go here, and then

go here, and then here.  i did. 

no appreciable progress made.  time

no appreciable progress made.  time to leave for supper at stephanie's (hey!  that sounds like a title, like maybe the sequel to breakfast at tiffany's.  umm, no?  <sigh>) 

aside from that, wasn't george peppard surprizingly attractive when he was once-upon-a-time young?  (not to mention once-upon-a-time alive).  umm, no?  well, <huff>, you obviously don't like dead young blondes.  (hey!  that sounds like the name of a band....) 

<sigh>

you know, stealing webcam images

you know, stealing webcam images is getting pretty tedious.  i mean there was a time when it was interesting to learn about http and html, tracing links back through server redirects, frames, and javascripts, across domains, extracting and deconstructing html designed by others...  <sigh>   i do a lot of sighing, don't i?  heh. 

so, the point is that right now i'm gonna try to update all my webcam image links, or write a script that will do that for me.  whoopeee.  just wanted to alert the world. 

oh, and btw, good morning.  apparently, i'm following the time zone of the central pacific, or someplace.  oh, and btw-#2, what the hell is up with those half-hour time zones?  like india.  or central australia.  if you know, please speak

oh-#3, here's a site i stumbled upon (meaning i have no idea how i got there -- this ain't surfing, it's drowning!)  aaaaanyway, it is created by and imbued with the personality of a dweeby nerd, who's really not dweeby at all.  and she's not a nerd, either -- except that she likes not being dumb.  i guess that makes you a nerd. 

oh-#4, that's her blue-tongued dog.  cute, huh?

(addendumb: i am mortified.)

n i g h

here's a view of the place where i was born (which is not far from where i am -- about a pixel away).  as i write this, the day's light onrushes from the east; the shadowed curve of that face turns toward the dark at mid-atlantic and there takes on the cloistered quiet of night. 

the bright shine from the sahara, and the gleam from scandinavian glaciered coasts are vexing lights to me in this image, they mark the awakened day as beacons in basking revelry, while the cities on the dark side -- my friends -- display their puny helplessness in tiny zits of faint light beneath the massive comforting oppression of night.