Planning My Escape

January 24, 2008 - 8pm

I just booked my flight for the end of next month. I’m going to San Diego, and I’ll be staying at the fashionable Chez Pedro Hotel*. Mikey is flying out as well, which will aid greatly in spreading mayhem and doom.

I flew out to Seattle at the very last minute over my birthday last year (the interval between deciding to go and touching down was about 10 hours), so I figured, why not make this an annual event? I’m hoping that next year we’ll all be able to meet somewhere, rather than just crashing at each other’s apartments for a few days. Europe would be fun, assuming the US$ is more valuable than toilet paper by then.

We really don’t know what we’re doing yet, but we have a few ideas:

  • Dune buggy rentals! (Oh fuck yes.)
  • Skydiving (Maybe. Pedro isn’t sure if he can bring himself to jump. I’m not sure I can either.)
  • The Air and Space Museum (Hey, we need something to do on the days we’re too hungover for anything else.)
  • Drinking (Duh.)
  • The Comedy Store (Maybe, I can’t find any info on who’s performing)
  • Tijuana
  • General drunken debauchery

I’m excited. This is going to be fun.

*I’ll be sleeping on the floor at Pedro’s place. Probably in the garage.

New Theme

January 9, 2008 - 9pm

As you can see, I’ve put up a new theme on my blog. I think it’s better than the previous design, which had been described as “a little eyebleedy.”

It’s a bit bland at the moment, but I’m planning to play around with the colors to liven things up.

Update: Holy crap, ask and ye shall receive. I asked Laeren (see brand-spankin’-new blogroll) for some color advice on the new layout, and she went nuts tearing my CSS a new div hole. Thank so much, it looks great.

It’s very close to what I was hoping to do on my own… once I got past the fact that I have so little color sense I can barely match clothes.

If you’re curious about how the unmodified version looks, you can see the original here by clicking on the dropdown and selecting “GimpStyle.”

Updated update: If you’re still seeing the blue and white theme, do a hard refresh by pressing Ctrl+F5. This will work in Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Netscape. I don’t know about Opera and Safari. Anyone using those mutant browsers is on their own.

Babies From Dirt

January 2, 2008 - 9pm

The intarwebz are an amazing source of information. They’re also an amazing breeding ground for jabbering madmen. Mike sent me a link to this today. It’s a cached version of 2007rapture.com, which has been taken down for what should be obvious reasons.

It reminded me of the timecube.com guy, who has some truly excellent crazy going on. Here’s a sample:

BURN THE DAMN EVIL ONE BIBLE
BEFORE IT DESTROYS HUMANITY -
COMPOSED OF BINARY ANTIPODES.
GOD BELIEVERS MUST CEASE ALL
SEX WITH OPPOSITES AND CREATE
BABIES FROM DIRT – LIKE GOD DID.

The tone of the two are so similar (same caps lock, centered text, lack of paragraph breaks, and loud incoherence) that I wondered if they were in fact perpetrated by the same guy. I did a little looking, and they seem to be related only by their tenuous grip on reality.

Out of curiosity, I looked to see if 2008rapture.com existed–and it does. Here’s the kicker: it’s run by an entirely different set of crazy people and is even hocking a book.

Turns out these rapture jockey webmasters are all over the place, and none of them have bothered with a site redesign since 1997.

These almost makes me wish I was a Christian. When Jesus returned, I’d be able to fucking fly.

Another good one: FixedEarth.com. Did you know that the Earth is stationary? I didn’t. Thank god this man and his Bible were able to set me straight.

(I’m really not trying to pick on Christians here. It just so happens there are a lot of complete whack jobs out there that have a Christian bent to their delusions.)

And finally, a combination governmental conspiracy site and tree stump grinding guide, ScrewedKenoshaStyle.com. This guy gets bonus points for actually being in jail right now.

If anyone knows of any equally insane sites, I’d love to hear about them in the comments.

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