Sunday, August 17, 2003. 7:31PM
Wow. Readership is declining. That's a shame. To be expected I suppose. I can't remember when I used to do logs. I mean, I can't think when there was a time in my week to actually sit down and write a log. I mean, it's not that I'm too busy - far from it - and it's not that I don't derive some kind of satisfaction from writing a log, but rather, when I'm at home and I have an hour to kill, it just seems like a better idea to watch TV, or play a computer game, or anything else really, rather than write a log. It's just a matter of discipline, I suppose.
I think it's time for a new layout. I've been discussing the possibility of a new server for a while now. I don't know when my domain expires, but I've had it for a little while, so it can't be too far away. I know that there was a very large gap in the logs from the start of December to till the end of January, and I remember that when I paid for it I was pretty flush with capital, so I think it may have been some time around there. Either way, I'll probably keep logging half heartily until then, when I'll look seriously into whether I can be fucked doing this, or whether I should put in some real effort and make this site into something decent. One of my subjects this semester is eCommerce, a component of which is web design. Now, I taught myself everything I know about web design (who could have guessed), and this subject is teaching me a lot of the very rudimentary things one should do when writing HTML code, some of which I haven't. There are over 500 files in this site, and it is not going to be a small effort going back and adding a line of code to the start of every one of them (you may have noticed that the film section is still half in Times New Roman from when I did that other update a long fucking time ago). The main page, and basic cosmetic appearance, I think I should probably do.
Ed sent me this. Ed runs a design company, and he mocked this up in Photoshop. I guess he must have been bored. Now, personally, I'm not such a big fan of red, but I don't think that's an issue. An nice deep green, or even Microsoft blue would so just as well. Now, I've noticed a site that seems to have a random image script in it that I wouldn't mind stealing, and hence, selecting from a database of cut down stills from films and whatnot... and yeah, it has got me thinking. Anyway, my point is, this site does look quite crap, and were we to have it looking nice, and especially without ads, and some forums again would pump some major life giving juices in... and well... yes... at the moment loyal fans, please, I beg you, stay loyal. Well, stop being loyal, because you're not getting jack shit for a while, but eventually, at some point, somewhere, there may be a zeedarteretz.com renaissance, and...well...it'll be all right.
Interestingly, the other day I was bored in Marketing Principals, and I stuck my head through a hole in the wall. What did I find? Some graffiti reading "Grade on a curve, and you'll observe, I'm well below the horizon. www.zeedarteretz.bourgeoisonline.com." Now, after some thought, I think I vaguely recall writing that, some time last year... must have been one of my first days at uni. Wow.
Now, remember when I said I was going to have a live log? Well... LIVE LOG! GO!
Now, I'm on MSN, lets get some chat happening. I am Don Quxiote:
Don Quxiote (no swimming - windmills) says:
hey
Ed says:
hey
Don Quxiote (no swimming - windmills) says:
I had something to say, but I've forgotten it now
Ed says:
was it important?
Don Quxiote (no swimming - windmills) says:
I don't know. Oh yeah. You mind if I post that mock up you sent me?
Ed says:
go for it
Don Quxiote (no swimming - windmills) says:
alright
Ed says:
do you mean make the page like that or just post the image?
Don Quxiote (no swimming - windmills) says:
post the image. see if anyone has an opinion. I dunno.
Ed says:
no worries
Don Quxiote (no swimming - windmills) says:
basically I just want an image for my log
Ed says:
understandable
Don Quxiote (no swimming - windmills) says:
yeah
Ed says:
let me know when its posted
Don Quxiote (no swimming - windmills) says:
yeah. do you remember when I said I was going to do a live log at the end of
my last log?
Ed says:
mmm?
Don Quxiote (no swimming - windmills) says:
should I post this?
Ed says:
this conversation? jeez, i dunno, should i wear something smart? i feel so under-prepared
Don Quxiote (no swimming - windmills) says:
well. I mean. it's not really that interesting
Ed says:
its perfect
Don Quxiote (no swimming - windmills) says:
but you see, I'd written half a log about website design, but if I then go live
and ask you for permisionn to use the picture. I donno. all self reflective
in a post modern way
Ed says:
wow. and, i mean, isn't that your whole website, i mean, really?
Don Quxiote (no swimming - windmills) says:
well. that and me abusing black people (log sidenote: Has anyone seen where
Geoff Clark is this week? Suspended awaiting some kind of trial... I think for
brawling) and fat women
Ed says:
yeah, i guess. anyway it's up to you
Don Quxiote (no swimming - windmills) says:
alright. you know, I'd hate for you to feel violated seeing yourself in a log
and... well... you know...woah... violation
Ed says:
i feel violated every time i read your log anyway
Don Quxiote (no swimming - windmills) says:
jeeze. I'm sorry buddy
Ed says:
no no, in a good way
Don Quxiote (no swimming - windmills) says:
ah. well. I suppose I'm glad to hear that
Ed says:
ok, it was just that post about the olsen twins
Don Quxiote (no swimming - windmills) says:
ha. that was a truely golden post
Ed says:
absoluetly
Don Quxiote (no swimming - windmills) says:
I think maybe one day I'll post "The Olsen Twins are raped by Satan"
Ed says:
i can't wait
Don Quxiote (no swimming - windmills) says:
it was that, and that one where I made up crap (the ballon one), and the one
where I said I was going to dump my girlfriend that got the most response
Ed says:
ah memories. the gf one: did that get back to her in the end?
Don Quxiote (no swimming - windmills) says:
yeah. she emailed me one time.that was really pretty harsh
Ed says:
what you wrote, or what she said?
Don Quxiote (no swimming - windmills) says:
well, posting it up there like that. I mean, is there a line a webmaster should
draw when he's talking about personal stuff?
Ed says:
12/10/02. that all comes back to how identifyable you make yourself
Don Quxiote (no swimming - windmills) says:
yeah
Ed says:
this is the catholic school girl?
Don Quxiote (no swimming - windmills) says:
yeah. but that shit affects her too
Ed says:
no i didn't mean like that. so i can remember who it was. she was obsessed
Don Quxiote (no swimming - windmills) says:
I mean, if I want to talk about... I dunno... how I have a small penis or something,
well, that's my business, but if I want to talk about how a girl has a a loose
pussy... well... that's just wrong. I don't know what I'm talking about. yeah.
Ed says:
yeah. remember back then the site wasn't the busy million-hit-a-day icon it
is now
Ed says:
i'll be back in a sec
Don Quxiote (no swimming - windmills) says:
right
Now, this is a different conversation that was happening at the same time.
Don Quxiote (no swimming - windmills) says:
it's summer time, and the weather is fine
and the radioman said: it is a beautiful night out there says:
when the weather is fine... you go swimming in the sea?... you go fishin in
the sea?
Don Quxiote (no swimming - windmills) says:
I can't remember
and the radioman said: it is a beautiful night out there says:
if her daddys rich take her out for a meal
if her daddys poor then you can do what you feel
Don Quxiote (no swimming - windmills) says:
something something leave my troubles behind, I got something on my mind
and the radioman said: it is a beautiful night out there says:
terrible lyrics. as if they couldnt find a word to rhyme with meal
Don Quxiote (no swimming - windmills) says:
In the summer time when the weather is high
You can chase right up and touch the sky,
When the weather's fine
You got women, you got women on your mind.
mucha muchacha (not a different person, she just changed
her name) says:
oh how sad, nothing about swimming or fishing
Don Quxiote (no swimming - windmills) says:
the next verse is
With a fat beat, when her Daddy with a me,
We'll have everybody, but we do as we please,
When the weather's fine, we go fishing or go swimming in the sea,
We're always happy,
Long's we're living in this sound philosophy.
I downloaded Mucha muchacha about fifteen minutes ago
mucha muchacha says:
bullshit
Don Quxiote (no swimming - windmills) says:
nah -a
mucha muchacha says:
ANH not nah
i knew someone who use to write letters beginning Dear Anh (not
nah)
Don Quxiote (no swimming - windmills) says:
I saw confessions of a dangerous mind the other day which had it in, and then
I looked it up, and today in came through
mucha muchacha says:
fuck confessions of a dangerous mind. esquivel is mine. i almost went to your
house last night
Don Quxiote (no swimming - windmills) says:
well, I've wanted it for like five years, after it was in Bevis and Butthead
do America, but I never knew who played it because it wasn't on the soundtrack
or anything
I wasn't here
mucha muchacha says:
just as well
esquivel was on beavis and butthead?
Don Quxiote (no swimming - windmills) says:
my parents had friends over, you could have had dinner with them
yeah
mucha muchacha says:
fuck
assholes
Don Quxiote (no swimming - windmills) says:
it's the song that plays when Bevis jerks off at the end
mucha muchacha says:
oh man
youve just pissed me off
Don Quxiote (no swimming - windmills) says:
I was originally going to put it on my "Masturbation songs compliation
tape"
mucha muchacha says:
why did they do that for
you asshole!
esquivel isn't mastubatory
Don Quxiote (no swimming - windmills) says:
not in winter
in summer
mucha muchacha says:
you watch beavis masturbate and decide that you want to too?
is there something wrong with that?
Don Quxiote (no swimming - windmills) says:
it is a truely great maturbation sequence
they show the washington monument and everything
mucha muchacha says:
is there something wrong with you!
i'm sorry. i dont want to make you feel like a freak for enjoying mastubatory
sessions to mucha muchacha
fuck
Don Quxiote (no swimming - windmills) says:
what?
one gets tired of billy joel
no
this was a while ago
although
listing to it now, I think it would be a fine mastubation song
mucha muchacha says:
end of conversation please.
Don Quxiote (no swimming - windmills) says:
ha
anh
I am sorry
please
how was your weekend?
mucha muchacha says:
i dont care that you masturbate
in fact, it's a good thing, it means that youre actually normal
i am just getting increasingly vexed at the thought of esquivel featuring in
BEAVIS AND BUTTHEAD?!
what is that?
and then you mentioned billy joel, and that was it
Don Quxiote (no swimming - windmills) says:
yes
I just did that to make you mad
I am sorry
mucha muchacha says:
i went to a 'teaparty' yesterday
which was fine. there was lots of cake, swing music and pot
but then i got really really bored
and thought, oh i will see you
unfortunately, i fell asleep
and then someone drove me home
Don Quxiote (no swimming - windmills) says:
that is a shame
mucha muchacha says:
and my father was drunk at 4am because he had a 55th birthday party yesterday
also
Don Quxiote (no swimming - windmills) says:
I was at a jazz bar being bohemian
mucha muchacha says:
oh dear
Don Quxiote (no swimming - windmills) says:
I have never seen my father drunk
mucha muchacha says:
thats funny
my dad wanted to know why i didnt buy him a present
i said: because i dont like you much
and he started giggling
Don Quxiote (no swimming - windmills) says:
that's not very nice
I'm supprised he didn't kill you in your sleep
mucha muchacha says:
which jazz bar?
Don Quxiote (no swimming - windmills) says:
Manchester Lane
mucha muchacha says:
what did you do there?
Don Quxiote (no swimming - windmills) says:
drank brandy alexander's and watched people play jazz
mucha muchacha says:
whatve you been doing all week?
Don Quxiote (no swimming - windmills) says:
very little
I have done no work
I am falling behind anh, behind
mucha muchacha says:
thats what everyone says
Don Quxiote (no swimming - windmills) says:
I am weeks behind in apps dev!
do you mind if I post this conversation on my website?
mucha muchacha says:
yes, i don't think you should inflict on people conversations about masturbation
Don Quxiote (no swimming - windmills) says:
that's true, I suppose
how about if I put a warning?
mucha muchacha says:
i think it is funny that you would even ask my permission
Don Quxiote (no swimming - windmills) says:
(besides, my site is almost entirely about masturbation)
mucha muchacha says:
although i know you are the type who wouldn't if if i said no
Don Quxiote (no swimming - windmills) says:
is true
I make some small effort to be sensitive on my website
well, sensitive to individuals
I make a point of being bigoted toward minority groups
mucha muchacha says:
yeah
but no one cares about your opinions
you're just another cocksucking asshat whiteboy
Don Quxiote (no swimming - windmills) says:
this is true
mucha muchacha says:
no actually, you always make me 'chortle'
Don Quxiote (no swimming - windmills) says:
warning. excessive consumption may induce chortle
mucha muchacha says:
chortle mania
you funny boy
Don Quxiote (no swimming - windmills) says:
ah yes
well. I am posting this conversation.... here.
Sorry. Masturbation. Forgot.