I hate J.Crew

by | May 17, 2007 | Aggravation

Not the clothes specifically, I’m sure their khakis and neckerchiefs are very nice, but the people that have that persona. Tonight as I’m pulling into my apartment and my typical parking space, some jackball walks out into the space as I’m pulling in. He freezes like a deer in my headlights and stares back at me for a minute. He’s wearing a pair of nicely pressed pants, a button up shirt, sunglasses in his hair, a blue-tooth headset in his ear and a shit-eating grin on his face. He continues to stand there while his equally annoying girlfriend/wife, who’s half his age and complete with her own blue-tooth headset,  joins him in standing in my spot. Being the type person I am and having a general dislike for the type of people they are, I rev my engine a little. Just enough to make it clear that I really wouldn’t mind running them over. This elicits more staring. Once they’ve fully grasped the concept that I’m waiting for the spot that their consumer whore bodies are currently occupying, they open the doors of the Lexus in the next spot over. Sure to take his sweet old time, J.Crew leaves his door open while he eases himself into his leather covered seat. The second the door swings shut I’m in the spot. It takes them a full 2 minutes to ease their over priced Toyota out of the spot enough so I can open the door. The whole time I’m staring at them as they BOTH answer calls on the cancer producing widgets jammed in their ear. Normally, I’d let behavior like that slide, knowing full well that somehow karma would catch up to them. In this case I didn’t need to. Their Lexus sputtered and coughed leaving the parking lot, and, judging from the oil slick they left in the parking spot, I’d say karma is already knocking at the door. Hopefully the car breaks down on the way to their fancy cocktail party/jackass yacht club meeting and they’re terribly inconvenienced by the rental car company when the only car they have available this weekend is a Chevy Aveo. I also hope they’ve moved into my apartment complex so I can continue my silent war with them. It would be a shame if they were only here for a visit. I wouldn’t get to ask them where they got their lovely Burkenstocks.

Asshats.

6 Years and Running

by | May 10, 2007 | Friends and Family, Personal, Web

That’s right kids. 6 whole years of listening to me talk about every topic humanly imaginable. I made my first post to a beta Blogger account on April 29th, 2001. I’ve been through 5 different content managment systems, 2 additional web-only services and a whole host of other crap. There’s been nearly 1400 posts and probably even more that where lost to the ravages of time (and Moveable Types crappy import/export system!)

I love this journal. It’s been a great run so far. I’m proud of what I’ve written, I’m proud of keeping something like this going for this long, and I’ll be proud as hell when I hit all the milestones to come.

I was talking to my friend Matt last weekend and I had shown him this blog as an example of what a CMS was, and what WordPress does. He took the time to go back and poke around and he said to me the next day “Wow, you’ve had that journal forever, you must be one of the original people to have a blog”. I don’t know if I’d be considered in the “original” crowd, but I have certainly had this going for a while. I know there were some people experimenting with this type of thing before I was. I think it’s safe to say that I was an “early adopter”. Actually, most of you were right along with me. Chip and Jason still have their livejournal accounts, Chris had something funky (was it Manilla?) around the same time too.

It feels kinda good to actually be considered at the front of something. I know where not breaking any barriers here, but when teeny-bopper highschool kids are starting their blogs, write a dozen posts, then abandon it forever, it gives me a happy feeling of longevity. That we’re doing something that hasn’t been a waste of time. That, because it’s now becoming mainstream, we can honestly say “Yeah, we were doing that years before anyone else” and it’ll be 100% true.

Guys, we kick ass. Celebrating six years of posting should also be a celebration for you as well. You guys have been at this as long as I have. So, pick up your glasses, here’s a toast:

“To the wonderful ride it’s been. To all the post we’ve made. And to all the posts that are yet to come. Cheers!”

Tweakages

by | May 4, 2007 | Web

Added a few plugins today. Extended Live Archives are now rocking the “Archives” page. Check’em out in their ajax-ish goodness. Also, just for giggles, I installed Now Reading and Star Ratings. I’ll add Now Reading to the sidebar later, and Star Ratings should be active in the posts. So, as a test…

[rating:3.5] – This should be three and a half stars.