Archive for March, 2002

Text-based Pong

If you enjoy Pong, and if you enjoy classic text-adventure games for PC, why not play some Text-Based Pong? Or you could read 183 Ways to Annoy People. (Don’t ask me why the title says 179.)

First time with Enterprise

I watched my first Enterprise episode last night, at 8pm on UPN. To quote In Living Color’s “Men on Film”: Hated it. Campy “America in Space” intro and theme song aside, I was struck by how slowly the plot was developing. Twenty minutes — and at least two commercial breaks — into the episode, it [...]

Mere Madness meets Kofi Annan

Mister Dean of Mere Madness is just a step and a prayer away from promoting literacy to the UN. Congratulations! Kristen is ceasing blogging. That makes me sad. *cries*

Four More Years

Today is March 28: exactly four years since the day I graduated from Ateneo. Which means that starting tomorrow, I will have lived in the “real” world longer than I was studying in college. Wow. I’m going to celebrate this momentous anniversary with a bar of Violet Crumble.

Telemarketing sucks. The Revenge.

RING! “Hello?” “Is Mrs. Ordoveza in?” (My aunt, this time.) “No, she’s out of the country. Who’s calling?” “Fox Publisher’s House. I have some very good news for her.” “No, really? Don’t tell me; is it a million dollars?” “Yes it is! How’d you guess?” “You telemarketers called yesterday and hung up on me.” CLICK. [...]

Static Charges

Weather in DC has gone through a wide range of variations in the past two weeks: warm and sunny, cold but still sunny, cold and rainy, or cold and windy. (There was even a chance of snow flurries last Friday.) I’m getting used to this climate, and I’m sure I could grow to love these [...]

Telemarketing sucks.

Ring! “Hello?” “Good evening! Is Mr. Ordoveza in?” (My uncle, not me.) “Not right now, sorry. Who’s calling?” “This is (unintelligible) Publisher’s House. Could you get a pen and paper and take this Very Important Message?” “Pen and paper… pen and paper… (Sincere rummaging) Can’t seem to find any… just a moment… ” “Fine, be [...]

Any Moved Pages?

By the way, I haven’t really been able to keep track of anyone who may have moved his/her weblog to a new URL. Can you folks who’ve moved leave a note so I can update your blog listing? (Especially the Geocities bloggers.)