. . . : ; C h i c o ' s G r o o v e ; : . . . . . . : ; . . . : ; thgieytnewt - january 14 1999 . . . : ; . . . : ; http://www.disobey.com/ . . . : ; The "YAY-A-NEW-YEAR" Notice Yup, a new year, and a bunch of old stuff. Doesn't make much sense, I know, but that's just fine with me. I'm listening to nice piano music in the background, I'm the only one in the house, and I can hear the faint sound of water running through a pipe. It's so peacefu... dammit, gotta switch CDs, hold on. . . . : ; The "MODS" Notice Welp, since I'm poor and sink all my money into Disobey, I've gotten into listening to MODs as a new form of musical entertainment. I just don't have the machine power to work and listen to mp3s at the same time, even if they are the buzz of the industry. It's not so peaceful anymore. . . . : ; ANNOUNCEMENTS and there were bad green beans at the market... NEW DEVIL SHAT (#FortyFour): (Have you noticed that I've spelled it correctly for the past two issues? What a record!) This issue is about advertising - plain and simple, no surprises, no gimmicks, no hidden messages. Yenom subroM dneS. Nothing big, really. Hope you enjoy it. DEVIL SHAT EMAIL (HUGEEEE): Huge amounts of email were added to the Devil Shat Empire this past week. This is the run down: Four (1), Fifteen (1), Twenty One (1), Thirty Eight (1), Thirty Nine (1), Forty (4), Forty One (4), Forty Two (7), Forty Three (1). Go read some. NEW GHOST SITES (#23): Due to the huge amount of publicity that Ghost Sites received in the past couple of weeks, and the huge amount of reporting of death that came through the Ghost-O-Meter, Steve Baldwin has got a nice big issue for ya - with tales of the Highway 17 Page of Shame, Stale, and many more... GHOST SITES MOVES TO LEVEL FOUR: Remember that stupid name that I gave to sections that have been verified through HTML 4.0? Yeah, well, it's back, and it's struck Ghost Sites. Various things have been changed, too boring to list here (poor Steve Baldwin though, heh heh), but the most noticeable being a new improved Ghost-o-Meter and a scan of the Ghost Sites t-shirt (why haven't you gotten one yet?). NEW COLLECTED WORKS: Yeah, some people forgot this was even an updatable section... but due to the help of someone named DNA, we got five more stories posted for Ben Ohmart. Yes, we said stories, not plays or screens. If you're interested in his plays, you would love his stories, I would believe. Ah do say. Like I said, it's not so peaceful. LOW BANDWHAT?: Low Bandwidth was cleaned this week, losing two archives that were just becoming a nuisance. I know most people don't use the archives much at all (they are really intended for my collection, but don't tell anyone else that), but hell, at least I can make them interesting. As such, I weeded out some of that stupid business crap that was cluttering up our bandwidth. MINOR UPDATES: All of the copyright dates were changed, on all 1000 or so pages... the neatest trick I've learned was to use the copyright date on the pages as an image - just change one file and you've fixed up your whole site... The main pages (including the secret and error pages) were updated to the HTML 4.0 specification (exciting, eh?)... . . . : ; EVERYTHING else and I bought them anyways, yum fuzz, yes... BOOKS: Welp, I finally finished one of the better series that I have ever read, that of THE APPRENTICE ADEPT from Piers Anthony. Seven books in all, originally a trilogy, this series brings you through three generations and the huge changes to a planet called Proton, and its fantasy side Phaze. I actually missed these damn characters when I was done with them. That's what happens when an author knows what he is doing. The new book I'm trekking through is THE NICE AND ACCURATE PROPHECIES OF AGNES NUTTER, WITCH from Neil Gaimen and Terry Pratchett, about the Apocalypse - it's damn funny. MOVIES: Seen a ton of them, in no particular order: CORRIDORS OF BLOOD, THE ABOMINABLE DR. PHIBES, THE DUNWICH HORROR, DARK STAR, AS GOOD AS IT GETS, THE HAUNTING OF HELL HOUSE, and the remake of DR. DOOLITTLE (don't ask). We didn't finish DARK STAR because it was the most horrible piece of shat you could even imagine (even being from John Carpenter), and you can read all about CORRIDORS OF BLOOD in Viewer Discretion #12, available from Low Bandwidth. PERL AND UNIX: Welp, finally got my machine set up the way I like it, so now I've got Apache running on a local domain, and I'm having a ball learning Perl and using it for CGI... been revamping all of the scripts that we use at my job (the ISP Disobey runs off), and creating some interesting new ones on my machine... AND C, OH MY!: Finally getting frustrated at how easy it was to make something in Perl, and then having to reinvent the wheel using Qbasic (or whatever you choose to name it), I have since begun relearning C. Great fun, and oh so easy to port. . . . : ; BLAHBLAHS OF THE WEEK: ( january 1st - january 14th ) [Inside-Weirdness-of-the-Week]-= Toaster Weirdness ---Besides the fact that the toaster we have is rather old, it also ---thinks it's pretty funny to blow all the fuses in our house ---everytime we use it. Welp, it evidently decided to go another step, ---and now, if we just PLUG it in, it'll short out everything. I've ---gone so far as to bring the damn thing out into the stairwell of ---my apartment building and use the plug out there because I didn't ---want to kill my downloads. [Random-Phraze-of-the-Week]-= "I busted him up." [Outside-Weirdness-of-the-Week]-= Too Much Food ---Yeah, we went to the supermarket, and we figured we didn't need ---the car 'cos we were only getting some soda and crap. Welp, it ---turns out that two people CAN'T carry 8 bottles of soda and three ---other bags of food. So, we loaded it all into the cart, and drove ---the cart home. Boy, it sure was cool walking across Main Street ---with a big cart. I felt so bum-like. Definitely a character ---builder. [Best-Purchase-of-the-Week]-= Big Orange Cord ---Only ten dollars, and now I have unlimited electricity! Yes, due ---to bad wiring in my apartment and electrohog neighbors, I lose ---power about once a week with a landlord who just plain ol' don't ---give a care. So, with my magical 50 foot cord, I'm only 48 feet ---away from a nice fresh supply of power. No one will keep me from ---the Internet... NO ONE! 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