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1. Kate Bush “Cloudbusting” • 2003 Aug 21 • This is the song that was sampled for “Something Good is Gonna Happen” by Utah Saints, which is a song that I remember from high school
2. Utah Saints “Something Good is Gonna Happen” • 2003 Aug 21 • See above
3. Radiohead “Kid A” • 2003 Aug 22 • A memory of parking in the dirt lot kitty corner from Cook County Hospital, and working in pediatrics.
4. Dream Academy “Life in a Northern Town” • 2003 Aug 22 • While sitting at the McD’s somewhere in Lake County, Illinois, I finally catch enough of the lyrics to this song to actually google it.
5. Dario G “Sunchyme” • 2003 Aug 22 • See above
6. Julio Iglesias and Willie Nelson “To All the Girls I’ve Loved Before” • 2003 Aug 24 • Bits and pieces of my childhood and my young adulthood come back to me in my dreams. My brain likes to rearrange geography and geometry, and I find places that I’ve never seen before familiar, while places that I’ve known like the back of my hand seem strange.
7. Radiohead “The Bends” • 2003 Aug 25 • The eponymous track from the great, underrated album
8. Coldplay “Clocks” • 2003 Aug 28 • I can’t be saved.
9. Cyndi Lauper “Time after Time” • 2003 Aug 28 • Cursing missed opportunities.
10. Red House Painters “All Mixed Up” • 2003 Sep 1 • A cover of The Cars on the “Excess Baggage” soundtrack.
11. A7 “Piece of Heaven (Central Seven Remix)” • 2003 Sep 3 • A song that makes me think of Robotech.
12. The Cure “Boys Don’t Cry” • 2003 Sep 3 • Thinking back to those days playing Wing Commander II.
13. Soft Cell “Sex Dwarf” • 2003 Sep 3 • See above.
14. Gorillaz “M1 A1” • 2003 Sep 14 • Zombie attack!
15. Nine Inch Nails “Piggy” • 2003 Sep 14 • I played this song on repeat more than 80 times.
16. The Police “Message in a Bottle” • 2003 Sep 14 • Hope, not love.
17. Outkast “Hey Ya” • 2003 Sep 15 • Shake it like a Polaroid picture!
18. Indigo Girls “Galileo” • 2003 Sep 23 • The Galileo space probe meets its end in the atmosphere of Jupiter.
19. The Cure “Jupiter Crash” • 2003 Sep 23 • Reminiscent of an autumn from long ago, when my dreams finally died.
20. The Cure “The Last Day of Summer” • 2003 Sep 23 • The last days of summer always leave me cold.
21. Common “Time Travelin’” • 2003 Sep 30 • Sifting through memories encased in amber.

Sunday, August 31, 2003

• [nelson.monkey.org][55] How to keep Blosxom from getting hammered. [55]: http://blog.fatoprofugus.net/via-trails/2003/08/31/nelson-monkey-org.html “nelson.monkey.org • responding to internal stimuli”
• [futurama quote][54] A quote from Bender the Bending Robot [54]: http://blog.fatoprofugus.net/quotes/2003/08/31/futurama-quotes.html “futurama quotes • responding to internal stimuli”
• [counting crows “rain king”][53] A song from back in the day. But the album it’s coming from is fitting: August and Everything After. [53]: http://blog.fatoprofugus.net/playlist/2003/08/31/counting-crows-rain-king.html “counting crows “rain king” • responding to internal stimuli”
• [cgi working][52] Blosxom seems to be working now. I think. [52]: http://blog.fatoprofugus.net/meta/2003/08/31/cgi-working.html “cgi working • responding to internal stimuli”
• [pathetique][51] Man, it sucks to be alone when you’re trying to stave off PTSD. [51]: http://blog.fatoprofugus.net/soul/2003/08/31/pathetique.html “pathetique • responding to internal stimuli”
• [crazedmonkey.com][50] Via trail. How to make Blosxom serve static pages sometimes and dynamic pages other times. [50]: http://blog.fatoprofugus.net/via-trails/2003/08/31/crazedmonkey-com.html “crazedmonkey.com • responding to internal stimuli”
• [temporarily back in business][49] Continuing to have problems with Blosxom and mod_rewrite. [49]: http://blog.fatoprofugus.net/2003/08/31/temporary.html “temporarily back in business • responding to internal stimuli”

Saturday, August 30, 2003

• [more bits and pieces][48] Links to things that might be helpful in setting up a website. [48]: http://blog.fatoprofugus.net/computers/www/2003/08/30/more-bits-and-pieces.html “more bits and pieces • responding to internal stimuli”
• [gun shy][47] I was robbed! Seriously! [47]: http://blog.fatoprofugus.net/soul/2003/08/30/gunshy.html “gun shy • responding to internal stimuli” Thursday, August 28, 2003 ———————–
• [memes and the arrow of time][46] A meditation on the not-quite cyclic nature of time, and how both the linear and circular models of time may be correct simultaneously. Soundtrack: “Clocks” by Coldplay and “Time after Time” by Cyndi Lauper [46]: http://blog.fatoprofugus.net/soul/2003/08/28/memes-and-the-arrow-of-time.html “memes and the arrow of time • responding to internal stimuli”

Wednesday, August 27, 2003

• [time][45] Y2K was a bust, but maybe Y2K+38 will be something quite unexpected. No one seems to be in a rush to adopt 64-bit time stamps. [45]: http://blog.fatoprofugus.net/computers/2003/08/27/the-epoch.html “time • responding to internal stimuli”
• [running amok][44] Committing suicide: the difference between white people, East Asians, and Southeast Asians. [44]: http://blog.fatoprofugus.net/soul/2003/08/27/running-amok.html “running amok • responding to internal stimuli”
• [even more simpson quotes][42] Choice quotes from Arnold Schwarzenegger[Rainier Wolfcastle][43] and Ned Flanders [42]: http://blog.fatoprofugus.net/quotes/2003/08/27/even-more-simpson-quotes.html “even more simpson quotes • responding to internal stimuli” [43]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainier_Wolfcastle “Rainier Wolfcastle • Wikipedia”

Tuesday, August 26, 2003

• [trainedmonkey.com][41] And more via trails. [41]: http://blog.fatoprofugus.net/via-trails/2003/08/26/trainedmonkey-com.html “trainedmonkey.com • responding to internal stimuli”
• [duderesearch.com][40] More via trails. [40]: http://blog.fatoprofugus.net/via-trails/2003/08/26/duderesearch-com.html “duderesearch.com • responding to internal stimuli”
• [www.bogusmove.com][39] Via trails. [39]: http://blog.fatoprofugus.net/via-trails/2003/08/26/www-bogusmove-com.html “www.bogusmove.com • responding to internal stimuli”
• [med school fear of blood desensitize][37] This Google query leads to an [old blog entry][38]. Despite dealing with bleeding literally almost every single day, I’m still not immune from syncopizing from a vasovagal reaction at the sight of my own blood. [37]: http://blog.fatoprofugus.net/google/2003/08/26/med-school-fear-of-blood-desensitize.html “med school fear of blood desensitize • responding to internal stimuli” [38]; http://fatoprofugus.net/foobar/2001-10-24-1202-0600.html “jack the ripper • foobar”
• [http_get][35] [Blosxom][36] plugin to arbitrarily pull any content from the Internet. Likely to cause time outs and heavy load on your shared host. [35]: http://blog.fatoprofugus.net/computers/www/blosxom/2003/08/26/http_get.html “http_get • responding to internal stimuli” [36]: http://blosxom.sourceforge.net “Blosxom • The Zen of Blogging”
• wifi everywhere Pervasive/ubiquitous computing on the way

Monday, August 25, 2003

• radiohead “the bends” Reviewing one of the best, and most underrated albums by Radiohead

Sunday, August 24, 2003

• windows is insecure The sobig.f debacle. I can’t believe people actually trust their data with Windows.
• bits and pieces Fixing the archive plugin for Blosxom. The right way to nest lists.
• unordered lists and css
• interpolate_pseudoxml revisited
• interpolate_pseudoxml A plugin for Blosxom that makes it just a tad easier to use an XML editor to work on your templates.
• pool and blackjack A dream about chance, wagers, and Charles Bronson.
• to all the girls i’ve loved before OK, I admit it. I’m a Julio Iglesias fan. Somehow, a few of his songs have gotten attached to some of my recurring dreams. And somehow Unreal City—this bizarre amalgam of L.A., Chicago, and NYC—keeps popping up in my dreams, too. Styling unordered lists

Saturday, August 23, 2003

• the gender genie A little script that supposedly is able to tell the gender of the author of a scrap of text.

• embedded markup considered harmful Back in the day when the specs were new, RSS was atrocious, and no one could parse it. One of the things that caused aggregators to choke was embedded markup. Although in all honesty, I never did understand what the problem was.

Friday, August 22, 2003

• more quotes from “the simpsons” Moe Szyslak has a way with words.

• quotes from “the simpsons” Homer Simpson is my hero.

• dream academy “life in a northern town” These days, I’ll catch some of the lyrics of a song, and I’ll just type them into Google, and voila! This is the song that was sampled for Dario G’s “Sunchyme”

• splattered Blood, sterile technique, and mortality.

• “kid a” by radiohead My interpretation of this awesome song.

Thursday, August 21, 2003

• airport (802.11b/g) Discovering the beginnings of pervasive/ubiquitous computing, and the wi-fi revolution.

• something good is gonna happen Finding mp3 blogs. Kate Bush “Cloudbusting”. Utah Saints “Something Good is Gonna Happen”

Monday, August 18, 2003

• divine intervention Procrastination is like masturbation. It’s a lot of fun until you realize you’re only screwing yourself. Someone needs to save me from myself. Seriously.

• blog wars Flame wars move from Usenet to the blogosphere

• creatures of the night A dream about art, vampires, and werewolves.

Sunday, August 17, 2003

• a definition of existentialism The Camusian variant. Maybe not the most optimistic guy in the world.

• pervasive advertising Philip K Dick predicts the future once again. The first application of pervasive computing is going to be—you guessed it—advertising

• dhtml lemmings Reminiscing about playing Versus Lemmings on the Commodore Amiga. Now it’s just a Java applet you can run in your browser.

• notes on remotedotcomments Making Blogger and remotedotcomments play nice. The dangers of not quoting properly.

• an exercise in the commoditization of culture If you have a tatoo that consists of Chinese characters, or of kanji/kana, you should at least know what it says. Nothing says “tool” like having a tatoo you can’t read. And white people better start learning to tell Asians apart. Because there better not be another internment if Kim Jong-Il goes a little nuts.

Saturday, August 16, 2003

• how to add writebacks Allowing comments on Blosxom 2. (Likely seriously outdated - Ed. 2008.01.02)

• sbc ameritech dns servers In case you need them, although I imagine it would be difficult to navigate the Internet in the first place without setting your DNS server.

• and then the morning comes Talking about religion while inebriated. A loaded comparison between Roman Catholicism and Buddhism. The dangers of drunk-dialing.

• keychain: always allow Annoying dialog boxes

• my adventures with apache Enabling virtual hosts on Jaguar (10.2)

Friday, August 15, 2003

• marmosets A very strange dream

Thursday, August 14, 2003

• second post! Not particularly edifying
• first post! Abandoning my kludgy homebrew blogging system and adopting Blosxom

I decided to recategorize some of the entries of this blog, now accessible through http://blog.fatoprofugus.net/soul. This is basically a continuation of my old blog, congestive soul failure (I tried to emulate the stylesheet), covering my love life, or more accurately, my lack thereof, as well as my struggle with depression. Of course, you can continue to read about all that here as well, except it will be occasionally punctuated by nerdy computer stuff.

Ah. “Gigli.” Joining the ranks (no pun intended) of those fantastic cinematic disasters, like “Ishtar” and “Howard the Duck,” comes this wondrous flick starring J Lo and Ben Affleck. I remember gazing up at a billboard riding westbound on the Santa Monica Freeway, wondering aloud what the hell this could possibly be. I don’t mean to be sexist in any way, but, seriously, “Gigli” makes me think of something soft and effeminate. I was not thinking of a gangster movie.

Anyway, on with the “Gigli” bashing: Thoughts while watching “Gigli” on allaboutgeorge.com. (Link from littleyellowdifferent.com.)

Changing gears entirely, I caught bits and pieces of “Excess Baggage” last night. Now I had heard that it was a pretty bad movie, and despite warnings from my sister that Benicio del Toro’s character seems unnecessarily, ah, cognitively delayed (the current politically correct term for mental retardation), I couldn’t resist. Benicio del Toro is one of my heroes. Now, maybe the chemistry between Benicio and Alicia Silverstone is perhaps a little unbelievable. Maybe that’s just my bias. But seriously, a movie with not just Benicio del Toro, but Christopher Walken! They needed more onscreen time together, damnit!

I am, of course, now searching futiley for that Car’s song “All Mixed Up,” which was both in the film and in the closing credits. I don’t know. I guess I’m in a sappy sentimental mood.

Now, I don’t know if this is really targeted advertising, but the ads on amazon.com do tend to shadow whatever it is I have purchased or I have searched for, for example Basic Flight Physiology, given my recent obsession with space medicine.

But then, the second ad on my home page is for the Anna Kournikova Molded Multiway Sports Bra. First off, I was shocked (in a ha-ha funny way) that the tagline for this ad is “Because the only thing that should bounce is the ball.” Besides mixing borderline transgendered metaphors (boobs? balls?!), it made me ponder just exactly the kind of in-roads Fox TV has made in our culture. It is now perfectly OK to say things like “ass” and “piss” in cartoons, much less prime time. You can refer to the penis as a “wiener.” You can make jokes about clitorises (hmmm, is this Latin? Should it be clitores?)

But back to the point. I was secondly insulted. What is Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon.com trying to tell me? That I need a bra? That I’m a fucking fat ass with (to steal a phrase from Chuck Palahniuk) “bitch tits”? That I’m a raging alcoholic with severe cirrhosis to the point that I have gynecomastia? Bastards!! (OK, OK, maybe I should cut down on the cimetidine. And the Stoli martinis. Damn. Now I’m really self-conscious.)

At least amazon.com doesn’t sell dildoes. (Not “your dildo.” “A dildo.” Anyway. That’s from “Fight Club”^1,2

Fight Club (1999) • IMDb

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