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Monday, June 10, 2002
Ok, so here's the deal folks. As soon as DNS finishes propogating,
BikerGirl.net will have a new home. Catalog.com is fucking evil, and
Dyntex.com, while perhaps not having the best email helpdesk staff, rocks.
This entire umich.edu website will be moving to airyn.com, hosted on
the same company. If anyone would be interested, I'll be offering way-cheap
email and website space just loaded with features. Yes, you could
have yourname@bikergirl.net, or www.bikergirl.net/~your-website.
Life is good. Drop me a line if you're interested, and let me know which
domain you'd like to be on.
Sunday, June 9, 2002
Today is Lance's 29th birthday.
Also, with the website reorg comes new photo albums:
Saturday, June 8, 2002
I've just removed some 300 files (images, text, other) from the site
in an effort to pare things down substantially; happily, there are just
over 5000 left to go through. [sigh] At any rate, if you notice something
gone missing, that's why, and if you could let me know, I'd appreciate it.
Also, I may move everything over to www.airyn.com shortly; Lance pointed me to a good hosting company that allows direct ssh access, which is what's been preventing me from doing much with either BikerGirl or airyn.com. I'll probably move all of the biking stuff (yeah, all of it) over to BikerGirl, and the rest to airyn.com, just because I've been bumping into my 100MB limit here at umich. Anyhow, we'll see what happens. But the reorg is going on, and will be going on, so if stuff is wonky, that is why.
Further, the Redwings are currently in their third overtime in the Stanley Cup finals - my poor, poor boys. I'm exhausted just watching them.
Thursday, June 6, 2002
My mail is all kinds of wonky - if I don't write you back, don't be
offended; I may not have gotten your mail, or it may have been accidentally
deleted in the thousands upon thousands of duplicate messages I've been
getting for months now. Hopefully the trouble will be cleared up soon.
Sunday, June 2, 2002
After much anguished thought, I'm selling my truck. If you're looking for
a great small truck, this here's your gal:
I'm asking $15,500, but will entertain other offers, maybe.
Also, this is how Lance and I spent our weekend:
Wolf Haven
Northwest Trek
We are turning in applications to become volunteers at Wolf Haven - this
is a very small rescue organization with very nice facilities, and they're
in need of help. I think it would be great to get back into wildlife
volunteering, and I really liked what I saw there. Northwest Trek was a
fabulous park with absolutely phenomenal habitats for all of their
animals, but had many more people, a lot of whom were badly-behaved children.
I'll probably put up a page about our experiences at both parks shortly.
And, one last thing - I'm re-org'ing a metric buttload of stuff on the
site, including removing a lot of superfluous images/photos. If you run
into a broken image, please let me know so I can fix it. I'm trying to do
basic quality control here, but it's sooooo tedious with 85
pentobazillion files, directories, sub-directories, et cetera, that I'm
bound to miss some.
Thursday, May 30, 2002
Got the results of my overnight
sleep study, which had some interesting stuff. Read all about it.
Also, I got a bunch of new icons designed yesterday, so The Big Website
Redo is coming along. I may even finish it someday.
Further, don't forget about The Spring Fling!
All the hip people will be there, except Adam Wolkoff, who is really
very hip, but is also in Minnesota and has a job. Fabulous Spring Fling Merchandise is available, too!
Coming soon, www.airyn.com t-shirts and such. Er, just as soon as I put
something on that website, anyhow...
Dungeon Siege is
definitely the best computer role-playing game I have ever seen. If you
value your free time, stay away from it.
Tuesday, May 28, 2002
It's coming, it really is - a completely new look for this whole site. I'm
in the process of creating icons and deciding what I want to put where. I
think I finally have A Direction. Whether I actually do or not remains to
be seen, but I'm hopeful. The overall effect may just look ridiculous, but
we shall see.
Meantime, a product review of Biker
Balm over on BikerGirl.net
Also, I'm not even remotely satisfied with this yet, and I'm going to do
a whole new logo thing, but Girl
Gear is now available. Knock yourself out, if you like.
Monday, May 27, 2002
I know I've been a complete slacker. And, the only thing I've done today
is to add a framed version of the
rants section. That's it, that's all, nothing else. Maybe sometime soon,
though.
Monday, May 6, 2002
Today is a very sad day. Over the weekend, Kaely (my dog, my mom's dog)
became very sick, and it turned out she had advanced cancer. A few hours
ago, Mom made the very difficult decision to put her to sleep, as Kaely's
quality of life would not be very good if we had put her through terribly
invasive surgery and chemotherapy. Rest in peace, baby girl.
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Sunday, May 5, 2002
I try to support businesses that really come through for me and for others,
by either going above and beyond the call of duty, or just through their
day-to-day business practices. Today, I want to plug A&S BMW Motorcycles. These folks are
phenomenal. I went to their dealership last month and got the grand tour,
meeting several people working there - all of them were very friendly.
Last night, a Flip-a-Lever (an aftermarket throttle lock which they stock)
I purchased from them failed catastrophically, taking out the housing it
screws into. I sent them a friendly note via their website last night
explaining what happened, and asking if they could cover the lever under
warranty, or if I should talk to the lever folks directly. Today I
received an email from them saying that they would put not only a new
lever, but a replacement for the destroyed piece in the mail for me
on Wednesday. I'm very grateful and happy for this. Good people, good
dealership!
Thursday, May 2, 2002
I know it's been awhile, and I'm sorry - I don't even have a good
excuse, I've just been apathetic. But here's a little something:
The Sleep Clinic Ordeal
Wednesday, April 10, 2002
Just a few update type things
Tuesday, April 2, 2002
"Wesley said 'fuck!!!'"
And he's all, like, grown-up and stuff, man. He's also got his own website which he maintains
himself, evidently on Linux boxen - go, Wil! He's an actual human being,
with a sense of humor, and sacrasm, and everything! Who Knew!
He's not even bitter about the whole alt.wesley.die.die.die thing.
In other, non-Wil Wheaton news, I put roller blades on yesterday for the first time in about 8 years. It wasn't pretty, but I didn't fall down, and didn't pull any muscles. Sea kayaking books have arrived in the mail. We're going to hike and camp Eagle Creek weekend after next with my Aunt Marti. Chances are good that we'll be leading more of our lives outside this summer. Woohoo!
DON'T EVER FORGET ABOUT THIS SITE: The Brunching Shuttlecocks; they consistently produce funny stuff that floors me every single time, much like The Onion used to.
Further, I'm thinking of trying to sell myself as an artist - for a modest fee, I will dope myself up on Ambien, and come to your house. I can't guarantee what will happen after that, because the drug moves in mysterious and random ways. You might get your canned goods rearranged. You might find the contents of your bathroom suddenly on the couch. I may make creative designs from your cereals, nuts, and/or spices. Whatever the result, I'll write you up a certificate that says "Hey, it's ART!" and then you can probably sell your house for, like, eight times its worth.
Thursday, March 28, 2002
Very shortly, if my neurons fire properly, a page about all of my Ambien
Adventure will be coming. It's getting to be too funny (or maybe just
weird) not to show. Like, take right now, ferinstance. 1:15am in the morning.
I'm typing, I know I'm typing, and I know what normal typed words look like.
These words are not those words, these are words that are trying to form
societies and houses and families and stuff. Drugs are fun.
I dunno. I gotta bed now.
I put up better shots of my tattoos at the top of the page I put up yesterday. I also put up a page that compares the raven artwork with the tattoo. I haven't had Lance take one of my dragon tattoo yet, though.
Wednesday, March 27, 2002
I threw up some photos from my digital
camera.
Monday, March 26, 2002
Only a couple of things. 1.) Lance and I basically slept through our
second anniversary without realizing it. We both found this pretty funny,
when at 8pm that night he looks over and asks "Today is the 24th - isn't
that our anniversary?" We checked, and it was. DOH! Well, tomorrow
we're going to a hockey game, so that'll make up for it.
2.) Barbie says, "Writing is hard!!" I have three chapters written in
my new story, and this whole Figuring Out the Plot thing is, um, difficult.
My main character keeps trying to be me, so I'm struggling to make her
different. At least somewhat different! I am giving her all
of the toys I'd like to have, but can't afford, though - that's part of
the fun of writing, you get to live vicariously through your characters.
The editing is what takes up a lot of time, though; rereading things,
rearranging things, and then trying to find all of the instances where the
rearranged thing was referenced, and making sure they all jive. It's hard,
but it's a good kind of hard. Thanks muchly to my mom, who's supplied me
with a lot of writer's books over the last several months, I've learned
some good exercises and techniques and how to begin editing, and not to
edit until you get done writing a certain amount, and on and on. As hard
as it is, I love doing it - it's something I enjoy, and it's easy even
while it's being hard. Bearing Buddhism in mind also helps the editing
process - detaching from my written words and letting them go is so much
easier when I view them through the glass Buddhism provides.
Tuesday, March 19, 2002
Now I remember why I never contemplated grad school - the freaking GRE.
I've been toying with the idea of a masters degree lately, but had
completely spaced the whole GRE Thing unitl earlier tonight. I just spent
more than 3 hours taking practice quizzes and whatnot, and my brain is
ready to combust. I loathe tests involving math, because it makes
me fly into a panic; my brain just doesn't work that way. Too bad, though,
school was just starting to sound good again.
Saturday, March 16, 2002
Seriously. All this ET stuff really gives me the heebie jeebies.
Also, I've started writing an offline story, which I have hopes of becoming
long enough to make into a book. I may not be writing as much here,
subsequently.
Friday, March 15, 2002
People like Steve Lofton and Roger
Croteau truly humble me - not only because of their complete selflessness
and boundless hearts, but because they somehow find time to take care of 4
HIV-positive and 1 formerly-HIV-positive foster children and still do
activist work. Simply amazing.
Thursday, March 14, 2002
Well, bad news for me; I have to get off the unix.itd system here at
umich - they're restricting it to staff-only use sometime soon. So, if you've
been using the airyn@unix.itd email address, please change it to the
XXXXXXXX. As if I weren't disorganized
in my email enough, this will help. [sigh] So, if you get no reply,
please just let me apologize right now.
Tuesday, March 12, 2002
Are we supposed to care that the "Country Crock Couple" are pregnant? I mean,
c'mon - it's not like they're the "Taster's Choice Couple," y'know?
Monday, March 11, 2002
Today is the sixth month anniversary of
the attacks of September 11, 2001.
On a CNN poll (which thus far has approximately 50,000 respondants,) 57% of us feel less safe today than we did before the attacks, while 17% feel safer, and 27% feel the same amount of safety. I'm one of those who feel less safe, and this bothers me deeply.
Sunday, March 10, 2002
Am I a totally evil person for intensely disliking "ET: The Extra-Terrestrial?"
I tapped out a few thoughts on positive elements in life just now.
Also, I'm so happy that Rosie has finally decided to come out of the closet! We've known she's gay for years, since her early stand-up days, but she always refused to say one way or the other. Well, good for her for not hiding her life anymore. You go, girl.
Finally scanned in a couple of things I've been wanting to put up:
Also, it's nearly time for The Perpetual Planetary Healing Circle
There's a new magazine on the scene, one that looks interesting - Real Simple. They offer a free issue their website. It's difficult to tell from their website if it's going to be amazing, but the concept is good.
Friday, March 8, 2002
Folks, I need a team. A team that will sweep over the hills and valleys
of this website proofreading in the face of danger. The wind in your
hair, the sand beneath your feet, how can you resist?! No really, I would
like to assemble a few good proof-readers/editors to help me out with
cleaning up the numerous typos on the site. I also have to figure out
which parts of the site to trim out permanently. Tough stuff. So, if you
wanna play on The Airyn's A Doofus Team, lemme know, and I'll sign you up.
I may also occasionally ask you all (in group email) what you think about
an idea or two. Bounce some stuff off of you. Asking other people in my
life helps, but the perspective I'm most concerned about is yours, collectively.
So, I should be asking you guys.
Anyhow, Lance and I have colds totally kicking our asses, so I'm going to bed now. Buh-bye.
Thursday, March 7, 2002
Um, we seem to have about 7 inches of snow on the ground, and it's still
coming down like mad. Wacky. (But really pretty!) It's that gorgeous,
fluffy snow that creates a stillness to everything, and muffles the ambient
sounds. There's a wonderful clean smell to the air, and it reminds me of
many Michigan winter nights.
Wednesday, March 6, 2002
Tattoo progress
More Amazon stuff. Go figure.
Further, Mom has pointed out that my typing has been particularly sloppy of late - if you notice the inevitable typographical and grammatical errors, please feel free to let me know. Honestly, I'd rather fix them than have the entire world think I'm completely ignorant.
And, a moment ago I was thinking of my friend, Kevin, and I wondered if he was still the umich webmaster. I first flipped into the umich X.500 directory to check this, and looked him up. You may have seen something in here somewhere about "boxen." Kevin has taken this one step further, and has come up with "faxen." I love it. (And, as it turns out, yes he still is the webmaster.)
Saturday, March 2, 2002
Ok, Mom? Don't freak. I got a new tattoo.
And, a tiny bit at the bottom of the Amazon page.
Friday, March 1, 2002
Amazon stuff
Thursday, February 28, 2002
What X-Men Character are You?
So as it turns out, I'm Rogue
I suppose if I had to be a chick X-Man, Rogue's not a bad way to end up.
Monday, February 26, 2002
Two very brief, not terribly useful, film reviews
Sunday, February 25, 2002
Completely revised my Spirit page.
Friday, February 22, 2002
More on Stuff
The official Spring Fling '02 website is up
Also, apologies to people who've been emailing me and haven't gotten a
response. For some reason, I'm having a very hard time making myself do
email lately. I'll catch up...eventually.
Friday, February 15, 2002
I'm slowly sort of reworking the movie reviews section,
and have it assembled enough to at least put it up "for real."
Saturday, February 9, 2002
Silence
Thursday, January 24, 2002
Commercials - Yes, Again.
Random update.
Thursday, January 17, 2002
My life as a serial killer
Saturday, January 11, 2002
Well, it's not much, but it's sort of an
explanation.
Wednesday, December 12, 2001
Today is not a good day, thus far. It's not
a bad day, per se, but just not Good.
It is, however, a good day for Russ - he can have another party. I've
reorg'ed the rants index.
Tuesday, December 11, 2001
Ooooooh, I'm just an idiot. Occasionally, my fingers get away from me (as
I was discussing yesterday,) and I type something I'm saying or am thinking
about. I don't know what was going on in my head, but there was just a serious
disconnect to my fingers, and instead of typing "Thanks, Robert," I just
sent a message saying "Thanks, Grover!" [sigh] There is going to be a very
confused young man sitting here at Boeing in about 15 seconds.
Monday, December 10, 2001
Good LORD I need to redesign this site. Awfully. It's getting out of
hand, and a whole bunch of it doesn't make a damn bit of sense.
Toward that end, I've shortened this page to reduce load times, and have
(again) switched the color scheme. I've also (finally) updated the
Rants index so that all the stuff is listed there.
I know, I know: As one pseudo-enthusiastic reader said, "let's all
have a party." Fuck you, Russ.
Also, I'm having a huge problem with
misuse of common grammar. A really huge problem.
Monday, December 3, 2001
I realized last night that I never linked up my thoughts
about September 11th - bit late, but I thought "what the heck."
Also, more anti-cheer.
Saturday, December 1, 2001
How the hell is it December??! Oh, alright fine.
I put up some new Summoner screen shots
this morning.
Slightly older stuff - July, 2001 - November, 2001
Older stuff - November, 1999 - June, 2001
Really old stuff - January, 1997 - November, 1999
