Okay folks, I just had to bring this up. My spork blog caught a bit of attention, so I just wanted to add this to the hubbub.

mgear.com is selling a titanium spork, for $8.95

I kid you not. The Google ads that search my page for products to sell came up with listings for sporks, and mgear.com has a titanium spork.

Now, all I have to do is go to villainsupply.com (if it were still around) and purchase the surface-to-air missiles and twin jet engines.

The Cure - Disintegration - Fascination Street

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"The sum of the intelligence on the planet is a constant, yet the population is growing."

I've had coversations that go like this.

"How do I purchase a TV?"
"You go, get a cart, and put the TV in it."

I've had to tell people how to shop.

I can't tell you how many times I've wanted to reverse Mr. Cole's Axiom, and be personally responsible for it.

In other notes, I fired up my Apple Powerbook 540C today. It's 11 years old. It has a max resolution of 800x600, 24 Mb of RAM, and 600 Mb of storage. It was built before USB ports existed. My friend Chris is even more fortunate, he's got a functioning Toshiba Satellite. THE...*ORIGINAL*...TOSHIBA...SATELLITE. (You guys do know that Toshiba just released a brand new line of laptops called the Satellite Series, right?

I so do not even compare to Fastluck, who has "goldie oldie" computers I've only dreamed of owning. I had an opportunity to purchase a pair of Pentium 1 electronic cash registers that Mervyn's owned. (The Mervyn's in Washington Square closed, and they were selling *everything*) They were going for $25 apiece. I was seriously considering this, but I took a good look at the hardware. Even though the cases were still capable of supporting brand new hardware, the motherboards looked like they were solidly bolted to the cases. If the motherboards couldn't be removed, then they were worthless, which is what I - unfortunately - deemed them to be.

One could only imagine the faces on the peeps at E3 when I walk in with a cream colored, horizontally-lying artifact of computing history, and I beat the pants off of their machines because I went all out to upgrade it. Oh those would have been happy times.

I'll have to look up antiquated computer chassis in the future.
But in the meantime, I'll first have to print out instructions to better direct people in their attempts to shop.

The Cure - Disintegration - Lullaby [[I so love this song!]]

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Ha ha! I have attained a modicum of fame! I'm one of the few people who actually refer to the enigmatic entity known as Pioneer. If you go to the blogstream main page and type in "Pioneer" as the search parameter, my "*IF* I Ever Become Popular" blog post comes up before Pioneer's own set of blogs!

I am "teh awesome."

Beborn Beton - Tales From Another World Part 1 - Mantrap-The Seduction

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Yes, you heard me right folks. I'm currently training to be an HTML Developer. I'm studying to get certification in six, count 'em, SIX fields. HTML 4.01, XHTML, CSS, ASP, SQL, and ADO. In short, that means I will be able to produce some pretty awesome webpages. But that's in the future, as of now. I do know how to do a little of each, but in order to obtain employment as a Web Programmer, one has to have the little piece of paper stating that I can indeed perform these cool web functions.

In other news, my body failed today. But thanks to a well-timed stampede of gerbils, a runaway Democratic convention, and one *REALLY* stoned Mexican, I am back to normal.

In more and more news, movie and music pirates in El Salvador are blocking off streets and burning tires in protest over tighter & nastier pirating-prevention laws. They claim that the government is "restraining their trade" and will force them to starve and go poor. YA DON'T SAY?!?!

I suppose the point of the last paragraph just shows how the judicial system - influenced by corporate lobbying - will play the push & shove game with the citizens of their respective countries. Remember the old saying, "If you make something idiot-proof, they will build a better idiot." The same goes for piracy. There will be a tug-of-war for decades to come over the same issue, with different technology and different laws in each instance.

I'd better sign off before my body fails again, because I just can't rely on the runaway Democratic convention being there again.

System Syn - Postscript - Into My Veins

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What the?

Something's wrong in Darkerville, Batman! Everything's in Times New Roman font!

Yes folks, I prefer "serif" fonts to that of the "non-serif" fonts. A friend of mine referred to the "serif" fonts as being a guide for the eyes to move onto the next character.

More mutations of my site are to follow. Along with the screaming, panicking, flaming marshmellows that run up and down my street. Those are everywhere nowadays.

Arcade Fire - Arcade Fire - No Cars Go

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