Reddit, dammit

7:00pm: Okay, so my home PC won't load reddit. That's cool. I don't need to know what's new online, I mean, I can just read fark and learn about boobies.

Seriously, though, I'm getting kinda pissed off... I've done everything I know how to do, including a reinstall of NAV, and a repair install of XP (which is probably my main problem). Last night, I was thinking about partitioning my hard drive and installing Ubuntu, but The Big Bang Theory was on.

...uhm... I think I just crossed the geek line.

10:30pm: Called Cox. After talking to very helpful customer-service-guy for about half an hour, was able to load reddit in safe mode with wireless router disabled (luckily had extra 50ft ethernet cord in storage closet!). Will have to call Linksys tomorrow. Am wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy over geek line.

Nostalgia

It's fun to reminisce. The other day, I found myself noticing trends in side bangs (most girls sweep them to the right, not the left) and that got me to thinking about how kids' hairstyles have changed since I was their age. When I was 13, all the boys had some variant of the bowl cut -- most parted it down the center, though. Oh, and they all wore JNCO pants. JNCOs were the shit.

Then I started thinking about how technology has changed. When I was 16, you were cool if you had a pager... if you had one today, people would probably think you had something to sell. And we all had geocities pages back then (I think mine might have been in Tokyo, because I read an awful lot of Sailor Moon in 7th grade -- feel free to laugh). What ever happened to geocities? I guess people got sick of the watermark.

Anyway, AIM has amazingly survived. I still use it, although now I often log in from my phone. And the idiocy I once endured on ICQ is now the idiocy I endure on... well, anywhere people leave comments. Which is everywhere.

The reason I logged on to the internet back then is the same reason I log on now, though. There aren't a whole lot of people like me roaming around Arizona, so I figure there might be some people whose interests I share online. I've always conceived of the internet as some sort of John Donne-esque entity, so someday, I suppose, I'll find some people to share my little corner of the world with.