I’m flattered. Scared and anxious and decidedly negative at the moment, but flattered.
Un Chat con El Caballo Muerto
Man-on-the-street chat with a now-white Dead Horse:
brownpaudotcom: Hey Seth, I’m texting u from Georgetown! whee!
TheLobstersClaw: Whee!
TheLobstersClaw: I was just on your site Whee!
TheLobstersClaw: and now I’m reading about hoopla.com
brownpaudotcom: Any luck with that Frances Filat character?
TheLobstersClaw: I wrote a response to her second email and posted it! I have no idea who she is, but she makes me laugh so I like her:-)
brownpaudotcom: hmph. you’re just encouraging her … ain’t it fun? :D
TheLobstersClaw: Yeah! I pass around her letters at work and we all laugh and laugh
TheLobstersClaw: p.s. I thought your ERAP joke was funny
TheLobstersClaw: but then I the kind of person who encourages people to be absorbed into filth
brownpaudotcom: u shock me with your concupicent indignity!
TheLobstersClaw: do i? I’m sorry *goes take cold shower*
brownpaudotcom: u shock me with your cold shower!
TheLobstersClaw: brr… me too
TheLobstersClaw: I hate cold showers
TheLobstersClaw: I’ll go back to being concupiscent
brownpaudotcom: Erap’s fans simply can’t pass up a chance to go all…
brownpaudotcom: self-righteous. it’s 1 reason our country is the way it is.
brownpaudotcom: making it esp. fun to tweak them.
brownpaudotcom: Sorta like Frances.
TheLobstersClaw: heh heh… really though, I don’t even know who erap is. But I got the humour apart from association.
TheLobstersClaw: I gather he’s a bad man
TheLobstersClaw: except without the rectal bleeding
TheLobstersClaw: and strange familial associations
TheLobstersClaw: although frances has a strange hold on her daughter… y’never know these days
brownpaudotcom: I’m at the Abercrombie in G.Town. ugh. these prices…
TheLobstersClaw: I’ve never been to one of those…
TheLobstersClaw: but I did enjoy the t-shirts they pulled from the martket recently
brownpaudotcom: you’re not missing much. im out of the mall now. still can’t find those hats.
TheLobstersClaw: you should go for the hip-hop doofus look
TheLobstersClaw: is it cold in Wash or somethin’?
brownpaudotcom: not today, but it changes evry 5 mins.
TheLobstersClaw: weird… that’s one reason I like livin where i does
brownpaudotcom: oh fine… im at Urban Outfitrs, lookinj at hiphop doofus hats.
TheLobstersClaw: hahahahahahAHAHAHAHAHAH
brownpaudotcom: ACK! 4get it. they’re $20!
TheLobstersClaw: Where a handtowel on your head
brownpaudotcom: no! i will find those Pakistan hats! btw, save this chat and blog it, or mail it to me.
TheLobstersClaw: surely:-*
brownpaudotcom: YES! i found the hats!
TheLobstersClaw: Boo! Me want hip hop brown pau
TheLobstersClaw: Me want funny little man hat
TheLobstersClaw: Me need purple pants
TheLobstersClaw: Well, I need to go find some breakfast and pay a bill… you have fun with your hat
brownpaudotcom: Ok, cya.
TheLobstersClaw: :-*
No Hat
I found the store in Georgetown, near Wisconsin Ave. and N Street, and I found the hat bin, but the specific kind of hat I was looking for — a snug, round $8 Pakistani wool cap — was no longer there. The storeowner offered me instead a bulky multilayered Afghan affair with a flat beret-like top, for $15, but it would have made me look like a New York taxi driver, so I declined.
The whole time, I was IM’ing The Dane, who urged me to just go for a hip-hop doofus sports hat. I did check out the ones at Urban Outfitters on M Street, but they were too goofy, and too pricy. The only cheaper ones were Jamaican rainbow caps, which I had not the nerve to come close to. Yeah mon. (cue beachy reggae music)
Friend Bear
Unlike the craven Verisign, this comic strip called Friend Bear is strange, yet disturbingly amusing.
Globe of Blogs
Globe of Blogs, eh? I hope it lives long and prospers; these expansive weblogger directories tend not to last too long before being overwhelmed by sheer volume.
Searching for a Hat
I’m in Georgetown right now, searching for a little South Asian imports shop I saw a few weeks ago. There’s a certain type of Pakistani wool hat I’m looking for, which does a great job of keeping my head and ears snugly warm on cold nights, without making me look like a hip-hop doofus. If I can only find that shop.
“If he’s in Georgetown looking for Pakistani hats, what’s he doing on the Internet, then?” some of you may be wondering. Well, that’s the other chore for today: download Mozilla 1.0 rc 1 and an old copy of Netscape 4.x at Kinko’s. And we mustn’t forget Lynx, though that hardly needs a broadband connection to download.
Hmmm. Netscape’s archives don’t seem to be working. I’ll just have to use the links from the SillyDog archive instead.
Crash of EgyptAir 990
William Langewiesche on the crash of EgyptAir 990. A holistic and well-informed article on the technicalities and politics surrounding the investigation. I must admit to feeling quite sorry for the clean and efficient NTSB finding itself the unwitting target of the Egyptian bureacracy’s unyielding machinations. (Via MeFi.)
Free, free!
My ISP woes are solved for now, with this compromise: AOL free hours for web browsing, Netzero free hours for POP/SMTP access. Netzero’s 10 hours/month should be enough to handle the mail side of it, and I still have over a month to use up these AOL hours before I decide to cancel. For the time being, the internet remains free for me. Then, I’ll probably go with Slingshot Prepaid.
Satellite photo of tornado damage
Satellite photo of the swath of damage from last Sunday’s F5 tornado. Incredible. (Via MeFi.)
Randomizer on the way!
I’ve just finished a basic PHP weblog randomizer — with thanks to Rich for a very helpful snippet of code — and reduced several .txt includes to simple, easily called functions. Now all I need to do is recode these blog indexes.
One down, fifty to go. It’s going to be a looong time before anything new gets uploaded. :P