Rock & Roll Farm

Monday! Mar 31 2003 // 2:25 pm // permalink

what’s a website for?

since we’re Marooned and all, i’ll tell you about the time Bartholomew and his men were all ready for their hot and bloody work.

i’ve fallen in love with Pirates & Great Sea Rovers, by George Alfred Williams; published by George Alfred Williams at Children’s Books Online: the Rosetta Project, the largest collection of illustrated antique children’s books on line…we think.

“The Rosetta Project’s collections currently contain about 2,000 antique children’s books which were published in the 19th and early 20th century. We shall be putting these combined collections on line as funding permits. Our current goal of putting 2,000 volumes on line will create an online library of aproximately 65,000 html pages. However, as we are still collecting books from around the world, we expect the Rosetta Project online library to eventually reach millions of html pages.

After all, if a free online library’s reach cannot exceed its grasp, then what’s a website for?”

indeed.

Friday! Mar 28 2003 // 12:28 pm // permalink

Diagnosis Murder prescribed as hangover cure

from MP:
“You know there are at least three decent Diagnosis Murder fan sites? It doesn’t strike me as a show with an internet-savvy (i.e. under 70) audience.”

he included the urls. i checked them out and this is what i found:

Diagnosis-Murder.com is actually “writer/producer Lee Goldberg’s Web Page”

DMuk, Officially the best unofficial Diagnosis Murder website, is written by “a 17 year old student in full time education at a college in North Yorkshire, UK.”
did you catch that? seventeen.

Diagnosis Murder Fanfiction Challenge loves them an eagle picture. aside from that, this page offers fans the chance to post plotline “challenges” for other fans to write about. Challenge 158) I think it would be so cool for a circus to come to town. A hot trapeze artist and good friend of Steve’s gets murdered. His father goes undercover as a clown to try and solve the case.

when i asked MP, why Diagnosis Murder? he said, “My girlfriend used to watch reruns of the show with her friend when they were both not working. I gave it a “thumbs up” on my TiVo, so it records random episodes when there’s space. The show’s bad, but I find it soothing viewing when I’m hung over (which is often).”

Wednesday! Mar 26 2003 // 11:12 am // permalink

les cheveux de ma mere

today is my mother’s birthday. she is as many years older than me as the age she was when i was born. happy birthday, mom.

this weekend, i’m going to go to detroit to visit with my family, as my mother, father, and brother’s birthdays are all in the next two weeks. on saturday, my mom is going to get a complete hair makeover. her haircut has pretty much been the same since i was a kid, with small variations. but she’s going to go in and tell them to do whatever they want. i’m excited to see what happens. and i’ll see it first hand, as i will be there getting my hair cut, also. i think this will be the first time since i was about 15 that i will step foot in a salon. in some ways, i am dreading it (ha ha. yes, i used to have dreadlocks for a while, although, my friend skateboard skot used to call them elvenlocks. he had some obscure historical reason, but he usually talked right over my head about that kind of thing so i can’t remember what it was), but i’m looking forward to hanging out with my mom.

Tuesday! Mar 25 2003 // 8:16 am // permalink

nerd signs

a nerd version of the zodiac. here’s mine:

Tux, the Penguin (January 20th ~ February 18th)

Free and independent-thinking, those born under the sign of Tux the Penguin are quick with thoughts and ideas, even if the rest of the world might not understand the thoughts and ideas in question. Rather than express feelings and problems with loud and aggressive warning and error messages that are apparent to anyone, their inner settings may only be visible to those who know them and have learned where and how to probe for them.

When it comes to romantic relationships, many people assume that those born under this sign would be incompatible or too complex, or that they simply wouldn’t serve their needs, but with proper care and patience—and a certain amount of tweaking and experimentation—those born under the sign of Tux, the Penguin, are compatible with many platforms and star signs.

Thursday! Mar 20 2003 // 4:13 pm // permalink

the haida people

”The Haida of the Queen Charlotte Islands (Haida Gwaii) have fascinated all who have visited them, from the first travellers and explorers of the late eighteenth century to the anthropologists of the present. To early visitors the Haida presented a culture, complex in social organization and rich in artistic expression, which displayed a fine and fulfilling balance between man and the natural and supernatural worlds. With continued exposure to the pressures, both spiritual and material, of European culture this balance was disrupted, and the traditional Haida way of life came close to extinction. Today, however, the Haida regard their future with hope, bolstered by recent developments that hold great potential for reinforcing their cultural revival.”