Grimm's weblog

Re: Bashtards latest post.

If you use a target="_blank" attribute in an <a href=""> tag I will personally find you and beat you to within an inch of your life.

The target attribute has been depreciated in HTML 4.01 and is totally striken from XHTML 1.0. I'm trying to run pages with valid code, and you people are not helping.

[addendum] Bashtard: so what do i use instead? i want people to browse the links in a separate window, not the one with my post in it

That's simple, you don't do anything. If I as the user want to keep browsing your page I can click on the link and tell the browser to open it in a new tab or new window if I so wish. If on the other hand I as the user think you suck and want to get out of there STAT, then I click on a link and go to a new page leaving yours behind, later on if I for some reason feel like abusing myself and want to see more of your page, I can use this nifty feature in my browser called a Back button or the trusty old History panel.

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As for the individuals his post alluded to. That's quite enough of these shenanigans. This aint pissingcontest.noizex.com, so behave yourselves kids, or I'll turn this car right around.

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And if you have others linking to your post's it is in bad manner to go and delete said posts. I'm not going to get into the whole discussion on why it's bad to corrupt a URI, but let's just say it is, and to try and keep that from happening in the future.

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Comments? Comments? No, It's not going to happen. I could set up this database you speak of quite quickly. But all of the problems that come with it would take exponentially longer to sort out, and I don't have the time nor inclination to deal with it.

On my way to work I stopped off to get some lunch from Pizza Pizza. I had a cupon for buy one get one free. When I presented this cupon to the cash register monkey, he was confused beyond belief, he read all of the fine print on the back of it, then asked another monkey behind the counter what to do with it, the other more clever monkey told him to give me one slice for free and to type in code XXXX into the cash register. The register monkey took FOREVER to type this damn thing in and combine it with the price of one slice. By the time this whole transaction had finished I saw my streetcar drive by, when I was but a meter away from the front door. I then had to wait a hell of a long time, in the rain, till the next streetcar showed up.

I eventually got to work 20min late, because of the whole ordeal. Upon sitting down at my desk I see 3 boxes of Pizza Hut sitting on said desk. Turns out that they bought everyone pizza today and there were 3 boxes left... yay free pizza.

I said yo it's on. take cover son or you're assed out
How do you like my chrome? Then I watched the rookie pass out
Didn't have to blast him but I did any way, young punk had to pay
So I just killed a man

Here is something you can't understand,
How I could just kill a man

It's xmas eve, and I just got to fucking work. I got to smell xmas dinner, in the oven, while I walked out of the house, and I grabbed 2 presents on my way out. Merry xmas to me........ if anyone calls me in the next 10hrs they better have been shot and accidentally called me instead of 911, so that I can hang up on them.

Sneaking in just under the clock, I'd like to wish a Happy Festivus to the rest of us.

To put the last post into context, please keep in mind that I've been up since 8am yesterday, and I'm starting to loose it.

It's been 3 long years, but at long last I have found what I set out to find (ya, I know that sentence sucked).

I'm speaking of course of a zip-up black hodded sweatshirt. When I first set out to find this mythical garment I did not think it'd take this long to capture it. But somehow this item turned out to be more reclussive than Burl Ruxpin. I searched high and low and was never able to turn up a suitable fleece companion that would not mess up my hair when I put it on.

But today whilst shopping with Mon, while browsing through Neon down on queen street, I spotted at the far end of the store, a black sweatshirt, I walked over to it for the purpose of being closer to it. And upon achiving my being closer goal, I saw that it had a ziper on the front!! I grabbed it off the rack and checked it out, it was more perfect than Orlando Blooms golden locks. But it had one fatal flaw, the draw string for the hoood was white!! WHY on earth was it white? "WHY, OHH WHY, DO YOU MOCK ME??" - I screamed up to the heavens. At that point Mon told me to shut up and she said "Theres one with black back here dumb ass", and she was right.

So I quickly snatched the coveted garment and ran to the cashier. I exchanged legal tender for said product and or service and our transaction was done. It was really quite a site to behold.

I think I'll name the hoodie, Wesley... I don't know why.

Well I'm just getting in from watching Return of the King. I went to see it with Jcloth, cranky chinese lady, her pussy whipped boyfriend, and nerd girl and her nerd girlfriends.

The movie was alright, I'm not as overly impressed with it as some people out there. I didn't get as emotionally attached to the story as some of the people that started to cry when Frodo left at the end.

The battles were cool, but some of the CG effects could have used the help of some global illumination. A few nit picks here and there are all I have, but over all it was a decent flick. Like I said nothing overwhelming, just decent.

And here go a few of my nitpicks before I head off to bed.

Whats with that wizard? I thought he got promoted from a grey to a white wizard in the second movie. I figured that sort of promotion brought with it some sort of new skills and/or powers. But it seems like all he can do is shine some light from his walking stick. The damn hobbits can do that with their glowsticks. So really thats not all that impressive of a skill. You'd figure a wizard could at least be able to shoot a damn fireball or something, but nope, he's gotta get some hobbit to run up the mountain to light a pyre. Well maybe making fire is not his forté, maybe he's one of them power of water and wind wizards and he can put them out... nope wait we saw him handle fires, he just sorta jabs at em with his stick and lets the hobbit pull people out of them. So then maybe he's just one of them crazy old men that run around in their bathroom slippers and claim to be wizards.

Speaking of characters in the movie I'm talking about: I think there was far too few scenes with the dreamy Orlando Bloom, nerd girl agreed with me, chinese chick did NOT.
And speaking of unresolved endings. You'd think that in one of the 26 ending scenes they'd tell us what happend to Saruman, I mean they only did spend 6+hrs showing a bunch of people trying to get him. But in the end they just tell us that he's up in a tower and the trees willl keep an eye on him. Great, thats just GREAT stuff.

I'm sure there was plenty more I complained about since I was getting quite bitchy near the end from my being so sleepy. But you'll have to ask Jcloth or nerdgirl about that because I can't recall much else. Other then the fact that there was no nude Liv Tyler scene, and I was really looking forward to seeing her as a nude elf with cute pointy ears.

[addendum] It's been suggested that to get a fuller understanding of the story I should read the books to see all the good stuff that was cut out of the movie. To which i reply, nah. The movies did not do a good job in making me care enough to look into it any further. Tim did read the books, and he still thinks the movie sucked. And from what he's telling me, the books certainly did sound more interesting than watching Frodo and the fay guy climb up a hill, for what seemed like an eternity.

So to reiterate, I thought the trilogy was half way decent, but will most likely not be joining The Middle Earth Historical Reenactment Society.

This is my new toy, the Aiwa XP-SN70 CD/MP3 player.

My old CD/MP3 player is fucked, and on its last breath. The thing is so decrepit, that while it's in my pocket I can't even move with out it skipping like crazy. So I figured I was due an early xmas present, and went out to find one. The whole "finding" process took much longer than I expected though, in fact, finding this thing was harder than finding Eeyore's self-esteem (yes that was a Whinnie the Pooh refference). As I was saying, I looked all over the city and did not find one.

Then yesterday as a long shot, I decided to check in lame ass 905. And bingo they had 1 left at the Future Shop on Dixie and Dundas. But they could only hold it for one day. So this morning after work (8am) I headed down there. It only took an hour and fourty minutes to get there from as downtown Toronto as you can possibly get... well that is if the stupid islands don't count, cause those are technically more south... I guess... whatever.

Now I'm back home, eating fig newtons and playing with my new toy. You might be asking "What's so special about this thing anyways?", well buddy, you got alot of nerve sayign something like that!!! But, I'll answer anyways. It's a tough little CD player, in the Shockwave style, so I could kick this thing across the room and it wouldn't skip, It's also water proof, so I could partake in water sports and not have it electrocute me (no not THOSE kinds of water sport's silly, I'm talking about urinating on nude girls). It plays MP3's and Atrac3 files off CD's, and it can load up M3U playlists off said CD's. And it has a nice dot matrix display to show ID3 and Cd Text info, as well as the directory structure and files (display looks small on the picture, but it's actually not bad). It sorta looks like a big, fancy, digital, canteen in that picture, but I assure you it's small, canteen like, yes, but still small.

I'm quite sleepy so I think I'll hit the hay now. Enjoy this post while it's still random babble, cause I'm pretty sure I'll edit it to make actuall sense once I wakeup.

This might sound like an odd request but if anyone out there spots a copy of the December issue of Vanity Fair, then please hook a brother up!! (I being the brother in this case)

All I'm finding is the January issue, it's only the middle of the month and already most places have pulled the Dec one. How the fuck does that make any sense? ARGH, I say, ARGH!!... anyways, please keep your eyes open.

I'm just getting home, (crashed at DC's last night), and needless to say that the first thing I did after my shower was fire up Tribe to read the latest going-ons(ya its a word) in the world of Slashdot and blogs.

One headline on /. struck me as odd since it wasn't about SCO or Linus sneezing, or someone releasing a new RFC. It said "Saddam Hussein Arrested", I said to myself "waaaaaaaaaah?" (yes I used the Ghandi voice), and clicked on the news story. And wouldn't you know it, Saddam really has been arrested, and I heard it from Slashdot of all places. You'd figure I would have heard about something like that earlier in the day. I suppose this proves that my active filtering of corporate media "news" sources has been effective. On the other hand I had no idea that it was going to snow today, and ventured back home wearing far too few layers for this kind of weather. So I guess the point of this section of the paragraph is that I have to get ready to go winter gleaming (snowboarding for the uninitiated)

Before I go get ready though, I must proclaim that DC's desktop setup is sweeter than he led on. I was Photoshoping in god damn linux!! Fuck the Gimp this was honest to goodness Photoshop, running on the penguin. And Editpad too!! It was quite impressive.

Well unlike some people. I'm quite happy with the snowfall. There's 30cm up at Horseshoe, so that means this guy is going snowboarding tomorrow, w00t!!

Today was the work xmas party. They gave me a 3.1MP camera. It's a pretty nifty gift. All I ever got from my former employers were 2 vests and 2 cofee cups (it woulda been 1 of each if I hadn't helped myself though ;) ...ohh ya and an assload of mouse pads.

Anyways, this camera is cool. Jcloth got an mp3 player that I broke within 15min of it being in his possesion. And this small gesture actually made me be slightly less dispirited about my job. I most likely won't stay there much longer than new years, but I'm slighly less dispirited none the less.

[addendum] I forgot to mention the totally kicking gold plated, thats right PLATED pen that Rosie got, she was trully the luckiest of all.

I hate windows, I hate microsoft, I hate msblaster, I hate dialup modems, I hate the people that use them.

Can we please give everyone that can't fix their own computers a Web TV box.

I'd like to take a moment to send a shout out to the Turk who is now in a faraway land. And I'm pretty sure she is to blame for me having a fever right now. I bet her evil plan was to infect me with this cold and then flee the country. Punk!!

Read this Story, become outraged, write to your MP, get on Speakers Corner and bitch about it to everyone you meet. Only you can prevent stupid court rulings.
... I wonder if we have a Canadian branch of the EFF that could help out with this case.

God lord, I just payed $4.90 for a cup of coffee, when did I become that guy that pays more than 1$ for hot java?