Damn straight! VoX is back in full effect! (or something like that) Check out their live Y2K coverage, it's fucking hilarious. :)

Oh yeah, I got paid $50 this morning to install a Y2K upgrade program on some guy's computer (for some shitty DOS program). Nothing like waiting 'til the last minute.

A friend of mine was nice enough to let me borrow his digital camera, so I took some pictures of my truck today (how exciting, eh?). Anyway, check 'em out on the pictures page.

Just followed a link to portal.scurvy.net from Illegal Operation. That site kicks ass! :) I've seen the link a couple of times on different sites in the past couple weeks, just never clicked it. Too bad. I added it to the e/n links section over there.

The new year is approaching, and it's time to start preparing for armageddon. Here's a little of what I've got stockpiled so far (you might want to follow suit):

• 2 boxes of 30-06 ammo (40 rounds)

• 2 bricks of .22 ammo (1000 rounds) (mmm...rabbit stew)

• A lot of ramen noodles

• Lots of Pokemon cards (the currency of the new millennium)

• 45 gallons of gasoline

• About 20 extra pounds of body fat (reserves for when food runs out) :)

Here are some other things you may want to remember when the clock strikes 12:00: Do not stand near your computer--it may explode, embedding your Voodoo II in your skull. The power will go out (regardless of what the power company told you). Also, you should withdraw all your money from the bank as soon as possible--you may need to burn it to keep warm.

Note: I'm just kidding. I hope all the dumbasses out there who take this crap seriously end up accidentally locking themselves in their bunkers and doom themselves to consume canned beans and Tang for the rest of their short, pitiful existence. :)

I changed the poll today. Go vote.

It seems the Ford F-250s and F-350s took the last poll, though when I changed servers (and lost all the poll data), Dodge was in the lead. I can't remember how many votes Dodge had, but it probably really beat out Ford.

While following links from some referrers to my site, I found several good anti-U.S. West sites: uswestsucks.tinypenis.com, usworst.org (not complete, but looks very promising), and uswestsucks.net.

I haven't personally had many problems with U.S. West, but I know a lot of people who have. Throughout almost all of Utah (and certainly all of Carbon County), there is absolutely no choice but to use their services. And their monopoly means absolutely no high-speed internet access except in the major metropolitan areas (read: downtown Salt Lake City). Suck ass.

Well, I didn't get a whole lot for Christmas, but I do like what I got. Among my favorites are: A case of beer (sort of a micro-brew variety pack)(and not that shitty 3.2% Utah beer--this stuff is the good 6%), a posable Kermit the Frog doll (don't laugh, it's cool!), the new Third Eye Blind CD (not quite as good as their last one), and a Good Will Hunting VHS tape, which I'm trading in for the DVD. And my wife says she's got a little somethin' special for me tomorrow, which I just got a sneak-preview of. ;)

Yep, I've moved. Of course, if you're reading this, you already know that. Duh. I sent email to all the kind folks who link to me (even Solo, though he doesn't "officially" link to me...maybe I'll get a nice plug). :)

Hear Ye! will not be updated for the next couple weeks. Inferno's going on vacation (or something). It's gonna be hard for me to remember not to click on that link every day... :)

At least he left us with something cool to look at while he's gone. It's Hear Ye's Year in Review. I even got a mention as "underappreciated." :)

So did Techno Weenie. I agree. Now in the links section.

One more thing: The Head of a Scared Red. He says he won't start his journal until December 31, but, well, he's back now, and underappreciated as ever. :)

C'mon, vote in the poll. You know you like those new F-2/350s. In the last poll, "Does anyone even visit this site?", I got 9 yeas and 1 nay. Heh. Maybe I shoulda left it up longer. :)

And check out Stile. He's almost always got something good to say. But don't click if you're easily offended, or if someone watching you is, or if you don't like pr0n or violence, or nude anorexic vomiting women, or... On second thought, forget I even mentioned him. :)

I've been spending a lot of time on IRC lately. When my town first got internet access (back in '96 I think), that's all I ever did was chat with a group of people that I eventually came to know very well. Anyway, I've been hangin' out on #badassmofo (pretty boring, usually), #thestileproject (same, but not quite as bad), #html (fun, especially when you know the answer), and #webhelp, where I'm a channel operator.

Anyhow, stop in sometime and say hi, or you can just say "you suck", that would be cool too. :)

Oh, and I (finally) put a tracker on this page (very bottom center). I once had a HitBox tracker on here, but they really sucked. This time, I used eXTReme Tracking, and they seem to be ok, though it takes a while for the hits to actually show up.

One more thing: new link to the Salty One. :) Check it.

I went 4-wheeling with some friends tonight, and boy did it scare the shit outta me! It was me, Jorge, and Mike in Mike's spankin' new 2000 Ford F-150 (extended cab, short bed, 32X10.5 BFG Mud Terrain tires, no lift). We were about a half-hour's drive away from any civilization, when we came upon a creek. It looked mostly frozen, with a few broken spots in the ice with a little bit of water showing through. It looked like somebody had gone through before, breaking all the ice up. The ice had frozen back over, but it looked like we could make it through just fine. So Mike gunned it. As the truck drove over the ice, it broke it up into huge pieces, and the water beneath was a lot deeper than we had thought (higher than the center of the wheels). We ended up getting stuck in the middle of the creek. Mike tried rocking the truck out, but the chunks of ice were wedged between the bottom of the truck and the creek bed. I thought there was some serious damage being done to the undercarriage. I couldn't open my door because there was a huge wedge of ice almost against it, but we all got out (we could still stand on the unbroken ice) and surveyed the damage. The truck has step-rails on the sides to help you step up into the truck, but they also saved the truck from some serious body damage, because the ice was wedged between them and the bottom of the creek. We ended up working for about 20 minutes, rocking the truck back and forth only few inches at a time, trying to loosen some of the ice enough to remove it. Most of it weighed much more than the three of us could handle, but we got what we could, then continued rocking the truck back and forth. Eventually, Mike got enough momentum to bounce over the one huge hunk of ice that was keeping him stuck and literally bounced his way backwards out of the creek bed. I don't know how the hell it happened because it seemed totally impossible. We were all just about ready to make the several-hour walk back to town in below-freezing weather before he got unstuck.

Wow, this story is getting long. :) Anyway, seeing that truck make it out of there was the most awesome display of power I have ever seen when 4-wheeling. I guess just reading this story doesn't give you, the reader, the same overwhelming sense of power, but it truly was awesome.

Wow, there's something strange over at Value of X. Here's what the man had to say:

There is no Orland, no X, no Paul. All the 'staff' are figments of my imagination, too. All propaganda that has been sold on you, public. Just pawns, in some assnine game of chess I was playing... with myself. And since none of that has seemed to work, I'm changing the rules a little bit.

...

I've been told that I have a case of multiple personality disorder, that I'm obsessive compulsive, that I'm part retarded. No, none of it's true. Or, at least not as far as I know. I've been the one telling myself that. I'm just the moderator, they're the ones with the eyes.

I didn't like where the poll was, so I messed up the layout again to accomodate it.

The stuff going on over at Illegal Operation is pretty funny. KaiserJ0sh posted about gays (well, against them actually), and ErlK0nig put him in his place. I emailed Erl telling him I was glad he did so, and he gave me a nice plug on I-O. Anyway, just wanted to say hells yeah to him for speakin' his mind. :)

Brad read my plea for help (look down 2 posts) and helped me realize that it was my own brain conspiring against me! I uploaded the script files in binary instead of ascii, the most simple mistake of all time. Silly me.

So anyway, you should see a poll at the top of this page, so go ahead and vote. Or, by not voting, you'll be casting a "silent vote," but I promise I'll still hear what you're trying to say. :)

Check out CyberRebate.com. Supposedly, all the products on their site come with a rebate for the purchase price of the item. So you buy something, pay for it plus $4.99 in shipping, then send in the rebate and get all but the $4.99 back. They have many types of products on their website, including computer hardware, software, toys, kitchen & home, movies, and all kinds of other crap. I don't know how legitimate it is, but I'm not going to be the first one to find out. :) And beware, their site is extremely slow. Thanks to Keith for the link.

I tried to set up a poll on this page today, but it just won't work. I know I had all the file permissions set up right, and the file locations were correct in the script. The server didn't return an error message or anything, it just stripped the SSI call from the page and served it up like normal. Brad (the person whose machine this page is on, and who I go crying to whenever I have a Perl problem) seems to have disappeared from the face of the planet, so I guess I'm S.O.L. I know this is some kind of conspiracy, I just know it!

Yeah, I tweaked the layout a bit. :) Nobody gave a shit about which colors I used, so I played around 'til I got something I liked.

I'm having problems with the link button, though. In Internet Explorer, it loops just fine. But in Netscape, it loops once then stops. I used Animagic GIF to create it, then found that problem. I checked their site, and they know it's a bug and have a program to fix it. I downloaded the program, but it didn't work. So I got another animated gif editor, MagicViewer. This one didn't work either. So if you're unfortunate enough to be using Netscape now, you suck you'll have to look quick to see the link button. :)

I never did understand why anyone would purchase a domain name and never use it. I really want Dennis.com, but it's taken by someone who doesn't use it at all. If I were to register a domain name just to preserve it for future use, it certainly wouldn't take me 2 years to get something going on it. Hopefully they'll let it lapse and it will be up for grabs in March of 00. I hope.

After driving for 4 hours in a pretty bad snowstorm yesterday, the rear brakes on my truck are frozen to the drum. It's like 12 degrees outside now, and it's not supposed to warm up much tomorrow. I might just end up having to use a blow torch on it if I wanna go anywhere. :)

I dunno why I never visited Value of X before. Sucks that I missed out all this time. Check it out.

Someone thinks my page is slightly blue. Ok, it's a lot blue. I viewed it for the first time today on my own computer (I designed it on my mom's computer, and haven't viewed it on any other), and it looks too blue! So I'm going to change the colors around a little bit. I've narrowed it down to three different background colors:

Email me and let me know which one you like, the most popular color wins. I personally like the first two best, but we'll see which one prevails. :)

I was "officially" offered that job today, so starting Monday, I'll be gainfully employed again. :) I'll be working for Capsoft Development Corporation, who is owned by Matthew Bender & Company, who is owned by Reed Elsevier. Phew, that's a lot of companies to work for! :)

Ty told me about MS Monopoly, a board game making fun of Microsoft's so-called monopoly. You can't really play the game, but you can click on each of the properties and see how Microsoft has purchased companies and used them to their advantage, usually in very sneaky ways. Also, you have to check out the "I'm So Mad I Could Sue" section, which includes a nifty online form which allows you to sue the website owners. :)

I received my Altec Lansing ADA305 Digital PowerCube Speaker System today. They're no louder than my Aiwa speaker/subwoofer set, but the sound quality is better. I really like the USB control software that comes with the set. I can adjust the volume of any channel using the mouse, rather than having to turn a knob on the speakers (which you can also do). Now I have 3 sets of computer speakers with subwoofers, and only one computer. What's a guy to do with all these? :)

Check out this very, very nice site, Slightly North of Tomorrow.

I got home from a long day of Christmas shopping, and my page was all fuct up. Some images were missing, and 3 html files were somehow incomplete. I just re-uploaded everything 'cause I didn't wanna check to see what else was messed up, but that explains why you may have seen it all jacked up.

I changed the site around a little today. Made a new logo graphic and centered the site links above. Yeeeeah.

Check out Hear Ye! Last night when I visited the site, I was thinking that it took forever to load, and it hadn't been updated since Nov. 29, so I thought I'd only visit once a week until things picked up. Well, this morning, I checked it out, and pow! New location and slightly different layout. Inferno's been busy. :) He's added some nifty little javascript thingies and a very nice weblog layout, without all the graphics and links the regular page has. Go there!

I ordered one of each of these today:

I had each one on my Ford Escort, but I left them on when I had it hauled to the junkyard (damn piece of crap). I also had some on my Jeep, but I forgot to get 'em off when I sold it. Hopefully, I'll remember to keep them if I get rid of my truck. :)

They have some pretty neat-looking fish emblems. I especially like the "devil" fish, with horns, a pointy tail, and a pitch fork-type scepter. Also, they have a cool "rasta" emblem, with a fish toasting a bowl. Kickass. :) Check 'em out at evolvefish.com.

I added 9 months worth of archives, dating back to September 1998, to the Archives section of this site. The reason they weren't there before is that the HTML used in them was written when the layout of this site was extremely different, and I didn't feel like rewriting it all just so it looked like it was a part of the site. Well, I got bored enough to rewrite it, and there's a lot of cool stuff there, so check it out. :)

GeekLife had a URL contest, trying to find a good domain name for a surplus auction website. I suggested BuyRXS.com, and I won first prize, a set of Altec Lansing USB Dolby ADA-305 speakers. Thanks to Snap and all the fellas over at GeekLife. :)

My wife forced me to watch Forces of Nature (starring Ben Affleck and Sandra Bullock) with her tonight, and boy did it suck! I think the director wanted the audience to feel sympathetic toward Sandra Bullock's character, but I really hated her. Ben Affleck's character wasn't too likable either, instead he came off as sort of a dumbass. The fact that I hate Sandra Bullock has nothing to do with this negative review. The movie just plain sucked. :) If you ever have a chance to watch this movie, run the other way.

And now for the "and more" part. In May of 1998, when my wife and I were on our way to the airport to leave for our honeymoon, she took this picture:

I always thought semis took wide turns, not "weird" turns. I thought it was supposed to be some kind of joke, but who would have the means to do something like that (well, except a sign-maker)? Anyway, just thought y'all would find it amusing. :)

I archived November's news, so check there if you missed something (heh, not likely). :)

I found out today that I may potentially be offered a job with my old company, only I'll be able to work from home, and I'll probably have to travel once a week (for about 1½ hours each way) to actually be in the office. It should be a really nice arrangement, being able to work from home but still make decent money. The weekly drive is probably going to suck, because I have to drive through a mountain pass which almost always has snow in the winter. Yee-haw. :)