Scott Calls an Escort
March 30, 2001
You might think it would be easy to pick up the phone and call up some escort services and get information about how they work. I certainly did. But you'd be surprised how difficult it actually is to pick up the phone and dial the number. Because you want to know what you're going to say, right? Some lady (you...
You might think it would be easy to pick up the phone and call up some escort services and get information about how they work. I certainly did. But you'd be surprised how difficult it actually is to pick up the phone and dial the number. Because you want to know what you're going to say, right? Some lady (you...
I'm Obsolete
March 29, 2001
The difficulty and the blessing of a career in technology (beyond the current collapse of the tech stock market, the depression in company spending on internet technology, and the possibility that my company may be out of business in a few months) is that technology completely reinvents itself every couple of years. Any cutting edge skills you have today will...
The difficulty and the blessing of a career in technology (beyond the current collapse of the tech stock market, the depression in company spending on internet technology, and the possibility that my company may be out of business in a few months) is that technology completely reinvents itself every couple of years. Any cutting edge skills you have today will...
Monkeys, Drugs, Accidents, Smoking
March 28, 2001
On NPR this morning, the newsreader was relating the fact that smoking rates have increased among females. She said that in the past, there was a wind gender gap between smokers, as a relatively few number of women smoked because it was not perceived as feminine (in the 20's maybe, but is that still true of the last forty years?)....
On NPR this morning, the newsreader was relating the fact that smoking rates have increased among females. She said that in the past, there was a wind gender gap between smokers, as a relatively few number of women smoked because it was not perceived as feminine (in the 20's maybe, but is that still true of the last forty years?)....
Escalator Potential
March 27, 2001
[This is not my best techno-week. Network problems this morning. Late post.] I'm slowly compiling the list of things I have an unhealthy fascination with. Popes. Escalators. Futile super-powers. And so on. Ideally, you can combine two elements. What would happen, for example, if you ignored all your parent's warnings about not playing on escalators? What if you were one...
[This is not my best techno-week. Network problems this morning. Late post.] I'm slowly compiling the list of things I have an unhealthy fascination with. Popes. Escalators. Futile super-powers. And so on. Ideally, you can combine two elements. What would happen, for example, if you ignored all your parent's warnings about not playing on escalators? What if you were one...
Crock Pot
March 26, 2001
[Darn it all to heck! All my Sunday email disappeared into some sort of void. I got nothing all day long. Not even a single exclusive invitation to view barely-legal teens nude. It doesn't look like I'll be getting any of the glory which may have been Sunday back, either. If you sent me anything on Sunday, now would be...
[Darn it all to heck! All my Sunday email disappeared into some sort of void. I got nothing all day long. Not even a single exclusive invitation to view barely-legal teens nude. It doesn't look like I'll be getting any of the glory which may have been Sunday back, either. If you sent me anything on Sunday, now would be...
The Phonebook Game
March 23, 2001
The Phonebook Game plays on the fact that you can ask anyone anything, and that there is no conversational requirement that questions have anything to do with each other. It's more informative than the game of questions, but lacks any scoring mechanism. Of course, it is best if you are willing to ask anyone anything. I had an interesting conversation...
The Phonebook Game plays on the fact that you can ask anyone anything, and that there is no conversational requirement that questions have anything to do with each other. It's more informative than the game of questions, but lacks any scoring mechanism. Of course, it is best if you are willing to ask anyone anything. I had an interesting conversation...
Favors
March 22, 2001
Who has the greater power in an interaction, the person who does a favor for someone, or the person for whom the favor is done? I'd propose that the person who accepts favors gets all the power, that the person who does favors actually ends up indebted to the recipient. Which is a weird little dynamic, no? It's surprising to...
Who has the greater power in an interaction, the person who does a favor for someone, or the person for whom the favor is done? I'd propose that the person who accepts favors gets all the power, that the person who does favors actually ends up indebted to the recipient. Which is a weird little dynamic, no? It's surprising to...
Me at 16: Boring
March 21, 2001
[This falls into the found writings category. I hadn't put my old journals away after the last time. Like picking at an old scab, I couldn't help but review my life. Hoo boy, was I tragic at 16. So pathetic, it is deeply embarrassing to me to read my journals from 1988. To give you the broad overview, I was...
[This falls into the found writings category. I hadn't put my old journals away after the last time. Like picking at an old scab, I couldn't help but review my life. Hoo boy, was I tragic at 16. So pathetic, it is deeply embarrassing to me to read my journals from 1988. To give you the broad overview, I was...
With Apologies
March 20, 2001
Apologies for the last few days' absense. Regular programming will resume tomorrow, promise. I had expected to have great things to say about bars and bar people and bar hopping. I had traded my writing time yesterday in order to go jumping around the Eastside with A~ while she passed out her Pub Mixer fliers. I had anticipated a sort...
Apologies for the last few days' absense. Regular programming will resume tomorrow, promise. I had expected to have great things to say about bars and bar people and bar hopping. I had traded my writing time yesterday in order to go jumping around the Eastside with A~ while she passed out her Pub Mixer fliers. I had anticipated a sort...
Dogs and Sleep
March 15, 2001
I think it does good to skip a night of sleep every now and again. It makes you appreciate your regular life a whole lot more. So, no sleep Tuesday night, right? Working overnight at the CC. Wednesday was even worse than I expected. I had to sneak away a couple of times for a quick catnap. I couldn't concentrate...
I think it does good to skip a night of sleep every now and again. It makes you appreciate your regular life a whole lot more. So, no sleep Tuesday night, right? Working overnight at the CC. Wednesday was even worse than I expected. I had to sneak away a couple of times for a quick catnap. I couldn't concentrate...
Beaches
March 14, 2001
It's 6am. I am very tired. I have been up all night. I watched the light fade last night on my way home from work, I played OPB, I came in 2nd, I played with the dogs, I played video games, and at midnight, I drove to the CC. Now, I'm watching the skies turn successively lighter shades of grey....
It's 6am. I am very tired. I have been up all night. I watched the light fade last night on my way home from work, I played OPB, I came in 2nd, I played with the dogs, I played video games, and at midnight, I drove to the CC. Now, I'm watching the skies turn successively lighter shades of grey....
Another Suicide Saturday
March 13, 2001
I went to do suicide Saturday again. Happily, I didn't have to sit through the entire class like I did last time. I just jetted in in time to do the individual role plays. That's where all the fun is anyway. You grab your group of four or five kids (where kids is defined as anyone who has been on...
I went to do suicide Saturday again. Happily, I didn't have to sit through the entire class like I did last time. I just jetted in in time to do the individual role plays. That's where all the fun is anyway. You grab your group of four or five kids (where kids is defined as anyone who has been on...
I Can't Give You Love and Rhetoric Without the Blood
March 12, 2001
Saturday started out as the most boring of days. I strolled upstairs around 10am to play some video games, knocked off a few levels of Timesplitters, and was annoyed at feeling sick and headachy. Caffeine withdrawal. Pesky colas. Why had I been drinking so much pop last week? I know that I'm going to regret it when I stop. If...
Saturday started out as the most boring of days. I strolled upstairs around 10am to play some video games, knocked off a few levels of Timesplitters, and was annoyed at feeling sick and headachy. Caffeine withdrawal. Pesky colas. Why had I been drinking so much pop last week? I know that I'm going to regret it when I stop. If...
Dinner With the Homeless Girl (II)
March 09, 2001
Part 2 of 2 [Check it out: I've had my cell phone for almost a year, and didn't realize that I've apparently got the mail-my-phone option. Sweet. Message me.] As part of her rambling travels, C~ had been down to San Francisco, but hadn't really liked it. They had also hitchhiked somewhere through Texas, and had actually been shot at....
Part 2 of 2 [Check it out: I've had my cell phone for almost a year, and didn't realize that I've apparently got the mail-my-phone option. Sweet. Message me.] As part of her rambling travels, C~ had been down to San Francisco, but hadn't really liked it. They had also hitchhiked somewhere through Texas, and had actually been shot at....
Dinner With the Homeless Girl
March 08, 2001
Part 1 of 2 [Sorry about yesterday. I drove all the way to work before I realized I left my satchel, with the laptop, at home. This was supposed to be yesterday, tomorrow is supposed to be today. I'd post them both, but it's ten pages long. I'll owe you a Saturday posting this week instead. Also, check it out:...
Part 1 of 2 [Sorry about yesterday. I drove all the way to work before I realized I left my satchel, with the laptop, at home. This was supposed to be yesterday, tomorrow is supposed to be today. I'd post them both, but it's ten pages long. I'll owe you a Saturday posting this week instead. Also, check it out:...
Freeze. Look Around.
March 06, 2001
A game I've been playing lately is to freeze wherever I am and slowly pan the scene to notice something I hadn't before. It's interesting both directions; for what I can eventually pick out that I hadn't been aware of before, and oftentimes how truly familiar I am with the places I tend to be. It makes me think I...
A game I've been playing lately is to freeze wherever I am and slowly pan the scene to notice something I hadn't before. It's interesting both directions; for what I can eventually pick out that I hadn't been aware of before, and oftentimes how truly familiar I am with the places I tend to be. It makes me think I...
Bus Salons
March 05, 2001
Can you run a bus salon? As I rode home from fencing one night, I noticed those seats in the back of the bus where they forma big U shape. I'll bet you could pack a dozen people in there pretty easily. There were some hipsters and underdressed underage girls they were hitting on in the space currently, and the...
Can you run a bus salon? As I rode home from fencing one night, I noticed those seats in the back of the bus where they forma big U shape. I'll bet you could pack a dozen people in there pretty easily. There were some hipsters and underdressed underage girls they were hitting on in the space currently, and the...
Scottish 'Cloning' Scientists Offer Apology
March 02, 2001
Newswire 3/02/2001 16:22:05 3:02est AP: Scottish 'Cloning' Scientists Offer Apology Photographs of a rather ordinary-looking lamb named Dolly made front pages around the world three years ago because of her startling pedigree: Dolly, unlike any other mammal that has ever lived, was an identical copy of another adult and has no father. News organizations raced to the story that she...
Newswire 3/02/2001 16:22:05 3:02est AP: Scottish 'Cloning' Scientists Offer Apology Photographs of a rather ordinary-looking lamb named Dolly made front pages around the world three years ago because of her startling pedigree: Dolly, unlike any other mammal that has ever lived, was an identical copy of another adult and has no father. News organizations raced to the story that she...
Could It Be About the Earthquake?
March 01, 2001
Okay, yes, there was an earthquake. Yes, it was big and fun and rolling. Some bricks fell off of some buildings, one person is dead. From a heart attack. Some cars got smashed (which actually does amuse me. Someone was so happy at eight a.m. this morning, when they pulled up and got that primo spot right in front of...
Okay, yes, there was an earthquake. Yes, it was big and fun and rolling. Some bricks fell off of some buildings, one person is dead. From a heart attack. Some cars got smashed (which actually does amuse me. Someone was so happy at eight a.m. this morning, when they pulled up and got that primo spot right in front of...