I finally got to mess around with iChat/AV on my black MacBook this evening with Lee-Roy and his brand spanking new MacBook Pro. I know I’m a little late to the party on this but man that some wild ass shit – you can see and talk to a person through the computer, in real time? Like they do in the future? Did somebody just make a damn time machine and stick these MacBooks in them? What will those fuckers think of next? Anyway, since we were video chatting, Lee-Roy was able to show me his PEZ collection, including some Japanese PEZ dispensers. Like all things Japanese, they’re small, tiny and totally fucking weird. He’s got a Gachapin dispenser, his Yeti buddy Mukku and all the other folks in the video below. They promote athleticism. And if you stop the video before the end, you’ll miss the big finish at the end.
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Uh…well, I blew my blog up.
Yeay!
I think there are changes in store as I clean this place up. Or not.
For you, the biggest problem is the appearance of this guy – Â in all old posts. I’m not exactly sure of the extent of the problems on the back end.
If anybody out there is a wordpress master, I might need some help figuring this out.
There are problems around here…
I was sitting at my desk working, with the iTunes going and suddenly, I was struck by its genius. I began noticing a few songs ago with “Pop Goes the Weasel,” by 3rd Bass but it wasn’t until the recent transition from The National to Def Leppard that I realized that party shuffle is really in the zone. Check it out:
3rd Bass to The Clash to Moby to Jawbox to The National to Def Leppard to Marian McPartland and then the Twilight Singers? Isn’t that Colonel’s secret eleven herbs and spices for world peace?
The second thing that happened after we got home from the farm last week was that our DSL modem broke. It went kaput and now it’s Day 5 of our high speed internet drought. We have dial up but that’s like saying that your car is in the shop and you’re driving Fred Flintstone’s car.
After about ten calls and hours spent on the phone with EarthLink (now known as NoLink), they are are shuffling their feet about sending a new modem to us. They promised to overnight a new modem to us on Thursday and when I called yesterday to see where this modem was, I was told that it was never sent.
Instead, I got a whole lot of, “I understand why you are frustrated.”
I don’t need understanding.
I need a new modem.
After some more hiccups – one guy actually wanted to call Apple to see if Earthlink’s high speed modems were compatible to Macs – I finally got someone who was able to process what I wanted them to do.
“You can expect your modem in 2 – 3 business days,” she said
“Wait. I thought you said you were going to overnight it to me.”
“Yes. I’ll arrive in 2-3 business days.”
“So overnight doesn’t actually mean overnight. It’s means 2-3 business days.”
Then she tried to upsell me on some virus protection. What the fuck? Do I look like I just ordered a Big Mac and am waiting for the extra value meal offer?
Obviously, the lack of internet is making us a little stir crazy here. I don’t know how man ever survived without it.
I broke the shit out of my blog. This is the price I pay for:
1) changing themes like an asshole
2) not backing up like an asshole
3) procratinating like an asshole
Try to click a title link. It’ll tell you that it can’t find it. But its there. Somewhere. It’s like my blog had a stroke. Or an aneurysm. My last backup was in early December which would do me good only if I knew how to restore it and also restore what I’ve written since then.
So long story short: it’s limited capacity here. Sort of like Hong Kong has reverted back to China or something. You can see all the old posts by using that crazy slider up top. I am also going to up the posts on the front page to the maximum allowed.
*UPDATE: With the exception of the banner where Tcheky Karyo is not having time for any Mickey Mouse bullshit, we are back. Whew. At least I didn’t lose a thumb drive. That would have been disastrous.
The Year of the Pig has not been tasty for Nikki Nagasaki.
First, over the weekend, as she was in the final push to finish her hottt TV pilot, her computer crashed and she lost all of the work she had done that day.
Worse yet, it was stolen. From an internet cafe. In Hollywood.
As Ricky Tokyo says, “every writer’s nightmare.”
Ever the writer, she sees the dramatic possibilities in her misery:
This struggling screenwriter is staking out internet cafes trying to get over his writer’s block and make a few bucks at the same time…He almost hits delete on everything (so he can sell the thumbdrive for $5) but finds a script he just can’t stop reading. He claims it’s his and sells it making millions.
In a romantic comedy twist, he also finds a photo of the writer he stole from and falls in love.
He finds her, steals her from her fiance. And after she gives everything up for him, she finds out he’s a stupid petty theft moron.
In a thriller twist, she kills him.
In a horror twist, she kills him slowly.
You might be able to tell but she’s been watching a whole lot of Asian horror. Could Nikki Nagasaki become the new Takahasi Miike? Could Audition II: The Pitch be on the horizon? A documentary perhaps? Let this be a warning to whoever stole Nikki Nagasaki’s memory key: if you meet a Japanese girl who cozies up to you, be on the lookout for potato sacks.
Here are some steps you can take to secure your USB drive in the event it gets lost or stolen.
