy Birthday, lovely, crusty crab! According to this food timeline, cheesecake appeared in the 1st Century, sushi in the 2nd... [Naughty Bytes] comment [] 6:03:47 AM | permalink

Listen to Professor Eric Klinenberg His new book is Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago. It*s about a 1995 heat wave in that city which proved to be an insidious natural disaster. Streets buckled, electric power blew, and over 700 people died. Klinenberg is an associate professor of Sociology at New York University. I was too busy slaving in 1995 to even follow the media so I missed the coverage of this tragedy.  But the media didn't really cover this disaster like others anyway, since a heat wave doesn't have any great graphics to shock teevee viewers like a flood, war, etc.  This interview was one of the best that I've heard in awhile.  Air-conditioners should be free, at least for the elderly.  Governments guarantee heat in the wintertime, why not guarantee fresh air (hehe) during the summertime? comment [] 5:47:31 AM | permalink

Yeah, I quit smoking three months ago but if I hadn't I'd be buying cigarettes from The Mohawk Nation Lileks needs a vacation -- after today, scroll/find "Friday" on this page -- Has Capitalism Failed?   Using a still secret technology developed by Canadian scientists, we have managed to retrieve from the future the following fact sheet for a high school history class in the school year 2025-26. Montrealers offer their solutions to the hazy days of summer Takes some time to load at times but ArtsCanada is pretty neat. comment [] 3:35:32 AM | permalink

Now that we both have cellular phones, my wife has agreed to cutting the home telephone line, Woooooooooowwwww!  We're not much for the phone but at least now when we answer our phones, the calls more than likely will actually be from people we actually know, rather than spammers -- and if I receive any spam, I'll be speaking with Parliament.  My paging service has also been cancelled, why?  Because Bell Mobility.ca put a hold on sending me the bill back in June -- second year in a row they did this, even though we called three times and changed our mailing address -- and then they put me in their collection agency and began paging me with their damn 800 number, forcing me to call them back.  My wife remains with Bell.ca for now, but she too will leave them when she gets fed up with their crap -- not just billing problems either, terrible signals, lost paging messages, etc. Audible.com sent me a new Otis player, great, it works.  However, the return shipping form I was to use to return the old Otis is only valid within the U.S.A.  I'm not yet done with customer service, the saga continues... comment [] 2:02:02 AM | permalink

Why Canada should declare war. National Post Online Aug 15 2002 2:09PM ET [Moreover - Canada news] comment [] 1:50:29 AM | permalink