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October 08, 2004
Elucidation
So, clan update.
By the way: when I say “it has been pointed out by many people that there are inaccuracies in the below entry” it means “bitch, be cool, don’t email me just yet I’m getting there.”
The Events
Bill didn’t drink. Mattax did, a little, but took off his top because that’s how he relaxes. So Bill has no excuse for what he was thinking about doing.
Bill deserves commendation, both for his extremely frank email to me, and also for realizing the error of his ways. As far as he’s concerned, a full ROLLBACK to the pre-Friday. So, no Erin, more Talia. Go Bill!
Mattax still dumped Julie in a rather nasty way. He may or may not wind up with someone else, when he’s good and ready.
Bill says there isn’t much drinking at the clan apartment. He says it’s just your normal college kid drinking. I say, fuck you Bill—we all know there was functionally zero clan drinking at the outset. Jarrod always drank, but never made it a Clan thing. Then you brought your booze over when you moved in from West, and occasionally drank with your old I6U buddies. Then Mattax wanted in. Then it was just you and Mattax. And now everyone does some. This offends me, but whatever. If you guys sell out, waste money, kill brain cells, and have a shitty time, that’s your business. You’re still my friends. Even if you all decide to wear no clothes but smear mud and pigshit all over yourselves, constantly jacking each other off in the filth while feasting on rotting entrails and scabs, you’re still my friends. I still care about you. “Your data is safe.”
Of course, I’d probably say these things either way.
To The Maligned
As far as I can reconstruct, nothing really of any importance occurred, apart from Julie catching Mattax half-naked with her perceived replacement. As of right now, all that’s really come of this is Julie (rightly so) feels slighted. I don’t think anything else will come of it.
Weiss: I find drinking distasteful. When I say “wait for corrections” I don’t mean “bitch about lack of corrections.” I mean, calm down or get your own blog. Your actions lately, however, are highly commendable. I’m glad you figured out that no sleep + 3 jobs + 17 credit hours + fucking Compilers + a girlfriend + gaming + (gee) a little booze equals “I’m fucking confused, and shouldn’t make important decisions right now.” You should consider teaching this to the rest of the gang.
Mattax: What you did to Julie is Wrong. I say this because I haven’t talked to anyone who thinks you did it the right way. You yourself said, you didn’t intend to break up with her, things just worked out that way. Well, next time, make them work out a better way. As for anything else—your prerogative. FWIW, I believe your story, and I don’t think you would really be stupid enough to expect anything to develop with Jenna. Now get a damn blog so others can get it from the source. This is, after all, what blogs are for and about. I’ll even help you install a spell-checker.
Everyone else: Y’all are a bunch of fucksacks for giving Allan shit. I spoke to Allan and Eric before making my first post, since then I spoke to Major, Bill and Mattax too. Nobody hid a damn thing from me. Which is good, because even if you were hiding it from me, I’d still be hearing it from Eric, who was hearing it from non-Clan people. That’s right, the hideous details of our social lives are such a non-secret, it’s difficult finding people who don’t know about them. So when I call, yeah, I want to know, and yeah, it’s probably going on the blog, and yeah, you shouldn’t give a fuck. Eric was right in calling it “Days of Our Spum.” Grow up.
Special Message to Brian, Jarrod et. al.
You were right, this shit should have been addressed before I left. I want to talk to you guys about implementing your plan for decentralizing this club, getting some fresh air in, and reducing the level of wack inbred antics before they actually start to become as interesting as I was lead to believe they were. I’ll be emailing you both about this soon. Anyone else who was party to this should let me know so they can get in on the emailings.
Things of Greater Importance: Lisp’s CLSQL
I discovered by far the best object-relational mapping system, unsurprisingly, for Lisp. It’s called CLSQL. It works via a slight modification to the class system and a reader macro for generating SQL. So you have basically two ways of interacting with it: proper row object instances, overloaded with whatever methods you like, and nifty Lispy SQL statements. You get complete database interoperability, including multi-value primary keys and foreign key constraints. This library is the shit. Check it out, if you know what’s good for you.
Things of Still Greater Importance: Paul Paquette’s Blog
Posted by FusionGyro at October 8, 2004 12:08 AM
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Comments
Tee fucking heee…. reorganizing the clan into a less organized group. Turning the clan from the United States to the Confederacy.
They work hard, they play hardly at all. Then they dick around with social stuff. It’s stupid, it’s lame… it’s normal. It’s also ghastly.
The problem here is that YOU expect better from the clan, and all of them do too. None of the rest of us really do. I mean, despite all pretense, these are still young college kids, so to speak. In actual fact, the whole thing is rather well kept.
I’d suggest forming a commune or a co-op. I’m dead serious on this, by the way. Even Bill would probably get off on this, if you guys did it right. Just buy a house, wire it from the rafters to the foundation, and produce as a clan, profit as a clan. You’re almost there, so just take the next logical step. Think of the future, here. In “reality”, the idea is that Clan Spum is sort of a loose affiliation of snobs who will stick together through college, working off one another, and then move on to careers working for other people. Here’s the secret: you already HAVE structure, direction, and ability. Some would incorporate, but I think you guys would be better off forming a co-op.
The above is the best advice I have ever given.
Posted by: eparchos at October 8, 2004 12:48 AM
I too plan on commending Bill. People make fucked up decisions sometimes. Bill caught them before he was in a position where he couldn’t turn back. w00t to Bill.
Posted by: alphamajor at October 8, 2004 11:01 AM
When you wrote this, it was pretty much accurate. As of now, it isn’t nearly as accurate.
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I don’t like the commune or co-op idea. More organization is exactly the opposite of what I want from the clan. I want the clan to be a group of friends with a very loose amount of extra bonding. I want anybody in the clan to be able to make anybody else a member, with no special “initiation” or other overhead. I want membership in the clan to simply mean that some other clan members think the new person is “cool” or “interesting” or some other positive adjective.
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at October 8, 2004 03:45 PM
This is Jarrod’s comment, formatted readable.
When you wrote this, it was pretty much accurate. As of now, it isn’t nearly as accurate.
I don’t like the commune or co-op idea. More organization is exactly the opposite of what I want from the clan. I want the clan to be a group of friends with a very loose amount of extra bonding. I want anybody in the clan to be able to make anybody else a member, with no special “initiation” or other overhead. I want membership in the clan to simply mean that some other clan members think the new person is “cool” or “interesting” or some other positive adjective.
Posted by: Daniel at October 10, 2004 01:55 PM