1/6/2007
Site's skeleton is created and uploaded for the first time! This went on late into the night so it was really uploaded 1/7/2007, but ah well! Yay, pilot launch of Dry Ice! Obviously there will be much more to come as the site gets older.
1/7/2007
Moved back to UCSB. I am sure you are all riveted. Planning out the site has given me much more insight into the dates. For example, did you know January has 31 days? I never bothered to remember this fact, that's what calendars are for. But now I will always know. . .
1/10/2007
Oh man, yesterday I had garlic pasta, and it was so good. However today my breath smells distinctly of garlic no matter how many times I brush! Good going, right before a job meeting too. Has this happened to you before? I am sure it has. Unless you are a vampire, because they find it hard to get jobs. HR has found that coworkers trust vampires less than humans. Go figure.
1/11/2007
Calendars. . . That reminds me, there’s a proposed new calendar; it’s cool because it would be the same every year! I support it. There! I think that’s my first endorsement negative or positive on the blog. My only complaint is that Valentine’s Day would forever be on a Monday; probably the most unromantic day of the week. Although it would be a good excuse to ditch work or school or blogging or whatever.
I have another suggestion: that a secular holiday be made right around Christmas. As a freethinker ally*clarification: a Christian who does not hate athiests* I believe that atheists should have their own gift-exchange holiday, because technically they shouldn’t be celebrating Christmas. It’s kind of like the feminist who wants equality but who thinks the guy should pay for dinner.
Wow, 2 bold opinions in the same day. I think I’ll stop while I’m ahead.
1/14/2007
I am pleased to have gotten my legal and my contact info up. It’s on the About page, if you wanted to know. Although, I am sure not that many people are reading this right now because it’s still new. Perhaps you are from the future reading my old, archived blogs. If so, you have way too much time on your hands! Please, go do something productive.
1/17/2007
Whoops, got 1 day behind on the comics. Hopefully this doesn't happen too much. If I knew how to automate the update process, believe me I would. For now, you will just have to wait it out, internet. Anyway, I am excited because . . . well, I guess no reason. I had yogurt today? Perhaps that is it. Life is in the little pleasures. Great accomplishments pay off tons, but a bunch of little ones are more rewarding over time, I think.
1/18/07
Whew, I am writing this at 8 in the morning. I’ve been up working on another site, so I decided to take a take a break by. . . working on the blog for this site, haha! I discovered that you internet savvy could view future comics if you thought about it and I have fixed that. How did I think of this? I was in notpron mode. Finding the next comic was like lower than notpron level 5. You don’t know of notpron, you say? It’s the best internet/ rl riddle ever. Check it out here http://deathball.net/notpron/. It will consume several months of your life.
1/25/07
Oh blog, how I have failed you. I thought of the coolest thing earlier today and now I cannot remember it. It was like, oh, man, I am going to blog about this one. Well, I guess I will blog about forgetfulness. People are forgetful, did you know that? The thing is, if you forget something, are you still the same person? Think of some recent event. You will forget it. It will be like it never happened. Isn’t that creepy? It’s like that event never even happened. It’s not just erased, it’s like it never happened because you don’t realize it’s been erased. Scary! News update: I’ve moved the today’s comic to the index page. Google doesn’t like my site anyway as it is, so I figured why keep the secondary page? Congratulations, you have witnessed the first Dry Ice major overhaul.
1/28/07
Southern California, oh how nice your weather is. I am looking outside and thinking, man, it’s nasty weather outside. But, when I think about it, it’s the middle of winter and there’s a few showers on and off, that’s it. I imagine the rest of the country must be jealous with rage shouting at their monitors that I live in the best climate possible. Which makes me think, if there were a plant with a similar environment to Earth, but a circular orbit around it’s star, would people prefer living there or on Earth? The other plant would have no seasons, it would be perpetually in your preferred climate, depending on where you choose to live on the planet. However, would people miss the changes in season? I wager they’d be thrilled at first but soon pine for the cyclic seasons. They’d miss the birth and renewal, the system that makes the new year meaningful, and just for something different. Maybe people with SAD would all live there, but everyone else would move away after awhile. Then the people with SAD would become lonely. Poor SAD people, you just can’t win.
1/29/07
Hey, that reminds me, if you like notpron and you live in the Santa Barbara vicinity as I do, you will probably also like Graham Talley’s treasure hunts. Check it out at: Whim Hunts. They are cool because unlike notpron they are in real-life, and you get to walk around which is something some internet people tend to have forgotten about (You mean you stick one foot in front of the other? Ohhhh . . .). The only thing I dislike is sticking to a schedule. Solve this part of the riddle by this time to get the next clue. I prefer solving my riddles when I feel like it, not when The Man tells me to. Who ever thought Graham Talley would become The Man? Well, I am here to stick it to The Man. With free publicity. That’ll show Him.