Author: jae

R.I.P. Rick James

this is a test of the new Vat site engine. whaddya think?

had a wonderful day in downtown Dayton today. went to the beautiful Carillon Park, one of my favorite parks ever. looks like i may be going back to college this winter, too, if i can get enough financial aid.

i’m keeping up with politics and the news, and you should, too.

i’ve even decided not to vote for Ralph this fall. the final straw was when he started whoring himself out to the enemy.

so, erm… who gave me 6 months?

THANKS. that was really, really nice; and quite uncalled-for. please let me praise and appreciate you by name!

The Vat, alpha version

there is SOOOO much i still need to do. go ahead and tell me what sucks. i already know most of it, but i’m sure there are plenty of other things i haven’t noticed yet.

edit: ah, shit. there’s more wrong than right. grr.

please do not fuck with the blog or i will smack you. i mean it.

outside the front door to this apartment building, there hangs, just to the left of the doorway and upon the door frame itself, a thick, hanging strand of a snotlike substance, about a foot or more long, at the end of which there is an ornamental display of the most bizarre kind.

it was two snails, about a good five inches long, forming a perfect, tight spiral with each other and around the thickest part of the snot-rope… and hanging underneath them was a huge gob of translucent gelatinous semisolid mucous.

it was beautifully nauseating.

new version of the Vat site is now 90% furry.

so many birthdays, out-of-town visitors, family members in the hospital and/or getting attacked by cancer cells, cars to fix, household things to work on, watched and unwatched DVDs, a day job i can no longer call out on… lately, i haven’t had nearly the time i’ve wanted to have to work on this thang. but thankfully, somehow, i’ve gotten the vast, vast majority of bugs ironed out, routines smoothed over and made practically failsafe, and about 85% of the actual design work itself done.

they seem to be pretty thrilled with the new version so far… especially the topside and the virtually hassle-free aspects of the under-the-hood stuff.

they want a working model ASAP… so it’s full-steam ahead (at least after this weekend it will be).

for now, it’s time to do some dishes….

weird-ass link of the day

come to think of it, that’s possibly the weirdest link i’ve EVER posted. with the possible exception of snarg.net, of course.

“my friend and me, we’re lookin’ through a box of her memories”

whoa, how cool is this? i didn’t know i was so VANGUARD (at the time)!

i always wish that i was still as smart as i used to be, back when i actually WAS smart.

there’s something primordially satisfying about wet footprints.

oh, and i’m on final formal corrective action at work for attendance issues. so let me know if you hear of any better jobs in my area, please. i hate my job with every fibre of my being, i want out, and i want out now.

the other day i actually gave serious, extended thought to the idea of crashing my head into my desk hard enough to put myself in a coma. just because i hate my worklife.

yes, i’m serious. it’s that bad for me. i won’t; but it was a very enjoyable thought there, for a while.

i need to be doing something more challenging, and less stressful. preferably with VERY flexible hours.

been on a roll the past few days with the Vat site redesign… it’s really starting to come together now. auto-linking of content, and random autoblurbs/ads are working fine (files are detected and linked (or included, as actual content) on-the-fly), as is the style system, which loads up a new color scheme when a user is on, say, the XBox section, or PS2 section; it switches to a default when there’s no “section” specified. not only is this “sectioning” system working for color schemes, it also presents different graphics and selects a different set of related links. all without anyone ever having to do a thing on the backend, maintenance-wise.

oh, and it can take a filename like (frinstance) “Baldur-s_Gate.html” and make the link look like “Baldur’s Gate” automatically. this is really easy to do with PHP, but it’s spiffy as a muhfug no less.

screenshot:

Things you have to believe to be a Republican today

when cleaning out ears with a cigarette, make sure to use the unlit end.

development on the new Vat site is going good, if a bit slow, owing to 1) burnout, 2) Tony Hawk, 3) a billion holidays & birthdays this summer so far, with more coming up, 4) lots of other shit i need to worry about… like getting my girlfriend’s car to pass emissions in 2 weeks, and 5) my uncelebrateable day job, which i’ve missed a bit of here and there (though can’t say i’ve actually missed).

nonetheless, i’ve managed to come up with a fairly nifty interface, plus a backend that should prove itself pretty robust & extensible, even before i develop a database engine to drive it.

right now i’m working on a subroutine to look for .blurb files and display little blocks of HTML code for the sidebars. there’ll be several of them running all at once. just some random crap to make the site look more dynamic.

soon i’ll get a similar function going to look for articles & generate links for them in their respected areas on the site.

i’m going for an “upload & forget about it” approach. it’ll make things sooooo easy on everyone. no need to ever reopen a file & edit lines of code.

after i get all this stuff installed and working together (i’ve already integrated a blogging/newsing system, b2evolution), i’ll be making a few more stylesheets for different sections on the site. right now, the green skin will be used for the X-Box section, and we’ve already been planning the color schemes for the rest of the site, most of which, thankfully, will be the same scheme, at least for now.

i’m thinking the whole thing should be done within the month, with a 50% chance of it being well before that. knock on silicon.

in other news, they’ve gotten some serious interest promo-wise from a couple of EXTREMELY prominent companies. yeah, you’d know of them, even had you been living under a rock. keep your little bloodshot eyes peeled, motherfuckers. it’s all coming together.

which reminds me… subscriptions are DIRT cheap right now. you should get one. you should get one. you should get one. oh yeah: you should get one. this magazine’s a hella lot tighter  than you’d think it w/could be.

i was browsing through Mozillazine‘s forums today, and i came upon a local website. you might want to take a look, especially if you are one who fancies theyself to be either smart, altruistic, or both. hell, do yourself (and the rest of us) a favor anyway, and just look around. don’t pass “Go” without collecting this (and this).

here’s the latest poem submitted on the old, old, OLD version of my site (exactly as it was submitted… five times):

the killer
your corps witch was onec whole.
now liys in peises on the floor.
the screming has stopped.
the pain has gone.
you suffer no more.
it was me who did this to you.

your reched sole is no more.
one blood socked shirt.
hands dripping of blood.
“Its yours” i yell.
my head spining.
my heart betting fast.

I laugh with no feelings.
as the bloody knife falls from my hand.
I do not cry….
but an evil smiel is what you see on my face.
happy that you have gone.
not careing that i took your life.

but happy…with one insane laugh.
what has become of you now?
if you ask why i did it ill tell you.
with one insane smile on my face!!
why i torchered you.
you gave me hell.

i could not have it.
you hurt my sole.
i will not take it.
you made fun of me.
could not handel it.
you had made my life a liveing hell.

it stayed in my head.
but not once did i cry.
but my mined is laughing at me.
my feelings just bild .
till i can not take it any more.
i blow my mined ive snaped.

ive done what ive dremed for foreteen years.
no more do i feel dead …but alive.
“ive done it ive done it” i scrame.
im free of your hell.
at last im free of this.
and now you are dead.

             hpoe u like it love stephanie
       A.K.A.gothgodies (she put this same spelling down again in another field)

(she also put down her email addie as www.angl3ofhell@[ – removed – ].com… what exactly is the angle of Hell? 66.6°?)

and here is my reply to this poor individual:

Dear Stephanie,

Is English your second language? and how old are you exactly? Just curious… you seem to have misspelled a whopping 85% of the words that you used in this, uh, piece, including some that are very common words.

While i appreciate your hard work, and although it is my every intention to publish, to the web, as much good (or, failing that, literate… or, failing even that, legible) poetry as has been submitted to me, i cannot, in good conscience, publish this. The best advice i can offer you is the stay in school… and if you are out of school, then please return immediately.

Regretfully yours,
transmothra

no, no, it’s not my intention to be mean to, or gloat over, alienated, disaffected youths, especially tragically delicate ones under 16… but it is my intention to make fun of stupid people. it’s just part of natural selection.

does anyone know where i can find a picture of the famous ancient Egyptian astronaut, the one with the instrument panel and all that? just curious. i was trying to explain to my girlfriend about how we’re all from the Dog Star (siriusly); that we are starstuff, golden, and have got to get ourselves back to The Garden (to quote Joni).

Marlon Brando, dead at 80.

will post more info later tonight.

i once knew a guy who was so kinky that for kicks he used to strip down and roll around in fiberglass insulation. no shit! (i guess he just wanted to feel thousands of little pricks all over his body.)

isn’t that something?