Joe "Catfish" Provo's Web Site

bodies may be made of fire, but souls are made of ice

-the Cure


Every page on the net is "under construction". These pages are "under mutation"; they change every time they are visited, barring a few nescessary constants. If you're lazy enough to stay here fifteen minutes and your browser supports META tags, we'll reload the page for you.

Service offer: send me unsolicited, "bulk" (commercial or non) email, and I'll proof it for 50 dollars a line! See here for more info on my valuable offer!

If you want to be blackholed at the gweep.net mail server, thou vain fen-sucked puttock, send mail to my old flame-bucket or to an old address. If you don't like something about these pages, or wish to correlate address scraping thou fobbing dismal-dreaming maggot-pie, send mail to my current flame-bucket. If you like something about these pages, send mail to web-comment where scraped appears in the mailto link.

I believe the mistake with greatest affect on the 'net was during the Great Renaming, when USENet's garbage was filed under "A". Did no-one think that news readers would sort alphabetically? This has caused newbie- (& press-) confusion on the nature and purpose of the 'net.(pre-http that is)

Little-known Joe Fact Number Two-Hundred and Seventy-Five:
He is a Charter Member of the Planetary Society. Yes, I was a geek/visionary as a child, requesting this as a Christmas gift in 1979.

"The unix-like-system paradigm is to become more efficient, while the windows-like paradigm is to throw more resources at the problem until it goes away for a week."
- Joe Provo

Go check out info I've found interesting in various RSS feeds.

Want more spew? There's a bug in my office. Let's eavesdrop on the engineers...

And as a parting shot, today's Weekly World Spew headline:

People From Arkansas Live Longer! -- Belgian Meta-physicists Offer Galvanizing Proof.

Cheers,
joe