Sunday, August 17, 2003. 7:31PM

Wow. Readership is declining. That's a shame. To be expected I suppose. I can't remember when I used to do logs. I mean, I can't think when there was a time in my week to actually sit down and write a log. I mean, it's not that I'm too busy - far from it - and it's not that I don't derive some kind of satisfaction from writing a log, but rather, when I'm at home and I have an hour to kill, it just seems like a better idea to watch TV, or play a computer game, or anything else really, rather than write a log. It's just a matter of discipline, I suppose.

I think it's time for a new layout. I've been discussing the possibility of a new server for a while now. I don't know when my domain expires, but I've had it for a little while, so it can't be too far away. I know that there was a very large gap in the logs from the start of December to till the end of January, and I remember that when I paid for it I was pretty flush with capital, so I think it may have been some time around there. Either way, I'll probably keep logging half heartily until then, when I'll look seriously into whether I can be fucked doing this, or whether I should put in some real effort and make this site into something decent. One of my subjects this semester is eCommerce, a component of which is web design. Now, I taught myself everything I know about web design (who could have guessed), and this subject is teaching me a lot of the very rudimentary things one should do when writing HTML code, some of which I haven't. There are over 500 files in this site, and it is not going to be a small effort going back and adding a line of code to the start of every one of them (you may have noticed that the film section is still half in Times New Roman from when I did that other update a long fucking time ago). The main page, and basic cosmetic appearance, I think I should probably do.

Ed sent me this. Ed runs a design company, and he mocked this up in Photoshop. I guess he must have been bored. Now, personally, I'm not such a big fan of red, but I don't think that's an issue. An nice deep green, or even Microsoft blue would so just as well. Now, I've noticed a site that seems to have a random image script in it that I wouldn't mind stealing, and hence, selecting from a database of cut down stills from films and whatnot... and yeah, it has got me thinking. Anyway, my point is, this site does look quite crap, and were we to have it looking nice, and especially without ads, and some forums again would pump some major life giving juices in... and well... yes... at the moment loyal fans, please, I beg you, stay loyal. Well, stop being loyal, because you're not getting jack shit for a while, but eventually, at some point, somewhere, there may be a zeedarteretz.com renaissance, and...well...it'll be all right.

Interestingly, the other day I was bored in Marketing Principals, and I stuck my head through a hole in the wall. What did I find? Some graffiti reading "Grade on a curve, and you'll observe, I'm well below the horizon. www.zeedarteretz.bourgeoisonline.com." Now, after some thought, I think I vaguely recall writing that, some time last year... must have been one of my first days at uni. Wow.

Now, remember when I said I was going to have a live log? Well... LIVE LOG! GO!

Now, I'm on MSN, lets get some chat happening. I am Don Quxiote:

Don Quxiote (no swimming - windmills) says:
hey

Ed says:
hey

Don Quxiote (no swimming - windmills) says:
I had something to say, but I've forgotten it now

Ed says:
was it important?

Don Quxiote (no swimming - windmills) says:
I don't know. Oh yeah. You mind if I post that mock up you sent me?

Ed says:
go for it

Don Quxiote (no swimming - windmills) says:
alright

Ed says:
do you mean make the page like that or just post the image?

Don Quxiote (no swimming - windmills) says:
post the image. see if anyone has an opinion. I dunno.

Ed says:
no worries

Don Quxiote (no swimming - windmills) says:
basically I just want an image for my log

Ed says:
understandable

Don Quxiote (no swimming - windmills) says:
yeah

Ed says:
let me know when its posted

Don Quxiote (no swimming - windmills) says:
yeah. do you remember when I said I was going to do a live log at the end of my last log?

Ed says:
mmm?

Don Quxiote (no swimming - windmills) says:
should I post this?

Ed says:
this conversation? jeez, i dunno, should i wear something smart? i feel so under-prepared

Don Quxiote (no swimming - windmills) says:
well. I mean. it's not really that interesting

Ed says:
its perfect

Don Quxiote (no swimming - windmills) says:
but you see, I'd written half a log about website design, but if I then go live and ask you for permisionn to use the picture. I donno. all self reflective in a post modern way

Ed says:
wow. and, i mean, isn't that your whole website, i mean, really?

Don Quxiote (no swimming - windmills) says:
well. that and me abusing black people (log sidenote: Has anyone seen where Geoff Clark is this week? Suspended awaiting some kind of trial... I think for brawling) and fat women

Ed says:
yeah, i guess. anyway it's up to you

Don Quxiote (no swimming - windmills) says:
alright. you know, I'd hate for you to feel violated seeing yourself in a log and... well... you know...woah... violation

Ed says:
i feel violated every time i read your log anyway

Don Quxiote (no swimming - windmills) says:
jeeze. I'm sorry buddy

Ed says:
no no, in a good way

Don Quxiote (no swimming - windmills) says:
ah. well. I suppose I'm glad to hear that

Ed says:
ok, it was just that post about the olsen twins

Don Quxiote (no swimming - windmills) says:
ha. that was a truely golden post

Ed says:
absoluetly

Don Quxiote (no swimming - windmills) says:
I think maybe one day I'll post "The Olsen Twins are raped by Satan"

Ed says:
i can't wait

Don Quxiote (no swimming - windmills) says:
it was that, and that one where I made up crap (the ballon one), and the one where I said I was going to dump my girlfriend that got the most response

Ed says:
ah memories. the gf one: did that get back to her in the end?

Don Quxiote (no swimming - windmills) says:
yeah. she emailed me one time.that was really pretty harsh

Ed says:
what you wrote, or what she said?

Don Quxiote (no swimming - windmills) says:
well, posting it up there like that. I mean, is there a line a webmaster should draw when he's talking about personal stuff?

Ed says:
12/10/02. that all comes back to how identifyable you make yourself

Don Quxiote (no swimming - windmills) says:
yeah

Ed says:
this is the catholic school girl?

Don Quxiote (no swimming - windmills) says:
yeah. but that shit affects her too

Ed says:
no i didn't mean like that. so i can remember who it was. she was obsessed

Don Quxiote (no swimming - windmills) says:
I mean, if I want to talk about... I dunno... how I have a small penis or something, well, that's my business, but if I want to talk about how a girl has a a loose pussy... well... that's just wrong. I don't know what I'm talking about. yeah.

Ed says:
yeah. remember back then the site wasn't the busy million-hit-a-day icon it is now

Ed says:
i'll be back in a sec

Don Quxiote (no swimming - windmills) says:
right

 

Now, this is a different conversation that was happening at the same time.

Don Quxiote (no swimming - windmills) says:
it's summer time, and the weather is fine

and the radioman said: it is a beautiful night out there says:
when the weather is fine... you go swimming in the sea?... you go fishin in the sea?

Don Quxiote (no swimming - windmills) says:
I can't remember

and the radioman said: it is a beautiful night out there says:
if her daddys rich take her out for a meal
if her daddys poor then you can do what you feel

Don Quxiote (no swimming - windmills) says:
something something leave my troubles behind, I got something on my mind

and the radioman said: it is a beautiful night out there says:
terrible lyrics. as if they couldnt find a word to rhyme with meal

Don Quxiote (no swimming - windmills) says:
In the summer time when the weather is high
You can chase right up and touch the sky,
When the weather's fine
You got women, you got women on your mind.

mucha muchacha (not a different person, she just changed her name) says:
oh how sad, nothing about swimming or fishing

Don Quxiote (no swimming - windmills) says:
the next verse is
With a fat beat, when her Daddy with a me,
We'll have everybody, but we do as we please,
When the weather's fine, we go fishing or go swimming in the sea,
We're always happy,
Long's we're living in this sound philosophy.

I downloaded Mucha muchacha about fifteen minutes ago

mucha muchacha says:
bullshit

Don Quxiote (no swimming - windmills) says:
nah -a

mucha muchacha says:
ANH not nah

i knew someone who use to write letters beginning Dear Anh (not nah)

Don Quxiote (no swimming - windmills) says:
I saw confessions of a dangerous mind the other day which had it in, and then I looked it up, and today in came through

mucha muchacha says:
fuck confessions of a dangerous mind. esquivel is mine. i almost went to your house last night

Don Quxiote (no swimming - windmills) says:
well, I've wanted it for like five years, after it was in Bevis and Butthead do America, but I never knew who played it because it wasn't on the soundtrack or anything
I wasn't here

mucha muchacha says:
just as well
esquivel was on beavis and butthead?

Don Quxiote (no swimming - windmills) says:
my parents had friends over, you could have had dinner with them
yeah

mucha muchacha says:
fuck
assholes

Don Quxiote (no swimming - windmills) says:
it's the song that plays when Bevis jerks off at the end

mucha muchacha says:
oh man
youve just pissed me off

Don Quxiote (no swimming - windmills) says:
I was originally going to put it on my "Masturbation songs compliation tape"

mucha muchacha says:
why did they do that for
you asshole!
esquivel isn't mastubatory

Don Quxiote (no swimming - windmills) says:
not in winter
in summer

mucha muchacha says:
you watch beavis masturbate and decide that you want to too?
is there something wrong with that?

Don Quxiote (no swimming - windmills) says:
it is a truely great maturbation sequence
they show the washington monument and everything

mucha muchacha says:
is there something wrong with you!
i'm sorry. i dont want to make you feel like a freak for enjoying mastubatory sessions to mucha muchacha
fuck

Don Quxiote (no swimming - windmills) says:
what?
one gets tired of billy joel
no
this was a while ago
although
listing to it now, I think it would be a fine mastubation song

mucha muchacha says:
end of conversation please.

Don Quxiote (no swimming - windmills) says:
ha
anh
I am sorry
please
how was your weekend?

mucha muchacha says:
i dont care that you masturbate
in fact, it's a good thing, it means that youre actually normal
i am just getting increasingly vexed at the thought of esquivel featuring in BEAVIS AND BUTTHEAD?!
what is that?
and then you mentioned billy joel, and that was it

Don Quxiote (no swimming - windmills) says:
yes
I just did that to make you mad
I am sorry

mucha muchacha says:
i went to a 'teaparty' yesterday
which was fine. there was lots of cake, swing music and pot
but then i got really really bored
and thought, oh i will see you
unfortunately, i fell asleep
and then someone drove me home

Don Quxiote (no swimming - windmills) says:
that is a shame

mucha muchacha says:
and my father was drunk at 4am because he had a 55th birthday party yesterday also

Don Quxiote (no swimming - windmills) says:
I was at a jazz bar being bohemian

mucha muchacha says:
oh dear

Don Quxiote (no swimming - windmills) says:
I have never seen my father drunk

mucha muchacha says:
thats funny
my dad wanted to know why i didnt buy him a present
i said: because i dont like you much
and he started giggling

Don Quxiote (no swimming - windmills) says:
that's not very nice
I'm supprised he didn't kill you in your sleep

mucha muchacha says:
which jazz bar?

Don Quxiote (no swimming - windmills) says:
Manchester Lane

mucha muchacha says:
what did you do there?

Don Quxiote (no swimming - windmills) says:
drank brandy alexander's and watched people play jazz

mucha muchacha says:
whatve you been doing all week?

Don Quxiote (no swimming - windmills) says:
very little
I have done no work
I am falling behind anh, behind

mucha muchacha says:
thats what everyone says

Don Quxiote (no swimming - windmills) says:
I am weeks behind in apps dev!
do you mind if I post this conversation on my website?

mucha muchacha says:
yes, i don't think you should inflict on people conversations about masturbation

Don Quxiote (no swimming - windmills) says:
that's true, I suppose
how about if I put a warning?

mucha muchacha says:
i think it is funny that you would even ask my permission

Don Quxiote (no swimming - windmills) says:
(besides, my site is almost entirely about masturbation)

mucha muchacha says:
although i know you are the type who wouldn't if if i said no

Don Quxiote (no swimming - windmills) says:
is true
I make some small effort to be sensitive on my website
well, sensitive to individuals
I make a point of being bigoted toward minority groups

mucha muchacha says:
yeah
but no one cares about your opinions
you're just another cocksucking asshat whiteboy

Don Quxiote (no swimming - windmills) says:
this is true

mucha muchacha says:
no actually, you always make me 'chortle'

Don Quxiote (no swimming - windmills) says:
warning. excessive consumption may induce chortle

mucha muchacha says:
chortle mania
you funny boy

Don Quxiote (no swimming - windmills) says:
ah yes
well. I am posting this conversation.... here.

Sorry. Masturbation. Forgot.