Crushing Krisis

Comic Books, Drag Race, & Life in New Zealand

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I’m always very intrigued by all sorts of interesting webrings like Domain-ated and Need, but when i look at them i realize that i’m not entirely too interested in lumping myself in with such a group of people. Also, i refuse to use WebRing.org sing Yahoo bought it, which is the same reason i left Geocities around this time last year. I was hoping that Yahoo would be able to seamlessly integrate each site that it absorbed, but as it is it just gets harder and harder to reconcile your well thought out user names and passwords as Yahoo adds site after site to their network. And, frankly, they don’t offer a single service that i can’t find a better version of elsewhere. So there!

https://crushingkrisis.com/2000/11/1335492/

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I’ve put myself in a weird place by offering hosting on my main page without any sort of qualifier about who i would or could host. So far i am hosting a handful of IllegalOp staff members, since their site collapsed under it’s own weight, plus my roommate matt, and courtney (a good internet pal of mine for quite a while now). In Courtney’s case, i knew her site was amazing so i practically recruited her for hosting. This week i also offered to host Stephanie from NewWorldCoffee so that she could put together a respectable digital portfolio. So, the pattern is that i host friends and nice sites. But, what about random people? I want to host quality content, good looking pages, and savvy webmasters. So far i’ve had a couple of requests from people with no website, and i had to turn them away. However, i just got a request from here, and i’m not entirely sure what to do. Obviously my first order of business needs to be putting up a hosting info page so i don’t get so many random requests, but i’m not sure if i should invite him to UpRush.org or not. any thoughts?

https://crushingkrisis.com/2000/11/1335307/

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I am way too non-resistant to change. For example, just now i washed my hands over the bathtub and then brushed my teeth there without even the slightest hesitation. Was i upset that i couldn’t do this over the sink? Nope, not at all. I have a sad sad habit of just working around such small inconveniences, pretending that they don’t matter at all. Of course, in the end i’m just living in a world of crap and looking like an idiot. The best example of this is the D-string tuner on my guitar, which has been broken for well over a year. I had just replaced all the tuners on my guitar when it broke, so i wasn’t in the mood to tear my instrument apart to fix it. Fast forward a year and a half, and now i have to bring a pliers with me to guitar ensemble so that i can tune the D-string of my guitar. It’s pathetic. I think mother and i have agreed that i’m getting a nice acoustic guitar for christmas so that i don’t look like such an idiot. As if that’s gonna help…

https://crushingkrisis.com/2000/11/1335254/

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Well, i was just almost implicated in a minor felony after the fact, but that’s what i get for not leaving the apartment until past midnite. As a rule of thumb, you should never leave after or get back before midnite. Totally. Anyhow, i’m supposed to be in the studio in under 12 hours (not that i’m expected to perform with any semblance of quality) to work on my project, so i should probably go to bed. And try to remember not to brush my teeth tomorrow unless it’s in the shower or in the kitchen. Oh boy, shaping up to be a great weekend…

https://crushingkrisis.com/2000/11/1333054/

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By far, this is my favourite ballot tampering story so far. Honestly, i think we’re all already sick of the whole election BS, because it’s turned into some more of the same exhausting partisan politics. Personally, i just think the situation in Florida seems hugely unlawful and i want to see it resolved, especially because it obviously has a very direct bearing on who becomes our next president. But, really, this is just the direction our country seems to be sliding towards. Was the vote so close because the candidates are nearly the same, or because they truly polarized the nation? I think it’s a bit of both… with Bush and Gore being similar enough that the unconcerned just vote partisan, while the more savvy use their own personal set of litmus tests to figure out which candidate they should vote for.

https://crushingkrisis.com/2000/11/1332201/