<p><a href="http://www.jeffnoon.com/">Jeff Noon</a> has a new <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0385602960/qid=1063153503/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_3_1/202-4778942-3129423">novel</a> now but it is only for sale in the UK.</p>
<p>I am ordering a copy yesterday and suggest all do the same.</p>
<p>I first read vurt around 95’ or 96’ and have loaned my copy out to more people than I can count on one hand, named more web sites, quake aliases, and irc handles after his creations than any other as well as my high school rock band (w/ erk and dan) — yes, I’m looking forward to reading this first novel in a long time.</p>
<p>quick list of jeff noon references i’ve leeched: jokerbone, pixeljuice, hobart, scribble, beetle, curious yellow…</p>
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a new jeff noon novel...
Posted on Blog over 23 years agoon September 10, 2003 - 4:23 AM and archived here at /blog/2003/2003-09-09-a-new-jeff-noon-novel/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/blog/2003/2003-09-09-a-new-jeff-noon-novel/ in the Blog collection in both HTML and markdown. -
R.I.P. Wesley Willis
“Wesley Willis, the energetic 6’5”, 300-pound Chicago street musician who parlayed whimsical, spartan keyboard odes to his favorite products and indie rock musicians into a cult following, died on Thursday night at a hospice in Illinois; he was forty.”
<p><a href=http://www.rollingstone.com/news/newsarticle.asp?nid=18568>http://www.rollingstone.com/news/newsarticle.asp?nid=18568</a></p>“I am a rock soloist..I am a rock singer on the Wesley Willis Fiasco”
Posted on Blog over 23 years agoon August 23, 2003 - 5:42 AM and archived here at /blog/2003/2003-08-22-rip-wesley-willis/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/blog/2003/2003-08-22-rip-wesley-willis/ in the Blog collection in both HTML and markdown. -
Radiohead
<p>Radiohead<br />Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia, MD
Wed, Aug 20, 2003. 6:30pm<p>Section Row Type Ticket Price Building Facility Charge Convenience Charge Description </p> <p>LAWN23 <span class="caps">ADULT</span> $36.50 $3.50 $8.25 <span class="caps">PRICE</span> <span class="caps">LEVEL</span> 2<br />GENERAL ADMISSION LAWN
LAWN23 ADULT $36.50 $3.50 $8.25
LAWN23 ADULT $36.50 $3.50 $8.25
LAWN23 ADULT $36.50 $3.50 $8.25<p>Item Charge <br />Tickets (Radiohead)
ADULT $36.50 × 4
Total Building Facility Charge(s) $14.00
Total Convenience Charge(s) $33.00
Total Taxes $0.00
Order Processing Charge(s) $3.90
Standard Mail $0.00<p><span class="caps">TOTAL</span> <span class="caps">CHARGES</span> $196.90 </p> <p>Tickets still available people. The shows the 20th of this month. Be there!
Posted on Blog over 23 years agoon August 08, 2003 - 9:25 PM and archived here at /blog/2003/2003-08-08-radiohead/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/blog/2003/2003-08-08-radiohead/ in the Blog collection in both HTML and markdown. -
PKD psuedo-interview
<p><i>If the future had a slogan, what would it be?</i></p> <p><a href="http://frontwheeldrive.com/philip_k_dick.html">PKD</a>: “God promises eternal life. We can deliver it.”</p> <p>I really really really really enjoy reading <span class="caps">PKD</span> novels — the interview is neat. Even if you think you have no idea who <span class="caps">PKD</span> is, follow the link, the introduction will remind you.</p>Posted on Blog over 23 years agoon July 15, 2003 - 2:56 PM and archived here at /blog/2003/2003-07-15-pkd-psuedo-interview/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/blog/2003/2003-07-15-pkd-psuedo-interview/ in the Blog collection in both HTML and markdown. -
easier reading w/ htmldoc
<p>Reading long passages of text in a browser is torture. This is only partly because of the screen. Also problematic is the number of words in a line which is often dynamic and when static intended for letter paper, lack of true page numbering and the innability to bookmark the currenlty <i>location</i> on a page in huge scrolling documents. Enter htmldoc — now I’m reading the same text in small trade paperback standard width, height and line-height with page numbering, headers and footers. Should I so desire, I can add a few more flags to my command and have a pdf ready to be printed and bound.</p>Posted on Blog over 23 years agoon July 14, 2003 - 4:20 AM and archived here at /blog/2003/2003-07-13-easier-reading-w-htmldoc/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/blog/2003/2003-07-13-easier-reading-w-htmldoc/ in the Blog collection in both HTML and markdown. -
Pre-haircut
<p>I don’t have many (any?) pics of how long my hair had gotten — found this at the gallery for Aaron and Kathy’s wedding. Now I want to grow it out again :)</p>Posted on Blog over 23 years agoon July 05, 2003 - 5:35 PM and archived here at /blog/2003/2003-07-05-pre-haircut/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/blog/2003/2003-07-05-pre-haircut/ in the Blog collection in both HTML and markdown. -
why I disrespect people
<p>Ring…<br />Ring…
me: “Helpdesk, this is Grant…”
user: “i’m working from home on my laptop and it said it was going into hibernation and then it turned off.”
me: erm you battery died<p><span class="imred">user</span>: Well, I need a new battery then.<br />user: Order me a new battery.
me: Can’t you plug it in?
user: I don’t know my husband set all this up.
me: Is there no power outlet nearby?
user: I don’t know, can’t I just get another battery? How long would it take?
me: I could put a quote in for one… could take a week or two.
user: What do you mean ‘quote’?! A week? I’m going on vacation!
me: Is the power chord plugged into the back left corner of the laptop?
me: Can you follow that back to the black box?
user: hold on… ok… yes it is plugged in!.. and I see the black box, it says “Dell” on it…
me: Is the green light on?
user: What green light?
me: On the black box.
user: No, the green light is not on. What does that mean?
me: It means that it is not getting power.
me: Can you follow that back to the wall and verify that the other end is plugged into a power outlet?
user: Hold on, let me put the phone down.
noise
sounds of stuff moving around
user: Yes, it is plugged in! I need a new battery!
me: Is there a switch on that outlet that needs to be turned on for the outlet to be live?
user: What do you mean live, there is no switch.
me: Was it a power strip or a wall outlet.
user: uhmm… a power strip.
me: …
user: Oh wait, I plugged it into the wall now… ok the green light is on!!
user: What does that mean?
me: It means it is getting power.
user: So do you think I should get a battery?<p>etc etc…</p> <p>That was as close to a word-for-word transcription as memory would allow. Good times! We debated the usefulness of a new battery for a bit, and I explained exactly what “being plugged in” would do for the battery, then walked her through logging back into the machine which was “locked” but that’s boring…</p>Posted on Blog over 23 years agoon June 11, 2003 - 5:57 PM and archived here at /blog/2003/2003-06-11-why-i-disrespect-people/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/blog/2003/2003-06-11-why-i-disrespect-people/ in the Blog collection in both HTML and markdown. -
william gibson transcript concerning mass media
<p>William Gibson has posted a transcript of a recent talk he gave. </p> <p><a href="http://www.williamgibsonbooks.com/archive/2003_05_01_archive.asp#200322370" >Good reading</a> if you have the time.</p> <p>William Gibson is an SF author often credited as the ‘father of cyberpunk’. I read shitloads of SF but <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0425190455/qid=1053568075/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_1/002-2849343-4622421?v=glance&s=books&n=507846">Idoru</a> is the only Gibson novel I’ve finished… that was in high school and after reading the blog post I’m thinking I should re-examine his works.</p> <p>Not because I completely buy his vision of the future but because I am now perhaps a bit more capable of digesting the format in which he depicts it. </p> <p>I generally cringe, knowing I should not, when pundits describe the internet as an “unprecedented driver of change”. </p> <p>I don’t know if it is exactly incorrect but it certainly reeks of “we are at the cusp of a new age” thinking which every generation has likely been guilty of in some way…</p> <p>Thoughts?</p>Posted on Blog over 23 years agoon May 22, 2003 - 5:44 AM and archived here at /blog/2003/2003-05-21-william-gibson-transcript-concerning-mass-media/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/blog/2003/2003-05-21-william-gibson-transcript-concerning-mass-media/ in the Blog collection in both HTML and markdown. -
New Orleans Funk.
<p>There are seven of us that should be meeting up at the <a href="http://www.funkymeters.com" title="The Funky Meters">Funky Meters</a> show at the <a href="http://www.930club.com" title="930 at 815 V">9:30 club</a> tonight. I’ll be metro’ing over with Amanda, Ben and Aaron. Erk, Jake and Sam will be meetings us there. </p> <p>Ben isn’t talking to me right now becuase I refuse to say “Harrrr” over IM so if anyone has heard anything from him about a change of plans, let me know.</p>Posted on Blog over 23 years agoon April 17, 2003 - 11:34 PM and archived here at /blog/2003/2003-04-17-new-orleans-funk/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/blog/2003/2003-04-17-new-orleans-funk/ in the Blog collection in both HTML and markdown. -
rant restrained.
<p><span class="imBlue">grant</span>: why do i have this strange notion that I need to write long e-mail messages thinking anyone will read it?<br />Ben: i’ve absolutely no freaking idea
grant: does it kill people and make them put me in their spam filter rules?
Ben: i plead the fifth
—SNIP—<p><span class="imBlue">grant</span>: about to send a stupid message<br />grant: stop me
grant: now’s your chance
Ben: its lame dont bother
Ben: you just look like an opinionated hippie w/ that haircut and your proving it
grant: there ya go
Ben: going limp
grant: ARRRRRRRR
Ben: do you want everyone to think your a damn zealot? cmon man THINK
grant: so if i get a haircut I can start ranting again?
grant: i’ll just send it to you
Ben: no. because then your a hypocrit
grant: hrmm. how so?
Ben: your pretending to be someone you arent!
grant: this sounds like a total trap
Ben: hmm it could be
grant: when? now or if I got a haircut
Ben: hahaha your jedi mind tricks do not work on me
grant: I’m so confused
Ben: you know how jacks boss was pissed when jack kept sending lil hiaku’s to everyone in the company? SAME THING
Ben: (everything i’ve learned from life i’ve learned from hollywood)
Grant:worker bees can leave
even drones can fly away
the queen is their slave
Ben: well at least your not leaving linux sourcecode in the copy machinePosted on Blog over 23 years agoon April 15, 2003 - 6:46 PM and archived here at /blog/2003/2003-04-15-rant-restrained/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/blog/2003/2003-04-15-rant-restrained/ in the Blog collection in both HTML and markdown.