[Friday, July 7, 2000]

5:26 PM In response to my previous post, I have realised that I require some guideline that i must stick to lest I fall further into the Abyss of Weblog addiction. The Distant Thoughts Declaration of Principles I will never go a whole day exclusively liniking to other weblogs, and will try to keep links to other weblogs to a minimum. I will never leave the Webloggers webring, even if I get really, really popular. <stiffles a laugh> I will never have a webcam, or even put a picture of me on this site. I will keep shockwave and images in general to a minimum. I will always put truth before humour value. Sometimes. I will never use smilies, abreviations like "LOL", or misspellings like "Kewl". I will not make this site of interest to exactly one person in the universe. Other sites, yes, but this site is for everyone, not for me.

4:58 PM I explained to my brother about the webloglog (and various other meta-weblogs). He said that this was nothing to worry about - that the three levels of comentary - content, talk about content, and talk about talk about content - were ubiqutous through all things, not just the web, and that a weblogloglog was not a serious possibility, that only the very worst of the Kewl people would try actually making one. Yes, I suppose that is so, because a weblogloglog would only have about five or so webloglogs to log. But as the number of weblogs increases, and it does so with terrifying swiftess, the number of meta-logs will also increase. About fifty meta-logs is probably more than enough to sustain a serious weblogloglog, so, by my estamate, once we reach three thousand moderately serious weblogs, there will be space enough for a real weblogloglog, not just a joke one. When will this stop? (If ever?) Assuming everyone on the planet gets a weblog (something we're not likely to see, but if that does happen), then a meta-meta-meta-meta-meta-meta-weblog may become a serious possibility. You go to your top-level log, which gives you all the one-less-meta gossip, and directs you to the best sites that can direct you to the best sites who can give you breaking news on the best sites which give you the best links to sites that can direct you to the greatest weblogs. Probably wouldn't bother actually following any weblog links out into the web, though. There wouldn't be time to check all your favouite daily webloglogloglogloglogs if you did that. My guess is that a new term will be coined to indicate a variable meta-level for a log. Since the word webloglogloglogloglog sounds like someone drinking out of a bottle, I'm guessing the term used will be "Glug". A top-level log would be considered Glug-Six, the ones below them Glug-Five, and so on. The lowest of the low, the common weblog, would be Glug-Zero, and the world-wide-web would be Glug-Negative-One. The lower a log's Glug Number, the lower it would be in the scheme of things, until the web itself would be beneath contempt. Gods, I hate weblogs. All of them.

[Saturday, July 1, 2000]

11:39 PM What do the millitary name their computers?

9:40 PM Cars give us individuality

9:38 PM Someone who shall remain reletively anonymous has somehow got the impression that I think of myself as an artist. So, let's get this clear: I am not an artist! I don't even like art!

1:19 PM Has anyone else ever gone through /usr/bin/girl one day only to find that you've seen every single link before? I need to stop all this internetting. Badly.

[Friday, June 30, 2000]

11:53 PM It seems Sherazard wore Black Nail Polish on at least one occaision. I feel another Perpetua entry coming on. I could rant about my current dilemma for pages.

11:42 PM [Via chat] Sherazard: I tried pming [Private Messaging] myself the other day. Sherazard: It just repeated what I typed. Emlyn: How symbolic.

10:09 PM I've been in communication with Sherazard. It would seem that she doesn't hate me anymore. No more strange than anything else in my life, but highly suspicious. Nothing good ever happens to me. Somehow, this is going to turn out to be a bad thing. And I probably just made it worse by writing that. I'm not cynical. I've just had a lot of experiance at being me.

10:00 PM My computer just crashed. No reason, it just did. Windows....

12:00 AM Minutes ago I received an email from someone who claims to be Sherazard. It's plausible enough so far, and I think that it could only be either Sherazard herself or one of her friends (because of certain details). But we'll see... My gods, my heart is pounding like I've just been running for whole metres (Hey, I bet you're unfit too, you web-log addict). My face is so red you'd think a blood vesel had burst. Perhaps I have burst a blood vessel. I'd better check out this theory, actually. As soon as I finish writing her a return letter.

[Thursday, June 29, 2000]

10:51 PM Shane: Well, it was nice to meet you for the first time again, Emlyn. Emlyn: Yes, it good to meet you again for the first time, too. It could only happen to me.

7:43 PM This is not easy. I may have to resort to GrokSoup. And all because Blogger doesn't allow reverse-order days. It's obscene.

4:03 PM My brother has become a master at recognising actors from other television shows/films. He badly needs a job.

4:00 PM Today I started a peicemeal writing project. Jade might want to help me, you never know. If you're interested, contact me.

[Wednesday, June 28, 2000]

12:42 AM I took the lesbian test and scored 50% I realise that it wasn't set up to handle males, but still, I have to wonder......

12:26 AM "On driving: Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac." -George Carlin

12:25 AM "I think, therefore I am. I think." -Nordom

[Tuesday, June 27, 2000]

11:25 PM From: "jade" Reply-To: [withheld] To: [email protected] Subject: hi, it's jade Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 20:51:00 +1000 hi emlyn, [snip] I don't know why i am writing to you from this account.. but it will do. i'm having an identity crisis... all my other email accounts have personality specific connotations.. this is the most neutral. have i lost it completely? ciao, jade From: "emlyn" <[email protected]> To: [Jade] Subject: hi, jade Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2000 02:32:00 +1000 >personality specific connotations.. >this is the most neutral. have i >lost it completely? > Uuuhhhmmmm..... no..... no, not completely. No. No as such, no.

8:00 PM Virtual Pet Cemetary. Yes. I can't wait for a Stephen King wannabe to write a story about this site.

7:41 PM God sends an email to the world.

7:30 PM The Barbelith has an idea.

5:44 PM My cat is colorful. He is brown, gray, black and white, all at once.

4:33 PM Ally McBeal news. Warning: Guarenteed to offend anyone stupid enough to like Ally McBeal and clever enough to operate a web-browser. Which is no-one, I suppose, so never mind.

3:26 PM Who needs reality? Pretend to be someone interesting at Cycosmos.

2:49 PM Egomaniac Watch: Sometimes they make it too easy. Ctrl-Alt-Ego and Adolescent Ego.

[Monday, June 26, 2000]

11:28 PM Tick....Tick....Tick....Tick...