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So I mentioned a couple weeks ago that I was interviewed for a newspaper article. It ran last week in the Washington Post (check the comments section of this post for a login and password). It was supposed to run yesterday and have photos (they contacted me last week for a shoot), but it looks like it ran early and was scaled back quite a bit. The reporter mentioned me by name but neglected to mention that my vote-selling offer was a facetious political statement rather than a serious offer. Now I’m probably on some Secret Service watch list.

Three cheers for journalistic integrity!

So I know I haven’t done much with this site in a while, which is due to several factors, foremost of which being lack of time, and a general feeling of waning creativity. I’m not sure when this will change, but I’ll add stuff here and there as I can.

Something happened today that brought this site back to the front of my mind. I received an e-mail from a reporter from a nationally-known newspaper, asking me to talk about a post I wrote several months ago as part of a story she is writing on the topic. She interviewed me over the phone this afternoon. I don’t know if I’ll make it into the finished article, but if I do, I’ll be sure to post it.

Update: The article was published on 7/22/04.

Hello, all!

I’m ridiculously busy with work right now, hence the complete lack of new material here. But I just wanted to stop in to tell you guys about a new page I’m starting. It’s a brain dump for all the technical stuff I run across everyday, and don’t want to lose track of. If you’re not a tech head, you’ll probably not find it terribly interesting, but if you work (or play) with computers, come on by and take a look around.

VoodooTech

As seen on Slashdot today:

A man is flying in a hot air balloon and realizes he is lost. He reduces height and spots a man down below. He lowers the balloon further and shouts:

“Well”, says the man, “you don’t know where you are, or where you’re going, but you expect me to be able to help. You’re in the same position you were before we met, but now it’s my fault.”

Now you understand why I am so bitter and surly.

Our friend Cait has found my cat alter-ego in “Voodoo” the cat. Voodoo is dressed in pirate garb, which only goes to further my suspicions that cats are, by nature, scoundrels and ne’er-do-wells. But, while most cats try to pull one over on us by being cute and playing innocuously with balls of yarn, Voodoo makes no qualms about who he is. Voodoo does not want to play with you. In fact, if Voodoo had not lost his vessel in a high-stakes poker game in some Caribbean pirates’ cove, he would keel haul you in a second. Voodoo is one scurvy dog of a cat.

Meanwhile, he’s just biding his time… and eating fancy cat food from one of those crystal bowls like you see in the commercials. Arrrrrgh!

Some days he finds himself among walking corpses, great crowds of the dead, all of them refusing to admit they’re done for, corpses mutinously continuing to behave like living people, shopping, catching buses, flirting, going home to make love, smoking cigarettes. But you’re dead, he shouts at them. Zombies, get into your graves.

– Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses

Dear comments spammer at 66.36.249.149,

If we ever meet, I hope to stab you with a rusty spoon 175 times - once for each spam comment you left on my site.

I hope you die of hemorrhagic fever.

Best regards,
justis

Happy Voodoo Day, everyone!

This is a photograph of a Pygmy Marmoset - the smallest species of monkey in the world. They weigh an average of four ounces fully-grown. They live in rainforests in sections of Central and South America (specifically western Brazil, southeastern Colombia, eastern Ecuador, and eastern Peru).

The Pygmy Marmoset is not the smallest primate in the world though. That distinction currently belongs to the Pygmy Mouse Lemur of Madagascar which weighs an average of only 30.6 grams. (1 ounce = 28.35 grams)

Hey everyone…

I know I’ve been quiet lately (again), but I’m working on something really cool for the holidays that’s going to involve all of you (and hopefully your friends, family, and neighbors too). I’m not going to say anything specific about it until I make it official, but I will say this for now…

If you’re about to buy holiday gifts online, please wait just a couple more days!

UPDATE: December 02, 2003, 16:38

After the cold meds wore off and I thought about this a little more, I’ve realized that I just don’t have enough time to do this The Right Way™ this year, so I’m going to shelve this idea for next year.

We now return to our regularly-scheduled programming.

UPDATE AGAIN: December 04, 2003, 23:05

OK - For those of you who have been dying to know what my plan was, check out my explanation in the comments section for this post.