I'm in the process of getting rid of cookies on this page. I really don't like them, and a weblog should not require them, so why are blogger and buzznet using them? If it ever comes to a situation where I load this page and I request cookies at all, I consider that a problem and will look to solve that immediately.

Anyways, I've removed everything requiring cookies for now and will put the buzznet pics back up later when a solution presents itself. I think I know exactly how I'll do it, it's just a matter of getting it done. The images probably won't be on buzznet though. BTW, thanks for the XML feeds. Those'll sure come in handy. In the end, I may just be postprocessing my own XML feed.

Stuff I have lent out:

Amelie DVD to Steve
A few DVDs to Jessica, including Hudson Hawk. Not sure of the rest.
Spencer has a linear algebra book of mine (Strang), plus a Bruce Sterling novel.

That's all.

I want to get rid of everything digital.

It may be ironic that the post below talks about DVDs specifically. Maybe it's the fact that all kinds of stuff around my house that is digital, is slowly getting more and more obsolete. Whereas all the analog stuff? As obsolete as ever and not changing status.

For instance, I have someplace a one gig Jaz drive. I paid $600 for it. Discs were $80. What the fuck was I thinking? Totally useless today, especially since I have a DVD writer that pushes 4.5GB to a $1 disc. But here's the thing, the DVD writer is going to be obsoleted very soon, and I will be griping about this very fact again. I paid around $400 for the writer about 1.5 years ago. Now they are $150, and dual layer drives are out.

How do I stop feeling this way? Do I just accept it, or get rid of the very things that dissatisfy me the most? I would like to think that purging the cause of the problem might actually solve something.

So, getting rid of everything digital.

This would require:

Probably no television. I could probably get an old TV (really old) and get an antenna, but definitely no cable.
An analog telephone of some sort. With pulse dialing of course. Cell phone is gone.
No computers.
No CDs.
No DVDs.

I could keep my turntable, and I'd probably want to get an amp/preamp for listening to those. Of course it would be a tube amp. Speakers would have to be simple, no digital crossovers or anything.

I would also have to sell my car, and get something like my brother is selling: 1974 Toyota Land Cruiser. It needs some work, but it's not digital!

I'm not sure about the stove or fridge. But they're not mine anyways. I also have no control over the stuff at work. I could continue to do what I do with computers there, while still satisfying this analog desire.

I think it's all doable. I know that this is not original.

There are pretty much only two movies that I want to watch right now.

One is Before Sunset, because the first one was good, and I pretty much love any Linklater film. Well, The Newton Boys was pretty sad. And I'm still waiting for Slacker to come out on DVD. I feel like a slacker right now, disillusioned and confused, but wait a sec, that's the same as five years ago.

The other is Garden State, which seems to be to be another slackerish movie from the previews. They say that Natalie Portman can act, well I dunno about that, we'll see, but priors show otherwise.

Eternal Sunshine comes out on DVD October 5th. I wouldn't mind seeing a box set of Kill Bill available. Or maybe the original edit, that would be great. Mmm. Yeah.

Happy Anniversary! It's been 10 (ten) years since I first installed Linux, or to be more precise, Slackware.

August 1994 was when it first happened, and me and a friend were messing around. Slackware came on quite a few floppy disk images, and I still have some of those floating around. For at least a few weeks we played around, did all kinds of cool things, networking computers, etc. We even tried to get a domain, but we were kind of out of the loop in that regard. Nameserver, wha?

It didn't last too long though at that time, maybe two months, as I had purchased a copy of NS/Intel from the university bookstore. But a few years later (1997) I came back into the folds and have had a Linux box running ever since.