April 2004

Would somebody please make The White Stripes go away now? They were supposed to be one-hit-wonders, but they’re still around, and they’re annoying the hell out of me.

If you’ve been watching Blogdex over the last few months, you’ve probably noticed that one person always seems to be ranked very highly. “Hot Abercrombie Chick”, aka Amanda Doerty.

However, according to overstated.net:

Just received an inside tip that the recently famous Hot Abercrombie Chick is really a male college student capitalizing on cute pictures of his girlfriend (previously unbeknownst to her) in a rush of “beggars” trackbacks. In retrospect, it’s pretty obvious that he is quite the player. Over the course of the last couple of months, “Mr. Abercrombie” has played every text-book trick for raising his popularity on the blogosphere.

Hah! I knew it. She was too good to be true. And nobody that hot sits in front of a computer doing nothing but commenting (often tastefully and correctly) on other peoples blogs.

And some people seem to be trying to fight back…

Update: Aw, what the hell. I’ll join the blogdex slam campaign against her: Comment Spamming Bitch Riding High On Blogdex!

The UofM Sailing Team was featured in the “Sports Monday” edition of todays Michigan Daily:

You may have seen him at the last Festifall. No, it wasn’t the guy with the Michigan crew shirt on, holding up a huge oar and a sign saying, “Big, strong athletes wanted here.” It was the other guy. The one with the 5-foot sailing boom — quite a bit smaller than a crew oar — and a sign reading, “Small athlete? Try Michigan Sailing.” This was the tactic of fifth-year senior Craig Capilla, along with other members of the Michigan sailing team, used last September to reel in new recruits.

Yeah. Craig kicks ass.

Clay Wood, an alumni from Eta Kappa Nu, was cool enough to hook me (and a bunch of other Michigan EECS kids) up with invitations to Google’s new (and controversial) “GMail” service.

As an experiment, I’ll be forwarding all my mail there and be using it as my primary email client. I’ll blog about my experience for those people that haven’t been lucky enough to get an account. Note the new “GMail” category on the right.

So far, it looks very cool.

It was a beautiful day in Ann Arbor so I brought my D100 with me on the way to the library.