At least he finally took the clock down

Cliff Johnson sez on his website, "The last few weeks have not gone as smoothly as I had hoped. In fact, I’m encountering memory problems that paralyze the game and me along with it. Unfortunately, this is not proving to be a trivial matter. Therefore I’ve decided to remove the countdown clock and roll up my sleeves and pull out whatever hair I have left. Positive thoughts are always appreciated."

Yipes! Good luck, man

I wonder if I should mail him and suggest that he just ship what he has, if it works 95 percent of the time, and release free patches when they're ready. Being an indie software publisher's great, but sometimes there may be value in following the big publishers' typical release patterns...

One Got Fat

If you're like me and you like nothing better than to watch horrible monkey-children being smashed by cars in mid-1960s educational films, then do I have a treat for you.

Vvt vvt vvt vvt

I succeeded in fetching Ricky's parcel this morning. It's corduroy pants. Are these allowed? I don't think I've worn corduroy pants since 1984.

Now that I look again I see they're a couple of inches too short on the inseam so I guess I can beg off for that reason. I shall pass em along and make someone less picky happy, I think.

I love getting stuff from him anyway, even if I don't always keep it. Reading my "ricky" tag, I see I still owe him that PKD book. Whoops, gotta get on that.

QuickPost

One day after they stopped accepting new QuickPost deliveries, UPS's webpage for tracking the envelopes stopped returning useful information. Two days later, it now returns only internal error messages. It's as if desperate UPS tribesmen, sensing doom, looted the joint at midnight on Nov. 30, and it's been standing blasted and empty since. Every so often another broken shelf crashes into the basement.

Because, you know, there's no chance that there are were still pending deliveries in the system when they stopped accepting new ones.

Customer-hating assholes. If I ever have a clear choice later between UPS and other carriers, I know what I'll be doing.

Something like $1,000 of my money is still unspoken for, so going to try phoning people now. I've actually been having a pretty good day. Been knocking a lot of pins down on on volity.biz, actually. More later.

Edit Ha ha ha! According to NetBank's website, they're refusing to even open QuickPost envelopes received after Nov. 30. Jesus Christ, what happened between those guys? Sounds messy. But the thing is, I didn't bother taking a receipt when I dropped the envelope off at the UPS store last week, so nobody has any proof beyond my word that I totally did send it off in time.

I just wasted 15 minutes of my life on hold at NetBank; I'll try again later tonight. I have a feeling that this isn't going to go anywhere except straight up my ass, though. Bloop

Two months after getting started at ITA and I'll probably have to take another $1,000+ loan from the credit card again just to make rent. Un fuckin believable.

I may be having some troubles workin this contractor thingy, my friends. I don't know.

At least I'm B.A.

Now I know what my group's intern was working on two years ago. Found while ego-surfing myself in Google Images. How the heck did this page get found by Google? Oh well.