I love it when my kitten has mouse-chasing kitten-dreams while she's sleeping in my lap. I love it almost as much as I love inane weblog entries.

I go to BIGWORDS.com looking for textbooks. Naturally, I follow the link to textbooks. There, in the middle of the page, is an ad for HOT SEX: How to Do It:

"Why have mediocre sex or even pretty decent sex when you could be having steaming, smoking HOT sex? Find out the details (with tips on every step from foreplay to orgasm) in this juicy-juicy-juicy how-to guide."

--Textbooks home page, BIGWORDS.com

Talk about targeted advertising. New students looking for textbooks. Holy cross-sell, Batman! I'd hate to see the up-sell.

I think the worst part is that you can buy a used copy. Hurry before they're all gone!

I'm just tired of having porn as my lead story.

Let's see. What happened today? Worked on a client project, finishing it up before the semester gets into full swing. I love it when I can use the tools I love.

Also, more action on the AOLiza and Cameo fronts is in the pipeline.

I get a kick wondering how often people confuse Vivid and Vivid with Vivid.

Things will only get more confusing now that vivid the latter, agog that there's a new entertainment technology out there (napster, gnutella) that wasn't spearheaded by the distribution of pornography (the vcr, cable tv, e-commerce (really), streaming media, cd-rom) is moving into the communal file sharing of porn video clips.

"If surfers find a snippet from a movie, it might entice them into buying the whole tape. We can actually turn these shared files into mini-infomercials."

--David Schlesinger, VP for Internet marketing, Vivid Video

It's nice to see that someone's actually paying attention to reports that mp3 sharing actually leads to increased sales.

Check the discussion board for the latest on AOLiza. I've decided (again) to take down, or at least edit, the transcripts, for reasons detailed in the discussion. I was hesitant to do this and let the project die, but now I can because I have a plan for a way to make the project better than it was before, and more fun and participatory all around.

This has the potential for being truly great, and I'll be unveliling more about it in a few days.

Okay, this one's old news, but it's something you should hold close to your heart, not just read and dismiss. It's Scott Adams's Dilbert Fallacies.

Take this link, print it out at 25% size, and keep it in your wallet or purse. Keep it with you for a week, and check them off as you see each logical error applied around you. See if you can collect all 32!

Here's one to start you off: "I didn't get caught jaywalking today, therefore it's legal. to jaywalk."

A few months ago I noticed that a lot of the time my subconscious is counting along without me. Several times a day I'll be walking down the street, around campus, wherever, thinking deep thoughts, then realize that somewhere in my head, I'm counting strides, two footsteps to a count, "twenty- one. twenty- two." the troubling thing is that often by the time I notice it, I'm already up in the hundreds, and I never remember starting.

Stick 'my' in front of anything and you have a perfect, personalized experience, right? It was getting strained before, but the straw that broke this camel's back is MyBart, the custom experience for San Francisco's Bay Area Rapid Transit. Somehow they want you to believe that if you give them personal details like your annual income, gender, and birthday, they can make your Bart (or at least bart.org) experience better.

They say the'll give you advance information on items apperaing in the BART Events Hotline. What sorts of events are these? Toothy Jim will be performing his harmonica stylings in the yellow corner of Powell Street Station Thursday night between 8am and midnight?

After a lot of thinking, I've decided that though I created AOLiza to see just to see if it could be done, and as a personal experiment, putting the convos online was wrong. It's hard, because my readership has increased fivefold since I put it up, but it's really humor at innocent people's expense. In the words of Homer Simpson, "It's funny because I don't know the guy." (Also from Homer, "It's funny because it's somebody else" and, "It's funny because it's true.")

So, in a nutshell, I'm taking the site down for the time being. Once I get the all-perl version up and running, I'll replace it with a version that lets visitors give it a whirl, and then with the 'AOL-Teen' version and perhaps the "AOL-cybersex' version, for people to play with, but I'm not keen on playng on the unwitting ignorance of strangers to fuel traffic to the site.

It's a shame though, because it was funny as fuck.

Think I'm being a wuss? Think of a compromise? Bribe me for my source code so you can take up where I left off? I'm leaving the Discussion board open.

Also, if you want to be kept appraised if AOLiza goes back up in any fashion, add yourself to the notification list, here:

Okay, I've tentatively decided to put AOLiza back up, but I've renamed all the participants by number. I originally put up AOLiza to show that ELIZA could pass the Turing Test against unwitting participants. I didn't put it up to poke fun at anyone. Still, the results are relevant, in very high demand, and I believe that taking out all personal info makes it fair enough to give it another go.