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Sep. 13th, 2003 10:27 amSo glad it's the weekend. Not sure what I will do with it now that I find myself here but, just glad to be on my own schedule for a couple days. Sort of thinking about going to see a movie sometime. Talked about going to see American Splendor with Jim, but we didn't say when. I wouldn't mind seeing Cabin Fever, actually, or Matchstick Men, maybe. Several people on my friends list said Lost in Translation is good, but I don't see it playing around here yet.
It's rainy here, but at least no badass hurricane is pointed at us. Hopefully that won't get too close to Orlando. Not real sure how stuff like that works.
I am surprised that some people answer 'yes' to the question Should Net surfers be licensed? But, maybe that is how things will be with some 'primary' national-international computer network in the future, and the situation of today will look like the wild Old West does to us now. It still seems stupid and disappointing to me that people are thinking this way.
Unprecedented census of the seas begins. Cool... I am scared they're gonna come back and tell us we've shafted all the fish and will have to modify our eating and sport fishing habits. I do like eating the fish that I can afford, what can I say. It's somehow hard for me to believe that such a census won't result in bad or troubling news. I guess I think there are the two general camps of, "We've fucked up the planet" and "Shut up hippie, everything's fine", and the census is more likely to follow the outlook of the former (plus I can believe we've overfished, despite that the oceans are so unbelievably vast).
More counting. I was looking at this analysis of comic book sales in the U.S. for August 2003, and it finally sunk in what a small number of people actually read comic books these days. The Quimby the Mouse softcover sold only 2,645 copies? Granted that's just in August (the month it was released I guess), and only the softcover edition, and only copies sold through Diamond. But comics soldier on, and Fantagraphics is going to be publishing the complete run of Peanuts in 25 volumes over 13 years, with Seth designing the books.
My two old EnterAct email addresses are going to finally be shut down on the 17th. They date back to '96 and nowadays all they get is a constant flow of ridiculous spam. Occasionally someone who should know better still sends a 'real' message there, so I have to glance at them every now and then. I had some stupid observation I was going to make about these addresses finally going away, but I can't remember what it was now at all. I thought I might feel sad but mainly it will be a relief to not have to skim through all that garbage email anymore.
It's rainy here, but at least no badass hurricane is pointed at us. Hopefully that won't get too close to Orlando. Not real sure how stuff like that works.
I am surprised that some people answer 'yes' to the question Should Net surfers be licensed? But, maybe that is how things will be with some 'primary' national-international computer network in the future, and the situation of today will look like the wild Old West does to us now. It still seems stupid and disappointing to me that people are thinking this way.
Unprecedented census of the seas begins. Cool... I am scared they're gonna come back and tell us we've shafted all the fish and will have to modify our eating and sport fishing habits. I do like eating the fish that I can afford, what can I say. It's somehow hard for me to believe that such a census won't result in bad or troubling news. I guess I think there are the two general camps of, "We've fucked up the planet" and "Shut up hippie, everything's fine", and the census is more likely to follow the outlook of the former (plus I can believe we've overfished, despite that the oceans are so unbelievably vast).
More counting. I was looking at this analysis of comic book sales in the U.S. for August 2003, and it finally sunk in what a small number of people actually read comic books these days. The Quimby the Mouse softcover sold only 2,645 copies? Granted that's just in August (the month it was released I guess), and only the softcover edition, and only copies sold through Diamond. But comics soldier on, and Fantagraphics is going to be publishing the complete run of Peanuts in 25 volumes over 13 years, with Seth designing the books.
My two old EnterAct email addresses are going to finally be shut down on the 17th. They date back to '96 and nowadays all they get is a constant flow of ridiculous spam. Occasionally someone who should know better still sends a 'real' message there, so I have to glance at them every now and then. I had some stupid observation I was going to make about these addresses finally going away, but I can't remember what it was now at all. I thought I might feel sad but mainly it will be a relief to not have to skim through all that garbage email anymore.
