12:20 am
Kris came over and we worked on stuff that had nothing to do with Vanilla Ice, though we couldn't
get it out of our collective head. All night. Phone Rings. Hello? "My homeboy! My homeboy!" Oh dear.
It's contagious. Well, it was Ed, who was calling to let me know that he was buying my plane tickets
to go down to the San Jose-oid area at the beginning of march. While I was on the phone, Kris became
fascinated with Fep the Quickcam:

His artistic photography captures the essence of the music-making process: Grainy, indistinct
people shapes doing impolite things. Kris is not really picking his nose, and I'm not really flipping
you off; He's picking his teeth, and I'm holding the phone, talking to Ed.
Simultaneously, I'm trying to turn something into RealAudio for export to the web. The thing
we were working on today is the structure of "Blind Silence". I don't know why it's called that,
Brandon is the one who comes up with the titles. He hasn't come in to put down the vocals yet, so it's still
missing the words. Whatever they are. Hmm. Actually, I don't know the words to half the songs I wrote the music for.
That's probably just as well, because I think some of them are about how much of an asshole I am. Ah, the good ol'
days.
 Blind Silence
Hmm. That bass boinks too much. AHhh, I'll fix it later.
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11:58 am
A long time ago, Derek (recently promoted to sysadmin at GST) asked me why people
don't use horizontal scrolling in their web pages very often. "That's a good question", said I.
It comes out like this:
- Browsers don't seek sideways to anchor points
- There's no "Page Sideways" key.
- Spacebar doesn't take you to the next screen over, in Netscape.
Of course, if you are truly avant garde, you can make big fat sideways scrolling web pages
regardless. If enough people do it, maybe a major browser programmer will implement sideways scrolling to center
<A name> tags and support paging sideways. I hate scrolling one character at a time. Don't make me touch the mouse. Ew.
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