Month: October 2004

Since my earring was beginning to come off, and I didn’t fancy it falling anywhere and losing it, I removed it planning to put it back again “correctly” if/when I learnt how to. A week and a half later, there is no hole in my ear to worry about learning. After all that freaking thought I put in over so many years about “irreversibly scarring my body” this is what I get in return – the stupid thing took absolutely no time and pain to form and closed without a trace. Genius.

I am slowly getting out of what has probably been one of the worst weeks ever in terms of a lot of things. I cannot believe how sluggish and unmotivated I’ve been. I’ve been feeling “mentally ill”. I probably made it to work like two times. But all of that is slowly beginning to change. I did a ton of housework and some intellectual work just to get me in the “now I am doing something at least” frame of mind. Today, the dishes, tomorrow, the world!

And I had a grand total of two little kiddies who somehow mananged to get past the external security system and find my humble abode in search of candy. Both with parental backup. One was a witch, and another, well I don’t know what she planned to be or was. All I do know is her parents ought to have put in a lot more time into that costume.

And who’d have thunk it? There are times being a chocaholic slob actually has some benefit.

I’ve done all I can at the moment to minimize spam.
– All “linkdumpable” files have been changed to random names. Meaning, if a bot was looking for something specific like blah-comments.post.php (since it knows the format of the file) to be able to spam it, it won’t be able to find it anymore.
– Commenting is closed on all posts over a month old. Actually, it isn’t really closed but the comment is piped to my e-mail and doesn’t show up immediately on the site. If it is legit, it will eventually come up. If not, you’re a spammer and will be added to my list of people to be mean to.
– All comments are browsed through for flag words viagra, casino, etc. and if something seems fishy, it is held up for moderation before showing up on the site. So remember, if you’re making a small penis joke, and viagra is essential to the punchline, don’t worry if the comment doesn’t show up as soon as you type it. There is no need to repost. This is also done for fishy IP pools and referers.

If things still get out of hand, I will need to resort to “make-sure-you’re-human” checks before letting you comment. A pain, yes.
– Ask a simple riddle and expect a sane answer before allowing a coment.
– Show you a picture and make sure you can parse it.
– Forcing you to register and sign up each time. EEEEEK!

Eminem’s new video – Mosh. Surprisingly “activistey” and informed.

Because the other style (wordpress’ default) made me want to gauge my eyes out, I’ve hastily cut-and-paste and what not to get the theme as close to how it was before the upgrade. A lot of it is still “off”, but I will slowly fix that. Most mockable is the comment box that so-neatly fits with the rest of the scheme, not. Go ahead, laugh.

But the weird thing it still doesn’t feel “home” and I am unable to pen anything “real” at the moment.

Ok, you can calm down now. While changing a ton of journal related ‘backend’ things, I decided to update it as well.

This is just an arbitrarily long test phase. While I sort out spam blockers and comment moderation and such.

I know, it looks too bright to me too. I will make it dull and dreary soon enough.

Where do I begin? Ah yes, due to an unfortunate turn of events in her company’s fiscal state, a friend of mine was recently laid off and leaving AA soon. She told me about this in the evening, when it was decided we hang out and talk about things over dinner. As we were walking around downtown looking for a nice place to eat, we walked past a theatre where I ♥ Huckabees was showing. Having read and heard so much about it recently, I had to see it. We gobbled up what could be classified as a ‘quick dinner’ and rushed to make it on time.

And it was a good thing. I’ve not laughed this hard in a long time. It’s this totally offbeat story involving four people whose lives are intertwined in odd ways, as part of the “grand tapestry of all existence”. It’s a dream-like take on a lot of events, with a crude (and cruel) sense of humour that’s “intellectually masked” with metaphysical discussions.

Though it makes you wonder about some things, the movie doesn’t take itself too seriously and ends up making fun at opposing points of view. And I can’t get the cute title song out of my head. Cute, that’s the word. Everything about it was just very cute. If you’ve not yet convinced, it even has dirty (you’ll see what I mean) sex.

Disclaimer: Naomi Watts is gorgeous. There is good reason to believe the above review was consequently clouded.

Samples: Blanket Truth, Quantity, Not Quality, and Now!

Well on the inside anyway. I just cleared up 192 MB of spam and brought it down to about 500 KB of legit comments. None of your words of wisdom have been lost, do not worry.

I am just being a little cautious and plan to enable some sort of spam blocker and other trickery to prevent this from happening in the future. So for now, you still won’t see a functional ‘comment link’ attached to the posts.