December 2000
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yes, i’m up at nine am on a sunday - i’ve been up, in fact, since about six thirty this morning. i was talking with tycho about the subpage design for penny arcade and then just didn’t feel like going back to sleep. jim’s not home - he went to long island yesterday for a family dinner thing and ended up spending the night. it’s apparently quite a bitch to get between...
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good lord, i had no idea that red bull was a subject of such strongly-held opinions. since i have been so unmercilessly dissing it lately, i’ve gotten quite a bit of mail on the topic, both from you filty red bull loyalists and also from those true-hearted souls who support me in my worthy rebellion. however, the most interesting of the red-bull-related mail came from someone named brian who...
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i’d just like to take this opportunity to state firmly and unquestionably that no, i’m not dead. i guess i should have mentioned i was going to boston for xmas or something, because if one were to judge by the contents of my inbox it’s apparently a sign of my tragic and untimely end that i didn’t update the site for a few days. let me clarify the boston thing, incidentally...
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rawr, i am sleepy. it’s really cold out this morning - the kind of cold where just the walk to the subway station made my face hurt. it snowed yesterday, the first snow of the year that’s actually stuck to the ground for any length of time. today though - it’s just fucking cold. i’d rather be home bundled up in my huge grey blanket, which, incidentally, i belive jim is...
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woo. i just got back from my company’s swank christmas lunch thing and i’m not exactly what you’d call sober, so excuse me if this is a little wak [i am picturing myself rereading this entry tomorrow and cringing]. the lunch itself wasn’t as bad as i expected, though it wasn’t the kind of thing i’d like to do every day. we went to this überitalian restaurant on...
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you know, i still wouldn’t mind seeing my boss get hit by a bus - but that feeling is muted a bit by the fact that i had a meeting with the president of my company yesterday, a meeting that involved me getting lots of money. hooray for xmas bonuses! given that i’ve only been working here for just about a year, this bonus was fairly hefty - more than twice what i was expecting it to be....
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hey, how was your weekend? yeah? glad to hear it. mine was rather yum, actually. friday night i came home and dinner with jim - he made german spaghetti, which looked rather ominous but was delicious - and then we both worked on our projects and such until we went to sleep. saturday i worked a lot on the penny arcade site and played the tony hawk pro skater demo from the cd that came with the...
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the new pa site didn’t go up last night, unfortunately. it’s very nearly done, but inserting all the new god damned ad banners that their network requires ended up being such a royal pain in the ass that there just wasn’t time. tycho and i were up till four am working on it, and the good part is that we did get a lot done, and i’m happy with how it’s all coming...
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it’s raining today. it’s frigging december, it should be snowing [god dammit]. rain is all well and good when you have the option of sitting around in your pajamas consuming warm beverages - in other words, when you don’t have to in any way come in contact with said rain - but if you’re, say, me and you have to walk to the subway station to go to work and you don’t...
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i want to go lock myself in the office bathroom and braid my hair or something. i’m really distracted today and i can’t concentrate on my work. i’m listening to that virgin prunes song [baby turns blue] and i’m all in the mood to go dancing around in my socks. actually, i’m not wearing socks. yay for tights! tights are your friends. people should wear more tights....
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i am just one big mound of sleepy today, is what i am. it’s all chilly and rainy out and sitting in this freezing office is, quite frankly, just about the last place i’d like to be. although i suppose it’s better than being on hoth, the frigid ice planet. but just barely. i mean, it’s cold enough down here that i’m going to be slicing open my tauntaun any minute now....
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quote of the day: <derPapst> I helped a 73 y/o woman change a flat today on the way to work and in return she gave me sweet, sweet, wrinkly lovin’.
komputer! maschina! panzermensch! and stuff. spooky was the cause of much internal office furor yesterday: overcome with jealousy at my possession of spooky in relation to his own distinct lack of spooky, chris [spencer’s co-admin] took it...
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so i’ve been working on redesigning penny arcade. it’s great – tycho and gabe are very cool to work with, and i’m getting that rush that comes with working on a really cool site. here’s a snippet from #penny-arcade last night:
<CWTycho> emma here is redesigning pa <DngrsDrrn> cool <emma> w00t w00t <CWTycho> she’s got some fucking skizills, too /- DngrsDrrn/#penny-arcade...
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so yesterday’s where-the-the-hell-is-spencer-with-my-haujobb/vac-ticket saga turned out to have a happy ending - spenz0r showed up around four or five and presented me with my ticket. woo. after work, spencer and i went to penn to meet up with derek and jim and a friend of derek’s who i don’t know. we actually ran into jim on thirty fourth as we were walking from herald square to...
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yeah, so i’m supposed to go see haujobb/vac tonight, but it’s three thirty now and spencer has yet to show up at work. spencer has my ticket. no spencer, no ticket, no show. not good. i’m going to go over there and break down his door if he doesn’t show up soon. i’ve been working myself silly lately, hence the sporadic updates. i know, i know - i say that a lot. my...