July 2001
this pisses me off
Posted by on Monday, July 30, 2001 - 15 comments
Assaults on nurses are at an all time high. • What kind of prick would assault a nurse (regardless of gender)? I mean, I understand if the nurse was asking for it (they're still people, and people suck) but if that was all that was going on, it wouldn't be at an all time high! • I can also …
support local pastries!
Posted by on Friday, July 27, 2001 - 3 comments
Oh yea! • It's reasons like • these that the Internet exists and is so cool. • Where else could you find such enormous quantities of great merchandise? I wonder if people buy more crap now than they did before. I know I do, but coincidentally I only started making enough money to buy crap …
is this news?
Posted by on Wednesday, July 25, 2001 - 7 comments
I'm not sure what category you would file this "news" item under. Human Interest maybe? Regardless, MSNBC bring us the hard-hitting infotainment* piece Clearer Pictures: The coming high-defenition TV revolution. • The interactive feature fails in its aim of selling HDTV to the masses and points …
men at work discussing animals at play
Posted by on Tuesday, July 24, 2001 - 11 comments
Working hard today with my good people Nick and Isaac, the heat and humidity swayed the discussion away from our work and towards the great topic of animal movies. The discussion started with my bad impersonation of Hank Azaria’s hilarious Spanish accent in American Sweethearts (a terrible movie …
apple has style
Posted by on Monday, July 23, 2001 - 9 comments
I thought that ThinkGeek had cool geek stuff, and they still do, and since I've run Linux in the past, I justified buying a 'Chicks Dig Unix' shirt. • However, I just discovered The Apple Stuff Store and every ounce of poser in my body wants that unjustifiable original Apple Lapel Pin.
the week in pictures
Posted by on Saturday, July 21, 2001
A link found on MetaFilter pointed me to MSNBC's The Week in Pictures. There are some interesting photos and they have an archive that goes back three years. Unfortunately, their JavaScript-based navigation makes it difficult to link to individual photos. • A couple of photos that caught my eye …
thanks!
Posted by on Tuesday, July 17, 2001 - 5 comments
I know we try to keep AOV a bit less personal so we don't become an angsty blog, but I'd like fire off a quick note all the same. • Mad props go out to all my pals that threw me a birthday thing at the JunkYard. Also thanks to Kris for buying me a tasty coffee-like-thing afterwards at Cafe Diem.
shamed into enjoying life
Posted by on Monday, July 16, 2001 - 29 comments
The crew at design portal k10k.net (aka Kaliber10000) are taking the summer off. Good for them and thanks for the fine animated jakob nielsen.
a strange and wonderful glimpse into the workplace
Posted by on Sunday, July 15, 2001 - 20 comments
My place of work is strange and wonderful. The perks are many and the hours are long. Being in close quarters for a long time with a group of people can breed a bizarre little sub-culture. • What follows is a post in its entirety made on our company intranet. The frequent and unproductive nature …
cows shoud be illegal!
Posted by on Thursday, July 12, 2001 - 2 comments
They're just too dangerous to have wandering around untamed.
Tux Racer is to Solitaire as Open Source is to Microsoft
Posted by on Thursday, July 12, 2001 - 3 comments
Have time to waste? Me neither. Still, I managed to find time to play Tux Racer and so should you. I was searching for K-Meleon, an open-source lightweight web browser based on Mozilla's rendering engine (which is quite good). Anyhow, the K-Meleon website is missing (if you know anything about the …
if you are going to spend your way to happiness, here is a tip
Posted by on Saturday, July 7, 2001 - 18 comments
While complaining can give one a feeling of superiority, however empty and short lived it may be, good things do happen. A good thing for anyone purchasing computer components, especially in Atlantic Canada, is Robotnik Discount Computers. • Their website is, well, lively (as the hilarious …