Category: Legacy

Gone Fishin’

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There’s talk about how it’s gone. There’s nothing left but the falling stars or rotating N of an un-resolvable host. It’s hard to believe, given that it seems to have embodied everything that the ‘new’ internet represents to me. Still a little wild and untamed, but almost desperately so – trying hard to give the finger to their new corporate neighbors.

Like everything else on the web, it spawned imitators, but they always seemed to fall short.

Where have you gone Goatse? The world’s a little colder today.

At least we’ll always have our mirrors.

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Today’s story is called:
Spilling beer on a punk rock legend
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How I tripped over Grant Hart

One of the things that I like most about living in NYC is that you can be sitting at the office @ 9 PM on a Sunday, and suddenly realize you were going to go see Grant tonight @ the Mercury Lounge.

So, I hop on a train … long, horrible train story omitted … So I get out of the cab & go inside. Walk in and there’s this really… interesting… guy w/ a guitar screaming & about 30 white, 20something men standing around. Luckily there’re only a few minutes before Grant’s going to come on, so I go get a beer.

Walking back to my spot (right in front of the sound booth) I’m looking around – watching all the people giggle, many more politely than he deserves, at this guy and thinking how far Grant’s fallen. The next thing I know, I’m standing on something where my spot used to be. I look down to see Grant gazing back up at me, having quietly yet firmly planted himself up against the sound booth.

Now this is where it gets really uncomfortable, because what do you say when you’re standing on the ankle of GRANT freaking HART? Oh… sorry… oh, it’s you… oh … sorry … wow, hey …

Someday, I’ll learn how to speak w/ people.

So I didn’t really spill any beer, but it looked good in the title – and I really could have. It was a brand new beer.

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Hey, I got ‘hacked’. I wonder how long ago this was – actually looks like 4/6/99.

Oh, and it’s just the number of seconds since 1/1/70. That’s when ‘unix time’ started. We just celebrated a very special event in the unix world.

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‘And I hope you will join me in expressing thanks to one American for the strength, and calm, and comfort she brings to our nation in crisis: our first lady, Laura Bush.’

Ugh.

Added at 1012441755 by Matt:
I suppose we should just be happy (?) that he didn’t make her give the SOTU for him.

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Don’t panic, it’ll be alright.

It could be worse, you could be misunderstood & lonely like this girl:

And if you haven’t, you should really check out this site

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Dammit, I didn’t mean to break the chain of “see previous.” I’m so clueless.

I think you can skip around the dead spot in the archive with the following link.

I had been trying to fix the old one where I had been ashamed that I left in an extra “see previous.”

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This is so 1998.

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I hate color. Did I break it?.

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