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  . . . : ; evifytrof - january 13 2000
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    . . . : ; http://www.disobey.com/



. . . : ; The "WHOO-DOG!" Notice

Wow. I stink. Not stink as in "you beat me at Battle Ship again!" but
stink as in "damn, did you live on a battle ship?". Huh. I
wonder why. Oh yeah. I know why. It's winter. With no snow. And
lotsa sunshine. Taking showers in January is so... so... foreign.


. . . : ; The "BITTEN LIP, SUNKEN SHIP, PART 2" Notice

For those who keep up on this sort of thing, my lip is now completely
healed. Of course, you'd expect that in a month's worth of time, but when
I'm sitting here deleting what I wrote last month to fill it with this
month's news, everything seems relative.


. . . : ; ANNOUNCEMENTS and a perpetual nose drip...

NEW DEVIL SHAT (#Sixty): Morbus waxes philosophical along with the help
of the greatest scientific mind of this century: Stephen Hawking...
and rejoices at what the future will bring. Also up to bat is the 
"Honor thy father and mother" commandment in Rown Garnbii's fifth article
exposing his betting card for redemption.

NEW NETSLAVES: With book sales still going strong, we find time to humor
and frighten you with another edition of NetSlaves: "Kathy is a Net DJ.
No, she isn't one of those people broadcasting from her bedroom to three
people out there. She works for a serious station that uses real
equipment and actually has a budget. If you're as amazed as we are about
this, read on. You might learn something you could use for 'My Own
World' radio. Of course, you could always go back to shouting over the
ol' police scanner."

NEW PROJECT HYPED AND THEN SIDELINED: For a bit of almost two weeks last
month, all I did was eat, breathe, and sleep Perl. And not just any
Perl, but "spent 42 bucks on a 'how to do OOP in Perl'" book which
turned out to be a good buy. You see, there was a secret project I was
working on, which only a close knit group of Disobey groupies knew
about. After having completed the first "so new it's not even alpha"
version, it's been unceremoniously pushed aside. After being complained
to by at least five people that DNN wasn't being kept up to snuff, I've
told myself to focus on Disobey. Focus on Disobey. It's hard though.
This project would have rocked if you gave me the time. Bastards. I hate
you.

MINOR CHANGES: Minor changes occurred to Ghost Sites, the front page of
Disobey, and the About section. This change came in the form of "the
box", which will eventually make its way to every page of the site.
Gives me some power in cross pollination, plus lets me reach all of the
Disobey readers without depending on DNN. All through the use of a
server side include. Gotta love those things!

TRYING: As you'll notice, almost nothing got done on Disobey this past
month. Combined with Christmas celebration, gaming, and mindless
attempts to do something exciting, new, and 'kick-ass' in Perl, I didn't
really have any time. Yet, enough people complained (s . i . g . h), so
I'll be attempting to get back on track in the coming days. If I don't,
be sure to email me and start bitching. Nothing says loving like a fire
in my oven.


. . . : ; EVERYTHING else and creates a lot to drink...

FURNITURE: Massive cleaning and reorganizing this month as I leech a new
(old) file cabinet off my boss at work, and just all in all, try to make
the house a little better and more organized. Not a clue if we've
accomplished it, but Saturday cleanings seem to have become a normal
affair. And we always make about 2 tons of trash...  which is disturbing
- do I really have this much junk?!

A FIRST: Christmas (and that dreaded y2k) obviously passed recently, and
a rather enjoyable first occurred with myself and my love, Katie: the
decoration of a Christmas tree. Having grown up with almost none, it was
strange at first, and then strangely cozy and enjoyable. Picking a candy
cane off each day, turning on the little star light thing at the top,
and stuffing the bristles up your nose to get a whiff. It was sad
putting it out on the curb, but nice knowing that it would become a new
tradition in my life.

FINALLY, DUAL BOOT: Finally got Redhat and NT sitting together on a dual
boot, and finally got Redhat to recognize my POS graphics card and the
unsupported sound card I had bought. It's all roses and candy. The only
thing to do now is wait for Windows 2000 so I can play some decent games
on the thing. (Games and NT? No. Doesn't work. Nope).

GAMES, PART ONE: I've been playing a lot of games recently ("research!
research!"), primarily Unreal Tournament (fell in lust with the demo
which actually worked on NT, too damn cheap to buy a 3D card to get Q3A
running). Then, the next weekend, I went out and bought The Myth Codex
for twenty bucks and discovered that the game ain't for me.

GAMES, PART TWO: As a favor, we drove two kids up to FunSpot over the
weekend with ten dollars in each of their pockets. It was wonderful
timing - Twin Galaxies was holding their Coronation Day. Twin Galaxies
are the people who maintain the Video Game and Pinball World Record
book. Anyways, because of this little Coronation Day thing, I was able
to see the guy who got the perfect score on PacMan, AND see a guy break
the 1985 world record for Super PacMan by getting over a million points.
I tell ya. It sounds dry to some people, but I was having a blast.
There's a tournament next June. The second annual. 4 days. Guess whose
been practicing?


. . . : ; BLAHBLAHS OF THE WEEK:    ( december 10th - january 13th )

[Redecoration-of-the-Week]-= Movie Posters
---Although parts of our walls seem to be made of a weak sort of 
---tissue conglomeration, some is sturdy enough to support movie
---posters and the requisite "quality backing board". As such, our
---house is now lovingly decorated with posters of horror, fright,
---and romantically artistic fear.

[Game-of-the-Week]-= Yahtzee!
---The clear winner this month was the good old "ooh! I can touch 
---it!", dice clacking Yahtzee. We must've played about 200 games 
---Sadly enough, in an attempt to make Yahtzee "better", I 
---started playing around with some statistical analysis program 
---in Perl, which as is tradition, was unceremoniously pushed to
---the side. (s . i . g . h)


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