I gotta start turning off Trillian when I don’t want to talk to people.
And who does this guy think the NSA is anyway?

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Start of owlhoot2000 buffer: Wed Aug 07 16:29:30 2002
[16:13] owlhoot2000: hi how are u
[16:13] joantouzet: ?
[16:13] owlhoot2000: just saying hi
[16:13] joantouzet: hi
[16:13] owlhoot2000: 32 m australia
[16:14] owlhoot2000: seen u in bbw club
[16:14] joantouzet: bbw?
[16:14] owlhoot2000: big beautiful woman
[16:14] owlhoot2000: u are a member
[16:14] joantouzet: I'm afraid you must be mistaken.  
[16:15] joantouzet: I'm not a member of any such organization.
[16:16] owlhoot2000: maybe playing up but says u are in it
[16:16] joantouzet: Can you give me a link?
[16:17] owlhoot2000: is in yahoo groups
[16:17] owlhoot2000: interests
[16:18] joantouzet: I only see 5 groups I have in yahoo groups,
none of which are that.  you don't have a URL where it says that?
[16:19] owlhoot2000: its very long with heaps of numbers
[16:19] joantouzet: that's ok, just paste it
[16:23] joantouzet: wait a second, don't I know you?
[16:23] owlhoot2000: if u go to the profile ofcurvylady_uk and
click on her interest
[16:24] owlhoot2000: then search down the bottom for online
female 25 35 u will find it
[16:25] joantouzet: oh, that just means I'm 25-35 and online.  I'm
not part of the bbw group.  but aren't you part of the MLP group?
[16:25] owlhoot2000: whats that
[16:25] owlhoot2000: mlp
[16:25] joantouzet: Men with Little Penises
[16:25] owlhoot2000: yes
[16:26] owlhoot2000: how did u no
[16:26] joantouzet: I read it in your profile.  
[16:26] joantouzet: Not just from Yahoo, but from this here NSA file.
[16:26] owlhoot2000: great group
[16:26] owlhoot2000: nsa
End of owlhoot2000 buffer: Wed Aug 07 16:29:30 2002

It took us long enough to find it, but…

Last year my gf and I marched in the Tokyo Gay & Lesbian Parade. Just before we started, this girl at a booth asked the two of us if we wouldn’t mind being profiled in an upcoming issue of Anise, a Japanese lesbian magazine. We were pretty excited, so we said sure.

Just a few days ago we found the magazine (already a newer issue had come out) in Shinjuku 2-chome, the GBLT hangout in Tokyo. We bought it for fun, and lo and behold, there we are just a few pages in.

For those of you who want your own copy, it’s the winter 2002 issue, with “Girl meets girl” on the cover, the two girls lying on the ground with the rainbow cloth next to them. I’ll try and get a scan soon. We’re famous! :)

(And yes, that’s us on the TGLP 2002 webpage too. 10th picture down. Holding up the banner in the background.)

So a few weeks ago, one of my coworkers discovered something interesting — on the console of a Windows machine in a client’s rack at a hosting company, we found he was doing google searches on how to eject a cdrom. Pretty embarassing, really!

So we put together a webpage explaining how to get a CD ejected. Turn on Quicktime for the best effect.

(In a comment inside the HTML itself, we left this little surprise: “Tanaka-san, the software engineer who has to use Google to eject a CD…we told all of the engineers in our company about this and had a very pleasant hour laughing. (I laughed so much I nearly had to be sent to the hospital!) Although it’s not the main reason, the fact that you can’t eject a CD is definitely a factor for us dropping you as our subcontractor. Please go away.”)

My former boss, professor, and all-around good guy Prof. Robert Apfel died from cancer on August 1, 2002.

Have you ever heard of the Paris catacombs and tunnels? Not the tourist version, but the real thing?

Say you’re in a long-term, committed relationship with someone. Your partner decides to flirt with someone else. At what point does that flirting go over the line?

(And before you ask, no, I’m not asking because of something that happened. Just curious where you are on the issue!)

I am back thinking about weeee again:

The Lord of La Mancha
I am I, Don Quixote,
THe Lord of La Mancha,
My destiny calls and I go weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
And the wild winds of fortune
Will carry me onward,
Oh withersoever they blow weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
Whithersoever they blow,
Onward to glory I go weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

…

My old company’s assets are being auctionned off.

That’s just too fun to read. :)

This is perhaps one of the best social anthropological studies I’ve seen in a while. Thanks, Scott, for letting me see it. AN example:

The most disturbing customer of the day called right at nine to ask when we opened. I told him we were, and he asked if the DVD of “L.A. Sex Party” was in. (A lot of our movies have “sex party” in the title. It was only a few months ago that I realized that this is because a lot of porn renters don’t know what “orgy” means.)

Yay.

I am not one to promote the taking of illegal drugs. But I am against laws which put the wrong people in jail.

About 10-15 years ago, law enforcement officials and lawmakers tried to make computer operators liable for every message that passed through their systems. This meant that if you ran a mailing list, and someone on the mailing list posted an anti-government message, both that person and you were liable for its content. Kinda screwy, huh? These laws have been mostly struck down, though there are still some battles being fought. (Sorry, no links right now.)

Looks like the U.S. Senate is at it again. They’re saying that concert promoters should be held liable for up to 20 years in prison if people at their events take Ecstacy and other illegal drugs.

I know the lawmakers are trying to do “the right thing” here, based on the current problems. But the concert promoters can’t stop people from smuggling in a few tabs in their pockets. They can’t prevent a person’s drink being laced with Rohypnol and being date raped. They certainly should provide adequate security in the dance hall in case a problem breaks out, but how is it their responsibility that someone went down to Alphabet City and picked up a few tabs?

I agree with George Carlin. Once the governments of the world start putting a few of the bankers who launder the drug money and the lawyers who defend these drug pushers’ asses in jail, the drug trade would dry up immediately. “Hell, you wouldn’t be able to get drugs at high schools and prisons anymore!” :)