I am tired and don't want to write much, but I feel like I owe it to both of you who stumbled across the
site and were attracted back by my amazing grasp on the complex grammar rules of the English language.
Ultimately, there should be much much more about the Chinese students and my dealings with China, or even
just some of the humorous things that happened. 'Cause there's a lot. To do so, however, would require
the mental shuffling of memories, a task for which I am simply too tired. So, in it's stead, I offer
a rant, a follow-up on Katie's smile, some pansy introspection (I'm just not a touchy-feely person) and a
couple of bizarre me-related links.
First things first, allow me to rant about my last name. For those who don't know, it's Poush, although I'd
bet that there are far more people who know I'm called Poush but don't know my given name is Matthew.
The family history/legend is that all Poushes
in America descended from the same 4 brothers who came here from Germany during the Revolutionary War.
I have interacted with a few, all of whom have a family story involving four brothers. This doesn't
necessarily prove all the Poushes are related, but it lends some credence. The only other instance of Poush
that I'm aware is that it's the name of a holiday or month in India, so one of the few benefits of having a
relatively odd last name (that is, the ability to get one's own last name as a domain) is negated. So rather
than having a convenient address like poush.com so everyone in my family can have a seperate email addresses,
I have to simply accept the fact that my last name links to the web page of a proposed restaurant in India
that bears the phrase "UNDER CONSTRUCTION !!!" It hacks me off. Well, it expires next year.
Mean as it sounds, here's hoping that no one's interested in the restaurant and they let the domain go.
Okay. I officially retract my assessment of Katie's smile. Although I personally see an inkling of
resemblance in the smile, Katie has informed me (and I quote) "my face so does not look like that.
" Duly noted.
And yet, have I taken the joke too far? Jeez, this is why I could never have been Andy Kauffman.
Even as I'm making fun of people in a jovial and lighthearted manor, I am quite worried that I will end up
offending the very person I'm offending for the sake of comedy. But then again, I used to make up names
just to make the announcer at Olive Garden uncomfortable. I just have a hard time being overtly mean
while I make fun. Now that I've managed to convince this site's 4 or 5 readers that I'm a simpering girly
man, I hope that the point was made that I meant to not offend. It is important to note that Katie's smile
is much nicer than the Joker's. Plus her nose is way cuter.
Item! I did a google search on me and discovered a programming
language that I wrote in college with Chad and Brian. I apologize for the profanity; I fought against it
but ultimately lost out. Not that it's amazingly profane, but most every single line ends with a base,
vernacular term for a woman, serving as a homonym for a female dog. Just to warn you. The main page is
here.
Another item! Technically, this has nothing to do with me, but it may have to do with a relative (see above
rant). I found this page at the same time. It
amuses and frightens me, as it simply contains the phrase "Poush (Pronounced Powsh) is a sex object.
Poush has many friends and funny stories to share." This is creepy because I have many friends and
many stories, but I am far from a sex object. I am curious as to what made her pick Poush. Oddly enough,
she even managed to get the pronunciation right. I will follow up and report back later.
7/21/2002
What a day. Today I went boating on Red Rock with the Chinese and saw an incredible amount of sun (for
me at least) and got to go toobing. Then, I came back to Des Moines, and hung out with Heule and Katie
and Alan and stuff. It was fun. More swiming and stuff, but this time at some beach in Polk City. And
we watched Ronin.
A note on Katie's smile. It defies human anatomy. Okay. Do this. Smile as wide as you can. Keep smiling.
Now put your finger at the edge of your lips. This is where her lips end. Now move your finger a quarter of
an inch further out. That where her smile ends. Now move your finger another half of an inch out. This is
where the crease of her smile ends. Check the image on the side for clarification.
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Actually, there's more to write, but Alan is spending the night, and although it's 2 in the morning, we're off
to Perkin's to eat. But here's a thought to ponder before then: How do you describe mustard to someone who has
never had mustard?
7/18/2002
I really didn't like the sample that I provided in the last entry. I just didn't look good. But the
new one does look good, largely because it's based on OS X's Aqua look and feel, so it's really only
a matter of time before Apple tells me to knock it off. Anyway, you should see the page if for no other
reason than because I spent hours working on the images so it actually looks right. Not that it looks right
under IE 5, because they don't recognize the "height" parameter of table cells. Stupid gits.
View it here.
7/8/2002
I made a sample of the page. View it here. Do so now!
7/7/2002
This past weekend, Ryan and I took a
road trip to Illinois to visit Heidi and her family for a festival that defies
description. The individual subcultures represented were almost unfathomable. You
have the aging bikers, the small children, the local youth group, the greasers, the drunks,
the ravers, the punk rawkers, a bunch of inflatable buildings, insane amounts of meat, and
a feeling of happy community. I spent the night on the floor of the inflatable bounce
room. It's a lot like a waterbed. For like 8 people.
Various events have transpired causing me to decide to purchase www.ieatpaint.com.
The largest factor deals with the fact that, while at Heidi's 4th of July celebration/graduation
party/fireworks display/outdoor festival/family reunion/neighboorhood get-together thing,
Heidi's sister volunteered to eat paint for me. And let me take pictures of it. Actually,
Heidi took the pictures. I just put the paint on her lips and teeth and directed her.
I painted her mouth approximately 11 hours ago, and I'm still in shock.
This brings me to the other thing. I changed the layout of the page. That's right,
it is turning into a full-blown blog. You can't see it yet, because it's not done, but
it looks a heck of a lot like Things I Hate, and the main address will be www.ieatpaint.com
and will feature Katie eating paint. Sugar and Fat will pull up the same information,
although it's possible that it will do that via a different colour scheme. This way,
multiple-paragraph entries (such as this one), won't confuse you into thinking that this is
multiple postings.
The end punchline is this: I don't have an ip yet, and I'm having a number of problems with
my web server. I have a template layout in html, split up into a header, a side bar, and the
main article, and then I'm automatically generating pages using PHP. Unfortunately, PHP doesn't
work yet on my machine. This means that I can't automatically generate the pages the way that
I want to; I have to generate them by hand. Which is retarded. So, I'm going to start breaking
the entries of this page into individual data files, so that once I get PHP and my web server
working and I get an ip, it will be ready to go. Maybe I'll create a sample page using
this entry. Maybe. Then again it's quarter past midnight, and I'm beat.
7/4/2002
I was going to completely change the format of the site, but I decided
not to. It's 3 in the morning, and technically the 4th of July. Grr. I
wanted to seperate everything into pages, and then have an archive, a la
thingsihate.org. Also, this
color scheme must go. White on black? It occurs to me that I probably
look like a random goth site. Not that I get much traffic anyway, and
most of it consists of mildly interested people following the link from
Sugar and Fat. Which reminds me. I registered the domain name www.sugarandfat.com. I'm sure
you're thinking, "Boy, that sounds stupid. Sugar and Fat." I bet you
didn't even try saying it out loud. Go ahead, try. Unless you're at work
or in the library or some other place where people can hear you, there's
no reason to not try. Say it. Sugar and Fat. Sugar and Fat. It just
rolls right out. Once that hard g gets produced, it's the sort of glottal
smooth sailing that the Germans can only dream about.
Wow, check me out. This post runs unto a second paragraph. I've never done
that before, but I hope that I will in the future. Which brings me back
to the subject of the design of this site. If it was laid out like thingsihate,
you would just have the text there. But no forum underneath discussing things.
If you want to write a comment about something on here, I'm a highly reachable
person. I regularly check my email, I'm
almost always logged into AIM, and darn near everyone who
knows me personally should know (or have easy access to) my cell number.
Thoughts or suggestions on page design? Mail
Me. First thing to do, however, is to fix the page displays, and that
little horizontal rule between entries. And make a seperate about and
contact pages. Hopefully, updating this page will be a regular thing.
I'll never have the fan base of
Something Awful, but it would be nice if there were incentive for friends
to peep my page. Once I start serving off of my G4 rather than having this
hosted by Apple, I think it will be much faster and easier to maintain.
Here's hoping.
7/1/2002
My latest passion so far is domain names. I love them. I know of people
who try random phrases and see what they come up with. I tried this, and
I'm amazed at the number of high quality names that haven't been taken.
www.ieatpaint.com for example. Who doesn't, my friend? I have an image
that goes along with this. See it here.
I spent some time chatting with the A.L.I.C.E. bot. I asked
her if we could be friends, and she decided it would be okay, as long as we
were careful about our friendship.
Fun with translation
I get nostalgic with YA fiction
My senior capstone
My report on the Golden Ratio
The rough draft version of my report on the
Golden Ratio
Our search for the Corn Maze
I made a little movie.
In case you are interested or something,
here is my day-to-day schedule.
If you're interested in Seti@home,
here are the stats for family. MikeP is on a ghetto Mac and doesn't
feel like upgrading.
I got me a geek code. How about that.
I just got an email from Apple telling me if I preregister, I can have a copy of OS X final for only $99.
Like I have that kind of money lying around. Sheesh.
The current look. Regarding the Independent Truck
Co/Pepsi confusion, it's comforting to know that someone visits the page. Thanks, Liza.
Here
is the model I am sporting. My mother won't let me wear it when I go home.
What does it to do the hair?
Bad things.
More for me than anyone else, here are the gaps for Tony Hawk's Pro
Skater 2.
Links. That's right. A way out.
My Generic Wish list
A couple of pictures of Mike and
Me. Actually, we took a lot of pictures.
For those of you behind Drake's firewall (and if Apollo is running FreeBSD
instead of OS 9), here is the home page
that's hosted on my G4 (OS X, baby!).
I'm not Canadian (yet).
Mr T says: Send the man some email, sucka!
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