My newest review is up. I have another submitted, and another product that will be mailed off next week. This is paying my bills. Seeing this page, I understand why they love me so much. Look at the rest of these reviews. Yaaaaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwwwn. Call me egotistical, but I'm right. They fucked with my wording, very much for the worse. "The binary code analyzer is a plug-and-play 1U Dell box." This binary code analyzer, would have sounded better. Whatever. They pay the damn bills.

I solidified a story with Wired yesterday. i don't have a contract yet, but I am assured that my piece will have a spot in the... November issue, I believe. It's on the WCG in October. This bit should hit the stands at the same time as the event. Wired has a psychotic 3 month lead time. that is rediculous! esspecially for a magazine that claims to be on the cutting edge. Three months is an absolute eternity on the Internet. But the rag is still performing.

I remember reading or hearing someone purport that magazines should have expiration dates. I think this is quite true. time and newsweek both need to exppire, post haste. But something like the Economist should be good for another 20 or 30 years. Wired magazine is likely ccoming to the end of its cycle. the content is still good, but the space in which it resides is becoming increasingly narrow. I think, perhaps, a rebirth is in order. Wired can't possibly hold out in its current space as the Cosmopolitan of digital trends. The Wired curse has pattered out, though Peter Jackson could fall apart at any time, ya never know.

A lot of magazines really do have curses associated with them. At CGW the running gag was that any game put on the cover before it was 50% done would suck upon release. Of course, PC Gamer says they have one of these too. The idea of a magazine curse does appeal to my sense of how powerful magazines really are, but in my heart of hearts I know they really have none.

I think the curse idea comes more from the fact that the dudes written about read the articles, admire themselves, love themselves, and go home early every day leaving their jobs undone.

V's dad is coming tonight. i was hoping he'd get here before 3 so we could go to the pick and pull and get a new right rear small window for my car. A new one costs $225. A windshield, however, costs $160. What the shit is this?!

Freakin crackhead's doorknob is $225. Fuck that shizzle. Chris has been bugging me to cut some lexan into the right shape, but I don't think that's ever gonna happen.