Domains are really easy to buy and thrilling to own.  Calling “suburbanadventure.com” my own or the surfeit of ones tied to Scouting makes me feel like I’ve done something regarding a project even though I haven’t and switching hosts has kicked me into reviewing the domains I own and seeing if I really need them.

  • superhappyfunkitten9000.com – Came up during a TF2 game whose context I can’t event remember, dropped.
  • Terryrobinson.org – Maybe one day I’ll die and start a foundation, kept.
  • Scoutstockimages.com – Most Scouting events are promoted with clip art or crappy pictures.  I thought it would be useful to have a place to store stock art.  I never got the momentum behind it that I wanted as fewer people than I thought refuse to release their pictures under any sort of copyleft license.  Dropped.
  • Teamfortresscountryclub.com – There was a brief period of time where I was thinking of starting a TF2 team where one’d have to be 25, have a kid, or a college diploma to join.  I still think there’s a market for such a thing, it’s simply unlikely that I’ll ever be the founder.
  • Hothotsluts.com - Purchased during this incident.  I thought to drop it but it’s just too good a conversation piece.  That address now redirects to an old copy of my webpage.

My dad asked me to help him find a truck part online and we combined the skills of wading through PDFs, refining search results, and eschewing high shipping to get a price much lower than the manufacturer.  Next he asked me “where can I find used stuff online?”  So we turned to Craigslist and his skills honed from cracking open the “Penny Trader” and “Trade ‘n’ Times” for two decades came back.

“This guy isn’t legit, his photo’s from the Summit Racing Catalog”
“This guy says it’s his garage but based on the address I’m pretty sure it’s a parts dealer in Jersey City”
“This chick only has this stuff because she’s selling her husband’s stuff or because he died.  The stuff will be cheap but she has no idea  what she has”

Me: You’ve taken to this quickly.  How about we look for a used fridge to replace ours with?
Him: I will never own a used refrigerator.

Damn.

I’ve done the OSR Leader Guide for the last five years and each year the criticism grows subtler and more ridiculous:

2006: Please add text.  Pictures of the master schedule and of Scouts doing activities are nice but actual text would take a lot of the guess work out. (Fake)
2007: Please drop the frames.  It makes navigation difficult sometimes and hard to send people links.
2008: Please make the master schedule clickable, so someone can click on a department and go straight to that department’s schedule.
2009: Please add option for on-the-fly printing of each page. The printable versions aren’t always updated.
2010: Please replace all sans serif fonts with serif fonts to make viewing easier in the printed version.

I can’t think of another case where someone was so willing to inconvenience everyone else and harm their viewing experience so he could improve his printing experience.  People like this should replace magicians as the inhabitants of the 7th bolgia of Dante’s Inferno.

My brother’s moving out soonish and will migrate from my fat fiber pipe to “borrowing”  his neighbor’s DSL connection through flaws in WEP encryption.  He’s been torrenting like crazy so my daily ritual has been: come home, feed animals, turn on computer, play TF2, die because I have a ping of 300, turn off brother’s pr()n downloads, die because I suck despite having a ping of 47.  I decided to peek at what I was turning off.  Was it Dirty Nurses 17 or San Fernando Jones and the Temple of Poon? No.  Adobe Creative Suite 4? No.  Victory at Sea for my dad?  No.  It was the special features from the Thundercats DVD.  Really?  He’s officially gone from  “I should be safe and download all the optional updates for Windows XP” to “I must save Internet so man may have it after Ragnarok”.

If he starts downloading either back seasons of Doctor Who or Norton Internet Security 2007, I think I could get a Cease and Desist order for him abusing the Internet when coupled with his unabashed usage of Opera.

A gentlemen at camp liked what we were doing and purchased us some wireless N stuff so the staff could do work in more places.  The problem has been that the DNS service we use is not acting correctly eliciting the following:

Joe: Terry, you can access facebook, are the dominican monks that guard the Internet on strike?
Me: The DNS service isn’t working, you could go to hothotsluts.com without being stopped.
Joe: Really? *wait* Damn, hothotsluts.com doesn’t exist.  It should.
Me: Hold on… I now own hothotsluts.com.

So, I’m now the proud owner of hothotsluts.com, I’m not sure where I should direct it.  In other news, we discovered that hotsluts.com does indeed exist and with a byline “sluttier than you could ever imagine” I don’t know how they’re not #1 on the slut charts.

WiFi access is now available at Totem Lodge for Leaders and Staffers that sign on to our licensing agreement.  Some leaders like it, really like it.  Today I realized how this changed the camp dynamic when I received this email:

Hi Terry,

What time is BSA Kayaking?

Thanks, (leader name)

That may seem unspectacular except that the leader was in camp, in Totem, next to a phone, surrounded by staff, and I was emailed the question.

I lost the login to my Wikipedia account and couldn’t really remember the name so I had to start over on wikipedia as terry.r.robinson, I made my first edit and cried at the first edit I had to make.  I had to remove the following from the Rick Astley page.

Trivia

  • He’ll never give you up.
  • He’ll never let you down.
  • He’ll never run around and desert you.
  • He’ll never make you cry.
  • He’ll never say goodbye.
  • He’ll never tell a lie and hurt you.

May the Internet forgive me.

I lost the login to my Wikipedia account and couldn’t really remember the name so I had to start over on wikipedia as terry.r.robinson, I made my first edit and cried at the first edit I had to make.  I had to remove the following from the Rick Astley page.

Trivia

  • He’ll never give you up.
  • He’ll never let you down.
  • He’ll never run around and desert you.
  • He’ll never make you cry.
  • He’ll never say goodbye.
  • He’ll never tell a lie and hurt you.

May the Internet forgive me.