My Addled Brain

Currently playing: Sugar - Copper Blue

I hope everybody found this place OK. I know I sure can get lost trying to get here. Allow me to tidy up here for a moment, and I’ll have Robby fetch you a cup of tea, and a pillow to rest your head on. All comfortable? Good.

Welcome, friends and family, to my website. I’ll try to keep it updated as time allows, but we all know about how wonderful time is, and how nicely it likes to pick us up and smack us around a bit. With a bit of luck, I’ll be able to keep up, which will be my little way of saying: "Hey! Time! Get in the kitchen, and make me some pie!"

* Why ask "time" to make you a pie? Why don’t you ask your ROBOT SLAVE to make you a pie, you fluid sack! Someday, human…*

Or something.

None of the links on the right work. Yet. But they will, and when they do, mark my words: You’ll All Be Sorry.

But in the meantime, kick back, enjoy my previous posts, which have been read by approximately two people, and don’t forget to lavish me with gifts next week.

[Updated 12/21/01 - 12:06 AM] The Meet Robby page is up and running. Not that YOU care.

Currently playing: The Jim Rome Show

Been a very interesting weekend (and week, so far). Work’s got me very busy, and between that, shopping for Christmas (which I’m almost done with, a complete oddity for me I assure you), doing things with my brother and his wife, dating (again, a complete oddity for me), playtime for Robby, and trying to play webmaster for two websites, I’ve got a fairly full plate.

For those of you who are wondering where I got these wonderful images: doesn’t anyone search the web anymore? (Actually, chances are pretty good you do if you found THIS hole in the wall…) For the lazy: try here, here, or here.

Finally, a WAY belated congratulations to my friends David and Dori Jones, who gave birth to a beautiful girl, Emma Grace Cecelia Jones, on November 17th. Congratulations you two, I certainly hope you don’t confuse her by calling her different names all the time.

Currently playing: The Seat Belts - Rush (from Cowboy Bebop)

I love this wacky web thing. There’s nothing better, in my opinion, than learning about some new and wonderful web technology, and how I can apply it to the things I do. Take XML. Sure, it’s a useless technology. Sure, it has very limited practical applications. But there’s so many cool things you can do with it! Like take information from an xml file on a remote server, and format it using ASP and XSLT to make it appear to be a natural extension of a web page, all without having to access a database! That’s cool, man.

Not that any of you care, mind you.

Went to see The Mouse this weekend, with my brother, his wife, my cousin, her boyfriend, and a girl named Jen. (Yes, high irony for those of you that know me, and absolutely no clue for the rest of you. Maybe I’ll tell you all about it sometime. But don’t hold your breath.) The Mouse is doing well for having suffered a major blow to it’s tourist base. There was a decent wait for some of the rides, and I got to ride all the rides they put in since the last time I was there, which were quite a few: Rock N’ Roller Coaster, Test Track, and Buzz Lightyear all got my seal of approval (especially the Rock N’ Roller Coaster, which kicks major arse and earns my highly acclaimed *Coaster-riffic* award, which I plan on never actually making. But it’s still not as good asCedar Point. Oh no, not even close.

[Edited for personal embarrassment reasons.] Work sucks. I’ve just spent most of my work week driving back and forth from our company’s new office, which is conveniently located an hour from my home. This in itself is not unique, what IS unique is my boss requiring me to drive there everyday. You see, I used to work from home, and thought I was doing a pretty good job of it. In fact, my immediate supervisor thought I was, too. However, more sinister forces have prevailed, and our company president has taken charge of my employment location. So my poor car suffers. Robby is upset about this; being away from home will screw with his daily maintenance, and has already offered to help me by building a gauss gun, a weapon designed to scramble the electronic circuitry of the intended target. Which is all well and good, but for that to work, my boss would have to be some sort of heartless machine. Hmm…maybe this will work after all, thanks Robby!

Welcome to my retro-kitch weblog, jam-packed with more action and excitement than any one human being deserves. Feel free to check out the links to the right - g’wan, check them out. Oh yeah, they don’t work. I’ll get around to that eventually. I’m going to try and keep this place fairly clean and tidy, which should be an interesting concept for someone with no real "design" experience. I do web design, but it’s usually some dull, dreary ASP page used for data entry. This place has pictures, at least.

What are my interests? Bad cinema, especially old 50’s sci-fi. Cool 40’s and 50’s art. Art deco. And any other goofy stuff I come up with along the way.

* Why post a website for all this? Because he can, puny human. *

Ah, I see you’ve met our mascot and rabid human-hater Robby the Robot. If you’d care to learn more about him, or find out why he holds you with such disdain, visit his page.

Otherwise, welcome, and feel free to send me comments, thoughts, concerns, or personal problems to my e-mail.