Wil from the One Stop Freak Shop is sending me these AMAZING plugs… I've been sent some cool plugs in the past, but these look supercool! He's got some nice robots helping him build:
You should definitely check out his page (www.onestopfreakshop.com) — he's got stainless inlays, star cutouts, spirals, stash plugs, and all sorts of VERY cool stuff. Hopefully we'll be getting some of it in at BMEshop as well…
Hmmm…. I think if anything is a sign that I make too many drug references on my page, this might be it. I get about five or six messages like this a day, from people who think they can get BME memberships by sending some weird snapshot of themselves (without any mods). I'm not really sure how people get that idea, I think it's pretty clear what BME is all about.
Seriously, that's what we are (well, a lot of us anyway). Body modification has got to be one of the most successful subversive revolutionary movements to hit Western Cultural. Does a t-shirt cheapen that? HELL NO!
I'm not saying this shirt is 100% go, but the idea struck me last night while I was watching Steal This Movie, and it seemed to work well.
It doesn't hurt, but I do seem to be losing some functionality in my right hand:
I'm not allowed to tell you what I'm doing this morning, so let me show you a traceroute. This is from one of our servers in Toronto to one of our personal computers on a Toronto @home network:
1 cisco.tht.net (216.126.88.1) 0.641 ms 0.518 ms 0.533 ms
2 core1-tor.151.net (216.126.66.161) 0.619 ms 0.721 ms 0.662 ms
3 Vlan102.msfc1.Toronto2.Teleglobe.net (207.45.200.177) 0.804 ms 0.888 ms 0.856 ms
4 if-1-0.core1.Toronto2.Teleglobe.net (64.86.81.1) 0.573 ms 0.464 ms 0.659 ms
5 if-10-0.core1.Scarborough.Teleglobe.net (64.86.80.241) 1.517 ms 1.494 ms 1.354 ms
6 if-10-8.core2.NewYork.Teleglobe.net (207.45.222.105) 19.217 ms 18.749 ms 18.872 ms
7 if-9-0.core3.NewYork.Teleglobe.net (64.86.83.158) 18.646 ms 18.646 ms 18.817 ms
8 if-3-0.core1.Washington.Teleglobe.net (64.86.83.162) 18.853 ms 18.344 ms 18.674 ms
9 c2-pos8-1.washdc1.home.net (24.7.70.253) 34.340 ms 170.699 ms *
10 c1-pos1-0.bltmmd1.home.net (24.7.65.90) 142.410 ms * 96.190 ms
11 * c1-pos3-0.cmdnnj1.home.net (24.7.65.221) 88.014 ms 202.151 ms
12 c1-pos2-0.nycmny1.home.net (24.7.65.230) 106.291 ms * *
13 * * c1-pos2-0.hrfrct1.home.net (24.7.69.1) 26.839 ms
14 c1-pos5-0.bflony1.home.net (24.7.65.254) 21.550 ms * *
15 * bb3-pos8-0.rdc1.on.home.net (24.7.74.30) 22.817 ms 43.221 ms
16 * * *
17 * * *
Amused? Here's how @home decided to route Toronto to Toronto traffic today: Toronto, New York, Washington, Baltimore, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Buffalo, then finally got back to Ontario. Ha ha ha… Here's what it SHOULD look like (this is if I route through TorIX instead):
1 cisco.tht.net (216.126.88.1) 0.841 ms 0.915 ms 0.788 ms
2 199.45.118.10 (199.45.118.10) 1.07 ms 6.09 ms 1.27 ms
3 10.0.184.181 (10.0.184.181) 2.79 ms 2.70 ms 2.57 ms
4 10.0.184.18 (10.0.184.18) 4.97 ms 4.80 ms 3.98 ms
5 move.it.ca (24.112.243.98) 7.35 ms 7.21 ms 7.50 ms
In any case, I'm off now. I'll be back in the early afternoon, and will do an experience update and continue working on the ModCon video. I'll be posting a clip or two from that, but because my coffers are so low right now, it's going to be at a secret URL available only to paying members and paypal contributors (so if you're one of those, watch your email for the next week).
What else to do on a lazy Sunday morning, right?
From: tycub@***
Subject: Missing the targetI have loved surfing your personals in the past, but now it's so complicated...too bad. I would join again, too expensive.
Here's the punchline. BME had personals a long time ago that were nice and simple. Then when IAM came along, I upgraded the personals to a much more robust version — they could do a lot more, but overall, people preferred the old one. So I went back to the old system. SAME AS BEFORE. And they're STILL 100% FREE to use… So… If anyone complains that they're too complicated now, since the systems is the same, it must mean that they're getting stupider…
Speaking of stupid people, here are two of them now:
From: karol@***
Subject: tralalaHHHHHHAAAAAALLLLLLOOOO
what is this page about?
BYEFrom: NattiBlue22@***
Subject: (no subject)i am really interested in seeing some of the work that you do if there is a website where i can actually go please let me know...
I'd like to know how someone could find a reference to me and not have included a reference to the website… And my email isn't that prominent on the site — how does a person not know these answers by the time they find the email?
This next bunch is truly bizarre. Instead of writing me an email, he sends me blank emails with cryptic messages in the subject line, and sometimes he includes his message in the “To” line as well!
Subject: my cretcard is aviable gas bar ivrey place no proble your site no way ?To: refunds@bmezine.com, wi@sympatico.ca, may@sympatico.ca, credt@sympatico.ca, card@sympatico.ca, is@sympatico.ca, refuse??????@sympatico.ca
Subject: RefundSubject: a want to bi member my credet card is god wy aave no acess?????
Subject: i m asking to bi a member altthe help
Subject: you dond acpet my card wat do i douw
Subject: 1 day free as member for 1 yers
To: reborn@bmezine.com, 1@sympatico.ca, day@sympatico.ca, free@sympatico.ca, pass@sympatico.ca
Subject: (pas d'objet)Subject: 1 day pass
Subject: avril may ?
Subject: 1 day free acss i love your sita
Subject: my card is god wy not for you
Subject: i am member dou yee bes
Subject: my pas word as no acc cast wy ?
Subject: i ave not verifier wit my cr card ih yor dit not get your fy y wil si dat you will bi pay mi orthographe is no good sorry iwill pay you wit intrest
Subject: i m a merber is tath wat you ave for nollo try your bes
Subject: wy don ave acess tou xxjivchard
Subject: i love your site your bes wood by nyce tank you
Subject: i wil lik mor
Subject: mor eunucs mor nullification now callery
Ack, kooky stuff! I've tried to communicate with him, but haven't really had any luck at all (big surprise, right?)… Let's finish it off today with an AOL-bashing classic:
From: Devilishjess***
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 01:26:30 EDT
Subject: (no subject)HEY WHATS UP I WANNA BE COME A MEMBER OF BMEZINE BUT I ODNT KNOW HOW THIS IS THE WEBSITE EVERY I WANNA TALK OT PEOPLE ON HERE AND STUFF HOW DO I DO OKAY WELL ILL LET U GO OKAY BYE
(**<3**JeSsIy*
