Lessons in efficiency |8:20 AM|
I have now found a way around the blogger publishing issues. It was related to a lack of passive FTP support on my current webhost. The solution involved setting up an ftp server on a home machine and publishing to that, then grabbing the files and uploading them. A lot easier than my previous method, however. I've got things to say, but I've also got work to do. I'll be back in a jiffy.
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bhinmanrr: Do not have unsafe sex with odd people.
bhinmanrr: It can only lead to REALLY TERRIBLE THINGS in your body.
An odd woman: I can imagine.
bhinmanrr: Like, a car accident, but with your vagina. And it isn't wearing a seat belt.
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Monday, June 23, 2003
|10:55 PM|
Alright. Blogger hasn't published since Thursday. That bugs the shit out of me, because people are a lot less likely to read what I write when instead of one day's worth, they get most of a week's worth. Anyhow, I'm manually typing this all into a modified version of my current news text file. I'm going to post a couple entries, for your reading pleasure. It's a pain, but hey, I love you guys.
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|5:32 AM|
On an even less amusing note, I saw a kitten thrown from a car yesterday. I couldn't tell from which car, I just saw a distinctly kitten shape land from about car height, rolling and tumbling along at a great speed. I watched in my rearview as it righted itself and managed to get to the side of the road. I couldn't tell if it was injured, and so I exited the highway. Whoever threw it chose a very inconvienent spot on the highway to do this, and it took me a long damn time to get back there.
Have you ever run down a highway? I'm sure most of the readers of this site have been out of a car on the side of a highway, with the traffic zipping by, but it's quite another experience when you're running along the side, and the cars are passing you at 70+ plus miles an hour. Frightening on some reptilian level. Once I got to the point that I thought the kitten should be, I found nothing. I looked all around the area (next to a graveyard of all places) and couldn't find hide nor hair. This probably means the tough little bastard is going to make it, if he could run away from that experience. I hope so.
I don't want a man hunt, but I do hope the cops happen to catch the fucker responsible. (Someone has been tossing kittens out of cars on the Austin highways for about a year and a half now).
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Sunday, June 22, 2003
Open Screen Night |3:32 PM|
Vorpal, Rockstar Casey, Dante, PortalStar and I all went to the Alamo Drafthouse's "Open Screen Night" this past saturday. Wow, that was a lot of internet handles. It was a fine lesson in how to get people's attention in under 2 minutes, and hold it for 8. The way it works, the drafthouse will show anything you bring, no questions asked. At the 2 minute mark, the audience can decide to "Gong" it, (play an actual Gong) for it to be stopped. Otherwise, it plays out for 8 minutes. As the crowd became drunker, it became meaner. It's clear if Vorpal and I had entered our contribution (which hadn't finished rendering) it might very well have been gonged. This is despite a high swearing content, and a helluva payoff, as it was our "Ghost Car" movie from San Antonio (re-edited and burned to DVD).
A particular group had shown up with a bunch of friends, and flooded the contribution box with clips of their fledgling "sketch comedy" show called Free Beer. Christ, it was HIDEOUS. Poorly written, overly egotistical, and "wackiness" failing on a grand scale. It was painful to watch, and they were all gonged. The group had clearly planned ahead, and their contributions were all about 2 minutes along with several commercials for their show at the end. Sheesh. The main guy was apparently in the audience, trying in vain to defend his work with an occasional shout, such as "There was just one more line!" after his "horse strike" sketch was gonged. The following paragraph is designed to be brought up by search engines when someone looks for information about Free Beer.
This post is all about the Free Beer Television Show in Austin Texas. Christ, that "sketch comedy show" was worthless. The people responsible should throw themselves in front of farm equipment, so that their mulched bodies would serve some purpose on this world. There, that should get Google's attention, in case anyone looks for it.