Day: May 19, 2004

Um, I really don’t know what to say. Random IM link courtesy of the dj rekall points me to a story on the return of Andy Kaufman. “But he’s dead,” you say! Andy’s “official” site claims it was all a gag – even his parents were actors. More confusing, however, is why now rather than 5 years ago when the movie came out. Even more confusing is why he would bother to comeback when he claims to want to remain private. And even still more confusing is whether or note anybody cares!

I’m not to fond of warning labels. They have a tendency to tell you something bleeding obvious (Preperation H: Not to be taken orally!) or something that is more of a suggestion to avoid legal hassles (Spare Tire: Do not drive over 35mph!). I’m sorry, but eventually everyone needs to stand on that last rung of the ladder, you know, the nonstep (I do, however, love labeling things by what they are not – more on that later). But today I definitely found an appropriately made warning.

You know those metal bars on some computer case (in an older Dell, for instance)? The ones that say “NOT A HANDLE!” Yeah, those ones. They’re serious. If you try to lift a computer by one, you too may find yourself missing skin from various knuckles. No real harm, but I hate dripping blood on computer parts, and it left the metal bar with little purpose left in life except to hit myself over the head in a vain attempt at asking “Why am I so stupid?” Oh well, I guess it’s something we must all learn.

I’m thinking of changing the site around. I may be offering more content at neverhood.net in the coming months, so I felt that maybe the blog should be moved off the main page. It will probably just be called blog.neverhood.net or something like that, although this post has possibly inspired a title change for the blog, too. Hmm, much pondering is to follow.

UPDATE: Humorously, today I just came across an old entry from Kitta detailing her own experiences with warning labels.

I have lamented many times that my shiny new fast computer ruins the games of yesteryear. And considering how quickly I tend to dismiss modern games (NFL Street anyone?), I would love a program that would help me play those old games once again. Courtesy of Lockergnome I now know of THE CPUKILLER, which, while not the true 386 emulator I hope for, should aid me in not running Roger Wilco off cliffs all the time!

I’ll be reloading my desktop sometime soon (too many USB problems), and I’ll be sure to check it out then.