Teel McClanahan

I strongly disagree with one of these. Can you guess which one?

The Keys to Your Heart

You are attracted to those who are unbridled, untrammeled, and free.

In love, you feel the most alive when things are straight-forward, and you’re told that you’re loved.

You’d like to your lover to think you are stylish and alluring.

You would be forced to break up with someone who was ruthless, cold-blooded, and sarcastic.

Your ideal relationship is open. Both of you can talk about everything… no secrets.

Your risk of cheating is zero. You care about society and morality. You would never break a commitment.

You think of marriage pessimistically. You don’t think happy marriages exist anymore.

In this moment, you think of love as something you thirst for. You’ll do anything for love, but you won’t fall for it easily.

From my Amanda page, the latest update on the search:

5/18/2005, 08:49: Still no one from myspace says they recognize Amanda. But last night I did new searches on classmates.com and reunion.com for Amanda King, and found this profile (login required to see it at all), which has her name, Oregon as her state, and her birthdate. Now, they want $36 for a year membership, minimum, to view the other details of the profile and/or to email her – it’s possible that I’d pay the $36 and get a dead/out-of-date email address as my only result, so I’m asking everyone whether they have a reunion.com account they could use to look this up for me. I’ll update here as new information comes in.

So. Do you, or does anyone you know, have a paid account at reunion.com that you/they might be willing to use to get me the additional information from that profile and/or send an email on my behalf (or just get the email address to me, if that’s possible)? If I don’t hear from anyone before my next paycheck, I’ll probably do the stupid thing and pay for the reunion.com account myself.

Okay, so. I have two tickets to the Nine Inch Nails concert at the Marquee Theater in Tempe on Saturday night, May 28th, and I have not yet selected someone to go with. Would you like to go with me? I’m going to try to run a contest-of-sorts to select a companion. Well, actually, I left a voicemail for a person this morning who has first dibs, so if they get back to me and are interested, they get to go and the contest is off, but I’ll update here to let everyone know whether that happens. ((I have my doubts.))

The contest is simple**: Whoever gets the most of my books sold between now and 11:59PM (Arizona time) on Friday, May 27th, 2005 wins. ((For the purposes of this contest, electronic copies of my books do not count, because there is no way for me to verify who purchased them.))

I have six books available right now, four are $15 each and two are $20 each. You can buy them from me in person if you live in the Phoenix area (and save from paying shipping costs), or you can buy them online through http://press.modernevil.com/. You can buy them yourself or refer friends or strangers, and as long as they let me know that you were the one who referred them, their purchases will go towards your total. If you are not directly involved in a transaction by a person you have referred, you must be explicitly named by the purchaser for the books to count towards your total. You could even buy multiple copies of books yourself with the intention of re-selling them later. I don’t care, I just want books sold.

Continue reading NIN tickets contest(s)

I just adjusted a couple bits of the code for the front page of Modern Evil to get the flowers to behave less like ants. The math for determining which row each post’s flower will flow down had changed to something that should create less correspondence between posts made at around the same time of the day – I had thought that that correspondence would enhance the functionality of the site by grouping morning posts together and evening posts together, but it didn’t seem to be clear. And it made those awful, perfect rows appear fairly commonly. Also, I’ve added a little randomization to the flower placements, so that they won’t all fall perfectly into the pre-defined rows. They’ll be within a few pixels of the rows, so they won’t overlap too much, but there’s some play there now.

I have programming on the brain. I’ve sketched out some ideas for a couple of programs I’m thinking of trying to write for OS X… take advantage of XCode, as long as I have it. One is very easy, one is very difficult. Others will probably occur to me. I don’t want the programming to interfere with geting two novels written by the end of the month, if I can avoid it, but if I can do that and get a program or two written, all the better. Big ambitions, remember?