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It IS quiet in here. So, here's the things I've found interesting lately:

a) In Monday's mustang daily, the subheading for an article on the main page (the smaller title under the title) proclaimed in bold text: "subheading goes here, left justified and not a complete sentence" (paraphrased, don't have it in front of me). It took me about thirty seconds to realize it wasn't some bizarrely worded comment on the article to which it was attached. ^_^

b) The same issue included a wire article about a group of college students on another campus who haved started a club called "tengo pantalones." It's all about people who like to wear pants. They have 40+ members, at last count. I'd link the article, but mustang daily's site is down; here's one from another source.

c) The meter maid cars they use on campus are painted, for the most part, just like the regular patrol cars for the campus. This results in the following tremendously amusing juxtoposition: "Parking Enforcement" directly above, in the same font, "Protecting Your Future". I guess maybe if I couldn't find parking 'cause people without permits took all the spots, and so I missed class, and so I flunked out, and so I couldn't get a job, and so I died cold and hungry, then yes, indeed, they would have protected my future.

d) Monkey.

e) Any suggestions on a good phone (both the device and the plan) for me? I want voice mail (finally!) and nationwide coverage. And is internet access via phone any good?

f) As God is my witness, I thought alabaster was white. The BOX for the venetian blinds was white, that's for sure. I had to replace my blinds 'cause they broke, but I've replaced them with the yellowish white they call "alabaster." Bastards with their $10 color words; I hope my landlord doesn't notice.

First, thanks to Martin for further supporting my theory that men know 12 colors. 8 are the ones from the basic crayola box, and the other 4 are wild cards, such as salmon. Speaking of which, I would know so many more colors if they were named after food.

My interesting things:

a) I was playing Ken Griffey Jr. baseball on my SNES against Kim's eight-year-old cousin (I was winning so bad that he quit in the second inning. We'll see if he talks crap again in the future... especially after I destroyed him at Old Maid and Go Fish). When that game came out, for whatever reason they didn't negotiate a deal with the MLBPA to use the names of real players, so they're just made up. I remember there being some themes before, but I noticed that one team is entirely made up of names of 1970s and '80s pop musicians, half of whom I'd list among my favorites. I wonder how many other name groupings that game had. Also, I found out that my music business teacher did the music for the game. To create the sounds for the digital drum kit, they recorded Griffey at batting practice and manipulated the sound of the ball hitting the bat and the glove into the different drums. Kinda cool!

b) I finally joined the 21st century and upgraded my computer. I'm running a AMD 2600 and Win2k now. Yay for speed!

c) The site for Good Food To You launched this weekend. This site is for a new restaurant that Cowboy Mouth's former tour manager started. By all accounts, it IS good food, so if you're ever in/around NOLA, check it out.

d) Monkey, indeed.

e) On the Cowboy Mouth message board, people are discussing who should play the band and related folks if someone were to make a movie about Cowboy Mouth. I cast Donald Sutherland as me, and if one person from the board meets me at a show and says "You're not as old as I thought," my day will be made.

I'm back to looking for new web clients, so if anyone knows anything, let me know!

I love any tutorial that contains "Don't panic. We're all going to get out alive."

Well this is my first week of working for a living. The week that sucks the most because you have no free time and you cant even say, "atleast I'm getting paid." Since I am working at Lockheed Martin and everything I am supposed to do requires a security clearance I can't do anything. I can't even go into the building where I am eventually going to work. Now I just have piles of requirement specifications that I am allowed to read that are incredibly long and repetitive monkey without saying anything. Well atleast one day I am going to get paid...hopefully...please.

THAT explains the strange men in black following my every move. Damn Lockheed-Martin... ^_^

Bryce, what tutorial has "We're all going to get out alive?"

I had to tell them the truth, and apparently they don't hire people that go to Denny's and eat two french fries, an onion, and sugar.

It was a thing on how to install Palm Desktop without it blowing up my HotSync software. Apparently the installer overwrites everything without asking, then you have to reinstall your HotSync stuff. Well, then I realized I never installed it after I formatted, so I got out alive much easier than even the author expected. Long story short, I can read PDFs on my PDA. That'd PDC (pretty damn cool). ;-)