What did I do this weekend? Well, last week all Yahoo! got an email that there's a 25% off sale, above and beyond any other sales or markdowns, at Linens 'n' Things for all Yahoo! employees and their guests this weekend only. Friday I got my first Yahoo! paycheck.

You can see where this goes...

Sunday morning Emily, Ali, and I ventured to Pleasanton for a little binge shopping. Like any bachelor, I find that there are certain kinds of things that follow the binge-purge cycle: build up the laundry 'till you're stuck for clothes you'd dare to be seen in, then spend a whole day at the laundramat, washing everything but the clothes you'd never wear, but can't seem to bring to throw or give away, grocery shopping (and all the people reading this who really know me can shut up now. It's a generalization. ), and of course shopping of all other kinds that don't fall under the 'impulse buy' or the banal needs of the id.

Shopping for the bedroom falls squarely in the realm of the bulimic. I don't do it often, but when I do, I revel in it, and I'm glad that I had two friends with me with a better sense of decorating than me. So three hours, 750 dollars, and a couple cartloads of comforter, chenelle, pillows,and varied assortments later we were done.

Ali and Emily each came away with respectable hauls as well. I'm sure Ali already put her ensemble together to greet her husband returning that evening from Los Angeles. Emily's probably putting hers together as I write this, and I'm putting my new bedroom together as soon as I get home and post this.

I have a houseguest coming in tomorrow, and so I have another bed to make up as well as my own, and more dauntingly, a living room that has seen the brunt of my long hours at work and little time to straighten up these past few weeks.

Assembling furniture and cleaning a room is a lot like taking a bath when I was little: you kick and scream against it, but once you're in the thick it's actually pretty great.

Looking in my menu of applications, I just misread Microsoft Entourage as Microsoft Espionage. For just a moment, everything made sense...

My Gameboy Advance is coming...

...pation

I wrote this on the train last week, only the stupid OmniSky browser couldn't handle the form submit, so I had to wait to post it.

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6/12/2001: So I'm trying something new. Right now I'm on the Amtrak train going from Sunnyvale to Emeryville, in what has become my daily commute home. I have my Palm V and a Stowaway keyboard, writing as we wind through the surreal landfill/wetland/ghosttown at the southern end of the bay.

Once I finish writing this and the other posts for this evening, I'll take off the keyboard and plug in the Omnisky modem and post them up to the web site. The fact that you're reading this means it works!

Just because I'm impatient, I'm uploading this one now, before I write the other one or two...

I find it amusing that a month ago an Alpha Top executive goes on the record as saying that they're manufacturing 'large-screen iBooks' for Apple, then everyone says it's misdirection, or a misunderstanding. Apple says flatly that they're not releasing a larger screen iBook, the rumor sites (and Register) say 'It must be the new flat-panel iMac' (plausible), then later 'it's a new powerbook between the iBook and the Titanium Powerbook!' (wildly improbable), and today the main purveyor of this opinion, Go2Mac wildly speculates, "[Son of pismo] may, in fact, be an updated iBook rather that a PowerBook as originally thought." Wow. You mean the exective might have been right all along?

Funny how if you change your story often enough, even the old can seem new again. Sheesh...

Hey, do you like Fury? Do you shop at Amazon? Well, since Paypal has started taking 30 cents from each 50 cent donation I solicit for AOLiza, I've decided to rethink the contribution method.

Amazon has an 'honor system' letting people contribute money for weblogs, shareware, or what have you. Rather than ask you for money though, I'd rather ask you to do something you probably do anyhow, that is: shop at Amazon.

What's the catch? Check out the 'Support Fury' menu on the left navbar of this page. Drag the 'Amazon' link up to your favorites bar, and use that link to go to Amazon when you shop there. This way Amazon will donate 5% of your purchase price to Fury.

Don't like Amazon? What better way to drive them under than to take away another 5% of their already negative profit-margins?

If you do this, Fury, Metacookie, AOLiza, Randompixel (cameo), and a few future sites will thank you, and will show that thanks by not resorting to X-10 ads, like the rest of the known web!

Seriously though, thanks.

The 'recent-first' format is appropriate for the frequently updated weblog, but what about when I have a large number of posts in quick succession?

I'm just setting out to write a slew of posts, expand a few ideas presented yesterday, and post a few things that I wrote earlier. Before doing so, I want to write a prefaces, which you're reading right now. The problem is that you've already read the posts I just referenced (unless you're reading this just after I posted it) so what of the linear nature of time compared to the inverse format of the weblog?

Aw, who cares. I hope you enjoyed the posts.

More to the point, I hope I wrote them.

Chek this out: Phat isn't the neo-def werd that most people who use it think it is.

And some people out there think linguists are NPVA.

Davezilla made my morning with 20 ways to have fun with OnStar. Read the list and add your own! (For those who don't know, OnStar is General Motor's 'luxury telephone service' where a live person will give you directions, make reservations, troubleshoot your car, or even unlock it remotely from space.)

Yes, Chris. I suppose this could be considered metablogging. Wave of the future and all that.

The interesting part (to me) is that I'm simultaneously drifting towards metablog entries like the one linked above, and stream of consciousness personal slamposts like last week's Crocogator Dream.

Any opinions? I'll probably put together a survey to find out what people come here for and what they like, so I'll know when I'm boring people, pissing them off, or giving them what they crave, not that I'll cater, but at least I'll know. 'Till then though, drop me a line!