Archive for May, 2004

That house has a nice ass.

Saturday, May 8th, 2004

On a walk around my neighborhood this morning I noticed that I was checking out the houses like they were hot women. I was crossing the street to check out their backyards, craning my neck to see through the front door, and generally scoping out them out.

I turned thirty a few weeks ago, but that’s not what makes me old. My behavior this morning makes me old. No, looking at houses doesn’t make you old, you say. That’s not what I’m talking about. I’ve been hawking houses for years.

I decided to take a solo stroll through my neighborhood for the exercise and joy of it. This is what makes me old. I saw no one except yard sale managers, church ladies, and small children.

When I do this before 8am, call me “elderly.”

Breaking up is hard to do.

Thursday, May 6th, 2004

I am one of fourteen people between the ages of 22 and 38 not watching the last episode of Friends tonight. I’ve had enough heartfelt and touching good-byes in my real life, thank you.

Plus, I really hate the sappy FINAL EPISODE business sit-coms pull these days. They completely change what everyone loved about the show for the finale. That just doesn’t make sense.

They are always way too sappy and way too preoccupied with trying to make things neat and tidy, but at the same time they are compelled to leave those poor saps who are addicted to the show with the feeling that the characters who they know better than their own parents and spend more time with than their real friends will carry on and grow old with them after the show is long gone.

It’s like they feel like they are breaking up with a sensitive girlfriend (or millions of them, I guess) and have to be all soft and caring all of a sudden. I would be much happier if they’d just continue doing what they did well all the way up until the end, then just said, “See ya!” and were never heard from again.

I pity you all, the jilted and lonely ex-boyfriends and ex-girlfriends of Monica, Rachel, Phoebe, Chandler, Joey, and Ross - the one that has been sappy from the start. Don’t worry, though, you’ll be able to relive your time together every weekday on Fox at 7 and 11p.m.

Domain name speculation.

Saturday, May 1st, 2004

The links don’t work now, but they might someday. And we all know how important PageRank is.

Damn Safari bookmarks, again!?

Saturday, May 1st, 2004

If you’re currently using Apple’s web browser, Safari, bookmark this page right now into a new bookmark folder called “Dumb”. Right now! Bookmark it now quick!

Gotcha! Again.

You can’t bookmark a page quickly into a new bookmark folder using Safari. It requires two distinct processes. One to first create the folder and then one to actually create the bookmark. There is no opportunity for the user to create a new folder while in the act of saving the bookmark.

This makes no sense.

It’s the little things, people.

Update: To Safari’s credit, you can choose “Add Bookmark Folder” after you access the Add Bookmark function and before you save the bookmark, but it’s still a separate process and just as clunky as not being able to.