Month: January 2006

  • If I told you that I wanted 'to hook up with you', would you automatically assume I was making either an explicit or even an implicit sexual come on?  I'm not trying to be cute or clever, just trying to understand the nuances of our language.


    So ... are we going to hook up?  Or not.

  • xanga vs. myspace



    This is a most telling graphic analysis from Alexa.  Ever since myspace.com caught fire with popular appeal at the end of 2004, xanga has experienced a decline in popular appeal. 


    One might cry coincidence.  But even xanga knows what it's up against: Social Networking


    myspace has a blogging tool, but social networking tools that enable you to interact with "friends" is what has kicked myspace to the top of the popularity heap, especially with so many of the younger set.  And, like it or not, it is this younger set upon which services such as xanga vitally depend for financial sustenance and growth possibilities. 


    So...what is xanga's response?


    They've bolstered up their hardware with more and newer servers that are performing better than ever.


    They have hired more people over the last year and are in the process of hiring more right now.


    They are about to . . . do what with their extra capacity and augmented work force?


    If I were to guess at xanga's direction into the future and characterize it in two words, those two words would not be "cry havoc".

  • "What is Xanga?" 


    Xanga needs to redefine itself.  It currently defines itself on the portal page as "a community of online diaries and journals."  


    Of course, it's a community.  There's no question about that.  But of online diaries and journals?  hrm.  My journal meets your journal.  My journal likes your journal.  Your journal finds my journal attractive, too.  Our journals bond and form a community!  A community of journals we have thus become.


    No, I don't think so.  Any assemblage of diaries and journals, in and of themselves, will never be more than a collection.  But Xanga is more than a collection.  It is a community. It's a community that has  formed itself historically largely through the sharing of online diaries and journals. 


    But, that still leaves the question, what is it a community of


    Would-Be's?  Wanna-Be's?  Writers?  Voyeurs?  Lonely Hearts?  Friends?


    moniet, in response to my challenge above has responded in a comment:


    "I think Xanga has bigger problems than it's definition of itself."


    My response to that?


    I don't see Xanga as having that many problems.  I do see it as having challenges and opportunities to embrace.  In order to embrace new challenges and opportunities, it needs to constantly redefine itself in light of the choices it has and shall make.


    "What is Xanga?"  is a question whose answer has changed over the years and will continue to change, to evolve.  I'm merely pointing out that a change, a newness, in the response to that question now seems timely due.

  • This is really an interesting "behind the scenes" perspective on the origin of Xanga:


    "This was john's idea for xanga back in 1998 but I was crazy for blogs"


    That's Biz Stone, known as Genius on xanga, linking from his current blog, www.bizstone.com. to junklog.com which is self-described as " ...a site for logging and rating what you've read, watched, listened to and played."


    Biz Stone, aka Genius, of course, was the original "Creative Director" of Xanga who then moved on to Google's Blogger and has now moved on to Odeo, Inc. 


    So what's Biz saying?


    He's suggesting that Xanga as a blogging community is the result of his passion and NOT John's (current Xanga CEO) more junklog-like predilection. 


    If it wasn't for Biz, Xanga would be junk, too.  So boasts Biz.

  • *sees rat*
    *sees rat's ass*
    *desire rat's ass for purposes undisclosed even to himself*
    *takes rat's ass in one violent motion*
    *sees poor rat without an ass, squirming*
    *gives rat's ass back to rat*
    *makes Rat his pet, loves Rat*

    Hell if I'll ever give a rat's ass.

  • I just created a PHP applet as a little xanga diversion. 
    Please feel free to participate, confess, or brag. 
    (Clicking 'next' to see other responses takes you away from xanga. 
    But it's okay - I know you can find your way back   hint: <-
    Or (better yet)...
    ...if you just want to stay here to see what others say, hit your browser's refresh.)




    What's your most thrilling moment on xanga ever?
    Can't see the app above? Click
    here.

  • don’t often come her with negative feelings.  don’t believe too much in discouraging words.  but once in a while you’ve got to fling the cowpie.  by this post, consider it flung.


     


    Just a collective letdown.  


     


    What?  Yeah, what am I talking about?


     


    You name it. 


     


    Xanga?   Sometimes useful and interesting, but unthrilling.  (Was it ever thrilling?  Yes, it was.  But there’s no going back.)


     


    America?  Not unlivable but unenlightened; and dancing to the music of civilizational doom.


     


    Women?  I’ve said enough.  Not going to say anything more.


     


    Let’s stop being so damn inter-passive and enabling the passive-aggressors.


     


    On the brighter side, a swoop of all sorts of spring birds (robins and other songbirds) have just today descended upon Dreamland.  Never, never before this early in the winter, have I witnessed the return migrations of so many spring-hungry birds.  Warning: the birds don’t lie—their survival hinges upon their migratory judgments.  Conclusion?  Global climate change is upon us, more pressing with each moment.


     


    Oh, yes, and on the brighter side, I just ran another 5 miles in Dreamland.  And while it’s not scorching hot (just about 40 F and calm), it’s pleasant enough to sit slumped against an obelisk and ponder future battlegrounds.


     


    May God save the environment.  And leave it at least moderately habitable for the aliens that succeed us.

  • Life's exciting, even as it somewhat disappoints.


    Hey, a new entry to add to my Xanga chronology (3 posts below):


    ->1/20/2006     "the dancopalypse" finally redesigns his blog getting rid broken links and the hideous blue background and then immediately retires from Xanga.  Thousands of proppers huddle to bid farewell.<-

     

    I spent part of the morning updating the Xanga entry on Wickipedia.  It was horribly outdated, loaded with inaccuracies, and posturing a somewhat anti-Xangan tone.  If my updates aren't "editorially reversed" in a day or so, I'll continue to augment the entry.  Yes, I shall finally tell the tale of Bianca Broussard!

     

    On Friday morning, when I realized the dancopalypse's blog had been hacked by a phisher (see second last item in the Chronology of Xanga 3 posts below), I first notified John.  Then I determined the owner of the phishing domain (really easy-just a 'whois' lookup) and I called him.  I got his secretary instead, who insisted her boss was much too moral, upright, and busy to be doing such things.  Oh yes, she also mentioned that her boss was on the road, gave me his itinerary and another phone number where I might reach him.  I then called that number-and got another secretary.  She took my number and promised that her boss would call me back.  He did.  And when he did, he must have thought I was a cop or a xanga admin because he explained to me that it wasn't him, but his son who worked for him that did the hacking.  And that his son was probably going to lose his job.  And that he was very sorry and already sent Xanga a formal letter of apology, etc., etc.   I believe that John and Xanga had already tracked the matter down, but for one brief shining moment I felt like a secret super-hero cyber-sleuth. 

     

    I ran 5.25 miles in Dreamland just before sunset.  Sitting alone in a cyber-cafe at this moment.  Dreaming on...


  • More high green =
    Low no-green =
    Soaring, high solitary x's =
    Herds of congregated, baseline x's =

    Last major crash and burn was during the major equipment addition  week circa 
    Feb.1, 2005 .


    Relax and unwind playing with the applet in post below.


    And, if you haven't already, check out (and offer suggestions for) the Chronology of Xanga in the post below that.



  • Unwind on me.  Use mouse or other instrument of entry.  Can't see?  Go here.


    After you've unwound, check out the Chronology of Xanga below.

  • A Growing Chronology of Xanga


     


    1998    This is really an interesting "behind the scenes" perspective on the origin of Xanga:


    "This was john's idea for xanga back in 1998 but I was crazy for blogs"


    That's Biz Stone, known as Genius on xanga, linking from his current blog, www.bizstone.com. to junklog.com which is self-described as " ...a site for logging and rating what you've read, watched, listened to and played."


    Biz Stone, aka Genius, of course, was the original "Creative Director" of Xanga who then moved on to Google's Blogger and has now moved on to Odeo, Inc. 


    So what's Biz saying?


    He's suggesting that Xanga as a blogging community is the result of his passion and NOT John's (current Xanga CEO) more junklog-like predilection. 


    If it wasn't for Biz, Xanga would be junk, too.  So boasts Biz.


    10/1998        Xanga starts up in a form that would be barely identifiable today.
    Jewel is the first initially identifiable user.


     


    11/1999         Xanga Alpha (not public).


     


     05/2000        Beta Xanga (still not public) defines itself as a site for small online entrepreneurs to become affiliates (think: Amazon.com) and write/sharereviews.


     


    10-2000         The Xanga testbed gets hotter, but still not public.


     



    11/05/2000     First xanga post with a link in it. (...by John, Xanga CEO-type).


     


    11/29/2000     The soon-to-be infamous ‘bianca’ (“Bianca Broussard”) is created and developed for PR purposes; there are several ‘bloggers’ about, but most, if not all, are apparently either 1) related to the Xanga enterprise by inside invitation or 2) fictional personalities created to shake out the testbed and to create a pre-public and fictitious sense of community.


     


    12/18-19/2000 Xanga goes bigtime public as the first GeoCities members respond to a spam email recruitment from Bianca Broussard, a fictional PR personality of Xanga.


     


    12/20/2000     ‘notforprophet’ is born; he gets the strange intuition that not everyone in the neighborhood is for real.


     






    12/26/2000     I identify the first real “face” behind the Xanga enterprise.


     


    12/30/2000     I identify more real “faces” behind Xanga.  Membership climbs approx. 1,595 to 1,734 from 12/28 to 12/29 --which amounts to a one day increase of 9%.


     


    3/7/2001        Blogrings are introduced.


     


    3/10/2001       Angelfire spam recruitment underway (Bianca returns after 1-2 month hiatus).


     


    4/28/2001       Bianca is deactivated!


     


    5/2001            Many structural changes to popularity and ranking metrics; Premium ($$) appears.


     


    5/8/2001       savvyweaklink host's Xanga's Weakest Link as a flaming spoof of the new wave of reality TV (Survivor) as well as "The Weakest Link."  The challenge?   "Who is allergic to intelligence? Whose typing is quicker than their mind? Who is running on empty?"


     


    10/22/2001     "nfp, i think we have close to 40k members now...  that alphabetical list started to be too much of a strain on our servers."


    Posted 10/22/2001 at 1:50 PM by john

     


    10/30/2001  Genius, aka Biz Stone, the former Creative Director (and father of Bianca) leaves Xanga.  He eventually goes on to become part of the Blogger team at Google and now most recently resides at Odeo, Inc.


     


    Winter 2002    “Xangalympics” is aggressively marketed by Xanga to its members, with the winner to get Lifetime membership, and the winning ‘Team’ to get other prizes.  Winners are never announced.


     


    1/25/2002       James, the daily fix for a strong following of Xangans,  "leaves" Xanga (returns 2 weeks later).


     


    2/5/2002       The first mobile blog webcam in the world is featured on Xanga.  The WebCamMan streams live video into his post while driving down the highway and toreibjo, a blogger from Norway, comments live: "I can see the road from the inside of a car.   You the movie!  This is way way cool!"


     


    2/6/2002      urnightmare (now banned) becomes the 1st Grand Flame, the first grand disrupter of  Xangatown.  After he moved into the hood, you could never totally trust your neighbor again.


     


    3/5/2002        the great Xanga coder, the one and only seanmeister (since defunct, now just sean) discerns a code that allows the insertion of graphical comments (i.e., pictures, avatars, animated gifs, backgrounds, etc. along with words - see associated link for examples of what it looked like) on posts.  Thus begins the short-lived Komment Revolution.  Xanga would later "tighten up" the code to prevent such comments.


     


    6/22/2002      Membership is estimated at 100,000 bloggers and traffic at a million hits a day.


     


    7/2002            Xanga Store announced (never launches, now defunct).


                           Xanga Personals (date and mate-matching) started (defunct as of 2/26/2004).


     


    7/29/2002       The Asian community on Xanga (now 95% of all bloggers) coalesces and ascends to the top of Featured Content.


     


    8/6/2002       The first Xanga Blogchat is hosted on this blog.  It finally brings assorted Xangans together for the first group interactive chat.


     


    8/20/2002      Blocked Users feature is introduded for Premium users.  CEO John toys with advertising Xanga's 10 Most Wanted (most often blocked) list, but the list never surfaces.  Free Blocking (for non-Premium users) kicks in on 10/17/2002.


     


    9/7/2002        Featured Content is divided into Premium and Classic views with Premium as the default.  John believes this will guarantee "No more social propping - just stories, musings, pictures, fiction..."  Ha!


     


    10/15/2002     "International Xanga Meetup Day" is sniffed out and scooped by nfp before an official Xanga announcement is made.   Monsur concedes that the scoop forces their hand and so Xanga Meetups finally birth


                          


    Heh, John set that up a while ago, but the original date wasn't convenient, so we held off on announcing it until it was all set...  I was never aware that they rescheduled it... A weekend might be better, what with all the school kids on Xanga; and a lot of the venues (at least the NYC venues) seem like over-21 places.  But now that you've scooped it, it looks like we'll have to go through with it! 

    Posted 10/15/2002 at 1:13 PM by monsur - delete - block user

     


    1/10/2003        nfp subscribes Pres. George Bush to his blog.  Xanga's CEO John passes the White House's response back to nfp.


     


    8/25/2003        Xanga introduces Protected Postings.  Condom use will never be the same again.


     


    12/20/2003      In relative obscurity, this unfinished chronology of Xanga first gets devised.


     


    3/12/2004       Xanga gets a Wickipedia entry.  Current one here.


     


    10/2004            BlackCat69 goes Protected.  Henceforth, all the sex he is having with underage xangan females (that he has used his xanga to lure) will be safe.  Somewhat later, blackcat69 morphs into Gucci_Man.  The world population of cats is relieved by the disassociation.


     


    10/10/2004       Xanga Metros launched.  Xangans in small towns feel even more distanced (j. kiddin )


     


    10/22/2004      Featured Content gets filtered to bar Adult Content.


     


    12/30/2004      Attack of the Killer Xanga


    Various, 2005     Xanga bloggers make the news (as Xanga bloggers)...


    In March 2005, 2 students at Grand Ledge High School used Xanga (and Myspace) to post entries which included death threats against a teacher.


    In April 2005, the Fresno Bee reported that students at Buchanan High School in Clovis, California were using Xanga to insult and threaten their classmates. Also, cyber-bullying at classmates and family members was reported.


    On May 17, 2005, police used a murder victim's last Xanga entry to identify his and his sister's killer


    In September 2005, Our Lady Of Peace Middle School in Columbus, OH expelled a student for insulting both teachers and students on her Xanga.


    Recently on December 8, 2005, Students of Taft High School of Chicago, IL have been suspended for posting threats about teachers and students.


    In early December 2005, police in Dublin, OH arrested a 14 year old boy for posting death threats on his Xanga site, threatening to kill classmates and teachers.


    1/14/2005          fuck gets totally Featured !  then fuck gets immediately banned (fucked?).  (followup: fuck knew the xangods and has since phoenixed once again.)


     


    7/29/2005         "the dancopalypse" is upon us.  (See post below)


     


    8/23/2005         Xanga finally has a Search that works.  But it only has a 2 month memory.


     


    12/12/2005       Xanga hosts an estimated 21 million blogs.


     


    12/20/2005        'notforprophet', upon his 5th xangaversery, reckons that he's 120 cyber-years old.  (based upon observation that 3 years is the normal span for a PC under warranty, of support for "supported" software versions, and for the average serious blogger to hang on to dear bloglife.  And yes, lcsaph, was there with him at the start - and it was not a coincidence.


     


    12/31/2005       Say goodbye to Lifetime Premium.  It's shelved as Xanga introduces Premium Plus.


     


    1/18/2006       "the dancopalypse" starts a rumor?   No, it must be true!

    There is a xanga virus going around and I wanted information on what to do about it.



    Posted 1/18/2006 at 8:52 AM by TheTheologiansCafe

     

    update:  It turns out the TheTheologiansCafe blog was the unwitting host of a phishing attack upon his readers this morning; it was not a virus or a blogworm.  And his blog alone appears to have been the sponsor.  The phisher has been outed.  All's lala in Xangaland again.

     

    1/20/2006     "the dancopalypse" finally redesigns his blog-replacing the profile pic, putting up a banner, getting rid of broken links and the hideous blue background-and then immediately retires from Xanga.  Thousands of proppers huddle to bid farewell.

     

    Got input?  I'll update.   Really, has anything happened in the last 2 years?  Or did I miss something important earlier along the way?

  • I've no doubt whatsoever that if I worked the 'Jesus' blog for a week that I could knock TheTheologiansCafe out of the Featured Content top spot.  No effin doubt.


    But I've neither the time or desire right now .  Especially not the time.


    Unless someone wants to pay me to stop what wutuwaitn4 calls "the dancopalypse" ...


    dan3


    as you can clearly see, the real secret to getting on featured content is to for him to stop writing a million entries a day.  why doesn't he just update 50 times a day.  then xanga can change "featured weblog entries" to "featured thetheologiancafe entries."  kidding.  but seriously, i could care less if he took up all of featured content.  it's the fact that tries to put up this xanga hero facade, when all he's doing is looking for glory, that irks me.  if he truly wanted to help people get on featured content, he would not hog up half of it.  other than this, i have no problem with the guy.  in fact, i was even subscribed to him.


      -from a post by wutuwaitn4


    (my observations: 1- how dare that girl up there ruin the hegemony?   and 2- TheTheologiansCafe serves the role essentially of a high-school freshman social science/psychology teacher catering with "Questions for Discussion" to dubiously receptive young xangan sponge-minds.  )


    The only way I'd intentionally delve back into the FC squealing contest, other than as a hand hired to depose TheTheologiansCafe, would be if someone convinced me (or I convinced myself) it was a desperately needed public service to the Xanga community.  Yes, I have that soft spot still.

  • If I ever grow tired or embarrassed of 'notforprophet', whom might I become?


    Let's see...  


    On the lighter side I got the inside on:


    GodGoddess, Sun, Jewel, Chocolate, Summer, Jesus, Jesus_Christ,  Christ, and Pan.


    On the darker side I got the inside on:


    fuck, tit, cum, clit.  I had cock and cunt, too, but xanga shut them down even though they had never been used (xangan virgins forever).  I would have had benevolentMitch, too, but Mitch beat me to the name by about 30 seconds.


    I have about 80 other very classy and entirely classless idle aliases, too. 


    Why did I, in the very early days of xanga, corral these and unnamed others? 


    Some because I liked them.


    Some because I detested them and didn't want anybody else harrassing me with comments therefrom.


    Some because I simply respected them and didn't want them ever sleezily profaned by vulgar bloggers I foresaw arriving in my wake. (Yes, my preternatural vision was fulfilled.   *looks around at all the xanga mindwaste*  Or, should I say, over-fulfilled?)


    Who's the (un-notted) Prophet?


    Who's the (the most enigmatic) Master?


    Who are You?  Who, Who, Who, Who (else) are you?

  • Things are seeming rather dysfunctioned, not just here on Xanga but also about in my real world.  The energy of it all seems a bit askew.  It seems that, although I can't make much sense of things, I should be able to.  As if there's a critical piece of explanatory information I'm lacking that would put everything back into a comprehensible array.  But it's being hidden or hiding from my view.  And, hence, my intelligence is faulty, incomplete.


    My challenge, in response, is now synesthetic: to allow  real information provided by one sense to float unbounded and become accompanied by input from another sense, other senses, other collaborations of heart and psyche.  


    Violate conventional perception.  Blank the fill-ins.  Ask a beautiful question.  Behold as the world responds.

  • I may be dead. 


    But I'm not gone.

  • There are places untouched, that shall never be touched. 


    Even in this world. 


    Collectively, the leaders of the nations of the world howl like agitated monkeys believing they can avalanche all mountains into piles of trudgeable dust.

  • One Dangerous and Thus Stupid Religious Ritual


    1) The Hajj is the stone-throwing ritual in Mecca in which Muslim pilgrims stone a symbolic devil.


    2) Every able-bodied Muslim who can afford the trip is obliged to perform the Hajj to Mecca once in a lifetime.


    3) The Hajj has been connected with deadly incidents in the past, most of them stampedes that take place during the ceremonies.


    4) The worst stampede happened in 1990, when 1,426 pilgrims were trampled to death.


    5) 251 pilgrims died in 2004 in a stampede during the stone-throwing ritual.


    6) A stampede in 2003 killed 36 pilgrims, most of them en route to the devil-stoning ritual, conducted outside Mecca.


    7) In 2001, a stampede at the same ritual killed 35.


    8) Today, at least 345 are reported dead in a devil-stoning stampede.


    9) Seems to me that the ritual itself is the devil, not the symbol they stampede to assualt.


    10) Of course, the religiously zealot will blame 'the real devil' for this evil, not their insistence on reckless ceremonies.


    11)  If in the future they decide to keep this up, the tourist industry in Mecca should play it up to foreign audiences like Spain does the Running of the Bulls in Pamplona.  Then, at least, they would profit somewhat more from this fairly predictable tragedy.


    12)  Or perhaps they could just put some devil heads on bulls and let them run through the devil-stoning crowds.  The bulls, before being stoned to death, would probably wreak less havoc than the stampeding humans do now upon themselves.


    13) On second thought, dash that last suggestion: the bulls aren't really devils and they aren't Muslims either.  Hence, no reason for them to spin death's wheel at Stampede Central.


    14) I believe this ritual and its almost predictable tragic outcome is symbolic of what's at core wrong with Islam: it fails to constrain it own tendencies to slip into extremes, whether those extremes consist of stupid human stampedes or anti-crusading Islamic terror.


    15) I wonder if Osama bin Laden has done his Hajj yet?  If not, maybe it's our best chance to take him out... I can see the Muslim Headlines now: "Osama dies in a devil-stoning stampede believed to have been instigated by the CIA."


    16) Well, they'll stone ya when you're trying to be so good,
    They'll stone ya just a-like they said they would.
    They'll stone ya when you're tryin' to go home.
    Then they'll stone ya when you're there all alone.
    But I would not feel so all alone,
    Everybody must get stoned.

  •    Can anyone tell me why this man's head is always bobbling?



    Unlike Roberts, Alito is no star on TV. The Washington Post's Dana Milbank dubbed him "bobblehead," and the Post reporter had a point - even if, of course, it's extremely unlikely that a Postie would have made a disparaging characterization of any physical characteristic of a nonwhite male nominee.  - Newsday.com


       And can anyone tell me how it could never occur to a governor of the great state of California to get a motorcycle license?



    It has been revealed that California governor and former ‘Terminator’ Arnold Schwarzenegger was illegally riding his Harley Davidson when he was involved in an accident with another vehicle. Arnie said yesterday that he never bothered to obtain the proper motorcycle licence as he "never thought about it".  And this guy is in charge of a whole state?  -entertainmentwise.com



      The notorious Dreamland squirrel that has been channeling spirits has apparently determined that Mother Heintz was, indeed, nuttier than Father.



  • Jen, my daughter, was thrilled on her birthday to get a reproduction  from her uncle (my brother) of an old "lost" photo of her grandma and grandpa (my mom and dad) on their wedding day.

  • it’s wintertime and the diamond dust dogs


    progressively invade the sky


    while i run around a dam


    proclaiming my o my .


     


    filtered sunlight as soft as chamois


    tags along with a gentle breeze


    that tingles my ears with a tease


    suggestive of devon’s naughty whispers .


     


    I could close my eyes (and fall and be with her)


    but I can’t close my eyes (and run without falling) -


    so perplexing this world that makes you choose ‘this’ or ‘that’


    when clearly the body-heart seeks a more perfect communion .


     


    but the breeze licks not as warm as devon’s tongue


    and the sunlight seems not as bright as devon’s gaze,


    so I close my eyes and still let my feet fly


    tumbling head-over-heels (water over the dam) . 

  • The weather girl's tits on CNN this morning are so big that I can't see all that's going on behind on the map.  Tits in the forecast?

  •    Chinese word of the day:   , blog or blogger (pronounced ) .


       To find out who the Master is, yes, really, who the Master is, dial Hurricane Labs (provides Information Security training) at 216-923-1330  < ph:        >  listen to the options, and choose accordingly. 


       I'll be attending local training at the above location soon instead of a week-long work-sponsored trip to San Francisco.  Boy, aren't I lucky?


       One topic to be covered: "Use manual techniques to gain access to sensitive information".   hrmmm.  


       Another topic: "Web Site Defacement: A Blending of Styles".  Geez, I thought I was doing a pretty good job of defacing my blog using just my own  style.


        Wonder why I'm injecting more and more Chinese characters into my posts?  I'm expecting that in a couple of years 60-70% of Xangans will read Chinese and only Chinese .  I'm ramping up now.  As soon as I get good enough, I can post like fauquet - multilingually!


       Okay.  There is another reason.  A selfish one.  Injecting Chinese is keeping me interested in updating.  Will probably last another day or so.


       It's probably safer than injecting heroin, don't ya think?


       *wonders what this post would look like injected with heroin?*



     


    Ever feel you could say much the same about some of those you've fallen in love with?  hrmmm.

  •    I think Xanga should give a car away to whomever's awarded the billionth eprop.  Yep, that's the incentive I need.  A Propmobile.


       Is there any way to automatically block anyone who has a Xanga name beginning with 'n' and ending with a 't' from one's site?  Of course, you're wondering "Why would anyone want to do that?"


      Also useful would be a comment option that automatically blocks any comment longer than, say, 30 lines since such comments are almost certainly spam.  Go ahead and call me a killjoy.


        Today, so far, has been remarkably uninspiring.  I think I need to shake up this world. 


        Confucius said that if you want to shake up the world, you should first shake up yourself.  *shakes uncontrollably*


         Since the world ends not with a bang but with a whimper, shouldn't I just start and keep banging and thus save mankind - at least during my watch?


        Could the person who removed the million or so dollars that was in my bank account kindly put it back?  Thanks, in advance.  I'll just go ahead and write my checks in anticipation of your compliance.


       We're all cheaters.  I really do believe that Death is the default from Day 1 and that every day we live is a cheat.  Cheating death is always just the matter of sleeping adulterously with Life.


        I once started a campfire at night on the bank of a mountain lake high in the Sierra Nevadas that shot glowing embers 70 feet into the sky.  I'm now craving the spectacle of that again.  Of course, having matured somewhat, I'd today take greater care to insure that the surrounding forest was not at as dire a risk of burning down.


      A great regret I have is not remembering or recording where I buried all those time capsules I buried when I was a kid.  I used to write and bury many of my writings.  Hold on...blogging's sort of the same, isn't it?  I mean, you write a post and then it gets buried and forgotten in time.  Hey, I was primitively blogging decades ago!

  • 1) "We've built a new Xanga Dashboard with Real-Time Feedback! more from marc..."
    How long do we have to put up with 'more' from marc?  Don't get me wrong: I love marc.  But I crave change, too. 
     If only in the headlines.


    2) "I know you better than you care to admit."   I do care.  Your proximity just leaves me practically speechless.

    3) I have two secret buttons embedded on my body.  One says "Erotic".  The other says    "Transform Me".  Which choose you, if you dare and care to choose?

    4) I've been, at times, categorized as a sweet-talker.  I see myself, rather, as a sweet-admitter.  Shit can spew from any mouth.  But only the heart comes from the heart.


    5) Lots of mining in the news.  West Virginia mine disasters.  NSA data-mining excesses.  It all sucks.  Which is more undermining of our cherished  holdings?  Rights as cheap as coal.


    6) Slush in the forecast.  Why can't the Air Force seed the clouds with cherry Crystal Lite?  Then we could slurp it up with straws.


    7) Hugs and kisses.  Hugs and kisses.  Hugs and kisses. Hugs and kisses. 
         Isn't it awesome?


    8) While running in Dreamland the other day, I passed a tree harboring a shoddy, abandoned bird's nest, exposed with the departure of leaves. It was lodged upon a very low-lying branch and I impulsively pulled and flung that branch.  The nest exploded and a folded, wet dollar bill fell out to ground.


    9) Yes, it was abandoned.  Don't dare question the astuteness of my nature observations.


    10) I've been invited at a TechFest to give a presentation on setting up a secure home wireless network.  Trouble is there is no such thing.  But that won't stop me.

  • 1) Down to Earth.  Lolling in wet leaves.  Stuffed 25 30-gallon compost bags full yesterday.


    2) Sore.  An hour of running after those two hours of leaf-picking.  A pretty girl smiled as I ran past her.  But she wasn't smiling for me.


    3) What's up with northern California?  Need a boat to get around anymore. Plains wildfires destroyed a Texas town called Ringgold...Johnny singing "A burning ring of fire".  And tornadp warnings around St Louis in January?  Someone wrmed that the "times are a'changin".


    4) Spies abound.  *looks around*  Oh, there's one!  No, that's a mirror.


    5) Got to love TV weather forecasts when they plaster a dozen Suns on the map.  Always makes me wonder what it would be like to live under the influence of multiple sultry stars.


    6) Got to love even more multiple Santas displayed on a lawn.  Once counted 18. To me as a kid, this was proof-positive there was no one real Santa.


    7) Spies rebound.  Online.  'Little girls' on Xanga who are actually U.S. Marshals, Cyber Crime division.  Damn you, stop trying to entrap me.  I don't need your stinking eprops.


    8) January 29, 2006.  Year of the Dog.  Woof woof.


    9) The sun rises?  Ah, no.  We turn under it, ever slow.


    10) Life's a short fuck.  Don't get caught watching (smiles).

  • 1) Angry.  Pissed.  Disconsolate.
        Without her.


    2) The year has begun without me.  Damn.
         Going to skip to 2007.


    3) *skips*


    4) Running's more fun.  More fun than skipping?  No, more fun than fantasizing an erotic involvement with Paris Hilton.


    5) Does money have a greater attraction than psychedelic dementia?  Depends who you are. But it's pretty much independent on whether you know who you are or not.


    6) There's nothing like raking leaves on New Year's Day.  Unless one has the opportunity to shovel snow on July 4th.


    7) Tease me, beguile me not.  Unless it's for profit.  Then cut me in, after the fact, and we'll have a good laugh as we get drunk together.


    8) Seeing the sun shine is like seeing the sun shine is like seeing the sun shine is like seeing the sun shine.


    9) We all breathe in, breathe out.  But which of us are pre-synchronized for 'in and out' together?


    10) Together?  The male perspective: to get her.

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