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Saturday, September 09, 2000
I got my new slippers and mop downtown a few hours ago; with the amount of time that passes between my visits to Zellers and Canadian Tire, I figure I'll have enough Club Z points/Canadian Tire money (their bonus reward point promotions) to actually do something with by the time I'm an old man. I also went to price the Diablo II game at a computer store. 75 dollars Canadian plus tax. Ouch! NO WAY I'd spent that much money on it! Posted by Jeff Boman on Saturday, September 09, 2000 | link me Seymour!
I just spent a few minutes sprucing up this Blog.
Help me understand this: it's Saturday, right? So what'll I do with it? Go shopping to buy a new mop and slippers.
Go figure.
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Friday, September 08, 2000
While coming home from Constance Lethbridge today, the windy air made me think of a friend I haven't seen in at least 5 years now...
Pat "Fluffy" Lapointe. A few years ago, a group of us slept over at another friend's place. His constant mantra was "I am the wind. I am windlike." Granted, you had to be there for it to seem funny, but we definitely thought it was.
One disastrous apartment move some 9 years ago (I haven't forgiven myself for it. I'll be surprised if any of that group has!) he used his credit card to help me reserve a moving truck. I intended to pay him back for the truck later, but he told me it was a gift. You don't get many friends like that in your life...
Yet, I have no idea where he is today. Sad. Very sad.
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It occured to me today when I looked in my agenda: Con*Cept 2000 is starting October 13th.
A little over a month away... and no meeting has been announced, we're nowhere near prepared... I can't help but see this year's convention as being a disaster-in-the-making.
Posted by Jeff Boman
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Groan
I barely got any sleep last night. A little better than the night before, but not much...
Now I have to get cleaned up to be at Constance Lethbridge (my readaptation center) for 10:30am to get measured for new furniture in my computer room... followed by a subcomittee meeting for a group I volunteer on called Leth-Go at 11, lunch, then our weekly meeting at 1pm.
Sleep? Rest? Whazzat?
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Thursday, September 07, 2000
That was annoying... what's posted just below this I posted at lunchtime from work - but the FTP setup wouldn't work. Very weird...
Today was a day of "'About time"s for a few things:
First, my morning transport to work was a driver who I'd vehemently complained about last trip with him. I don't know if he knew it was me, but he was extra careful with handling this time: he had new seatbelts in the back of his car (the old ones had been broken for months; that's against the rules), and he got off his butt to let me out of the car this time (he didn't do that the last time, not even asking if I needed help. Again, against the rules.). Finally, he let me off on the proper side of the street this time - not leaving me to chance oncoming traffic (that was a HUGE rule infraction!).
Secondly, Virtual Avenue finally gave me the proper information to access a domain name account there. I've only been trying to get this straightened out with them for a month...
Posted by Jeff Boman
on Thursday, September 07, 2000 | link me Seymour!
Back to the office today... amazing that I was able to get out of bed, considering that my caffeinated soda yesterday kept me up all night!
I just checked the latest news in the Comicopia Delphi forum; looks like we'll be up to 12 members very soon. A new one is joining very soon!
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Wednesday, September 06, 2000
Looks like the MP3 backlash continues...
Posted by Jeff Boman
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Make award sting, record maker tells MP3.com's judge Sigh
It's been a record profit year for the recording industry; this is just ignorant and greedy.
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It's been awhile since I posted some newsbits... US condemns religious intolerance
I'm thoroughly against religious prosecution; ironic, seeing as I'm an agnostic. Still, I've always had problems with intolerance of the faith of others.
It's a large part of what bothers me when I visit my aunt in Vermont. Her husband always rails against the Lubavitch (an Orthodox sect of Judaism). He may just think that in his own twisted way that's funny; myself, I just think that one Jew criticizing another for a difference in the way they practice is unbelievable ignorant and intolerant.
Posted by Jeff Boman
on Wednesday, September 06, 2000 | link me Seymour!
My computer's memory leak problem seems to have been a localized event; after a night shut down, my system RAM seems to be working again.
I just learned that Spider Robinson is intended to be the toastmaster at TorCon 3, the WorldCon to be held in Toronto in 2003. If they're talking about it after the Chicago WorldCon, then it's very likely to be happening - and it'll be the first one I can go to.
I met Spider in person at Con*Cept 95, when he was our Guest of Honor. I saw him again later that year at Primedia 95. I coined the name 'Montreal Spiderheads' for me and my friend Mike from that.
Sadly, we haven't seen him in person since. I'll look forward to seeing him in Toronto.
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on Wednesday, September 06, 2000 | link me Seymour!
Tuesday, September 05, 2000
I've created the Blog for ABomanation now; I just need the FTP information clarified to set it up.
I really have to generate the funds to update this PC now... I'm getting 'lack of memory' warnings when I even try to pull up the accessory to find out how much memory I have left!
Posted by Jeff Boman
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I also continued my study of Flash for work on several sites while I waited.
One thing that I've noticed about Flashed websites though: no matter how small the movie file, they still take too much time to load.
Posted by Jeff Boman
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Wow, that was an incredible promo! John Rhys-Davies is in the film... that alone makes it cool.
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I'm downloading a Quicktime movie as I type; a long promo for the Lord of the Rings movie.
I go way back with the book. I believe I read it when I was 13 or 14. A neighbor gave it to me in one compilation volume for Chanukah then. It had a cover drawn from that awful Ralph Bakshi animated film that was out then... THAT has to date me a bit!
I read the story non-stop for about 11 days. I even took the book with me to a high school swimming event. Foolish, because I didn't separate it enough from the wet stuff to protect it; the book was trashed as a result.
Anyways, for some reason I can't explain, I haven't been able to re-read it since. I only get a few pages in before I lose interest. I guess the magic of that first reading is gone.
Posted by Jeff Boman
on Tuesday, September 05, 2000 | link me Seymour!
Monday, September 04, 2000
I just uploaded my second-to-last "ABomanation" column to the Fight City website.
I don't mean I won't write anything for the site anymore - far from it. What this means is that, in two weeks, I'll transform the column into a Blog.
I'm guessing we don't get a lot of visits at the moment; with my column being the only one that gets updated, once a week columns aren't enough incentive for visitors to return very often... whereas a Blog could be updated more frequently, and maybe bring us more page views.
Posted by Jeff Boman
on Monday, September 04, 2000 | link me Seymour!
I've just made design changes in the archive settings for my Blog. Hopefully, they help make the archives look less, well... bad.
Posted by Jeff Boman
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Cats. Sometimes they make for great companionship; sometimes, they can just be a pain...
I helped my sister to raise Boots back when we were roommates years ago. He stayed with her when I moved.
A few years ago, he got surly with her newborn son, and I took him in again.
About 5 years now, and he still won't learn that weaving through my feet when I feed him is a bad thing.
Posted by Jeff Boman
on Monday, September 04, 2000 | link me Seymour!
Sunday, September 03, 2000
My redesign efforts on Jazz Life continue... the changes aren't yet major, but I'm hoping it makes for a better viewing experience.
Many of the links listed in the sidebar won't be active for a few days as I'll have to further work at them... but everything should be operational within a week or two.
Posted by Jeff Boman
on Sunday, September 03, 2000 | link me Seymour!
This is almost too funny... except that being a geek guy, it reflects much on me too.
Posted by Jeff Boman
on Sunday, September 03, 2000 | link me Seymour!
thenetstar.org -webmistress weblog et al
This Blog by a fellow web designer is very well designed and has some very interesting content.
Posted by Jeff Boman
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Yesterday at Empire, Ace and I spoke about the real life show Making the Band. It's a show that I've watched because I'm interested in the process of making a band (even the next Pre-Fab Five, like this). We both think these guys don't have a lot of talent yet, but Ace admitted he's been taping it to watch too.
Being musicians (me a former singer; Ace a 20+ year singer/songwriter), we can tell how these guys need major practice and training to be good in their field. Still, most folks would laugh at us just for watching it to begin with. :)
Posted by Jeff Boman
on Sunday, September 03, 2000 | link me Seymour!
I've just taken advantage of a service called Name Demo to get a personal URL domain name for my other personal site, The Wild World of Jeff. This domain name was free.
Now, I just have to do some major updating on that website to do it justice.
Posted by Jeff Boman
on Sunday, September 03, 2000 | link me Seymour!
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