- Why do you bother putting stuff on a web page?
I like the attention and publicity. It also serves as a
vent-fest, a place to put pictures from the d-cam, and it makes me
feel loved.
- Gee, all these links on the side, so confusing!!! Can you
possibly think of making it more organized?
No. Deal with it. And I have made it a lot
more organised; you should've seen what this thing looked like
when I fist came up with the content structure.
- Netscape or MSIE? Which is better for viewing your page?
I build and test in Mozilla on Linux (which is
eerily similar to Netscape 7.X), with a browser
width set to 800 pixels. Since you're most likely doing
something different, what you see is probably not what I see, so
I've decided that it doesn't matter which browser is used to
view this page. I've also added some slick/clunky (depending on
your opinion of it) javascript to make the dynamic html work in
Netscape 4.X, 6.X, and 7.X, as well as MSIE, but there are no
guarantees. E-mail me if you have specific questions.
- What's the future status of Netscape 4.X support?
As of v.11, I no longer double-check what the thing looks like
in Netscape 4.X (or Opera or MSIE, for that matter). Basically,
I'm assuming that the Netscape 7 standards will cover most
browsers out there, so any year now, this thing will probably
stop supporting Netscape 4.X. My advice: either upgrade, or
just "cross your fingers and hope for the best."
- Who has been your biggest inspiration in terms of htmling?
Initially, my stuff started out as an experiment to test
the power of html -- to see what kinds
of things could be done. Once I discovered that, I started working on
content, and to that end, Theresa, everyone's
favorite mortal enemy, has been a big influence...web pages are for
venting! Yeeeeah!
- Who is Theresa, then?
Theresa (pronounced "tree-saw") was a
fellow rescommie of mine who introduced me to the mythical
Calvin. She is also Eric's mortal enemy and to a certain
extent, Cynthia's too. Nowdays, she's in grad school in
Indiana.
- Then who is Calvin and why is he so mythical?
He is my switched-at-birth-twin. Apparently, our
moms met in the hospital, and our dads even worked together and
ran into each other there too. Or so says my mom. Anyhow, we
were born on the same day. He's a foot taller than
I. Growing up, my mom would always talk about this Calvin dude
who lives in soCal who was born on the same day in the same
hospital as me. Funny how we both ended up at UCB.
- Ok, so who are Eric and Cynthia then?
Eric was my CS150 lab partner who doubled as
root@rescomp, allowing me to keep hosing the jukebox and keep
over 200M of crap in my home directory during Spring
2000. He is one of the nicest religious people I know of (in
that he doesn't try to force his particular faith onto
others and respects everyone individually), and also is the
one who gave me Unexploded Cow.
Cynthia is a boy-band fanatic who actually managed to get me
to learn the words to some Backstreet Boys songs, as well as
some choice scenes of Cruel Intentions.
- What happened to the "slideshow" thingie that used
to be on the opening screen?
It's hidden amongst the links. Your challenge is to find it. =P
- Why a stuffed lamb? Why not something more manly
like pit bull?
Because I was born in the year of the lamb (sheep, lamb, same
diff). Besides, I don't know how you can make a pit bull look
so cute!
- What happened to the "Sniff" warning that told me
my IP was being sniffed like a dog's ass?
As of June 2001, when I rearranged the directory
structure of everything, I accidentally blew it away. Besides,
I finally matured to the point where I stopped quantifying how much
people loved me by the number of hits to my web page. Man, how
silly and shallow was I back then? (wait, don't answer that!)
- Why do Andy and Muffy call you "Johann"?
Johann is supposedly a variant of "Jon."
Besides, this way, they can call me "Johann Sebastian
Bach" Choy (if you don't get it, say it out
loud).
- Who scored the first goal in Sharks playoff history?
That would be Shawn Cronin, Defenseman, #44, in game
1 of the first round of the 1994 playoffs against Detroit. I
think the goalie for the Wings was Bob Essensa, but I'm not
sure.
- Why is the Blues' Chris Pronger referred to as "big whiney
defenseman"?
Because he's big (6-6). The rest speaks for
itself.
- With regard to your moron driver section, doesn't taking
pictures of other drivers make you a moron driver
yourself?
Yes. I admit it. The difference is that my moron
driving results in something that entertains you. You don't see
cell-phone drivers publishing transcripts of their phone
conversations on the 'net or anything, do you?
- Why do you use British spellings for some words, such as
"colour" or "realise"?
Because I can. And because you don't have write
access to my files! Hahahahaha!
- Why can't you just be normal? You seem so proud of your
idiosyncracies!
No one is normal. By definition, "normal"
is an average of some population. Now that being the
case, we are all at varying degrees of weird. But
philosophical tangents aside, are you insecure about your own
individuality and uniqueness? Is this why you project your own
fear of un-normalness onto me and think less of me for it (when
you're really thinking less of yourself)? Just
asking....
- So how's your job treating you?
Awesome. Life is great! 2004 is going to be a year
to kick all ass!
- Wait - it's past 2004 now. Why is the previous question still here?
Because I'm too lazy to delete it.
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