i had a slightly better day today, so i should be somewhat tolerable. i get paid tomorrow. money always makes me feel better. aren't i a shallow fuck?

adam updated kempa.com.

indieshite has pretty much moved away from slagging everyone and settled on pitchfork and buddyhead. those brits are damn funny. just look at that pic they have of westy…

short interview with ray park. he's playing toad in the x-men movie (yes i already have plans to be there friday…) and for those completely out of the loop, he provided the best moments of phantom menace as darth maul.

wow. this sounds about as cool as it can fucking get. time to dust off those script ideas…

i had my first ever direct interaction with an internet pyramid scheme. i guess i have to pause to say that i'm a little too busy to sign a contract to sell shampoo for amway.

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I am a really really sad individual. sad in a "what a pathetic loser" sort of way, rather than a "woe is me" kind of way.

I have just spent an inordinate amount of time on raging.com–a new search engine by the AltaVista crew, which really isn't any different or better than all the other search engines out there except that it doesn't have a bunch of extraneous "My" kinda crap and ad banners all over the place on it–and if you've never done this, i really don't recommend it. the ultimate pursuit of vanity.

i plugged my own name into the search engine. to my partial surprise, it found over 1,000 pages that "matched" my query. i immediately tried to get more specific by using "+" signs, trying, somewhat unsuccessfully to get it to do a boolean-and type search. my lack of success, I suppose, bespeaks my ignorance and the fact that I've only briefly read those search "help pages." who the fuck knows how those damn search engines work… i plug in rabbits and I get hot steamy asian anal rampage.

anyway, there actually were a few pages with my name on them, but strangely enough, none of them had anything to do with any aspect of my life over the past three or four years. and, of course, none of my own pages come up… weird. 'course I suppose it would help if I submitted the damn things to the search engines.

i did find a few genealogy pages, with listings of people who might have been my ancestors, and obituary pages, which was a little off-putting and I didn't really delve into out of some paranoid fear of actually seeing my own name.

thats it. i'm out.

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every day that goes by seems to make me more unhappy. i really think i need to just drop off the face of the earth for a year or to and then mysteriously show up again, out of the blue. that's probably a really bad idea, because i would end up finding out that no one noticed i was gone. or worse yet, they were glad i left.

saturn.org is an example of how to write a good weblog. my log is a shining example of how to write a bad one.

i didn't get around to mentioning the redesign over at kempa.com…what should i say? i guess i preferred the old design.

i updated transmission3000 earlier. after it spent the majority of the day completely inoperable to people using internet explorer. oops. i posted some exclusive tracks from a louisville band called drifts get deeper. you should check 'em out, if not just for the awesome cover of the belinda carlisle classic "mad about you."

goodnight. i'll try to be happier next time.

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just a quick update concerning my recent happy news.

Jim from Corvus Digital called me yesterday, finally, and at a time when I was awake and home to receive his call. after brief chit-chat, he informed me that he was calling to "offer me a job." glory be and hallelujiah, after weeks of nailbiting and despair at my inability to succeed in the world, I have been redeemed! I am finally a "professional" web developer (well, will be in two weeks anyway), I have landed my first salaried position, and my first official position making more than $9.00/hr. maybe now I'll be able to start paying my bills on time.

in other news, i've pretty much decided to go in a completely different direction with my coffeemonk.com redesign idea. the two people who've responded with useful and detailed constructive criticism don't quite agree on the things I've attempted thus far, and I've come to realize that the old adage clearly is true–"you can't please all of the people all of the time"–and really, you can't please some of the people most of the time. (–this last is not an attack on my friends, whose time, help, and honesty I truly do appreciate–)

also, I've taken some time surfing around in that randomly connected chain that is the web, and have been inspired by some of the really great graphics design people out there, whom I could never hope to equal. my jumping off point for this little sight-seeing trip was saturn.org which is a great example of the type of web design I enjoy, and wish I could create.

I'll be doing more surfing for inspiration, and perhaps will have some new inspiration in the next few weeks (I already have half an idea tickling at the back of my head, but haven't quite got the whole picture yet).

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ok, after my little mental drainage the other day, I'm feeling at least a tiny bit better. perhaps it has something to do with the fact that brian and paul have threatened to beat me until either all my depression is swallowed by the intense pain of breathing, or I'm simply overtaken by the euphoric feelings of near-death.

I don't enjoy my job. I perform my job, but I gain absolutely no satisfaction whatsoever from it. Is this the way life is supposed to be? my parents always told me that when I was older I'd be able to find a job that suited my interests, a job that would help me feel fulfilled. have I done something wrong? am I not trying hard enough? can I not spout enough bullshit to weasel my way into a job I'd love to do, but perhaps don't quite have the required level of experience? what is the deal with the only positions that are open are either a) total shit that no one wants or b) nice, but require exhorbitant amounts of hands-on or book knowledge. how do these hiring managers think people get experience for these jobs in the first place? someone, somewhere has to hire someone just a little less than experienced, or am I just missing out on something?

as a side note, and kind of just so I can work in an interesting/funny link I've found, let me just say this.

I like Kegels.

I really like Kegels.

The KegelMaster is possibly the greatest invention of the modern age.

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my every other day syndrome is getting bad. i sit around bored as hell, and never quite realize that there's a number of things i could be doing in my spare time…

sebastian finally updated signal drench. he's actually updated it twice within the past couple of days. probably due to the intense prodding he's been getting from indieshite. but i have to side with the american boys on the street fight issue…

kerroo hasn't mentioned us in a while, so i'll mention the fact that she (as always) has updated as well.

my car got egged the other night. i have a strong feeling that the culprit is the very same miscreant that kicked that dent in the side of my car. which very much was a footprint i found in my very own home. i won't name names, but i would have to say that i'm about 110% positive that it was my now ex-roommate. i almost let the dent thing slide, but the fact that he possibly hunted down my new residence just to be a little cocksucker really pisses me off. it reeks of immaturity, and i would have to go on the record to say that he's a tit-sucking little mama's boy.

thank you. you may now continue your meal.

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work sucks
life sucks
love sucks
humidity sucks
rising price of gas sucks
being totally broke sucks
starving sucks
waking up sucks
having to sleep sucks
being bored sucks
writer's block sucks
my web design skills suck
math sucks
having to excrete sucks
losing all hope sucks
pretending you're happy sucks
webloggers who don't update their weblogs often enough suck
i suck

(there's a nice happy one for ya.)

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where to begin? it was a long weekend, and it was actually pretty eventful.

the irish rover incident:
the rover is one of our favorite once-a-month kinda joints. it's a really nice, semi-authentic irish pub. i say "semi" due to the fact that since we're in louisville, ky, in the good ol' usofa, you probably aren't getting the whole irish deal.

anyhowways…we went in on saturday night to have a meal and we were greeted with what could only be described as the worst dining experience of our collective (all be it, young) lives. the waitress (or server, you pick the title) was a complete and total bitch. we could have murdered her right there, in front of close to 50 witnesses and been found innocent by a jury. we would have had to simply use the "bitch defense."

"ladies and gentlemen of the jury, i think we've proven beyond the shadow of a doubt that my clients did indeed kill miss wilson. but let's face the facts. she deserved it. she was a bitch."

she at one point referred to me as "coke guy," and when she took my glass to refill it, she made several stops back to the table before i actually had to ask if i could have my coke back. the worst of all was when i paid my bill in exact change (it was $15 even and i usually wait until i'm leaving to tip) she came back to the table and bitched me out for not tipping her. i was completely fucking dumbfounded. you can only guess how we unleashed on her. paul was drunk and he even ended up ranting on the girls boss before we left.

needless to say, this incident held sway over almost all of our conversations for the rest of the weekend.

onto the business at hand…

indieshite gave us our beatdown. we were labeled "bland but harmless." as adam at kempa.com stated and radiohead clearly proves: "the british are better than us."

next update: the foo fighters incident and more links to retarded shit.

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slowly working my way towards the end of the day. the score around here is brian: 2, kinko's: 0. not looking good for the corporate team, eh?

haven't been doing much web browsing lately. adam at kempa.com updated and linked to a few good weezer sites, so maybe you should head over there and check it out.

us|against|them has a few interesting tidbits, as well. including a news item about mtv releasing a soundtrack to this years real world…complete with the get up kids and promise ring? as well as a link to an enjoyable newer site: indieshite. they're assholes after my own heart. i'm interested in seeing what negative things they have to say about good ol' bipolar…

so yeah…i stole most of my links and relied on the other weblogs to get me through this post. what're you gonna do about it?

the "i'm a fuckin' geek" dept.: fandom's newsarama. the only site you need to check for daily comic geek news.

i'm slowly trying to move all of my shit out of my old apartment and into my new temporary lodgings. things are proceeding slow, and there's no one to blame for that except myself. maybe if i didn't have to work all the time, i'd have more time to do the shit that i need to do. but then again…paychecks are nice.

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