Too much cynicism makes the baby go blind. Or makes the cat suck the life out of it. Or something.
So, on the Dark Side there's my unhealthy love for xina nicosia, a/k/a The Unhappiest Girl in New York City (which column, like the rest of Antagozine, hasn't been updated since quite some time ago):
Yeah, it’s New York Insert Your Expletive City, and I’m just one of the eight million stomach-churning people crawling around down here amongst the misery. There’s a lot of unhappiness, right? It’s exponential, we all make each other less happy, it’s like 8,000,000473,291 unhappy.
And I’m number last.
Unhappy, unhappier, and here’s me: -est. -iest once you take off the y. And if you happen to be joyful and fulfilled, contented, potent, blossoming, elated, fanciful, excellent or swell, then, well, I sincerely hope you don’t step in acid or choke on your frappicino or lose a thumb or anything. Really. I welcome you to mock my pain on a regular basis. Hell, it’s cheaper than yoga and not trendy yet so you won’t have to walk around for three weeks with henna tatoos in order for your investment banker friends to be impressed at your cutting-edge-ness. Because they still think it’s okay to call anything cutting-edge.
Isn't she dreamy?
On the also-Dark-but-in-a-cheery-sort-of-way Side, you may peruse the fine selection of Afro Ken merchandise at Hot Topic.
What?
Ok, you can also browse the African National Congress gopher server, which must have been left running in a closet somewhere. And it's probably wrong to even point to the poor thing. Please do not make it fall down go boom.
And I've learned a very valuable lesson about Gaim. At least I think it's valuable, and it's probably about Gaim. But I should no longer suffer from the delusion that I'm connected to AIM when I am, in fact, not. Are there any better clients out there? Don't really use the thing enough to have shopped around, to be honest.
I use Trillian -- www.trillian.cc -- which handles AIM, ICQ, IRC, Yahoo, IRC, MSN, and also makes a lovely latte. It's nice, it's donationware, and it's skinnable, which is fun.
sadly enough, the requirements for trillian include running windows. why would anybody wanna do that?
AIM runs nicely on NS7 linux and is nothing like the unpleasantness of submitting to AIM on windows. they can't seem to push the spyware and the ads through. it's just a nice chat.
also Mozilla linux has a nice IRC client.
break free from microsoft. is all i'm sayin'.
i'm 'kdblog' on AIM, btw.
Because I'm too fucking lazy to put my LAN back together after moving to another OS. I just got it working less than a month ago.
I could make up some other reason, but that's really about it.
kd, NS 7 locks up after a few minutes for me on a regular basis. This is probably because I use the same profile for it and the various versions of Mojira floating around the computer, and am sometimes stupid enough to run Moz and NS at the same time. I am dumb.
VASpider, have heard good things about Trillian (mostly from this guy with three ar... no, that joke is dead). Really should use that when I'm in Windows. Or at least open the prefs and turn off that bloody AIM Today page, which would take all of zero seconds.
Too fucking lazy, you say? Knew we had things in common.
Trillian's pretty sweet, if you're a foul, evil Windows user. It allows you to tweak a bunch of different things until you get stuff set up how you like it, and bypasses all the adspam crap (though I still get the occasional HI TRY MY PRON WEBSITE message on ICQ).
Yes, well, after the headache that WinXP was (they bury deep, deep in documentation that WinXP absolutely will not allow you to use a hub unless all the systems are on WinXP, for example), I just don't feel like learning another system. That sounds like too fucking lazy to me, so, hey, a spade it is.
Oh, yeah, and my AIM is DJSpider13. As in Daring Jumping, not Disc Jockey.
Might as well throw mine in too. teammurder666 like in league with Satan not the 666th person to use teammurder as an, uh, screen name.
Oh, another alternative tik which was abandoned by AOL. I installed it but haven't had the chance to use it quite yet. Looks pretty configurable though.
Think I used tik a while ago. And some console-based thing that drove me slowly insane, although that might have been an ICQ client.
It kept beeping.
I felt like Ellen Feiss.
I've been playing with tik a little bit. It's had some work done on since it was abandoned by AOL. It has that annoying motif (probably lesstif actually) widget set but seems to work pretty well other than that. I kinda like the way it handles plug-ins.