car
And here here, for no particular reason is a picture of my car, taken at Percy Warner park.
April 26, 2002
April 25, 2002
B4 Passat doorfix
I posted a thing about another way to fix the doorhandle of a B4 passat if it breaks (which it tends to) here.
It’s probably not of interest to you unless you own a B4 Passat.
Or if you just really, really enjoy the mechanics of car door handles.
April 23, 2002
crazy old lady letter
I wrote a good old fashioned crazy old lady letter to GQ tonight, in response to an article by this guy extolling the “virtues” of his apparent insolent lack of concern for his health or diet. Your typical “so what if I weigh 250 pounds and I’m gonna die — if I act insolent about my complete lack of self-control it seems like I do it in purpose even though I hate myself and cry on the inside every time I wolf down a big mac” spiel.
It’s a little pointless without the context of the article, so if you want, read it in the May 2002 issue of GQ — it’s in the “American Scene” section.
Here it is, anyway:
Subject: regarding Rick Bragg’s “American Scene” — For a vegetable, I’ll Have White Gravy
To: gqmag@aol.com
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 23:26:34 -0500
To: gqmag@aol.com
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 23:26:34 -0500
As a southern man, I am disturbed that Rick Bragg paints a portrait of
the ideal southern man as a hedonistic, self-indulgent gourmand. I
grew up in the south, and I enjoy and appreciate a good meat-n-three
as I do any other cuisine. However, I also plan on living past 50.
Southern cuisine was born of a time when southern Americans worked –
and worked hard. While I’m sure Mr. Bragg works hard, too, I doubt
that he’s out there splittin’ rails. And neither am I. I work in the
computer industry, and it takes a certain amount of effort and
moderation to maintain physical fitness and health.
Obesity is fast-approaching smoking as the leading cause of
preventable death in the United States. Mr. Bragg is setting a poor
example, and is a sad representative of a “southern man”. If he wants
to eat himself into a coronary, that’s fine, but it’s nothing to be
proud of.
–Chris Wage
cwage@place.org
http://chris.agenteight.com/
April 22, 2002
spam-o-meter
In a testament to how much free time I have, I set up a little webpage to display how much spam I get per day on my place.org account as caught by spamassassin, which I’ll describe in further detail later.
Check it out here.
April 18, 2002
list of albums
I decided to make a list of all the albums we own.
…
So here is a list of all the albums we own.
That is all.
April 16, 2002
Mac OS X ad
I hate just re-hashing stuff I see elsewhere, but this is really funny to me. Mac has an ad for their new G4 Powerbook featuring Mac OS X. Click here to see the ad (warning: big image).
It shows one terminal window running “top”, in which you can see that “Netscape 6″ is eating 53% of the CPU.
“UNIX users should feel right at home.”
April 15, 2002
building collapse
A building adjacent (separated only by a firewall) to my apartment complex collapsed today! (That’s my apartment complex on the very right.)
Amanda was in the shower at the time, so she didn’t hear it. I was at work at the time, but came home around 4 to find my entire street blocked off and cops and firefighters everywhere. They evacuated part of my apartment building but later let people back in.
Pretty exciting. Check the story at News Channel 5, or at the Tennessean.
Coincidentally, we went looking at apartments today. Nothing like buildings falling down around your current place to light a fire under your ass to find a new one.
to the moon, PETA!
Amanda read this to me, the other day, and I ran into it again on News of the Weird:
Charity cow-patty bingo games at state fairs continue, such as those in Connellsville, Pa., in April and Calgary, Alberta, in June (in which a field is divided into squares, money bet on the squares, and a winner declared by which square receives the first cow deposit). But in February, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals protested the cow-patty bingo fund- raiser at Florida Southern College (Lakeland, Fla.), accusing the organizers of both physical abuse (feeding the cow laxatives, which the organizers denied) and emotional abuse (because it is such a “demeaning” and “silly” game). [Associated Press, 3-18- 02]
Further evidence that we need to round up the members of PETA into a rocket and blast them to the moon.
Whether or not we then detonate the rocket or simply allow the to suffocate can be decided by PEEPMSTM (People for the Ethical Extermination of PETA Members by Sending Them to the Moon).
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
I spent a few minutes tonight making sure all the webpages on chris.agenteight.com validate for XHTML 1.0 Transitional.
No real big surprises — most of the incompatibilities were from me, personally, and not movable type. I used a lot of uppercase tags here and there and didn’t terminate empty elements properly, etc.
I think this is the first time I’ve ever had a webpage that I thought was aesthetically pleasing, functional, standards-compliant AND actually looked good in console browsers like lynx and w3m.
April 11, 2002
e-mail notification
I have added a feature of somewhat dubious usefulness.
If you look at the bottom of the bar to the right, you can now add your e-mail address to a list that gets notified of new entries to this site.
This is for those of you that simply must have immediate gratification.
