Joe "Catfish" Provo's Mutating Web Stuff

You are what you wear and you wear scars
There are no mirrors in your house of cards

-The Dark


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 reeky folly-fallen mumble-news, 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 dissembling folly-fallen malt-worm, 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.

Peeve-of-the-Moment:
Abuse of the word "virtual". If something isn't "real" in the first place, there CANNOT be a "virtual" form of it; eg ALL internet domain names are "virtual domains".

Totally Random Catfish Fact Number One:
He likes interoperability, open standards and systems. Proprietary, closed systems are full of holes that could be resolved by making them open.

"Over the years, I think vi/grep/find/screen/sort/diff (eh, maybe a differernt 6 - hard to split up sort/uniq/cut/cmp/diff/...) have been the lever/wheel/pulley/inclined plane/wedge/screw of my life."
- Joe Provo

Might I suggest visiting the free, global email-to-fax gateway from The Phone Company.

Want more spew? Ready to help decide next TV season? Sit down and review the crimefighter plotlines.

And as a parting shot, meditate upon this classic Zen koan:

Some years ago, a young disciple came upon an old master by the river.
"Oh Master," said the student, "How can I make compassion?"
Said the master: "As the darkness is with the sun, so is branch different from the tree."
In that moment, the student became Enlightened.

Cheers,
joe