man, apple computer. you crazy guys, with your 30 inch monster flatscreens. generally I try to avoid breaking down and succumb to pure, unadulterated, idiot consumerism, but in this case I can do nothing else but pant and exclaim, “I WANT ONE.” cuz I do. want one, that is. and indulge me this one other bit of technowankishness, too: I’m kind of secretly glad they ripped off konfabulator, cuz that program always pissed me off… they make it temptingly easy to make mini-apps with XML and javascript, but then make you buy the APP FRAMEWORK ITSELF. that’s retarded. if they’d given that away for free and sold their good plugins, that might’ve been hot. but who wants to shell out bucks just to geekily noodle around? plus the konfabulator guy is a big fat “look and feel” crook himself, apparently.

ahaha, computers, yeah, I’ve heard of them.

I miss how when I lived in new york, the first thing I could say to most anyone was “where do you live?” and have that spark off the inevitable (yet tantalizing!) conversation about neighborhoods, places to eat, relative subway stop/line merits and metrics, horror/success stories with fiendish/amazing landlords/real estate agents, and the like. now alls I have to say is “upstate” to get the wrinkled-nosed scowl. it ain’t fair. sometimes, if I’m lucky, I can jump into the “where do you live?” discussion, armed with the pearls of wisdom gleaned from my copy of “new york NFT” and such, without telling people where I actually live. but that’s kind of duplicitous, no? it would be nice to live in new york again, fo’reals.

you know what else sucks? stomachs. they’re so stupid. you keep shoveling food into them, but noooooo, they’re completely voided a few hours later. I hate stomachs. they’re dumb.

right so yeah. off to write a webapp framework thing in java. cuz sometimes your brain is so fried you just can’t design anything worth a damn, and hey sometimes it’s sort of nice to monkey out and hunch over a text editor for 10+ hours, really. really!

-fish

btw speaking of new york, this is the best blog ever:

http://www.missrepresentation.com/

… if you’re a snotty newyorkophile with a thing for architecture, which is what I personally aspire to be, fo’reals. yes.

-fish

agreed on the “where do you live?” question. much easier downstate…when there are actually a zillion landmarks and foods and whatever the fuck to discuss…the endless conversation really… oh you’ve been there?!?! dude this one time…

anyway…fuck i miss that city. i never get down there. ever. really. it’s sad. although i probably know way less people than you do…mostly cause i somehow keep meeting introverted freaks. fucking people. they’re so funny.

and this one time, marcel and i looked around a bar and i guess formerlly he had been seeing plenty-o-weemen, and we picked out those he could get with, for sure. it was hilarious, cause… well you don’t know the dude, but i’ve never seen he smoove side…and in general, if you don’t know someone’s smoove side, it’s damn scary to see em *work it* for the general betterment of their sex-life. and if you travel the bar scene, you get to know people, stereotypes and all…where you can tell, who would be for you or not. i generally don’t believe that kinda thing..that you can “tell” right away… but perhaps with some kind of practice such things are possible. kind of like the time when we tried to figure out which dental intstrument each person that walked by would use to pleasure themselves. how do we come up with these ideas?

sidetracking much? where was i…. oh, new york… subways, i have so many pictures. i’ll post someday. i brand corners, lighting fixtures, random dirty piping and numbers + shit on the walls into my head. it’s irrerplaceable. completely. i wanna hump it. eeew. i just didn’t write that. no wait, i did. damn. long “comment” much here. late late late, too much drawing, not enough something else…sleepy? oh yea, that. shit…

.m

well at least you got the snotty thing down.

i’m kidding i’m kidding.

why kid? I’m snotty like pneumonia and it’s a fact. wordup.

-fish

well you’re one snot-nosed kid that gets my respect. not that you need my respect but it’s for the gving and taking.

i’ve been thinking about this “you have to buy the development framework” concept, and i was reminded that essentially this represents another gripe i have about sun’s java. although (if your platform is supported) you can download the java runtime environment (jre) for free-as-in-beer, it’s always *sun*’s java. and frankly, i have yet to use a jre that doesn’t blow goats — on osx and especially on windows, where all java seems to do is open a gaping memory leak and grind the system to a crash. so fuck konfabulator, but fuck java 1.5.0 while you’re at it.

as you so poigniantly stated, and as evidenced by cocoa/openstep, people are so hard against change “you can’t *give* frameworks away”.

on a similar note, i hope people continue to stay quiet about how stupid-easy microsoft’s .NET integrated editor / server / languages make churning out commodity programming. look at google’s aspx.

everyone, keep using LAMP (linux apache mysql php) until i can release ruby distributed objects for web/jabber serving. i’ll buy you a bag of ‘potate!’.