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I think Ghost World is on my top ten list of favorite movies. (Note to self, update those lists!)

I mean with quotes like these, how could it not be?

Rebecca: This is so bad it’s almost good.
Enid: This is so bad it’s gone past good and back to bad again.

Seymour: I can’t relate to 99% of humanity.

Enid: If he’s so weird, why is he wearing Nikes?

How does an ordinary everyday quote become a favorite quote? I think that when you hear something that is very close to something you’ve previously said or thought, then it can easily become a favorite quote…

Anyway, if Ghost World is a movie that makes total sense to you, we might get along well…

Did Yahoo! Maps get all Ajax on us?

In Geo Yahoo! Maps I said that Yahoo! Maps allowed passing latitute/longitude coordinates in the query string but then redirected you to a “long and scary and obfuscated” URL. It doesn’t seem to any more. Try this: lat=43.112&lon=-88.492&mag=2 Also, when you zoom the map or move it North, South, East or West, it’s all in place without full page reloads. (Well, in Firefox anyway, doesn’t seem to work in Safari, well, in Safari on Pather anyway…)

As I asked last time, do other people notice these things? I mean, it’s not quite Google Maps yet, but Yahoo! keeps incrementally improving things. I’m always just a bit surprised when it’s not Jeremy, Russell, or the Yahoo! Developer Network where I find out about them. Do those map folks just not talk to anyone? Or maybe they just take all my suggestions. ;)

I’ve said this before, and I will say it again… I have no business sense… It seems t-shirts are big business now. No, really. Big! I know because the hipster folks at 37 Signals make note and even point to a Wall Street Journal article titled By Accident or Design, Selling T-Shirts Is Big Business on Web:

It turns out the T-shirt is a perfect fit for online commerce. It captures the Web’s renegade allure and allows surfers to show off their virtual journeys. Easy to make and deliver, T-shirts often cost $15 or less online.

In my time before being full-time computer-hacking nerd, I was one who printed many things with screens and ink. Yes, a professional in the world of serigraphy (silk screening for you commoners!)

I printed thousands and thousands of shirts and other things, and got paid for it. I also printed shirts, patches, stickers, zines, etc. for my friends, and their bands, and their friend’s bands, and even big-time rockstars like All You Can Eat!

I also designed shirts, printed them, and sold them at various places where bands would play. I’d sell shirts for less than $5 at the time, which covered the shirt, the ink, and very little of my time. (Artists make many sacrifices you see.)

If only I had known I could have combined my love of design, serigraphy, and computer/internetting into an online shirt selling force to be rekoned with… You know, I’ve still got all my equipment, screens and a squeegee… Anyone willing to pay for a Trademark or Demise t-shirt? If not I guess my only recourse is to purchase a t-shirt…

I’m planning a publishing project. I plan to take weblog posts (from people who sign up) and publish them in print (magazine or newspaper, not sure yet) along with all the advertisments I can sell. Yes it will be a subscription model, so people can pay for the content, and advertisers can pay to have me put their message in front of the subscriber’s eyeballs.

Sound interesting? Want to submit your content? Want to place your ads?

If this doesn’t work I may try to tweak thinks a bit, maybe looking at another media besides print, and other content besides written weblog posts, but besides that, it’ll be really similar.

(I’d file this under ‘Humor’ but I’m not sure I could get away with that…)

For many people the concept of a ‘local phone number’ has sort of gone away. I mean, most people with mobile phones are used to long distance being the same as a local call, in terms of price anyway, and heck, I’m never sure if I need to dial the area code or not, so now I always do to avoid getting a message saying that I didn’t… Even many years back I had a home number, mobile number, work number, and fax number that all had different area codes. (And I had to give up my 414 number, argh!)

I’ve been told that at the local school, where they appear to be running a VoIP system (by Cisco I think?) that from the classrooms they can only call locally, where locally mean the phone number starts with a ‘5’ as in 555-5555. (Is their VoIP system somehow internal only, with an outside bridge to local numbers? I don’t know enough about this to do any more than guess…) I’m assuming this is to prevent the classrooms from making long distance calls. The problem here is that if a parent doesn’t have a traditional landline/local phone number, they can’t be reached without someone going to the school office to place a call.

I mean, if I’m using VoIP at 2 cents per minute from my home anywhere in the US, what’s up with the school? The funny thing is that last year when I saw the phones in the school I thought they were ahead of the times, and now I think they are behind.

I guess the moral of the story is to keep moving forward… Or maybe there is no moral, maybe it’s just a bunch of stuff that happened. (Hmmm…)