An instant message conversation with Dan; edited for easy May afternoon reading.
Hivelogic: what happened?
Akula_IX: what happened with...
Hivelogic: your website
Akula_IX: you mean shortage of entries?
Hivelogic: yes, you're basically defunct
Akula_IX: not defunct. have a new boss and need to read more.
Hivelogic: ahh. (... defunct)
Akula_IX: I'm not defunct
Hivelogic: sure.
Akula_IX: why defunct?
Hivelogic: gone.
Hivelogic: no more.
Akula_IX: Dean Allen doesn't write something for 10 days, that doesn't me he's defunct.
Hivelogic: no, but he is dean allen.
Hivelogic: he is the winston churchill of weblogs
Akula_IX: he's a nut case.
Akula_IX: so I take it you are dissapointed?
Hivelogic: sure
Hivelogic: yours was the only thing left on the web to read
Akula_IX: oh
Akula_IX: I didn't know you held my work in such esteem
Hivelogic: now, nothing. your site is gone.
Akula_IX: sorry, didn't mean to let you down. I will work on it straight away.
Hivelogic: is it you or the rest of the web?
Akula_IX: quit it, its not gone!
Hivelogic: put THAT in your pipe and smoke it
Akula_IX: *weeping*
Hivelogic: it's sad to see the whole site dissapear
Akula_IX: it's like I'm being talked about in the third person...
Hivelogic: i know!
Akula_IX: so, if I was to post, right now, then my site would appear again?
Hivelogic: really?
Akula_IX: please make the bad man go away
Hivelogic: cool
Hivelogic: i keep saying that
Akula_IX: thank you for IMing the Airbag Complaint Department. Your IM is always appreciated at Airbag.
Hivelogic: neat!
Akula_IX: :)
Hivelogic: regular expressions in java are harder than in php
Akula_IX: I was just about to ask.
Hivelogic: anyway, if you hear anything about airbag, let me know.
Akula_IX: You will be the first to know.
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Let me be the first to say that it this site has been a little deflated lately. It's, uh, an intentional, artistic pause of the soul AKA Return to Castle Wolfenstien.
I was beginning to wonder... having little else to do (yes, I am gainfully employed, we're just slow right now...) I hit your site, oh, a dozen or so times a day. When it doesn't update for nearly a week, I begin to worry.
Glad to have you back. Now it's my turn for a vacation. :-)
And don't feel so bad... Dan hasn't updated his site in ... how many days now? And when he does, it's auto-generated gibberish. "The obfuscated monkey parallelograms with the tarmac of the soda cracker's flagellated anus" indeed. ;-)
I thought it (auto-generated gibberish) was a dream sequence until Dan set me straight.
Greg doesn't realize how many lives he's affecting when he neglects to update his site. I've been sitting here hitting the refresh button for five days straight. I think I'll get some sleep now.
well I have to agree with the rest of the guys Greg. I have your site pop up every morning and it has been a disappointment to see nothing for days. So please for the rest of us wanting to hear your great wisdom. Put Castle Wolfenstien down and just walk away. come on. You can do it. Just try.
Okay, boys, Greg needs a Castle Wolfenstein intervention.... ya know, tough love... so forth...
Mitch, are you bored?