I STINKIN WIN YOU STUPID PIECE OF CRAP!!!!!

that is me. to my dear friend Internet Explorer. with reference to its intolerance for perfectly legal javascript syntax.

i think the current count for "time wasted trying to figure out or look up work arounds for stupid IE behaviors" is something like 27 days 4 hours and 46 minutes.

~PS

see, anyone can watch tv, but for this, it takes a geek:

last night, ginger, sheri and i were watching Angelic Layer (anime) on our tv...as it was playing on a laptop (running windows)...from the cd drive in my desktop pc (running linux).

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Project Pink Pirate was a complete success.

For those of you who don't know (due to internet silence on the subject), a few of us had some fun with ginger's apartment while she was out of town last week.

See, our friend ginger is [sarcasm]so fond of the color pink[/sarcasm]... ...and monday, the day she returned was 'national talk like a pirate' day - we decided to take our inspiration from these two facts. Sheri, Tony & I spent a lot of time, effort and a bit of money on what turned out to be the most fun we've had in a while.

First we replaced a bunch of her stuff with very, very pink equivalents. In addition, we placed pirate figures all over her living room (some adorned with pink scarves, etc) and hid plastic pirate gold all over her apartment. She also gained some new...er...'decorations' in the form of a poster and a spiderweb of pink thread criss-crossing her living room. I could describe it more thoroughly, but really, you just have to see it. The link above leads to the Pics page - an entire subsection devoted to this project.

Kevin also called from north carolina and left a message on her machine - it was a sound clip from aerosmith's 'pink'.

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if 'supercalifragilisticexpialidocious' is something to say when you don't know what to say, what do you blog about when you don't know what to blog?

in case the previous bit didn't give it away, we happen to be watching 'mary poppins'. This movie amuses me for reasons i don't entirely understand. Maybe i have pleasant associations from my childhood...or maybe i like the layering of the fantastical with the ordinary...or maybe i'm just thinking more about it than anyone should think about a movie that won an award for 'best song' being something called 'chim chiminy'.

so anyway, today was a good day. we went to visit anselm earlier today - he misses ginger. we could hear him meowing from the bottom of the stairs outside her apartment. from there we went to dice & played quiddler with llama, eric and cory. llama won, but he didn't come anywhere close to his high score of something like 361 - though at one point he was pretty sure his hand was capable of summoning cthulu.

friday (since we had no game) we went to the coffeehouse to play some games and hang out. sue complimented me on the songs sam & played there last friday and asked if i'd play again when they had the next open mic. i said i would. now i need to see if i can get ahold of sam...

in other news, i've made it to the 5th world in (dude) yoshi's island and i've got an interesting colosseum session planned for the next one-shot i run...

i've also made quite a few changes to this site over the last couple of weeks - smoothing out the appearance and interface and just generally having fun with it.

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so i was talking to punkie this afternoon, and she gave me the link to her blog (see right). Thinking i would register on xanga pretty much for the halibut, i decided to sign up - only to find that my name was taken.

incredulous, i tried to remember if i had registered there a long time ago and forgotten (that has happened before), so i tried to login: invalid user/pass.

still incredulous, i decided to look up PenguinSushi - and indeed, i found this person to exist (here, her name is Winter, which is decidedly cool - pun definitely not intended). I know i didn't invent this name, but i guess i didn't figure anyone else was odd enough to latch on to it.

let me point out that i have registered this name all over and have never before encountered a situation in which it was already taken. Apparently i now have competition. heh.

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i find that much of the time, i just don't have anything important to say - not that if i DID have something important to say this would be an ideal place for it...

for the last few weeks or so, i've had the intense urge to write a new song, but everytime i sit down to work on one, i can't come up with anything. This is a relatively rare instance of motivation outweighing inspiration - usually the opposite is more true.

i've also been kinda sick for the last few days. I'm taking a medicine that says i should 'avoid excessive or prolonged exposure to direct sunlight or artificial (?) sunlight'. I'm worried that it's trying to make me into a vampire or something. I wonder if that's a side effect of the medication too...

since i've been sick i've finally finished reading 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' - a very ironic book read very ironically since i only seem to find the time to read completely enjoyable books when in situations in which i cannot completely enjoy them. Douglas Adams would be proud.

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