I know this news is a couple of days old now, and that I’m obliged to go into a little more detail, but nancies.org won the "Coolest Fan Web Site" award, and quite handily, at that. I just got back from L.A. a couple of hours ago, but I’m still a little dazed. Thanks to …
Author Archives: Waldo Jaquith
Going to L.A.
Wow — things happen quick. After hounding VH1 for weeks and weeks, they finally got back to me. They’re sending one person from nancies.org out to L.A., all expenses paid. We took a straw poll on nancies.org, didn’t really come to a great conclusion, but John called me today and said, essentially, “you should go …
Lame domain name hoax.
We got one of these faxed to our building today. It’s from a company calling themselves "Electronic Domain Name Monitoring." It’s pretty much your basic domain-name scam. They claim that somebody’s trying to register your domain name (not possible, of course), and that they’ll "protect" it, for a fee. I’m not going to waste my …
I’d like to befriend the undertakers.
Between my apartment and my office is a funeral home. There’s a funeral in progress easily half of the time that I walk by. The place appears to be staffed entirely by old men. Each of them, as best I can tell, owns just one suit. (Perhaps they have a closetful of identical suits?) They’re …
Rich Mackin is good for you.
I know this is weird, but friend-of-a-friend Rich Mackin appeared on page A3 of the Washington Post on Sunday, and it reminded me that I should look at his website, which I’ve never seen, but I’m told that I should look at. Well, I should have. Years ago. You will be a happier person if …
Smoky day.
There are big fires up in the mountains. It seemed really murky and oppressive downtown this evening. It hasn’t rained in something like 40 days now. I finally managed to connect the three a few minutes ago. Outside, it smells like a campfire and makes my contact lenses uncomfortable. It so strange to have an …
CPHack mirror back up.
I’ve restored my mirror of "The Breaking of Cyber Patrol," as has Lindsay. Bennett should be doing the same before long. This is partly in thanks to the DMCA modifications, as questionable as they might be. They’re definitely good for the CPHack case. It doesn’t appear that Mattel / JSB has a leg to stand …
If you love me, you’ll vote for me.
So we did it. The nancies.org team actually made the final cut, and we’re on the final nomination list in the “Coolest Fan Web Site” category on the VH1 My Music Awards. Presumably, if we win, we get to stand up in The Shrine Auditorium in L.A. and give a little speech or something. The …
Going hikin’.
Amber & I are leaving shortly to do a little hiking in the Shenandoah National Park. I was going to take this weekend to try and hike the length of the park in 3 days, but various forces (this nasty cough not the least of them) have conspired to make me do that in a …
Gotta go to Romania.
A while ago I wrote about some articles about me that I’d found in Romanian publications. As they were in Romanian, I couldn’t really tell what they were saying. A couple of months ago, a Romanian fellow named Vasi was kind enough to provide a translation of the two articles. Here’s what he wrote about …