Cynicism Personified Update

To: H.

I'm having a hard time writing this note to you. We had some good times together. Your $5/month price tag was pretty cheap, but you were good, despite your unannounced days when you were missing and your unprofessionalism. Okay, so the missing days were pretty frequent. But I always felt my stuff was reasonably safe* with you. I just think we weren't meant for each other. This copyright thing was just about the last straw in our already strained relationship.

That's it. It's over.

I've found another. She's $1.67 less per month than you ever were, and she even claims to have unlimited, er, transfer.

Goodbye.

[Main character puts down pen, stops talking to himself, and bursts out crying.]

ATTENTION VIEWERS. WE INTERRUPT YOUR PROGRAM FOR AN EMERGENCY "STATE OF THE BLOG" ADDRESS.

Ladies, gentlemen, and fellow cynics,

I have come here tonight to talk to you about a website I'm sure you've all heard of. Or maybe not, but it's clearly an evildoer regime. Why, just recently, their main webpage changed to the cryptic statement, "This website has been removed due to copyright violations." We** have called them, emailed them, and poked monitors displaying their website with sticks, with no effect whatsoever. Well, okay, we made holes in the monitors. But this was not the intended effect.

Hosting321, if you do not let Cynical Inspectors contact you in the next 24 hours, we will declare war***.

The Cynical people will not tolerate this.****

Skeptic Premier Andre

* "...this is obviously some strange usage of the word 'safe' that I wasn't previously aware of." - Arthur Dent
** It's the royal "we."
*** Cancel hosting.
**** I just like making footnotes.

Yeah, so as you've probably gathered from my strange and dramatic ramblings, Hosting321's main page has mysteriously vanished. I called their 866 number and left a message - they haven't called me back. I don't know what's going on. I saved a copy of the entire domain to my hard drive just in case something bad happens. If they don't call or email back, we'll dispute the credit card charge and go to the new host.

Here's some little news clippings on what I've been doing lately.
- "The Ur-Quan Masters" is a brilliant game. Go here or emerge uqm on Gentoo.
- Speaking of Gentoo, I've been messing around with it lately. Fluxbox is a cool window manager. A lot faster than KDE, but I still use the KDE utilities even on fluxbox.
- Progress Quest, I'm a level 29 Panda Man Hunter Strangler named Pickelskenol. This game is a brilliant parody of Diablo II and those sorts of MMORPG/non-massive MORPG type games. I love the items and equipment, like my +1 Impressive Holy Magnetic Field or the Sacred Gammel of Hunger I got from an underaged Beef Giant.

I'd like to post more stuff on this blog. There's a good entry under drafts that I'll put up eventually.

Posted by Andre at March 23, 2004 04:27 PM