Month: March 2000

Instead of calling people to beg for money for [DELETED], I’m finding myself required to call people to beg for them to call people to beg for money for the corps. What’s up with that? All I ever wanted to do was [DELETED].

I want a portable MiniDisc recorder for my birthday… but that ain’t gonna happen.

Although I’m pretty decent at it, customer relations sucks, especially when people are upset and have money owed to them by us.

I’m having major problems with the colors on my web cam. That’ll learn me for buying the cheap stuff. In fact, IBM doesn’t even have any information on this thing on their web site!

Just a tip, for all aspiring web designers out there.

If your site involves photos of kids, check the pictures once, then check them again. If you come across one that includes someone grabbing his crotch, don’t put it online. I repeat, don’t put it online.

I just bought four tickets to the Moxy Früvous concert, at the Grand Opera House in Wilmington, Delaware on Apr. 19th. I’m looking forward to it already…

Alright people, I just had a frickin’ awesome night. Here, I’ll tell you about it.

So Darren called me up and said, “Come on over, Ali’s making tacos.” So I did. We ate our tacos. We decided we wanted to wach the movie, American Pie, since I hadn’t seen it yet. We drove to West Coast Video, where at the counter, I almost whipped out my Blockbuster card. How foolish. We went back to their place and watched the movie. It was really funny… Especially the whole band camp thing. But anyway, we watched the movie and decided we needed ice cream. So we walked on over to the Halo Pub in Princeton. As we got in line, the four high school seniors (as we found out later) asked us if they could interview us for class, about Shakespeare. I said, sure, why not? So they asked me some Shakespeare questions, it was pretty cool.

So we decided to walk around Princeton with our ice cream. We ventured on to campus and walked around past all the dorms… eventually we came to an archway with a bunch of people hanging around. I told Darren, let’s walk through this bunch of people. He didn’t have any problems with that, so we did. But as we got through, we heard a girl pull out a pitch-pipe and start tuning people, and they were starting to get in an arc. I told Darren to wait because they were about to sing… So we stayed for the entire concert. It was the Princeton University Wildcats (all-girl a cappella choir) and the Carnegie Mellon University Originals.

It was nice walking around Princeton and realizing there is actually stuff to do around where we live… nice little restaurants, little bars with live music. I think I’l be spending some more time there in the future.

I know what you’re thinking, “That’s a pretty expensive haircut!” Actually, I forgot to mention I bought a whole mess of blank CD-R’s.

Well I spent $200 today, getting a haircut, an UltraDMA/66 card for my hard drive, a PC microphone, a web cam, and a USB hub. I feel pretty good about myself. I set up the cam but you’ll have to guess at the URL because I’m not sure I want lots of people staring in my life… not just yet… Now I’m off to Darren’s to eat some tacos and maybe watch a movie.

Ok listen up, guys. Amazon.com is using very unfair legal practices to keep its stronghold on the internet shopping scene. They were able to get a patent for something as basic as “one-click shopping” and has gone as far as to sue barnesandnoble.com because they, too, allow you to put a link on your own page to “check out” any item for sale. This is completely ridiculous… I strongly anyone to do their online shopping at places like CDNow! and Barnes and Noble. Here’s some more information.