It’s not drastic, but I’m finally updating the design of the site to comply with web standards (hopefully). I think there are still a few minor bugs to be worked out, but I’m looking forward to squashing them. Mainly this is going to allow for easier additions and updates for me.

I received the official Grandma’s Marathon results magazine today in the mail, so I thought I’d post my official results.
Overall Place: 2083;
Division Place: 588;
Chip Time: 3:56:39;
Gun Time:3:58:45.
Definitely not as good as my time in 2002, but my training was not nearly sufficient. Next time… Hopefully I’ll get into the New York City Marathon next year.

A couple nights ago I was inspired to finally turn these two six-pack boxes into BoxBots. They’re two of the biggest ones I’ve made, at 22×28″ and 20×24″. I have no idea where I’m going to keep them.

Well, thanks to the unbelievable 14 inning, 5+ hour game between the Red Sox and the Yankees, I was able to do the Dos Equis XX flying bot in extra innings. The six-pack bottle holder seems to be a great inspiration. I think I’ll stick to it, with the benefit being a fat gut.

Game 6 was a shorter game, complete with cops on the field, and I was able to create this new Peroni bot during the 9 innings.

Not really sure what to say about this yet. Too late at night, or early in the morning. I’ll fill you in more when I figure out what will happen with this drawing.

According to WordCount, an interesting, though suspicious, project concerning the usage of English (British) words, ‘Jonathan’ (ranked 5′072nd) resides next to ‘unfortunate’ (5′073rd). Story of my life right?

An informal inquiry of hard-core porn on the internet.

Okay, so here’s my course of action:

I’m trying to find info on an upcoming performance at Elizabeth Dee Gallery, so I type ‘elizabethdee.com’ into the address field of my browser, Firefox. I get Elizabeth Dee’s Journey to Music City USA. Fair enough, so I click in the address field after ‘dee’ and inadvertently type ‘galllery’ and hit return. This sends me to XXX Mature Galllery. Yes, misspelled. I realize that Firefox on the Mac automatically selects all the text when you first click on the address field. I finally get it right by typing in ‘elizabethdeegallery.com’ and am at the gallery website.

After fumbling with the interface of Firefox (I think the select-all action is odd) and seeing the infinite closed loop that is XXX Mature Galllery, my brain is focused on ‘XXX’ and the address bar. I type ‘xxx’ into the address field and get…

xxx-lanl.arXiv.org e-Print archive mirror

I would have thought for sure the porn industry would have seized that domain ASAP. Huh. Mind you, Firefox does not change the address field to indicate that this is not ‘xxx.com’. It merely displays ‘xxx’ happily. I make that assumption myself, since that is how most browsers work (though as I’ll later find out, for good reason, Firefox does not). Not porn? Let’s try ‘x’: X.org Foundation. ‘xx’: Studio XX. It isn’t until I get to ‘xxxxxx’ that porn pops its head up (no pun intended).

That’s when I decide to compile a list of how far I can take the power of ‘x’ and create this informal survey. I start again from ‘x.com’. It shows a PayPal page. What happened to the X.org Foundation? Then I remember that Firefox uses keywords. Typing ‘x’ does not default to ‘x.com’ and therein lies the answer to my problem. Type in ‘xxx.com’ and you are rightly taken to porn. Thank God the industry kept abreast of that domain (pun intended).

So here are my informal results:

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Questions

Answers

1. What is your full name:

Jonathan Edward Keller

2. What color pants are you wearing now:

Dirty Carhartt Tan, just like every day.

3. What are you listening to right now:

The grey noise of my iBook, RadioK over the internet, my fingers flying.

4. What are the last 2 digits of your mobile phone number:

47

5. What was the last thing you ate:

An organic banana from FreshDirect

6. If you were a crayon what color would you be:

Coffee

7. How is the weather right now:

I haven’t been out since 9am. I know it’s dark. Let me check the internet… Fair, 62 degrees, feels like 62 degrees, calm wind.

8: Last person you talked to on the phone:

Lina Dib

9. The first thing you notice about the opposite sex:

Lately, what she’s reading.

10. Do you like the person who sent this to you:

Letters put into words do no justice.

11. How are you today:

Started out very nicely, gradually getting more and more bogged down in my own caffeinated solitude.

12. Favorite drink:

Green Machine or Superfood, depending on brand.

13. Favorite animal:

Anything ferocious

14. Favorite sport to watch:

Lately, NASCAR.

15. Hair color:

Dark brown, with one grey hair an inch above my hair line, over my right eye.

16. Eye color:

Depends on the day.

17. Siblings:

3; girl, boy, me, boy

18. What do you do for a living?

Wait until someone offers me money for work on the computer. I want to just be able to do whatever I want, and have someone support my effort. Please contact me if you are willing.

19. Favorite Months:

January, September/October

20. Where do you call home?

UWS, NYC

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