By anders pearson 14 Dec 2001
lani and i were supposed to have headed off to the airport to leave for berlin by now. unfortunately, it’s snowing in milan (where we transfer) so the flight’s been delayed about 5 hours. grrr.
<p>so we’re going to hang out and watch anime and a documentary on communist musicals in the meantime (“ooh! singing, dancing soviets!” – lani)…</p> By anders pearson 13 Dec 2001
“CCNMTL 2002 product development team”
<p>these are some of my coworkers. crack is occasionally smoked in our office. (be sure to click the images to move through the slideshow)</p> By anders pearson 12 Dec 2001
here’s an idea for someone with more free time than me who wants something to do: the “death blog”. start a weblog that highlights the deaths of famous people. maybe branch out into bizarre deaths and other death related stuff on “slow news days”. the research part could probably be automated pretty easily with a perl script or two to scour the RSS feeds of various news sites looking for death/obituary related keywords.
<p>i remember kamden once mentioning that a friend of his had started a collage of all the people who died while he was in college and quickly became overwhelmed by how frequently famous and semi-famous people kick it. </p>
<p>i wouldn’t be surprised if someone has already done this although google didn’t turn up anything for me.</p> By lani 10 Dec 2001
everybody else probably had it off anyway, but i didn’t so dance of joy for me. and i didn’t even have to start the letter writing campaign.
<p><a href="http://www.opm.gov/oca/compmemo/2001/2001-13.htm">more info</a></p> By jere 10 Dec 2001
I haven’t been here in a while because a) I couldn’t find a text box to post a comment and b) the setup at the moment has text overlying text and I couldn’t discern one article from another.
<p>Anyway, before anything gets screwed-up-er, I want to extend the invitation for the annual New Year bash…. in Norfolk, MA again this year. I hope to see you!!! : ) (Are smiley faces OK in computer-ese, anders? — I am ashamed to admit that I’m one of those TAs you hate, putting smiley faces on student papers — my excuse was that it was attempt to “lower the affective filter” — always important in foreign language classes! : ) )</p> By emile 09 Dec 2001
i just took the hottest shower of my life, to the point of painful. and low and behold, i was given a question to answer. are people more inclined to do harm to those who have harmed them than to reciprocate kindness? do we lean more towards vengance than the propagation of happiness?
<p>what if it’s true? what does that say about people?</p>
<p>i detest vengance. what does that say about me? perhaps it’s a metric of some sort. not like i’m within a fucking mile of mr perfect, but maybe figuring out the split on those two goals is a basic indicator of what i like to pretend are “good people”. </p>
<p>is there any difference between doing good or evil and doing right or wrong?</p> By emile 09 Dec 2001
i accidentally double posted and i cant delete it. so this is something else
By anders pearson 09 Dec 2001
made abbot on perlmonks today. only another 2000 XPs till i reach “saint”. perlmonks is definately my favorite computer game.
By anders pearson 09 Dec 2001
went out on friday night with gerard and melissa to some nameless bar on the lower east side. dark with pretty good music (lots of smiths, cure, new order, depeche mode, etc.) spent a few hours talking and people watching. boy with horns. girl with huge tattoo on back.
<p>in the subway station going home we saw a guy playing guitar on the other platform. we’ve seen him before. always on the other side. really good. young japanese guy with crazy hair sitting against the wall playing guitar and doing rythm with his feet (on one shoe he’s got some kind of jingle-tap thing). last time we saw him, he had a friend with him playing one of those cheap little air-powered keyboard things (i have no idea what they’re called). if i ever end up on the same platform as him, i’m going to give him $5. </p>
<p>didn’t have enough motivation to get out of my apartment yesterday. just slept in having weird dreams (sprinting through harlem, Lovecraftesque fish people, scaling the outside of a skyscraper trying to catch aliens, etc) and pondering the best way to implement a robust, multi-layer error-handling scheme for <span class="caps">CGI</span> applications in perl. even wrote most of the code.</p>
<p>funny how motivation works. putting shoes on to go across the street and do my laundry is too much work but spending hours coding tricky stuff isn’t…</p> By lani 09 Dec 2001
Go Richmond. right, well I’m here anyway. Here to see a friend’s dance senior dance project which involved suspended cocoons. very cool. I was trying to super8 it but i think i messed it up. so i was looking online and found jesus taking a dump at flicker.com which i would have thought to be a film site…
<p>But jesus doesn’t end there. Turns out the cashier in the art store surfs for humorous jesus sites in his spare time. he told me this after he saw my jesus wallet (which i purchased at “Frank’s House of Deals” in Lewiston, Maine). so for a serious (seriously funny? seriously scary? seriously hope none of y’all are christian.) christian site there is <a href="http://www.jesuspals.com">jesuspals.com</a>…not related to south park though perhaps the inspiration.</p>
<p>i also met a serious jesus freak last night. but i tried to be nice.</p>