I found this spider in my room last night. It creeped me out. At first, I thought I was just imagining it when I saw something black scurry alongside my sneaker. Then I left my bedroom, came back, and saw it run into an open space.

This thing was a monster—relatively speaking. From the tip of its front leg to the tip of its rear leg was about one inch. Plus, it was furry, black, and gross.

So, I did what any self–respecting person would do: trapped it under a bowl. After all, I needed to have photographic evidence when I told this story to friends. I still fear for the safety of the bowl, however.

Shortly after taking some photos, I stuck a sheet of glossy photo paper underneath the bowl and transported it to a local toilet where I flushed the beast.

Yesterday, I had the unfortunate luck of venturing into Victoria’s Secret. Every trip inside that store is horrible. As I told my friend, I feel like a bad person for looking at women’s underwear, especially when it’s not being worn.

For some reason, women like to have witty phrases on their panties (I hate that word). Victoria’s Secret realized this and thus put a poop joke on the rear of an otherwise cute article of underwear.

Wishing you many happy journeys from the Grand Escape Lodge this holiday season!

I finally took some time to update all my old websites. Before I updated the sites, they were loaded with old, flawed PHP that ran on PHP 4 but failed on PHP 5. They also had many broken links and incorrect URLs because I merely copied their folders in their original states to their current locations on the server.

Now, the sites look much less embarrassing (you can see the list of archived websites at the bottom of the artwork column). The only sites that aren’t in their original conditions are icorey 4 and icorey 6. Icorey 4 was written when I was still learning CSS/web design, so it looked great in IE but not so much in Firefox. Icorey 6 only lacks most of its content (an easy fix).

I suggest you check out the legacy sites layouts. They include almost every website I’ve made (with the exceptions of the two horse–themed websites and my pre–div sites).

The new icorey is online. Yay.

If you’re reading this at my website, look to the left of this box to see links to different stylesheets that turn icorey all sorts of different colors. Also, if the text is too small, enlarge the text via your browser (Ctrl = in Firefox).

Icorey wasn’t designed for monitors smaller than WXGA, so things might not look very spectacular if you’re in that relatively small monitor by today’s standards category. Thus, I’m looking to make stylesheets for icorey more suited to smaller browsers.

That’s about it. Enjoy.

Last year I went home every weekend from the Rochester Institute of Technology and that became an issue with a few of my friends. So, I decided to compile a list of reasons explaining why I hate being on–campus.

Why I hate being on–campus:

• I do not have a motor vehicle. Thus, I can never leave RIT except on weekends when I do leave. Two of my roommates—my roommates are great, BTW—have cars but I want to be able to leave whenever I want to without depending on anyone. Plus, it’s very depressing going between only my office, classes, and my apartment (I go to Java Wally’s and the SLC but that doesn’t make up for not being able to leave campus).
• There’s no roller hockey in Rochester—the closest rink is 30 minutes away and there are games there only one night per week (Sundays, eww).
• The Buffalo Sabres play home games only in Buffalo.
• My entire family is in Buffalo.
• My amazing dogs are in Buffalo.
• RIT is depressing.
• I’ll do what I damn–well want to.
• The hamster is driving me nuts.

So if you still feel I’m stupid for going home every weekend, then you suck.