You know that you've achieved serious bachelorhood when you have an empty pizza box in the garbage, an empty pizza box in the fridge, and a soon to be empty pizza box on its way. It reminds me of my friends who would run out of toilet paper and paper towels -- it left little to explain when you saw a stack of coffee filters in the bathroom. Man, what's the cost-per-wipe on that?

The title of this post is a thought that kept popping in my head while designing my site this past weekend. Our technical progress has made it possible to identify good bars and restaurants by their lack of neon (unless, of course they are beer signs). I mean, check out these hands:

I spent forever adjusting the height of each of them -- shifting them one pixel one way or the other. What's funny is that nobody has sent me an email remarking how well the hands are aligned on my homepage.

I remember taking this video/film class where one assignment was to film an autobiographical piece. I spent hours finding all the cool CDs, clothes, and other objects that I could find in the house. I put those in my video -- made it real sleek and polished. During the class presentation, 98% (or other meaningless high statistical percentage) of the videos were interchangeable with mine. Crap. Then this one dude -- his video gave design zero consideration, but it was drooling with content, a completely horrific, but wonderful essay of who he was. Fuck all this Shash and Flockwave, give me Gopher or Lynx: my sandwich board don't have no neon lights.

Anyway, the strikethrough words on the tqed.com homepage are links that are coming soon. The strikethrough was supposed to imply not-active but what it really did was turn the links into a virtual cookie jar (funny how design and reality often fuse into irony). So, feel free to click and satisfy the cookie jar urge (I click on them too, for whatever dysfunctional reason. I know they aren't going anywhere). Links that don't go anywhere are stupid anyway. They shouldn't be there -- I just needed some words to give the page balance. It's back to that damn design thing. Someone please tell me design has some merit in the aesthetic game.

One more thing -- the mp3 for SOTW volume 5 has incorrect information inside the file (it's labeled as Queen). I'd fix it, but for once I'm going to neglect my pixel fidgeting behavior.

While waiting for life that sucks to die, why not listen to my favorite unsigned bands: TQ's Garage Band Playlist.