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To quote a notional New Order - Gloria
Estefan mashup: “Turn the heater on /
Love to feel convection”
Filed by shaun at October 13th, 2006 under indifferenthonest
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Just wanted to let you know that that Vanilla Sky/Seine at Argenteuil thing was, on the whole, excellent, but you had a big section east-northeast that was way out of focus. Let’s not work so hard to make beautiful things and then screw up the details, OK?
Filed by shaun at October 12th, 2006 under indifferenthonest
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Filed by shaun at October 6th, 2006 under indifferenthonest
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in somewhat chronological order
Filed by shaun at August 22nd, 2006 under indifferenthonest
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We have Muzak here, out in the hallways by the elevator and in the bathrooms. Here, you get to piss to denatured music. Mostly I ignore it, but, sometimes–
Listen, do you know about Muzak now? It’s not instrumental versions of old John Gary hits now. No “Indian Love Call.” No faded Cole Porter. Now, it’s often music you know. Music you listen to. Music you like. Music that leads to questions, like:
How can someone simultaneously like Talking Heads and play Muzak? Because “Burning Down the House” can be explained by Musaking the singles charts, but then whence “This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)”? Really, don’t you go home after recording that day and look at your copy of Speaking in Tongues and enter some sort of fugue state? Or at least self-loathe for a bit?
Why the hell is there so much Merle Haggard? It’s mostly the bland Merle Haggard to begin with “Silver Wings”, “Hungry Eyes”, etc., but still: Merle Haggard != Muzak.
Where did the Muzak people even hear of Freedy Johnston? Really. Where.
Mostly what I ask, though, is, Is this better than Celine Dion. On the one hand there is the confirmed scientific law that everything is better than Celine Dion. On the other, man, don’t you feel sad? Like that time you heard the Cure in the grocery store.
Filed by shaun at July 31st, 2006 under indifferenthonest
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As those of you who have read the root fidius.org page know, phpwebhosting (the worst web host ever), has royally fucked my various sites. In brief: about three weeks ago, the server I was hosted on went down with a bad drive. Totally understandable, though the three days of no updates about the status of the sever was sort of uncool. Then, for some as-yet unknown reason, they decided to pull the plug on my site altogether, forbidding all access to my directories (including mine via ssh and ftp), breaking my email, etc. Still no word on why (I’m guessing my site got too popular when they released the new Pirates of the Carribean, making their “you’ll never need to worry about using too much bandwith” claim a big fucking lie), after several emails, trouble tickets, etc. or whether they’re going to fix it. Special note to phpwebhosting: Thanks, fuckers. You cost me several hundred dollars and my page rank.
Now, we’ve switched to Dreamhost (based mostly on the recommendation of Ryan), a decision I would have made long ago if I’d known how much better they were, and slowly uploading our slightly out-of-date backup files into the appropriate places. It will take a while. Some things won’t be back, since my backup process wasn’t what you’d call “comprehensive”. Or “good”. Or “adequate”.
In the meantime, I suggest you brush up on your “Know How” know-how.
Filed by shaun at July 28th, 2006 under indifferenthonest
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In lieu of updating, I’ve redesigned. The original source for the main image is here, quite altered (obviously).
Since I don’t have a Mac, I can’t test it there, but we’re unbroken in IE5/6 Win, Firefox, Konquerer (yes, lone individual who comes here using Konquerer (why?), I’ve made sure the page is pretty for you too), and Lynx.
Oh, and IE? Still awful. Please stop using it.
Filed by shaun at May 23rd, 2006 under indifferenthonest
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It would look like this:
Filed by shaun at May 2nd, 2006 under indifferenthonest
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