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Saturday, February 10, 2001
It's about time I wrote a substantially large Blog-post... Friday started off pretty brutal, with rain and freezing rain. Brutal because it turned much of the snow to ice. While I do have ice picks on my canes, my feet aren't really all-terrain; they slip easily. So, I found myself walking very slowly just to cross a street... once. (I didn't leave the house for most of the day) Friday night was the in-person deadline for issue 63 of Comicopia. My buddy-and-Central-Mailer Mike had already practically compiled all the newsletters already... we just had to get the last one from our friend/member Niall coming in from Ottawa specifically for that reason. Ottawa is an unusual city in some ways: it's the Nation's Capital for us Canadians, but it's also less than 2 hours travel away. Niall frequently comes into Montreal by bus to meet people, taking a bus home around midnight. I guess it feels weird since Toronto is close to 8 hours of travel away... We have a new member in Comicopia this issue; in itself, that's a great thing - but at the same time, the usual 'copia 'luck' struck: as one member joins us, one of the longer term members drops out from lack of activity. It always seems that when we get new members, an equal number of older ones drop out. Sigh Posted by Jeff Boman on Saturday, February 10, 2001 | link me Seymour!
Friday, February 09, 2001
Interesting: looking at my server logs, I learned that one of the search terms used to find Jazz Life was my name.
I'm not so famous yet that my name would be cause to search for me (hopefully, some day!). I can only guess that two people I used to know well tried to locate me on the Web. Unfortunately, no one signed a Guestbook or discussion forum, so I have no way of knowing who it was... oh well.
Posted by Jeff Boman
on Friday, February 09, 2001 | link me Seymour!
blurbs in biffland I discovered Bif Naked through an appearance on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, with her singing her hit song Lucky. I've been hooked ever since.
Don't let the name mislead you. Bif may look unusual, have a strange name too - but she also has one of the smoothest voices today.
Posted by Jeff Boman
on Friday, February 09, 2001 | link me Seymour!
Mr. Bill I just found this site, and I had to link it here.
Anyone who, like me, watched Saturday Night Live in the 1970s will remember the cathartic shorts starring the Play Doh character, getting mauled every week.
Now, you can relive it online... or if you never saw him before, see what we loved!
Posted by Jeff Boman
on Friday, February 09, 2001 | link me Seymour!
Thursday, February 08, 2001
I forgot to mention: what also made it funny was the fact that after my cut, everyone I know had the same reaction as they have anytime I get a haircut: they checked to see if I trimmed off my ponytail.
That's not gonna happen anytime in the near future... I've been growing it for over 8 years now; don't plan to change anytime soon!
Posted by Jeff Boman
on Thursday, February 08, 2001 | link me Seymour!
I got my hair cut yesterday. Normally, that wouldn't be a big deal worth mentioning... what was interesting was the fact that my hair-dresser used shears to trim down my unruly bush of hair first. I think this was the first time she's ever done this.
Posted by Jeff Boman
on Thursday, February 08, 2001 | link me Seymour!
Monday, February 05, 2001
I'm quite annoyed with Classmates.com at the moment: they removed my High School message board from Delphi's forums, and made them something you have to sign in on their own site instead.
The Delphi forums were very convenient for me... I already have an account there, and I just had to choose the school forums from the 'My Folders' option. Now, I'll need to take yet another step to do things.
The Forum brought some surprises to me in the recent past: I heard from a student who graduated the year before me. Said student and I had... well, a colorful past not full of warm fuzzy memories. I'll have to wonder how many people will come to Classmates now.
Posted by Jeff Boman
on Monday, February 05, 2001 | link me Seymour!
Sunday, February 04, 2001
January saw the loss of a fragment of history:
THIS WEEK'S HONORARY UNSUBSCRIBE goes to Michel Navratil. One of the 706 survivors of the sinking of the Titanic, Navratil was the only male still alive (only four other survivors, all women, remain alive). He was not quite four years old when his father grabbed him in the middle of the night after the ship hit an iceberg on April 15, 1912. "My father entered our cabin where we were sleeping. He dressed me very warmly and took me in his arms. A stranger did the same for my brother. When I think of it now, I am very moved. They knew they were going to die. I don't recall being afraid, I remember the pleasure, really, of going plop into the lifeboat." His father indeed was one of the 1,480 who died that night. Navratil went on to become a professor of philosophy, saying that the disaster, and his ordeal in proving his identity so he could be reunited with his mother in France, influenced his thinking throughout his life. He died January 31 in France at age 92.
(Taken from the THIS IS TRUE newsletter)
The "Honorary Unsubscribe" section is really just a tribute to the lives of people overlooked for notice by most of the press.
The Titanic tragedy was nearly a century ago, but it was an event that will live on for a long time. Hopefully, so will a memory of Michel Navratil.
Posted by Jeff Boman
on Sunday, February 04, 2001 | link me Seymour!
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