I always give thanks to God for inventing the redundant systems of the body when I have a cold. If I didn’t have a mouth to breathe through, I’d have died in my sleep. I sound like a sick elephant when I blow my nose.

The JAZZ documentary by Ken Burns has been stunning.

These things can’t happen – Dave Brubeck had me in tears recounting the story of his father taking him out to meet a black man for the first time. The man took off his shirt and revealed a brand. His father told him that “These things can’t happen.”

I will never understand the mentality of people who revile, or think themselves superior to other human beings based on race, religion, nationality and the like. And to think someone felt so superior to another human being as to brand him. It’s just arrogant, and shameful.

I’ve heard the term sick as a dog, but that doesn’t begin to describe it. I’ve never seen dogs get really sick. I feel more like a dog that got hit by a car. A big car.

If it’s gonna cost $22,750, it damn well better transport you to and from work as well.

Who prices these things anyway?

Hear Hear!!! I have to say that Nick’s opinion in the article strikes a chord. If the designers and programmers don’t step up to the plate and inform the internet community, by no longer accomodating and creating workarounds, that things have changed, there will simply be no incentive for the user to upgrade, and get current. This includes businesses. I know there are businesses out there who are still reserved when it comes to certain upgrades. Hell, I know there are businesses still running on Windows for Workgroups 3.11! And there is no reason for this, other than their applications engineers haven’t done their own work when it comes to upgrading the platform on which their company’s software is structured. They have no reason to. It works. And the wonderful designers and programmers of the Web create all the workarounds to accomodate them. So what’s the incentive? And why should the designers and programmers bear the entire workload? Hardware and software have changed rapidly. Understandable. Dial-up connections are slow. This we know. I also know IE is available on disk as well as download, for a small fee. And even though it may take hours to download the latest version of IE or Netscape (I so want to call it Netscrap still), it makes the experience that much better. For both sides.

Find a friend. We’re only seperated by six people right? Everyone must know a designer, computer geek or an IT. Have ’em upgrade your browsers. Takes about half an hour with a disk. Let’s use the buddy system and bring the web up to speed.

“Now some of you may encounter the Devil’s bargain, if you get that far. Any old soul is worth saving, at least to a priest, but not every soul is worth buying. So you can take the offer as a compliment.” – William S. Burroughs excerpt from Words Of Advice, from the CD Hallucination Engine by Material

iUniverse.com – It seems interesting enough. I just haven’t found the small print yet.

Apparently, my true name is Reckless Oracle. Oh, and on second pass, Grape Juice DJ. But I don’t wanna be a DJ!

Methinks I’ve been—nailed?

Oh, like I might ever actually do THIS!!!