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May 30, 2003
Body in the water
The park across the street was closed today.
They were searching for a body in the water.
We explained to T that we couldn’t go to the swings.
The police landrover looked a bit like a choo-choo train.
Posted by Nicklas at 11:03 PM
May 27, 2003
Searching for Alice Cooper
I was looking for something else.
After entering the search string "Alice Cooper" in my email client, I found this mid-thread email from 1997.
Now, six years later, when the context is largely forgotten, the email takes on an almost poetic lunacy, and I felt obliged to share it, spelling mistakes and all, with you, dear reader.
My Lady,
> ah, a Kaiser Solseg of the heavy metal world, > tell me more, did he work > with Alice Cooper or Ozzy Osbourne during the 70's > - this hint may be all i need..... Alice Cooper got his name from a witch, burned on the stake a few houndred years ago. Milton Svarfega got his name from two superb cleaning products, Milton (a sterilization liquid for the catering buisness) and Swarfega (A heavy duty hand cleanser) And that will be the end of this matter [?] > > Could we from now on, to avoid unnecessary confusion, and maybe blodshed, > > referf to ir as " the kebab incident" > yes. Or "The Doner Dilemma"? > Hush, you! I've purchased some for dear Margaret which i thought were > appropriate. don't tell a soul, but you shall have some shortly. > And yes, I suppose you can't hang a magnet on the underground entrance to > the larder or root cellar, now can you? Ah! exiting news! I wont tell, of course. Silent as the grave, or the brick wall, as one might say. And you can't house a leprechaun in a fridgefreezer, were a larder makes a splendid habitat for said gnometype creature. And we, with our imperialistic glasses on, see this as underdevelopment or retardization. and who is > marcus garvey ? Any relation to A.C. Swinburne? I will be your Magdalena
Posted by Nicklas at 11:50 PM
May 25, 2003
Happy Half
O is six months old today. We salute you, wonderboy.
Posted by Nicklas at 09:39 PM
May 23, 2003
Puerile Friday Afternoon
Sites that are funny if you speak a bit of Swedish
More as I find them…
Posted by Nicklas at 01:46 PM | Comments (2)
Now available in Safari
I really don’t know if it was me or the browser, but for as long as I can remember Eljestwhere hasn’t worked well in Safari.
The main “container” that but the black 1 pixel borders around the content was showing up like a small black smudge in the top corner of the apple browser.
Unsightly and annoying, like that unscratchable itch, eljestwhere was playing nice with Camino, IE 5 and 6, and every browser under the sun apart from Safari.
So I had to go away and sit in a forest for a few days and contemplate.
Then I redesigned the styleshhet slightly, and lo.
it displays beautifully.
Now I can go back to filling the site with content, knowing that my borders are well defined.
Posted by Nicklas at 12:32 AM | TrackBack
May 19, 2003
Dirified and Ready to Go
Eljestwhere has been updated. All entries now have names that makes sense to humans.
Thanks to Nothing New - where you can pick up a step by step guide in how to make MT perform even smarter.
Now it’s time for bed.
Posted by Nicklas at 12:36 AM
May 14, 2003
Go Faster Stripes, where can I get them?
I am in the process of giving takete.com a small makeover.
Working at my current pace we should see something resembling a beta version sometime around the middle of August.
I have also made a firm commitment that mylittlerobot will be finished before my youngest son starts College.
I have commenced a correspondence course in the art of kicking myself up the arse.
Posted by Nicklas at 12:11 AM
May 13, 2003
Lucky 13
Bare Bones Software celebrates their tenth birthday with a 10% discount on all their products.
I guess that finally, after months and months of agonising, choosing to purchase BBEdit on the 12th wasn’t such a swift move after all.
It proves that things are always better left ‘til tommorow.
Posted by Nicklas at 09:03 PM
May 09, 2003
Equipment Needed
This unsolicited mail bounced into my Spam mailbox a few minutes ago.Can you help Cecelia?
From: "Cecelia Hancock" <nic@dalo.com> Subject: Needed Equitment s zbrwkuqkirf Date: Fri, 09 May 03 21:51:34 GMT X-Priority: 1 X-MSMail-Priority: High Greetings, We need a vendor who can offer immediate supply. I'm offering $5,000. US dollars just for referring a vender which is (Actually RELIABLE in providing the below equipment) Contact details of vendor required, including name and phone #. If they turn out to be reliable in supplying the below equipment I'll immediately pay you $5,000. We prefer to work with vendor in the Boston/New York area. 1. The mind warper generation 4 Dimensional Warp Generator # 52 4350a series wrist watch with z60 or better memory adapter. If in stock the AMD Dimensional Warp Generator module containing the GRC79 induction motor, two I80200 warp stabilizers, 256GB of SRAM, and two Analog Devices isolinear modules, This unit also has a menu driven GUI accessible on the front panel XID display. All in 1 units would be great if reliable models are available 2. The special 23200 or Acme 5X24 series time transducing capacitor with built in temporal displacement. Needed with complete jumper/auxiliary system 3. A reliable crystal Ionizor with unlimited memory backup. If your vendor turns out to be reliable, I owe you $5,000. Email his details to me at: powercrystals@firemail.de Please do not reply directly back to this email as it will only be bounced back to you. Thanks
Posted by Nicklas at 04:03 PM | Comments (9) | TrackBack
May 06, 2003
Whatever happened to Lamprey Systems?
“I gripped the pillow with my teeth and jerked my neck back and forth like one of Jerry’s Kids on bad acid. Saliva drooled from my mouth like water from a firehose. The rush of jism racing up my tube seemed to last for stroke after stroke until sacred Clitoria gasped, grunted, and pushed me from on top of her. “
Six years ago I received an email, several pages long, containing an explicit tale named “The Greek Inside Me” - this was my first encounter with PGP - the Application by Lamprey Systems that turned you 68k Mac into an instant filth generator.
Today I get sent the same story - the Librarian is dusting out his trusty old Powerbook, faithfully serving in it’s tenth year.
Attempting to trace the whereabouts of the makers of this fine piece of software, I stumble upon the following links:
(Look out for an early appearance of bOING bOING, looking good, as ever.)
Comforting the Weird with Robert Carr of Lamprey Systems
HexOn Exon - bOING bOING DIGITAL
The Great Blasphemous Mac Games of ROBERT CARR — CATALOG!
Robert Carr of Lamprey Systems: Interview
Update: The Toy Server still have some of Lamprey Systems software available to download.
Posted by Nicklas at 10:30 PM