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  . . . : ; neetenin - september 10 1998
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    . . . : ; http://www.disobey.com/



. . . : ; The "WHOO-IT'S-BACK" Notice

So, I'm sitting around in my chair, rolling around the office, when I
realize I have one hell of a headache, and a backache to boot. These
things come often. It's my real job. I hate it. I want to be a Dilbert.
Pretty sick, eh?


. . . : ; The "GIMME-A-DESK-JOB" Notice

So, if any of you digerati out there have some desk jobs for an overly
qualified professional, let me know. I'll take it. Even if it means data
entry, or large stacks of paper. Better than the piece of crap job I
have now.


. . . : ; ANNOUNCEMENTS and I'm listening to Rob Zombie...

NEW DEVIL SHAT (#ThirtyFive): We talk about cults. Yay. Bad mood. You
might get it, you might not. Also added two email to Issue Thirty Three,
and two email to Issue Thirty Four.

GHOST-O-METER UNVEILED: A project we have been working on for a while,
the Ghost-o-Meter was finally released onto the unsuspecting world over
a weekend. So, what is it? was your next bated breath question. Well,
it's a floating window that you can activate when you are going to be
walking around on the internet. See, we thought that a lot of people
have been seeing Ghost Sites, but just haven't been coming and telling
us. So, we wanted to make it easier for them. Now, when you see a Ghost
Site, you just type in your email and the URL, click "send" and you're
all set. Fun, eh? (On the other side, the right hand column was cleaned
up a bit with some bug fixes, as well as a reduction of words. Just to
be neat.)

LOW (WELL, SURE): Added four new archives to the database, as well as
the newest issue of the Low Bandwidth home zine "Viewer Discretion".
Lemme tell ya how great this thing is. Well, you should expect that, eh?

ZERO: As you might expect, Zero was updated this week also with some new
reviews. Looking at the weblogs, I'm noticing that people are
downloading the music, but no one seems to be commenting. Ho-hum. HOW
THE HELL ARE WE SUPPOSED TO KNOW IF YOU LIKE IT OR NOT? Thank you.

DETERGENT: Well, it hasn't been updated in quite a while... pretty soon,
we'll have to call it a Ghost Site. But, we added another award we won
to the kudos page. Minor one this time, nothing big. Honest, we do have
a lot of stuff to go into the Detergent section, it's just a matter of
catching up on the other stuff that needs to get done.

AS YOU CAN TELL: I did practically nothing this week for Disobey. Or
last week. I took two weeks off, unofficially, and with no planning. It
just didn't strike me to work on anything. And you know what? It felt
good. I feel relaxed, and fresh. I'm like a Mentos almost. Anyways, I'll
be back on track for this next two weeks, so don't worry.


. . . : ; EVERYTHING else and he's a nice guy with flowers

BOOKS BOOKS BOOKS: Finally finished a book I had been reading for quite
a while: Peter Straub's "The Throat". It wasn't that bad of a book, if
you skip the first 250 pages. Which is the main reason it took me so
long to read it. I have a false sense of "not gonna do it": when I start
a book, I like to finish the whole damn thing, whether it sucks or not.
So, I slogged through it. But, hell, it started getting pretty damn good
and interesting, so the remaining 500 pages were read in three or four
days. Glad I did. Anyways, the new book I'm reading is from my favorite
author: Kurt Vonnegut Jr's "Player Piano", his first book. And that 
was a damn good book too. I love Vonnegut to death. Anyways, I'm reading
some crappy science fiction novel now. It was next in line, not through
any preference of my own.

LEARNING AND CRAP: Welp, after learning Adobe Photoshop and Adobe
ImageReady, I kept ImageReady and dumped Photoshop for Microfrontier's
Enhance. Doesn't have as much functionability as Photoshop, it loses
Actions (which I loved), but ultimately does the exact same stuff for
less hard drive space and faster times. Was hoping that I was going to
move onto Flash, so I could start playing around with Shockwave stuff,
but instead I've been having fun with QBASIC, that great old BASIC
compiler from DOS. Don't ask why cos I'm telling you: I found the old
install disks for it and got bored one day. I just need to find Visual
Basic now... which I did find eventually (thanks you-know-who), and
have been having great fun with that.


. . . : ; BLAHBLAHS OF THE WEEK:    ( aug 28th - september 10th )

[Failed-Trick-of-the-Week]-= Speech Recognition
---Welp, I had the microphone all hooked up, but because it is
---a piece of crap, everything I speak into it is about 3 blocks
---away and in a closet after being muzzled by a big bag of cotton
---balls. In other words, I have to Amplify 800% for you to understand
---everything. Ah twell. Just need a better microphone.

[Annoying-Thing-of-the-Week]-= Getting a New Phone
---Our old phone bit the dust, again. We go through phones like the devil.
---We only have one phone line, so we're constantly taking the phone off 
---the wall, throwing it on the washing machine, putting it back on, 
---and again and again. Phones die pretty quickly that way. And, although
---we bought the same damn phone, because of the AT&T / Lucent Tech. thing
---the phone is slightly different. Different enough to be annoying. Argh.

[Movies-of-the-Week]-= Planet of the Apes
---Being the thirtieth anniversary prompted American Movie Classics to 
---show all five of the Planet of the Apes movies, which I watched
---and loved. Perhaps poor implementation, as one friend called it, 
---but damn good premise and wonderful commentary.


. . . : ; The Issue Was Given a Shot of Goreau

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