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I guess the second

July 30, 2001 by Michael Boyle

paragraph on the freshly-redesigned and repurposed YULblog means that I’m going to see Ed, Aaron, and Toasty on Wednesday, if not others in addition. Cool.

I could read

July 30, 2001 by Michael Boyle

Lawrence Lessig all day. Including, most recently, Jail Time in the Digital Age, an Op-Ed in the New York Times. A guy like Lessig almost makes me want to pack it all in and go to law school.

, and they don’t seem to like the Planet of the Apes. Don’t listen to the reviewers! It’s the ape-iest movie of the year. Tim Roth should definitely get the Oscar for Best Ape in a Leading Role (in this I agree with Blork).

I confess

July 30, 2001 by Michael Boyle

that I feel like this quite often these days. Not being a true coding techie, it takes me a while sometimes.

If you ever needed evidence

July 25, 2001 by Michael Boyle

that Ms. Champ is insane, you would only have to look at her site today (tomorrow it will doubtless be here). Everyone knows that the proper and more aesthetically pleasing method of installing a roll of toilet paper is to use the “paper elephant” method (loose end in front, resembling an elephant’s trunk) and not the “snail goes south” method (with the loose end towards the wall, resembling nothing as much as a snail). Harrumph indeed!